This episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer originally aired just months after my father's death and it tore me to pieces.

My partner and I began watching (rewatching parts of it for me) the series well over a year ago and irony of all ironies, season 5 disc 5 arrived a few weeks ago on the anniversary of my dad's death. I felt that it arrived on the day for a reason, so we proceeded to watch that episode that day, and while it was painful, it was also helpful in a way. Afterward, we watched the special feature on the episode and sure enough Joss had based that on his own personal loss (his mother) and the losses of other people in his life. He did a superb job, as there were times in that episode that I could almost identically identify as things I experienced throughout the time of my dad's death. For those of you who haven't seen this episode, I highly, highly recommend it.

Well done, Joss!