Rate Buffy the Vampire Slayer

8/10. It had some bad episodes but it had some good episodes too.

It's good, but only because it did a lot of firsts for TV. A lot of stuff doesn't hold up today and some things were executed poorly. It suffered in the last 2 seasons.

7/10

Seasons 1-3: 10/10, when considered as a complete story
Seasons 4-7: 6/10, given each season's individual weaknesses and lack of cohesion

So I gave it an 8/10. But, truly, it's a sentimental favorite. Season Two would be in my top-five, all-time favorite seasons of any television show.

I basically feel the same way, particularly about 4 being better than basically everything that came after it. Conventional Buffy fan wisdom is that 4 is the absolute low point for the series. I thought it was "fine," just nothing approaching the heights the previous three hit when taken as a complete story.

At the time, they were great fun to watch but lost a lot in rewatch value. 7/10

7/10

Loved the first two seasons, was not all that taken back by season 3 and enjoyed season 4 a bit more, maybe mostly because it was the one where I first caught on with the show back in spring/summer of 2002 and the last three was surely uneven but did contain lots of entertaining and some really good and well written gems as well. However, having just finished the entire show within the "impressive" amount of about 9 months or so, I strongly doubt I will re-watch the entire series ever again. Just too many poor/mediocre or down right forgettable episodes takes place during seaon 5-7 and also far too many weak, annoying and completely unecessary characters suddenly shows up and take far too much space.
I am to one day have a return to Sunndydale, it will be mostly through the first two or three seasons only, then maybe re-watching some of the better stand out episodes of the later seasons, but that is probably it.
But then again, it took me 15 years until I had a return to the show and this time I finally saw the entire thing through, so maybe in another 15 years or so, maybe.