There were some moments that I think were supposed to by mother/daughterly, and came off to me stilted. KS and SMG had NO chemistry, imo.
There were very few moments where I didn't buy whatever SMG was trying to portray. Joyce sometimes came across off... I never didn't buy Buffy in those scenes.
I always felt Buffy's fixation on the dinner in S4 showed signs of a manic mother who stressed out and made everyone's life hell for "events."
Perhaps - it seemed self-contained to me. Part of my sense of Buffy's manic-ness is that she was trying to live up to a standard she thought others had set, without really internally knowing what her own goals were. (See Buffy try to be an 18th century noblewoman to impress Angel in Halloween...) In my own family, my mother always goes nuts over making things perfect, while my siblings and I are very laid back.
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There were very few moments where I didn't buy whatever SMG was trying to portray. Joyce sometimes came across off... I never didn't buy Buffy in those scenes.
I always felt Buffy's fixation on the dinner in S4 showed signs of a manic mother who stressed out and made everyone's life hell for "events."
Perhaps - it seemed self-contained to me. Part of my sense of Buffy's manic-ness is that she was trying to live up to a standard she thought others had set, without really internally knowing what her own goals were. (See Buffy try to be an 18th century noblewoman to impress Angel in Halloween...) In my own family, my mother always goes nuts over making things perfect, while my siblings and I are very laid back.