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- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" cast reunites to dish on behind the scenes stories and more, including Sarah Michelle Gellar's efforts to Joss Whedon to not kill off Buffy's mom.
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How Sarah Michelle Gellar Tried To Keep Buffy's Mom From Being Killed | PEN | Entertainment Weekly
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Seriously why didn’t Sarah win like hundreds of Awards for this scenes and story, her finding her mum dead was heart wrenching, her dealing with the grief while trying to care for dawn and make money and just everything so realistic
It's devastating how powerless Buffy feels in this episode: She can kill demons with her bare hands but she can't do anything about an aneurism
I agree, Anyas monologue was one of the best scenes of the entire series.
I cry every time
Me too...
Sonja Dawn no it wasn't... go rewatch all of buffy again if you really think that , the best things in all of buffy happened within seasons 1-3 and 6-7
Street fighter vs Xenoverse my opinion is not wrong, it's just different to yours and you're making assumptions about a person you've never met.
Sonja Dawn sorry just saying as a longtime fan of buffy seasons 1-3 6-7 equal the best of buffy..
The look on SMG's face when she yells at Giles, "We're not supposed to move the body!" (or something similar) is the moment that I always break at. The sheer horror on Buffy's face as she realizes what she just said is devastating.
Honestly, she deserved an Emmy for that performance.
My dad died when I was 17 - about 3 years before this episode aired - and it was an eerily similar situation for me. I found his body in his house, and he had died similarly, just very suddenly. It is remarkable how accurately they captured everything I felt on that day in real life. I'm glad I had a few years in between his death and this episode, because I think it would've been too traumatic for me if there hadn't been some passage of time. Such an authentic piece of art.
@@jaredputnam3495 100%. My mum died when I was 10 and whilst it wasn't quite as sudden, the way they handled the grief in the episode was incredibly real and accurate. It was a hard episode to get through.
I just now (for god knows what reason because I was a teenager when the show was first on the air) finished my first rewatch and this was the exact moment that broke me. Something about that raw, unable to process what just happened, having no idea what to do in that moment, not even thinking yet about what to do afterward, or understanding that the world around you is still moving. Then Anya helming the next step of the process trying to understand how everyone but Joyce gets to have another fruit punch. Every bit of that is what I remember going through when I lost my father.
@@jaredputnam3495 I concur, 100%.
I think I had seen the end of this episode when my mom died suddenly, (from a stroke. She was 68 and I was 28) but it wasn't until months later that I saw the whole episode, and yes, it encapsulates the whole experience.
You jump forward in time to the hospital, to a recovery that never happens, to future holidays that never happen. Later in the day, you find yourself thinking "my mom died today." It's all too surreal.
The lingering, slow death from cancer, that was a very different thing to witness.
When she goes "Mom. Mom?" And then the killer was "Mommy!" Gets me every time.
Which was the cliffhanger from the previous episode. That was a long week.
The "mommy" line hits you hard, Buffy is a badass vampire slayer but she almost reverts to a child here, so sad
SMG is astonishing.
That "mommy??" is like a punch in the stomach
I love the contrast between that and (I think) the only other example of a character on this show using the term. Adam says it just after he stabs Maggie Walsh, and it's so sinister there and so tragic from Buffy here.
"Spike doesnt wanna be within 100 miles of that"
Lmao
literally the most spike thing ever though
". . . she's cold."
"The body is cold?"
"No, my MOM"
OMFG this episode still kills me
I love the little delay between that and the operator resuming the conversation. You know she's switching gears and trying to figure out how to get this distraught girl from messing with a corpse but knowing that she can't say why.
I lost my mother when I was 8, and my father when I was 17. "The Body" is the most realistic portrayal of grief I've ever seen.
I've never come across anyone else (other than my sibling) who's lost both parents similarly to my experience. My mom died when I was 4 and my dad when I was 17. Finally... another member of the tribe, that no one wants to belong to
I like to think that "The Body" prepared me mentally for my own parents' death years later. Knowing what to expect and what it would feel like may have prevented me from going insane when it did.
I'm sorry you lost your mother, I hope you find her soon
I don't talk to my mother as often as I should but I know I'm not prepared for her death by any means
@@damien1781 I don't pretend to know what your relationship with her is like, but I'd recommend taking any and every opportunity to meet with her and ask questions you've always had but never had the courage to ask about because they were silly/personal/etc. Because believe me, when she's gone and you don't have the chance anymore, the regret can eat at you like cancer, and it's strong enough to destroy any concerns you might have like shame, pride, etc. The things holding you back? Yeah, the regret crushes them like an egg in an elephant stampede.
Still dont get how buffy never got the recognition from the awards it deserved!.
evang18 Sarah Michelle Gellar and the cast unfortunately got snubbed from
Emmy consideration. She had already won an Emmy from before but on Buffy she had so many episodes where she was phenomenal. Her breakup from Angel, her mother’s death, killing Angel, that episode where she- Willow and Xander are talking about Anya being a demon again. It seems that WB/CW shows never get recognized properly.
Actually it was a general snobbery with the establishment. Which is another reason we should reject it.
@@seanp8220 most teen soaps get snubbed for industry awards. Grey's Anatomy has been on for almost 20 years and the main star Ellen Pompeo is continually snubbed as well. Its hit or miss for what'd emmy worthy.
Still a bad taste from the film.
@Whiting69 It wasn't really marketed towards women, it was just popular with them. It's got a somewhat soapy drama to it with the love triangles and studly Angel, plus a female lead and there you go it's labeled a "girly show". It's why my dumb ass didn't watch it until it was off of TV, because I was dumb and young and thought the show was about relationships when it is SO much more.
I think it was brave to do an entire episode without music, and it so worked! In every way. I think this episode (The Body, S5), along with Season 4 'Hush' and Season 6 'Once more with Feeling' are stand alone episodes that no TV series could ever compete with. Well done to the cast and crew and to the writers. Masterpiece.
Totally agree, though I wouldn't say Once More With Feeling is a stand-alone episode. That's what I love about it - the musical numbers were not just a gimmick, they actually helped move the season's arc along.
I meant stand alone in the context, that they stand alone against the other TV shows. Not apart from the series itself otherwise there would be no continual arc in Hush, OMWF or Body... when all of them had story that continued for many episodes after ;)
yup that episode was powerful. I still remember sitting down on my couch hugging my pillow watching. Tears in my eyes when I realized Joyce had really passed.
There was no music or score throughout the whole thing and there was no opener. It hurt me so bad but the was it was done was so excellent. It seemed like it was filmed to give us that sense of heightened awareness...that only seems to happen when something like this happens. Things are slightly too bright, you can hear everything...like when Buffy could hear the children outside playing. It was an amazing episode.
Totally agree. I think Joss described it as a kind of frozen in amber quality. Though usually when something of the same level happens to me, I just want the world to swallow me up :( Just hoping you're going to wake up in bed and sigh with relief that it was all in your head. Its even worse when you wake up the next day, and remember the previous day. That sucks too.
Ahhh, gotcha.
Am I the only person who never realised that Spike wasn't in that episode until James Masters said it?
The episode is just so full on I never thought about it.
If you have to ask if you're the only one then you are never the only one. I also didn't realise until James said it.
I've watched"The Body"only once and never again,so I don't remember well what happened but I know a thing for sure:if I didn't notice Spike wasn't there it's because for me every episode without him is a blessing.I *do* notice when he *is* there because he annoys me and I can't wait for him to go the f--- away.But if he's already NOT there...I will just focus on anything else.His absence doesn't bother me AT ALL.It's his PRESENCE that bothers me A LOT.
I've noticed he wasn't on the episode, but also that this is something that i think Spike wouldn't wanna be a part of. So i guess thats fine.
Lmao, me too.. I've seen this whole series like 6 times and I never noticed Spike wasn't in it. Lol
+SupernaturalRising I think it shows how powerful that episode really is, if you don't even notice that certain main characters aren't even there.
I swear The Body scarred me for life. I LOVE horror, but that episode was SO REAL, and hit home SO HARD, it was emotional horror on a level that I've never seen before.
Koala Whisperer i agree! my mother died just two years before i watched the episode for the first time and it hit me like no other movie, tv show, song or book before. l will never watch it again but this episode is a masterpiece. i loved that show so much.
Koala Whisperer It hit hard because even with all the supernatural plots going on, you see the bleak every day reality that family dies.
This would qualify more as the genre Tragedy than horror. Horror is about fear, Tragedy is about sorrow.
totally! Icried so hard 🙌
same I stopped watching the show for literally two years and now am finishing season 7 now
Anya's monologue still has me crying every time I see it. It's a brilliant piece of acting,
To see Buffy become a literal little girl again, when she goes from calling 'Mom?' to the plaintive 'Mommy??' when she realizes that Joyce is dead, is just gut wrenching, and so real. No matter how mature we are, no matter what age we are, we are forever our parent's kids. Forever wishing for the stability of those who brought us into the world.
What I liked about that episode was that it showed that even in the supernatural world of Buffy people can still die of normal, mundane things and not be able to come back.
A plot of another episode was of Dawn trying a supernatural thing to bring her back... and, just watch it...
scw55, that episode was SO sad. I cried for both of them.
I still maintain in my headcanon that it was Glory inserting Dawn into her mind that caused her brain to have the clot and aneurysm in the first place but either way nothing Buffy could have done.
@@everythingshiny Glory didn't do this if Glory would have done this then she would have known Dawn is the key.
It was the monks who did it
One of the Monks gets tortured by Glory because she wants the key
Well, according to the show Angel, Darla was dying of syphilis and was resurrected only to be dying of syphilis. The only way to save Darla was to turn her again.
Anya's monologue in this episode and then Spikes at the beginning of season 7 where he isn't quite himself but yet is completely honest about who he is...and then he goes and rests on the cross and you see smoke rising...I'm sick that neither of them won an Emmy for those scenes because they are 2 of the finest.
Love Alyson Hannigan at the beginning there..."YOU DIED??!" She so funny...
I could totally see Willow saying that but in a different way. With various emotional reactions to each line she'd say: "You died? You're dead? She died. You are dead. Are you?"
She is such a doll!
Katie Greatness So funny. Was she riffing on "Becky" from Roseanne? In a reunion interview, she didn't know John Goodman was killed off in the series finale.
@Iwaves Your comment reminded me of the episode where there are both Will&VampWill and Will meets Buffy,Xander&Giles after Buffy&Xander had just met VampWill and they're obviously all depressed and she's like:"Geez,who died?^__^ ...Oh,god,who died?é_è"
+Nicamon That was kind of where I got the inspiration from. Will had so many great lines like that.
SMG's acting when she discovers her mum is phenomenally good. Still gives me chills.
Lots of people disliked Dawn, but Michelle Trachtenberg did a lot of really great work in that role.
UTU49 I didn’t even realize a lot of people disliked her the first time I went through the series, I really enjoyed her character though and Glory is still my all time favorite villain-along with season 5 being my favorite season
I didn't even recognize her in this video. I am not judging but she's put on a lot of weight. Just a stark difference from the last work I saw of hers from 2009 (seventeen again)
UTU49 yeah I appreciate her as I got older.
People can't get past angsty characters just like Conner in Angel or Oliver Queen in first season Arrow....unless it's a totally evil character or totally good character people have problems pigeon holing them and when they can;t 'they don;t like the character'.
@@NAU442 true, she was my 1st TV crush lol, she was perfect and now I barely recognize her
i found my mother's body, joss knocked it out of the ballpark with this one. it was literally step by step how that day way. i said "mom? you fell out of bed again...mom? mommy?" that little kid moment comes out of you because you want a grown up to help and make it better. it felt likr the world was in fast forward and i was standing still. that pain was captured so well in this episode
I'm so sorry you had to go through that
My heart and thoughts go out to you
♥️
The body is one of the best episodes of Buffy without a doubt
dVaDtSaT tRi I disagree this episode was far from one of the best episodes of buffy in my personal opinion and they should have never killed off buffy mom...
For me, it was probably THE best episode. The one that stood out and left a strong impression, anyhow. It also shows the dynamics of the cast very well, out of action. How they grieved and what role they played. Apart from Anya, I think Tara too (as a relative outsider up to that point, at least to Buffy) had a really good place in the episode.
Olli no it is not the best episode in buffy wtf there are plenty of similar episodes where the main cast lost someone close to them just because they talked about this episode in there reunion suddenly it's the best episode in buffy? Lmfao come on!! Get real
Other losses are often melodramatic or part of the action. Despite its frequency, death had never been depicted like this and that's what makes it so great. This episode, in its direction, writing and cinematography (brilliant shots, lighting, excruciating pace) elevates the show into a whole new level of ambitious, anticipating the modern age of serious TV drama challenging feature films. Let's not even get into the acting; SMG is often quite melodramatic and whiny as Buffy (and not the highlight of the show), IMO, but here her performance is stellar. Mom? Mom? ...Mommy?
Now, there are other great episodes too. Sometimes you want action, or humour, or sentimental bombast, and there are brilliant episodes for all that. But as a show challenging not only its own limits but the (at time time) expectations for television itself, this really does stand out.
This is not "suddenly" one of the best Buffy episodes, anyhow. It has always featured in the standard lists of "top 10 Buffy episodes" or so. Along with Hush, Once More With Feeling, Becoming, The Wish etc. (I'm not listing my favorites here, mind, just the standard mentions.)
I suppose The Body appeals primarily to older fans who look for more than action, comedy and romance in the show, though.
Olli I am an older fan I am 29 been a fan since 97 being an older fan has nothing to do with it I just don't like this episode at all and I disagree with killing off buffy's mom there was no need for that also those other episodes you mentioned hush and once more with feeling was a fail in my opinion as well not sure why so many ppl over exaggerate how good those episode's supposedly are..
I watched this episode last night and I just kept crying throughout the whole episode. I really started crying when Anya(Emma Caulfield) gave her monologue and really gives the question of why death happens and how we don't know why it happens. This is one of the shows best episodes and it still holds up today.
The Body may just be the single greatest episode of television ever. It was heartbreaking and delivered in every way imaginable. That opening scene with Buffy finding Joyce on the couch and the phone call is devastating, Willow and Xander falling apart because Joyce was the loving parent to both of them in the absence of their own parents whom they never truly felt loved by, Giles feeling the loss of his surrogate daughters mother and feeling Buffy's pain and Dawn feeling true loss for the first time in her life was so well done it. But for me it was Emma Caulfield's speech about Joyce sying and her feeling grief for seemingly the first time by breaking down was the performance of the episode for me and she shoukd have been awarded an Emmy for that scene alone. The Body is truly a brilliant piece of television and one everyone should see.
This scene still gets me when I first watched it I balled my eyes out but I never really truly understood what it felt like till I lost my father 3 years ago so this really resonates with me now 😢😢😢😢 x
I came into it hella late so it definitely got me my first time
@J Eddie so sorry for your loss 😢 I think crying is key if you keep it all bottled up you feel like you will explode at least that's how I felt , I've done some serious crying over the years but I totally get if you cant cry I guess you can't force it but it has to come eventually I think xx
Me too, exactly.
@@HerondalesAngel There's no one way to grieve. Whatever works, as long as no one gets hurt.
I just watched it for probably the hundredth time, yeah a break down every time.
I think 'The Body' is one of those episodes that everyone agrees is brilliant, but no one really wants to watch again and again like you do with episodes like 'Hush', 'Once More with Feeling', 'Tabula Rasa' (I don't know if 'Tabula Rasa' is as popular as 'Hush' and 'Once More with Feeling', but it's one of my favourites).
Actually all the other episodes you've quoted I *would* rewatch them,expecially "Hush".I love that episode.For the other 2 I'm more conflicted because in"Once More with Feeling"I love the songs but there's also all the Spuffy part that I hate(even if Spike's song,I must admit it,sounds awsome)and"Tabula Rasa"is funny,but...the moment Tara gets her memory back and pushes Willow away it's just...heartbreaking...:"-(
Sorry, I think there's been some confusion; I meant that 'Hush', 'Once More with Feeling', and 'Tabula Rasa' are episodes that I love to rewatch (even though the end of 'Tabula Rasa' is heartbreaking).
Oh..so you meant:"Episodes like"Hush",Once More with Feelings"and"Tabula Rasa" are episodes that everyone thinks are brilliant AND want to rewatch again and again.On the other hand,everyone thinks"The Body"is a brilliant episode as well BUT nobody really wants to rewatch it."?
Kind of, I love 'The Body' and I think it's one of the best episodes of Buffy (not just Buffy, of TV), but I probably wouldn't decide to watch it outside of a series run-through, not like I would watch want to re-watch 'Hush', 'Once More with Feeling', and 'Tabula Rasa'. Sorry for the confusion.
catlover12670 I looove tabula rasa
I still cry when I watch that episode.
Whitney Pyant Me too.
Whitney Pyant every fucking time... you'd think at some point it wouldn't phase me. But I still cry.
The episode made me cry and I have only watched it twice because it's so painful, especially Anya's struggles to learn about how humans mourn.
Me too. I am tearing up now.
My father passed away the same day as the episode.
Before he passed, he was very sick with cancer. A few weeks before, my dad asked me, do you want to watch Buffy with me. I never did. I was pulling away, as I knew what was coming and it was the only way I was able to deal with it.
Man let's just go and watch every single season of Buffy and Angel ever now
Tara Maclay samee
Mood 😂
Elle. Always a good idea.
In a world with Demons and Hell gods and one girl chosen to protect the world and yet that Girl loses her mother to something she couldn't fight. " The Body" Is such a special episode in the history of TV
I lost my mother very unexpectedly when I was only 25 years old. My mother wasn't old and she didn't have a disease. She went in for a simple surgical procedure and didn't make it. My first time really watching Buffy was on Netflix. This episode evoked such powerful emotions in me. I cried so hard, I had to pause the episode several times. I truly felt her pain and the entire scene was such an accurate portrayal of what it looks and feels like to lose a parent unexpectedly. I mean, even this video got me going all over again. Just the clips from that episode make my heart sting and my chest tighten. Such an underrated episode and television show. Buffy was known for action and comedy, but it didn't get nearly as much credit as it deserved for how they portrayed the drama.
Reyna that is the thing art doe's it helps you to express feedings I find the same thing with poetry after years of not reading you go back and after a experience the work seems like it's written for you I hope you are good
Reyna I
Reyna, you mentioned that this video affected you emotionally. I started to tear up when I read your comment.
Agreed! I always felt the action and scary stuff was secondary to the storyline between characters
I've seen a lot of TV shows but this was the only one that affected me emotionally. I also felt extremely sad after watching "I was made to love you" because I've never met anyone who felt interested in me.
1:45 It's so true. My mom died exactly like Buffy's... Brain aneurism. It will be 9 years tomorrow. I was actually binging Buffy for the first time to keep my mind off of it right after it happened, and then this was in the plot... I was like WHAT ARE THE ODDS but then the way they did it really helped me work through the emotions.
aneurysm
I'm sorry for your loss.
watchgoose , way to be a TOTAL DOUCHEBAG and miss the point and message of her story, only to be an ass and correct the spelling of one word. 👎
watchgoose idiot who cares if it's misspelled get a life
When you add in how many people watch the show it evens out the odds a little bit.
Why did I watch this? Now I'm tearing up. It is an amazing episode of television.
Me too but i am in tears because i lost my grandpa end 2014 and it feels like 2 days ago
I grew up with the DVDs of this show. When I was 13, season 5 had just come out on DVD and my mother, father and I watched through them together. My mom, at the time was in hospice home care. She had stage 4 cancer. It was rough getting through this episode at the time, but not long after, my mom passed. This was the only episode I couldn't watch for *months* after without bawling my eyes out. This was 14 year ago now. I miss you, mom, and I love you
i never saw anything so real in TV like this episode, really amazing work.
That's just it, for all it's fiction, it was real. From Buffy continually repeating 'Mom' at the start as reality slowly sunk in. To Anya's speech which perfectly summed up what everyone with emotions feels, including the bits of humour in amongst the tragedy and confusion. That's why it hit home to so many. It didn't feel fake.
That last "MOM!" Breaks me every single time.
The most heart wrenching thing i have ever seen on a fictional TV show 💜
The part that breaks my heart the most is at 0:30 when she says "What are you doin'?" in a cheerful voice, not realizing that her mom is already gone. Buffy protects people from vampires, she's saved the world multiple times, she's a mature, resourceful adult, but in that private moment she's just a little girl talking to her mom, which she'll never get to do again.
This episode was one of the strongest for my daughter and I. We had just lost her sister. The range of emotions the characters went through seemed so like reality. It had us bawling.
Sending you and your daughter a ton of hugs ❤❤❤❤
@@yolandaponkers1581 Thank you. ❤❤
My god Joyce actress is the only one who hasn't aged
James Marsters is still a Magnificent Beast
Anya too.
Ya she looks really good. Genes, good diet? Wth
For some reason the rest are made up to look like Halloween. The makeup is what ages.
That ending of Buffy saying "She's gone." to Dawn asking, "Where did she go?" is like the ultimate question about death. It's what we all fear, what happens to you after you die? where do you go? Sure, we may believe in all kinds of things to give us comfort, but no one really knows... For all it's fantasy, this show was very real.
I don't remember that episode because I just saw it once,but if,as you said, Buffy's:"She's gone."was the answer to Dawn's question:"Where did she go?"I dare to throw another interpretation...I feel the real(sad)meaning of that answer is:"It doesn't matter where did she go or IF she actually went someplace else.The point is she's not *here* anymore. *We* cannot see her anymore.We can't talk with her anymore,she can't help us,we can't go to her for comfort or to feel loved or less alone...we don't have our mommy anymore.I don't care where she is:the point is *she's not longer with us.* We can't reach her anymore. *She's gone!* "
:"-((( Yeah,I know...sorry for breaking your hearts.Again.
Nayr De Vito I’ll always blame Dawn. Wedging a lifetime’s worth of memories of a daughter she never had into Joyce’s brain was the direct cause of the aneurism.
@@Belzedar YOu are fucking ridiculous. If it were the case, Buffy's dad also would have it. And even if you are right (which you are not), monks were to blame, not Dawn. She didn't decide to make herself a human.
p.s.Joss Whedon confirmed that nature of her disease/death is NOT mystical in any way. That was the whole point that you missed.
@marcus24000 Well since God isn't real, the energy doesn't go anywhere. Also, it says mass can't be created or destroyed, not energy. The mass (our body) is eaten up by insects.
@marcus24000
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I recently rewatched that episode. Cried like it was my own mother that had died. I had forgotten how well it was done. Everyone’s role in that episode was incredible, but Anya’s speech blew me away the most.
Joyce was the mother we wish we all had 💗
I was 15 when my mom died unexpectedly. My sister found her on the bathroom floor. I called 911 and I remember the panic and horror I felt. Then I had to tell my little brother. So when I watched this episode, it brought back all those feeling, and it just shattered me.
SabrinaJL4 wow much love forever healing
Condolences
Jesus! I can't even watch them TALK about the episode without tearing up!!
Kevin Thomas same!
18 years later, and it still cuts deep.
Still today this was one of the best shows written and acted on TV. It was a hidden gem I wish more people watched. This episode had me sobbing.
You know the moment and acting is so powerful when you cry from a clip. anyas monologue is that moment as soon as I even think of it I cry
It's the comment about fruit punch and Joyce not ever getting to have some again that hits me. My dad died a few years ago and my brother, from brain cancer, just at the beginning of this year. When I run into something they liked or I used to share with them, it hits me again, just like Anya says, realising they won't ever have that again, I can't share that with them.
this was about a decade ago and its still the best vampire tv series ever. not even true blood,or that vampire diaries can keep up with this. buffy and angel are the best vampire tv series ever.
YES!
Exactly
One of the best TV series ever, vampires or no vampires!
“YOU DIIED OMG I GOTTA WATCH THE SHOW” 😂 🙌🏾 such a sad sequence btw ugh.
This is one of my favourite episodes. No music, no monsters just good acting all round and very hard hitting emotions, brings me to tears every time I watch The Body episode.
Except the vampire fight at the end of the episode.
That was such a painful and beautiful episode. I loved it visually but my heart screamed the whole time. For that reason I can't say it was one of my favorite episodes. But I can say it was one of the most profound.
one of the most powerful 40 minutes of television I've ever watched. I lost my mom at 12 and watching that episode 6 years later really made me feel less alone. it was so honest, such a spot on portrait of shock and grief it made me feel connected because someone else had been able to put into words what I had felt, which meant that they had felt it, too. Thank you, Mr. Whedon.
I took me years to watch The Body again. after losing both grandparents my dad and aunt. it was way too close to home. but when I need a good cry go to episode. I almost make until the "Nobody will tell me why" part Damn getting misty eyed thinking about
I was 14. Until you lose a parent you think that they're immortal. Of course in your head you know that everyone dies but your heart doesn't believe it until you lose them. This episode had such strong emotional resonance because I lost her a few years before I saw it and it nailed what it feels like. The shock, disbelief, bewilderment and the feeling that the world had turned upside down and didn't make sense anymore. I cried all the way through it.
I lost my mother. When I rewatched this episode after she passed, I have to agree, he totally captured what it feels like to lose a loved one.
I lost my mom when I was 16, so I can relate whenever I watch it and easily understand Tara when she describes how she felt when she lost her mom. I mean, I'm 43 and it still hits home. That episode was genius.
My dad and I were watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer together. (I’d seen it before, he hadn’t.) We both loved it, and I remember how this episode touched him, and it especially touched me when he died as we were beginning the 6th season together. Anya’s dialogue about Joyce never having fruit punch, (like my dad never finishing Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and how stupid and mortal death is, helped me so much. It continues to.
"Buffy" was one of the truly great TV shows. I have a number of favorites from over the years, but no other series was so consistently beautiful, with multi-faceted brilliance from everyone involved, both individual and collective genius. I have great affection for all those who contributed to its creation. Thanks to you all.
my grandmother god rest her soul she cried when buffy died i had to comfort her and told her she would be back it's her show she's the hero.
When I watched this through the eyes of someone who have not yet experienced a loss, I cried but didnt think too much of it other than be amazed by BtVS casts' acting skills. Looking back when my father died a few years ago, the silence... almost nonchalant quality of the surrounding was very relatable. While he was in his last breaths, I was crying like crazy that time and I remember there was this crescendo of a classical music I wasnt able to recognized the title that kept playing inside my head making the moment more climatic. But afterwards, while we wait for my mother to settle the paper works with the hospital, the body to be transferred to the morgue then the funeral home, picking which coffin and room for the wake, etc...it was quiet and surreal. Like everybody around me were still in motion and busy and I was stuck in a limbo of being numb. My mother that time was like Buffy... doing all the tasks, greets the relatives and friends who visited the wake, etc and I didnt saw her shed a tear. But when the coffin was being lowered to the ground, I guess she let out all her pent up emotions and was crying hysterically. This episode and the one after where Dawn tried to raise her Mom from being dead truly resonates with me.
Also, for all the great work Joss has done, and there is a lot... I think he will be most remembered for this series. I hope he is anyway. It was really really good work.
to really understand how good he and his team were at these shows, just watch firefly and with only 14 or 15 episodes, it feels like you've know the characters for 3 or 4 seasons. i think that really was the peak of his and his teams abilities. such a disservice that both firefly and angel were cut short.
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I watched a reactor who teared up in the first 15 - 20 minutes of the first episode of Firefly. He was a little stunned at how much he cared about the characters... almost instantly.
Hey. I'll just plug him right here.
Liam Duke.
He's gone through most of Buffy and Angel also.
Unfortunately none of this has aged well. Whedon certainly hasn’t .
This episode made me cry and I can relate because I found my Dad dead of a heart attack in 1994. When I saw it, I just broke down because it brought those awful memories. I know this is just a show but it still upset me when I saw it.
This was one of the best episodes in television history imo. Its pure art, pure realism, its just so raw. Anya's monologue gets me every time. The episode really hits you where it hurts.
The best buffy episode by far, literally captures the essence of loss, looking out the window everywhere is normal and going about their day and yours has stoped.
BtVS was family time in my house. From being a child watching the early seasons to a teen withthe finally, my mom was part of that experience. The body really really hit like a train in the rewatches since she passed. Amazing television.
I remember watching this episode the first time... I was a mess. Little did I know, I would live through it myself just a few years later. I grew up with just my mum, and when I was close to Buffy's age (23) in the episode, I watched my mum die at home. The thing is guys, this episode is sad... but unless you've lost your own mum at a young age, you'll never really know just how sad it truly is.
The worst is when they die unexpectedly. That is so much harder than even watching them die, because you never get to say goodbye
This episode was brilliant and it was some of the best acting I've ever seen. Them making that such a long scene where Buffy finds her mum was a genius move and made it feel so real. I'm pretty sure I cried all the way through watching the episode for the first time. I think I remember them not playing much or any background music during this scene as well which added to the very real feeling I got while watching. Anya's monologue was so interesting as well, like they said. Seeing the reactions from someone experiencing something like this for the first time. Also coming from a show where life and death isn't always set in stone but knowing that this was something final that they couldn't change. It was powerful.
Having lost my dad when I was 24 due to some heart problems, this episode hit me in another way when I rewatched the series after the incident and while it was painful to think about, made me realize I wasn't alone, that unfortunately this type of tragedy happens and we can't do anything to stop it.
this episode is one I can personally relate to. I like Buffy came home and found my mother was dead. 8 hours before she was alive and well. I think this episode can give people who haven't experienced this kind of tragedy, some idea what that is like.
I cry soo hard with Anya.
Antonio Ponce OMG, I teared up just watching the clip. Emma just nailed that.
I can't see that monologue without immediately tearing up, and I'm pretty tough about that shit. It's just so earnest.
The anya part is when I break and the water wrks start
Same
I honestly think Emma and Sarah deserved their Emmys.
I think this is the most traumatising thing any show has ever made... because it really does capture the numbness, the indescribable grief, the silence that screams so loud that you almost go deaf.
Lost my mom to cancer when I was 28. It was out of nowhere. She'd just started having bad stomach problems in October, was diagnosed on November 24th, and died December 29th 2009 four months after my son was born. It destroyed me because our relationship had been a bit strained over the past couple years due to my own stupidity. So I was looking forward to mending that as I became a parent and she helped her baby figure out how to raise his baby. I lost more than just my mother that year, and if not for my son I wouldn't have survived. Holding onto the thought that I want to see him grow up.
I was just about to scroll down and comment that Anya's monologue in "The Body" was such a game-changer. When Anya's character was added I kind of expected her to be like.. the drifter in the group, if that makes sense? I didn't expect her to get attached so much, so I was expecting her to make a mean comment during that scene, but the comments she made were from good intentions. "I was drinking fruit punch, and then I realized Joyce wouldn't ever have fruit punch again, and Xander's crying," 100% a game changer. And the lack of music too, it instantly brought me back to the news of my dad's car accident.
And I was kind of like Willow too, I would put Disney movies on the living room t.v. and dressed up as the princesses, trying to make everyone feel better. My dad had gone to at least 5 different Disney stores to find me a Cinderella dress for my birthday 2 months prior, she was my favorite princess and I'd watch the movie with him every Sunday when he had a day off of work. Haha, I made myself cry. The first day is brutal, Whedon's totally right. Especially how Buffy had to go through all that, and still pull herself together and go to Dawn's school.
@Laverne Blaszczyk PUT THE SPOILER AT THE TOPPPP YOU JUST RUINED IT FOR ME and i had like 6 episodes left...damn it first the internet ruins tara now this shit?
@@eajaros sorry it got spoiled, unfortunately for you it was bound to happen a lot since the show has been out since the late 90s
@@eajaros you're watching a video about the buffy reunion cast, of course there's going to be spoilers about the end of the show... you can only blame yourself. and i know the body is from season 4 but the fans would obviously talk about their fav and their ending.
I just watched the episode for the very first time and I think it is the best thing I‘ve ever seen in a television series.
I first watched this episode 16 years ago, I'm a full grown man of 42 now and just watching this interview and clip has made my eyes well up.
i'm lucky enough to have not lost a parent yet but the first time I saw this episode I think I genuinely felt that grief, I remember it finishing and just feeling so hollow ....... Unbelievable episode.
This episode is amazing. I used to hate it and avoid watching it because it used to make me think about if my parents became ill.
However, when my father became ill, although all of my friends and family had been affected, we each felt so isolated.
I actually watched these episodes to try and gain some sense of comfort, understanding and defeat isolation. This episode is powerful and it helped me through one of the hardest times in my life.
To think it was made around 19years ago/20 years ago and it still helps people today. Great achievement. Thank you
Thank you Joss. Thank you to the cast. You captured a moment that everyone on earth will experience in some form or another, and gave it form, and seeing it really did help me grieve and accept what happened when my mom passed away. As sad as death is, there is a beauty in our loss and poetry in our emotions.
It was brilliant. The most memorable hour I've ever watched on tv. It was limitless in the places and levels it could take you to. Thank you
Maybe the single best TV episode I've ever seen. And the fact the show suddenly went from horror-fantasy to real-life drama was amazing. I was mesmerized through the whole thing
That seriously took me as a shockwave, then again I knew that she wasn't answering so something was up. I cried my eyes out. I thought that the series wasn't going to bring out a major character death because I thought the characters were an indestructible team. I see so many anime shows with characters that don't die as often and are strong in that sense, this brings me back to reality and the fact that strong people stay but they don't stay forever.
And this is why that show is still my favorite television series.
It came out not too long after my partner died and I was trying to make sense of it all. It was really helpful - I didn't feel quite as alone knowing that others have the same feelings of helplessness. And Anya's speech was everything!!
After 17 years, that last scene with Buffy killing the vampire, having a moment of content and peace with a half smile, than sitting up to Dawn is the best scene. Still chills my spine when she asks 'Where did she go?'
As cold as death, that's what that was.
I still cry watching that episode, was watching it today. I have been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the start, now on Season 6.
I love this show...it is still my very favourite television show of all time. I got HULU when Netflix took it off just so I could watch it whenever I want. I think I watch it all the way through at least twice a year. It never gets old, it's always worth watching. It's so great seeing them all together again!
Incredible episode. Still hard to get through because it's so real. Such a talented group of actors, writers, the lighting was even different and added to the story. Not in that way where background music tells you how to feel - which is so annoying and I don't remember ever happening on BtVS, it just added a layer of realness. Wonderful show and series.
The choice to use the distant shot sans dialogue, though it had been filmed, of Buffy telling Dawn was excellent.
Allison, still hilarious and the only good thing about HIMYM.
I cried so hard !!!!!!! This episode but so happy angel came back for this one episode
bknightify The moment he walked up to her in the graveyard was my favorite moment of the whole series.
For me “The body” will always be one of the most real and saddest episodes ever. And I agree about Anyas monologue I did not cry seeing Joyce dead (which surprised me) but when I heard Anya asking why Joyce can’t just come back I started bawling. It’s such a beautiful episode
This is one of my favorite episodes not just from Buffy but of any series I’ve watched! I felt the emotions from the cast this episode hit me hard. It was just so well done! It was definitely the lack of music that made it so real we don’t get dramatic piano music when we find a family member passed away, so this really sent a feeling of loss and grief straight in my spirit whenever I watch it :/
I'm on season 2 of buffy right now i own all 7 seasons. But that one show it really got me hardcore and i think most buffy fans felt the same as me.
OMG season 3 is so good.
Season 3 is the highest point in the series. Sadly the quality after that season is a mixed bag of good and bad after but it's never as great as the highschool years.
@Nightman 100 percent agree!
Buffy The Vampire Slayer is my all time most Favorite Show.
is lost my mum to cancer when i was 26, that episode always gets me and I'm glad to have seen it before she passed.
When Anya did that monologue! It was truly the moment I could it handle anything. Buffy was all in shock and a ya was the one saying what your all thinking when some passes Mx what you won’t ever do again, what they won’t enjoy with you again. It broke my heart...
The only episode to not have music and be nominated for an Emmy for best music direction.
Damia Savon welcome :)
Xavier Rose 3 year old comment, but I wonder if this episode inspired the direction of the Red Wedding game of thrones episode - that episode’s shocking twist happens and then the end credits are just silence, none of the usual music. It’s so effective and well executed
I started watching the show about six months ago, and when i came to this episode, my mom had just passed away a couple of weeks before. I dont know if the episode helped me or not, but i almost didnt do anything else but cry for two days after seeing it.
Its one of the best written episodes of any series i have ever seen. It really captures the feeling of emptiness and being lost, when someone loses a person they are that close to. The silence is what i remember the most from that episode. The feeling of isolation. Its masterfully done.
Maybe the episode helped me in that way that it made me let out some of the feelings i had. I remember crying so much that i almost threw up.
My mom has now been dead for a little over four months, and its still really really hard. I still cry from time to time, but it does gets easier, too.
This one really hits home. I lost my dad two years back. He had cancer suddenly for three weeks and then he died on Father’s Day which is why I now hate that holiday. His last words to me were “I love you son and I’m proud of you”.
I was only able to watch this episode once. And now after losing my father, I'm not sure I'll ever watch it again! lol
It still confuses me everytime I hear James y’all without the accent 😂
*i will remember this episode all my life. that was so real. my dad passed away in my arms when i was 17*
Hands down one of the best episodes and such raw performances by all. From flashbacks to reactions to hoping sitenot really happening. Understanding or lack of. Just amazingly done
Joyce was literally one of the best moms in TV history. She embodied everything a mother was, and should be. Compassionate, loving, understanding, and kind. When she died, I broke down and cried so hard. She was a true hero on that show, just like the rest of the gang.
Hands down best show that has ever been on television