"I Saw the TV Glow"

[cjlasky7]

Most of the people on my flist have been, at one time or another, BUFFY obsessives.

We pored over episodes like sacred texts, overidentified with the characters, wrote fanfic, and yes, felt a little hollow inside when it all ended.

I often thought about writing a novel about the experience, that passionate connection with an image on your TV screen that you and maybe a few select others in your life could understand.

But now I don't have to.

There's a movie.

Writer/director Jane Schoenbrun's "I Saw the TV Glow" is about that strange bond between viewer and video, and how the experience warps your personal reality. And if there's any doubt whatsoever that the fictional TV show in the movie is a Buffy analog...

Amber Benson has a cameo.

It's playing in select theaters in New York and LA before going into wide release on the 17th.

I'm tempted to pop down to the Angelika in Manhattan to check it out.

(But what if I find it a little TOO relatable?)

Comments

[shadowkat]

Unlikely, you and I weren't quite as invested as some. We didn't do the convention circuit.

[ann1962]

Tom Felton did a documentary about HP fans. It was interesting to watch. He was confused by obsessive fandom, but then came to see the humanity of those that sometimes don't treat actors like humans, or the better case find themselves in characters and stories.