The episode features two moments designed to make fans feel rage or sadness or loss, and instead steeped us all in two of the worst tropes in genre and beyond. The other lacks a succinct phrase to describe it but is also damaging and dangerous, with implications that echo across television and into real life, especially right now. Content warning: this piece discusses rape and sexual assault, including a description of an attempted rape sequence. Episodic television has a history of providing us the sympathetic rapist. In many cases, it is the act of a desperate man just trying to get close to the woman he loves and lashing out. It's as though the show wants us to believe that, given how frustrated he is, he has no choice but to attack a woman.

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Willow , sad and lonely without Tara , figures out a way to turn the metamorphosed Amy from a rat back into human. Feeling newly liberated, they decide to go out and have some fun. At The Bronze, a couple of guys try to intimidate them. They perform a spell on the boys to make fun of them, but soon they begin to perform more and more complex spells, filling the Bronze with strangely dressed people, sheep, mutations and so on. Willow is beginning to have a taste of her real power and she likes it.

Two attractive teenagers break into a high school after dark to explore the empty corridors and each other. One of them hears a sound, freaking the other one out. It's only two minutes into the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and a teenager—or, more accurately, a year-old dead one—has sunk their fangs into a neck. I came to the show halfway through primary school, and immediately started saving up pocket change for the VHS box sets.