What might have been joshingly referred to as a rough week for Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans – the Hulu reboot canceled at the pilot stage; Sarah Michelle Gellar given little to do in her bad new movie – turned genuinely tragic over the weekend with the death of Nicholas Brendon, best known for playing sidekick Xander on that show. It’s especially painful coming just about a year after the untimely passing of Michelle Trachtenberg, who played Buffy’s sister Dawn on the last three seasons of the show, and shared some tender moments with Brendon’s Xander.
Buffy is one of those shows where almost everyone onscreen did the best work of their careers, which is both impressive – the show lasted for seven seasons and was good-to-great for all 144 episodes, its crackerjack cast no small part of why – and, of course, probably a source of disappointment for the
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