At the risk of sounding like someone trying to convince someone else to not give up on a show... Buffy really does get better in later seasons. Not that season 1 is bad, right enough
Most people at my work have never watched Buffy either Apparently it's one of those "geeky" things which "cool" people didn't watch
I'm watching the rest of the season 1 episodes right now and will share my thoughts next month, so I won't comment much more on that right now. But what I will say is that I was definitely the odd one out when all my friends were really into Buffy, and it is fun to finally catch up on something people I know have been raving about for AGES. But I totally disagree that the cool people didn't watch Buffy. Or maybe my definition of the cool people is different than your coworkers, Eala!