The sixth season of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” features dark and unpleasant themes, a painful magic-as-heroin allegory, and creative decisions that manage to be cruel to both the show’s characters and its audience. But there’s also a musical!

"Buffy" season 6

Jason Snell with Steve Lutz, Quinn Rose, Aleen Simms and Jean MacDonald

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