‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Has a Painful Connection to the ‘Buffy’ Musical

Carolyn Jenkins is a writer at Collider whose expertise varies from horror to drama and has a long history of variously consuming narrative television

The Big Picture Jane Schoenbrun’s A24 film, I Saw the TV Glow, tackles the exquisite pain of teen angst, which is perhaps what makes it such an easy comparison to a familiar cult classic. Schoenbrun told IndieWire that their horror film has a specific connection to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series, which ended in 2003, remains a hallmark of camp horror and uses the genre to tell metaphorical stories about high school.

“It wasn’t painful in the way that, it’s painful for Owen when he sees ‘The Pink Opaque’ for the hundredth time and realizes that it’s trash. It was painful because I still loved it, and I still thought it was amazing, and I knew it by heart, but I hadn’t seen it in a while. I was remembering all of these lost memories of it.

Nostalgic Shows Like 'Buffy' Can Be Bittersweet Close Purely by virtue of being released in the ‘90s, some conversations in the show are bound to become dated. And while some aspects of it never go out of style, it is hard to ignore some of the more toxic flavors of the series. Xander Harris is the most prevalent of these conversations. He is the prototypical “nice guy” who shows his true colors when his feelings aren’t reciprocated.

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