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This episode is truly hard to watch. Witch hunts and Satanic panic have always been a truly sensitive topic, and how a TV show goes about covering it is always indicative of the show's overall quality. Without spoiling, Buffy the Vampire Slayer covers the topic damn well and works it into the lore of the show seamlessly. Is it the best episode of the show? No. It is one of the better ones, though. Makes it hard to like some characters.

This is an episode I usually skip because the characters that are made hard to like are truly intolerable here. Which works REALLY well for the episode, but doesn't make for an enjoyable experience.

I'm 27 and this just brings me straight back to high school. I mean I didn't have a boyfriend until I was an adult but everything this is too relatable. The strange idealizing of what it'll be like to have a boyfriend (or, in many cases, what it'll be like to be a queer adult), falling for people who are nice to you, finding and meeting other queer friends, the eternal self-doubt, the first ever kiss (that feeling, of a first kiss? It doesn't really go away... stuff like that is always super special) and just about everything. I remember, growing up, I thought that this is what my teenage life would be like. Someone to kiss on the cheek and whatnot. It makes me happy for those who can live like those in this series.

There is absolutely nothing about this show I dislike. It's innocent (like I said earlier, idealizing in a way) and the number of times I cried I cannot count. Very little makes me cry these days but omg. On point.