I saw on Bounding into Comics that a “richly diverse” Buffy reboot was cancelled or put on pause. Somebody in the comments made a good point that he wished that show had aired since a good number of Buffy fans are in the woke/sjw category they can see how it feels to have something they like get ruined. If I’m not mistaken I think this was the show that Anita Sarkessian was complaining about. Odd since complaining about her negative influence on a hobby is bad but she can complain when it’s something she actually cares about. Maybe I give her too much credit but I blame her and Zoe for everything wrong with gaming in the past few years. Or at least corporations taking her idiotic ideas seriously
To be fair I have heard the Buffy tv show was pretty good. I haven’t seen the movie either.
Buffy is super-fun, but I watched it in French, so I wasn't exposed to the 'like, so, like, like it was so, like cool, right?' aspect of it. The French dub made the serious scenes twice as good as the paltry actors could make them.
The stupid thing about making Buffy 'woke' is that... so many cultures have mythologies of odd human-like creatures. They could make a wonderful zombie series based in Haiti, for instance. Or Asuras in India. Or Windagos in the USA. But our creatives are obviously spiritually bankrupt.
I'm a bit astonished that nobody has mined the rest of the world to construct a supernatural-type show. There must by 100 million hispanics in the US. Do something with a 'chupacabra' or la llorena!
I think both showed up as a monster of the week on Grimm.