Horror Queen

I’m currently in the process of re-watching my old Buffy and Angel discs so every couple of weeks I’ll be posting a new review of whatever season I just finished. Unfortunately I’m missing season one because it was ruined in a fire, so I’ll start with season two.

Season two of Buffy the Vampire Slayer picks up with Buffy coming back to town after a summer with her dad. She killed The Master at the end of the first season, died and came back to life so she isn’t feeling to chipper. She throws herself into the slaying, ignoring her friends and Angel. She finally gets her mojo back, just in time to sleep with Angel on her 17^th birthday and have him turn into the evil Angelus.

The season also introduces Oz, who goes crazy for Willow. He wants her to want him, not because she wants to make her friend Xander jealous. Xander falls for the snobby Cordelia and eventually casts a love spell on her, which backfires and makes all women in town go after him.

The real thread to the season is the relationship between Buffy and Angel/Angelus. He torments her friends, kills Jenny Calendar and kidnaps Giles. By the end she’s feeling completely alone, but she learns that she’s the only person she actually needs to survive. She manages to trap Angelus just as Willow completes the spell to turn him back into Angel and yet she still has to kill him to save the world. At the end of the season Buffy takes off, knowing that she can’t face anyone knowing what she had to do.

I actually started watching Buffy regularly during the second season. Prior to that, the Dayton area didn’t have a regular WB station, but aired shows at random times of the day. I remember watching episodes at three am sometimes. The second season was when the WB finally appeared and the show drew me right in. The second season might just be the best place to start on the show.

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