Episode: “Hush”,
in which a clutch of well-dressed fellows with hideous Gwynplaine grins invade
Sunnydale, California, to steal the voices of the town’s residents… so the
folks can’t scream when the so-called “Gentlemen” cut out their hearts. In the
middle of a fairly weak season, Buffy the Vampire Slayer gets off one of its
best-loved and ingenious (“Hush” is almost completely devoid of dialogue)
episodes. The floating, constantly gesticulating Gentlemen are regularly cited
as the scariest motherfuckers ever to pop up on a show with no shortage of
them.
