I come to you today with sad news: Hulu has dropped the Buffy reboot that Chloé Zhao and Sarah Michelle Gellar were collaborating on. As someone who has been obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer since I was 10 years old (in fact, my first and currently only tattoo is the Buffy B on my arm), this is a devastating blow.

I went through a range of emotions when I initially heard the show was being revived; at first, when it was touted as a “reboot” I was firmly against it, but then when it was more of a revival with Sarah Michelle Gellar fully on board and self-reported Buffy fan Chloé Zhao at the helm, I allowed myself to get excited. We need a Slayer now more than ever; I think the show would have been a real balm on our souls in these trying times.

Buffy was there for me in the most difficult years of my life on a personal level, reminding me to keep fighting, to keep hoping, and to lean into the power of friendship, and I think that’s something we could all use more of right now. Especially as media companies keep getting bought by far-right extremists, and queer representation is dipping precariously low, it feels like the right time for a revival of a show that gave us one of the first on-screen kisses between an established sapphic couple and THE first sapphic sex scene on primetime network TV. A revival of this show with a focus on the latest generation, who seems to have taken queerness in stride better than most generations before them, and without the stain of the original abusive creator on it, could have been a boon. Alas.

The pilot seems to have been dubbed “not perfect”, but then again the original Buffy pilot had to be reworked too, so maybe there’s still hope. As of right now, it sounds like Hulu isn’t letting go of the IP and might “mull a possible new incarnation of the beloved franchise” which honestly makes me nervous, and I hope they go the “rework the pilot” route.

Until we find out the fate of the Slayer, we can see Sarah Michelle Gellar in her latest movie Ready or Not 2, and she said on Instagram that even though she won’t be slipping back into her stylish yet affordable boots again after all, if the apocalypse comes, we can still beep her.

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