A groundbreaking fantasy series by Joss Whedon that has a simple premise — high school is hell. Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) moves to Sunnyvale to escape her past but soon learns that the quiet town’s high school is located on a Hellmouth, a portal to demon dimensions. Buffy is a “slayer,” one of a long time of young women embued with heightened strength and awareness to defend the world against vampires and demons.