On one level, the return of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" with Sarah Michelle Gellar - the news of which Variety broke today - is the most 2020s thing that could happen. Updating a beloved TV series from the last four decades with at least some of the original cast (often known as a legacy sequel,

Sarah Michelle Gellar is reportedly set to executive produce and reprise her role as Buffy Summers. It looks like Buffy the Vampire Slayer is coming back from the dead (again) as part of a new Hulu series.

Gellar, who appears, in Paramount+ with Showtime’s “Dexter” revival prequel “ Dexter: Original Sin ,” been closed to the idea of a “Buffy” return until recently.