Tragic and Comedic with Universal themes

As long as you know going in that the chosen one, the slayer, is going to always be a young female cursed (or blessed) with super human powers to hunt the supernatural monsters of the world then know this show is otherwise completely devoid of wokeness. It's awake but never woke.

If you can accept this premise and make it through it's short lukewarm 1st season you will be blessed with one of the best ever written shows on television. It combines the comedic and the tragic with real heart and nearly every episode becomes metaphoric to real life. The characters are keenly drawn with chemistry to spare and has consistantly snappy dialogue. You'll feel you know these people.
The later seasons from s4 on are edgier, darker and more adult and I, as an adult, preferred these although some prefer the earlier more lighthearted s 1-3.

Also later in the series one of the main characters does come out as gay. This is the alarm, I guess, for some people. But it's so subtle in its handling that it feels more natural then current media plays it....So what? Life goes on, right?. There's monsters to kill in this world and it's not us