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8. Joss Whedon
Breakthrough Series: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Defining Show: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Other Career Highlights: "Angel," "Firefly," writer on "Roseanne"
Signature Style: Updating and reinvigorating genre TV with pop-culture wit
Joss Whedon transformed a snappy youth fantasy about vampires and demons -- and a high school cutie born to dispatch them between homework assignments -- into TV's most unlikely pop-culture phenomenon since "The X-Files." The series had a canny balance of supernatural soap opera, apocalyptic adventure, tongue-in-cheek humor and mortal consequences. "Buffy" became a mythology for the modern media age, and Whedon followed it up with the noir-tinged spin-off, "Angel," a supernatural detective show in a different kind of Los Angeles underworld, and the scuffed and rugged Western in space, "Firefly," a frontier sci-fi adventure with a mercenary cast and an electrified tension. Whedon has since turned to the big screen, but the three shows he created and shepherded turned imaginative metaphors into very human stories, and that's the best kind of genre TV.
8. Joss Whedon
Breakthrough Series: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Defining Show: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Other Career Highlights: "Angel," "Firefly," writer on "Roseanne"
Signature Style: Updating and reinvigorating genre TV with pop-culture wit
Joss Whedon transformed a snappy youth fantasy about vampires and demons -- and a high school cutie born to dispatch them between homework assignments -- into TV's most unlikely pop-culture phenomenon since "The X-Files." The series had a canny balance of supernatural soap opera, apocalyptic adventure, tongue-in-cheek humor and mortal consequences. "Buffy" became a mythology for the modern media age, and Whedon followed it up with the noir-tinged spin-off, "Angel," a supernatural detective show in a different kind of Los Angeles underworld, and the scuffed and rugged Western in space, "Firefly," a frontier sci-fi adventure with a mercenary cast and an electrified tension. Whedon has since turned to the big screen, but the three shows he created and shepherded turned imaginative metaphors into very human stories, and that's the best kind of genre TV.