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Buffy earned international attention for its unflinching focus on the relationship between Willow and Tara Maclay.

Whedon and the writing staff had been considering developing a story arc in which a character explores his or her sexuality as the Scoobies left high school, but no particular effort was made to assign this arc to Willow.

In 1999, at the end of the third season, the Boston Herald called Buffy " the most gay show on network TV this year " despite having no overtly gay characters among the core cast.

It simply presented storylines that resembled coming out stories.

In the fourth season episode " Hush ", Willow meets Tara, and to avoid being killed by a group of ghouls, they join hands to move a large vending machine telekinetically to barricade a door.

The scene was, upon completion, noticeably sensual to Whedon, the producers, and network executives, who encouraged Whedon to develop a romantic storyline between Willow and Tara, but at the same time placed barriers on how far it could go and what could be shown.

Two episodes later, Hannigan and Amber Benson were informed that their characters would become romantically involved.

The actors were not told the end result of the Willow – Oz – Tara storyline, not sure what the eventual trajectory of the relationship would be, until Hannigan said, " Then finally it was, ' Great!

It's official.

We're in luurrvvve.

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