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Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Complete First Season [DVD]

Sarah Michelle Gellar (Actor), Nicholas Brendon (Actor), Bruce Seth Green (Director), Rated:
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Contributor Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chad Lindberg, Scott Brazil, Mark Deakins, Robia LaMorte, Jamison Ryan, Charisma Carpenter, Charles Martin Smith, Reza Badiyi, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Stewart Head, Pierrino Mascarino, David Semel, Joss Whedon, John T. Kretchmer, Nicholas Brendon, Damon Sharpe, Ellen S. Pressman, Bruce Seth Green, Edith Fields See more
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INTO EACH GENERATION A SLAYER IS BORN. Now you can own the entire first season of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. All 12 classic episodes are available for the first time in this exclusive 3-disc collector’s edition. From "Welcome to the Hellmouth," "The Harvest" and "Angel" to "Nightmares," "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" and "Prophecy Girl," these Season One episodes are a must for every true Buffy fan.

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Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) looks like your typical perky high-schooler, and like most, she has her secret fears and anxieties. However, while most teens are worrying about their next date, their next zit, or their next term paper, Buffy's angsting over the next vampire she has to slay. See, Buffy, a young woman with superhuman strength, is the "chosen one," and she must help rid the world of evil, namely by staking demons. The exceptional first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer introduces us to the treacherous world of Sunnydale High School (where Buffy moved after torching her previous high school's gym). The characters there include "watcher" Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) and the original "Scooby Gang" members--friendly geek Xander (Nicholas Brendon), computer whiz Willow (Alyson Hannigan), and snobbish popular girl Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter)--who aid Buffy in her quest. Those used to the darker tone that Buffy took in its later seasons will be surprised by the lighter feeling these first 12 episodes have--it's kind of like Buffy 90210 as the cast grapples with regular teen problems in addition to saving the world from demonic darkness. Fans of the show will enjoy the crisp writing, the phenomenal chemistry of the cast (already well-established within the first few episodes), and the introduction to characters that would stay for many seasons, including moody vampire Angel (David Boreanaz). Through it all, Gellar carries the series with amazing confidence, whether conveying the despair of high school or dispatching various demons--she's one of TV's most distinctive and strongest heroines. --Mark Englehart

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.6 x 5.6 x 1 inches; 11.2 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Bruce Seth Green, Charles Martin Smith, David Semel, Ellen S. Pressman, John T. Kretchmer
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, NTSC, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 9 hours and 36 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 15, 2002
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Stewart Head
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ WB Television Network, The
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005221I
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 3
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Lawrance Bernabo
5.0 out of 5 stars Reconsidering the First Season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2001
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Surely the legions of fans of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" television series appreciate the irony that now that the show is in syndication, the First Season (1997) is finally coming out on DVD. This still puts us behind the fans in Europe who can already get last season on video tape, but we will try to be patient, hard as that might be (But it was still a big mistake NOT to include "Prophecy Girl" in the first set of videotapes). Now that "BtVS" is into its Sixth Season and the Slayer is on her third life, this might be a good time to re-evaluate that first season. I therefore offer the following points for contemplation:
(1) The most important factor that gives the television series more depth than the movie is clearly the character of Angel (David Boreanaz), although the creation of the Scooby Gang is huge as well. But even more impressive than the fact that a vampire with a soul is in love with the Slayer is the fact that Joss Whedon holds off on this revelation until the seventh episode ("Angel"). For the first six episodes Angel was Mystery Guy, Stealth Guy, Cryptic Guy, and then in the first truly memorable moment of the series, Buffy learns the truth as Angel's face morphs in her bedroom. Creating these star-crossed lovers is where this television series start an operatic story arc that culminates in "Becoming: Part II," the show's zenith. (2) Related to this is the Master (Mark Metcalf) story arc that defines the first season. Each subsequent season of Buffy has similarly been defined by a pair of story arcs, usually dividing the season in half: Season 2 starts with Spike & Dru and then Angelus takes over in the second half. Of course, this helps set up the thrilling season finales each year as the Master/Angelus/Mayor/Adam/Glory meets their fate. But it also means that throughout the season things are brewing and building. In other words, the order of the episodes matters.
(3) As Joss Whedon has often told us, the subtext of "BtVS" is that High School is Hell. I was surprised that over half the episodes from the First Season dealt primarily with the horrors of going to high school, as opposed to expanding the Buffy mythos. Living up to the unreasonable expectations of parents ("Witch"), having a crush on a teacher ("Teacher's Pet"), school cliques ("The Pack"), meeting someone on the internet ("I Robot, You Jane"), facing your worst fears ("Nightmares"), being ignored by everybody ("Out of Mind, Out of Sight"), and even just trying to go out on a date ("Never Kill a Boy On the First Date") are dealt with in Season One. (4) The final obvious strength of the show would be the characters and the actors playing them. Willow (Allyson Hannigan) might by the all-time best Best Friend, and watching the character grow over the years has been fascinating. Poking fun at the pomposity of Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) never grows old, but I have to admit that I think Xander (Nicholas Brendon) is the [punch line] of way too many jokes. Then again, one of the show's masterstrokes is that Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), who represents everything about high school that the others hate, gets dragged into being a member of the gang. It is also clear in retrospect that Joss Whedon's knows how to use the characters and acting talent he stumbles across. Elizabeth Anne Allen (Amy Madison), Robia LaMorte (Jenny Calendar), and Mercedes McNab (Harmony) are all introduced in first season episodes and brought back for even greater fun in future episodes.
Watching the first season episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" makes it clear that the show certainly started strong. Yes, there are some efforts that could be a lot better: my groaner is "Teacher's Pet" although others have problems with "Witch," "I Robot, You Jane" and "Out of Mind, Out of Sight." But all of those episodes suffer in part because they are the farthest removed from the core of the Buffy mythos. But the "Welcome to the Hellmouth/The Harvest" pilot, "The Pack," "Angel" and "Prophecy Girl" are first-rate efforts, and that's a third of the initial season right there. However, as soon as you watch "When She Was Bad," the first episode from Season Two, it is clear that the show had gotten a LOT better. So I would really give Season One 4.5 stars, which rounds up on the strength of Sarah Michelle Gellar's performance and especially her "I don't want to die" speech in "Prophecy Girl." Killing Buffy only makes her stronger.
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Trevor Holmes
5.0 out of 5 stars It sounded too goofy to be good. But it's simply the best series I've ever seen.
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2017
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I've enjoyed--I admire--"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" more than anything I've ever seen from television.

I was slow getting around to "Buffy." It sounded too silly (cheerleader? vampire slayer? really?) to be worth watching. That was until I took my teenage kids to see "The Avengers"--eight times, and I confess the last three were my idea. It was the quality of the performances (directing and acting), and even more than that the script, which never condescended to its audience, and the obsessive attention to quality, for which no detail was too small, that kept me coming back. I admire artists who have the self-confidence to take "escapist" forms seriously, by which I mean not that they hang them with Ingmar-Bergman-style crepe (I'm talking about you, DC), but that they are willing to give them every measure of their skill, intelligence and commitment, without apology or reserve. With "The Avengers," Joss Whedon won my admiration for all that and more. So when the much-earlier Buffy (his first major project) showed up on Prime, I gave it a try.

I'd never binge-watched anything in my life (who has the time, right?). I was a little surprised, then, to find myself streaming Seasons 1 through 7 every moment I could find until several weeks later, when I reached the end of Season 7. And started all over again.

That was a couple of years ago. I recently went through the whole series again, and find myself having to pay homage to Whedon's extraordinary achievement. It's extraordinary for being his first major project. It's extraordinary because he manages to elevate a premise as silly as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to a level of narrative complexity, emotional power, and conceptual depth that places it above anything I've ever seen on television, and above most feature films as well. The time I've spent watching "Buffy" is simply the most rewarding I've spent in front of a small screen.

What is it about "Buffy" that has me raving this way? It's difficult to do it justice without spoiling the plot or just becoming a bore, but here are a few things that come to mind. First, there's that seriousness thing. In a medium where success too often demands the least effort necessary to attract the least common denominator, Whedon's whole-hearted commitment (along with the rest of the cast and crew) makes "Buffy" by turns moving, thrilling, thought-provoking, memorable, and consistently hilarious. That's another thing I like about it: for all his commitment, Whedon keeps the plot and dialog consistently funny, in a way that never undercuts the emotional impact of the story. The writing--dialog, characterizations, plotting--is so good that it keeps you riveted even when the material is just ludicrously goofy: in Whedon's hands, goofy becomes art, and as the narrative arc bends toward Big and Important Questions, Buffy reaches toward the sublime. Whedon does things with that narrative arc--twists it and bends it--that are so daring, so breathtakingly imaginative, that you would think you were watching the work of a seasoned craftsman at the top of his form. OK, there is perhaps one season where the goofiness of the premise burdens the story perhaps a little more than it should, but even at its weakest the story never loses sight of where it's going. The progression from beginning to end is skillfully controlled, assured, and in the end overwhelmingly powerful. The characterizations--writing, direction, performance--especially Buffy and Spike, but the entire cast (with perhaps one exception, a lapse in casting that does not last through the series), are consistently convincing at the level of "I know that person." Or "I wish I knew that person." The characters are so good that, after you finish the last episode, you miss having them in your life. Finally, I mentioned Big and Important Questions. A lot of film and video offerings address questions of moral responsibility, duty, mortality, what it means to be human. Whedon attacks these and more--and the complex relations among them--with the honesty, energy and intelligence they deserve. And rather than being some kind of decorative intellectual bric-a-brac, these questions arise inevitably from the unfolding of the story, and are a crucial part of the emotional matrix that makes this series so deeply memorable.

If you haven't seen "Buffy," if, like me, you dismissed it simply because the premise is (and it really is) so completely silly, give it a try. You won't regret a minute of it. Except, of course, that it has to end.
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Frank Hudson
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in Canada on December 23, 2023
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J'ai acheté cette saison de buffy par nostalgie. Je ne regrette rien, la traduction est complète.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Scooby Gang - The Buffyverse
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Den Kern & die Grundlage für den Kult der Serie bilden die Seasons 1, 2 und 3. Leider gingen nach der 3. Staffel ein Teil der Hauptfiguren andere Wege. Bedauerlich. Angel & Cordelia bekamen ihre eigene Spin-Off-Serie, in der auch Spike mitwirkte (etwas später). Obwohl Spike, der etwas tollpatschige, aber scharfsinnige, gehandicapte (weil gechipte) Reisszahn auch dem Buffyverse erhalten blieb (glücklicherweise). Oz tingelte durch die Kinowelt (u. a. Italien Job). Sicher, es kamen auch neue Figuren hinzu, wie zum Beispiel die (unter Stress stotternde) Hexe Tara. Dennoch änderte sich der Spirit nach dem Finale der 3. Staffel. Irgendwie war es danach nicht mehr dasselbe. Die 4. Staffel ist einfach grässlich. Ein völlig schwachsinniger Plot. Die rotäugige (dämonisch wirkende) Buffy sah im Endfight zwar reizvoll aus, jedoch hätte sich die Serie auch nach nur drei Seasons würdig verabschieden können. Einzig die 5. Staffel ist noch relativ interessant gewesen. Glory (die Göttliche) riss es raus. Des Weiteren bleibt da lediglich Spike's durchaus cooler Abgang im Finale der 7. Season zu erwähnen. Tja, das war's. Unterm Strich hätte ich es bei einer Trilogie belassen. Diese aber... ist exzellent!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Pitch to the Unconverted: The most original show, wrapped in trashy chocolatey goodness
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2009
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I'm very British and I don't take kindly to silly nonsense, so when a friend tried to interest me in Buffy, then on its 4th series, I gave it short shrift. 'Typical trash fantasy' I thought (and probably tactlessly said), 'low standards and no idea about the history and traditions they are ripping off'. This prejudice lasted until way after the final series ended. From the flashes I saw the vampires weren't sophisticated, weren't sexually dangerous and why, why, why did they have those ugly annoying lumpy foreheads? The production was very American, even worse, Californian American - superficial, plastic and suspiciously girly - and of course you have to get past the name.

And then late one eventless evening 3 years ago I tuned to BBC2 and randomly caught the first ever episode.

If only I had seen that opening scene years before - immediately I was shown that this is no thoughtless genre rip-off. The dialogue was clever and funny and high and low-brow references piled-up. Drama and tension was masterfully handled. And then there was the retro feel of outdated film stock, many scenes took place in a library (ok you may not get as big a thrill out of these last 2 as I do), the librarian Giles was English and... hang-on, the writer obviously understood the British and their attitudes towards America and played the two v. wittily off each other. Buffy was hot, frivolous and interesting, Willow irresistibly sweet and Xander immediately sympathetic to any man who was not automatically successful with girls as a teenager.

And they mesh together so well, the dynamic between these characters is pure magic. Blessed by the Casting Gods very quickly these four no longer appeared cartoon cut-outs to me but real people I grew to love, was sometimes annoyed by, but never tired of.

Grounding the fantasy, real-life themes are interwoven, often for comedy, often for tragedy, but never for preachy education. With Buffy the creator Joss Whedon began his reputation for carefully crafting stories and characters within individual episodes and across whole series.

The premise may not be original, but then there's been a relentless production of novels, television and films for the past 100 years, so what is? The originality shines through in how the set up is played with, in the flair of the writing. With so many films and shows talentlessly cheapening old myths you owe it to yourself to give a chance to one which skilfully hijacks them. You could ask 10 different fans what they love about the show and you could easily get 10 different answers.

So the perfect marriage of guilty pleasure and intelligence. There are 12 episodes here, 144 episodes in total - the experience of running through them all is pure luxurious indulgence, a tremendous and epic journey unparalleled elsewhere in modern TV - and I urge anyone who has not done so to leap up and rush out and buy this, then half way down the garden path realise they can order it here and come and sit back down again.

The later series may be richer, funnier, more complex but personally I love beginnings and Season 1 is utterly charming and never let my high standards down.
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5.0 out of 5 stars バフィー大好き！
Reviewed in Japan on April 3, 2003
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バフィーにハマッてます。
登場人物のみんなが、個々に輝いて、成長していくようすがいいです。
日本版はやく発売にならないかな・・・
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Value, fast delivery
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