The set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a laboratory and Hush was the incision. In the final years of the nineties, this broadcast arrived as the most harrowing work of the decade, a feat of silence that forced the audience to stop blinking. It was an assault on the nerves, a narrative built without the safety net of dialogue. Joss Whedon reached into the dark corners of his own childhood for this, extracting a recurring fear of faceless things drifting past his windowpane. When the script arriv