Twenty years ago today, Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired its series finale. “Chosen” first broadcast on May 20, 2003 — and for a lot of people, it was the end of something that had genuinely changed what television could be.
Nicholas Brendon — Xander Harris for all seven seasons — marked the occasion on Instagram with a message worth reading in full. He wove in lyrics from The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” as a framing device: “It was 20 years ago today…”
“I love that so many of you connected with the show and the characters,” he wrote. “And despite some of the bittersweet memories, I’ll always be so grateful I had the opportunity to play Xander and that it gave me the chance to meet so many of you.”
The part that lands hardest: “Thank you for holding a place in your heart for the show for all of these years. I’m just as big a fan as all of you, and I miss watching it as much as I miss filming it.”
He also mentioned that painting has now filled much of the space Buffy once occupied in his life. “I hope all of you find something to be as passionate about and were able to fill that big Buffy-shaped hole in your life.”
Twenty years. It still feels recent.
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