Category Archives: Buffy Season 2

Surprise (Marti Noxon) From the ridiculous to the sublime (actually not quite the sublime, that’s to come). Surprise is the slow build up to Innocence and it’s a good episode in many ways: though that excludes the comedy strangling by … Continue reading →

Bad Eggs (Marti Noxon) I am prepared to be contradicted once I rewatch Beer Bad but I think this is the worst episode of Buffy. I can’t even be bothered writing about it but it can be summarized as the … Continue reading →

Ted (David Greenwalt and Joss Whedon) I liked this episode a lot though it was an uneasy mixture of deadly serious (Buffy thinks she has killed an ordinary human – a situation not dissimilar from Faith and her killing of … Continue reading →

What’s My Line I and II (I Marti Noxon and Howard Gordon, II Marti Noxon) Kendra is a marvellous contrast to Buffy (as much as Faith to come) for despite her heavy make up and revealing clothes, she’s conservative, dedicated, … Continue reading →

The Dark Age (Dean Batali and Rob Des Hotel) An episode about Giles’s past and I can barely remember any of it (that’s before checking the transcript, of course). Jenny and Giles’ relationship hits the buffers in this which is … Continue reading →

Lie to Me (Joss Whedon) Many of my headlines are quotes about Angel, which is odd because I’m not a big fan. This is a serious episode about how we could deal in extreme circumstances with pain versus immortality but … Continue reading →

Halloween (Carl Ellsworth – apparently he was fired which is a shame because I liked this episode a lot) A fantastic standalone episode. Unusually, the low point was SMG as an unconvincing 18th century damsel in distress – I just … Continue reading →

Reptile Boy (David Greenwalt) What do Ghost World and Reptile Boy have in common? This is an episode with a lot of potential but rather like the not-so-good monster, it was all unconvincing. The implications of Buffy’s single lie to … Continue reading →

Inca Mummy Girl (Matt Kiene and Joe Reinkemeyer) Here’s Oz and Willow is the cutest of the Scoobies – she is utterly endearing in a parka (and sparks a classic Cordelia line: “Oh, near faux pas! I almost wore the … Continue reading →

School Hard (story by Joss Whedon, written by David Greenwalt) I see…so this is the reason why I disliked Spike and Drusilla in the early days: bad, bad, bad accents. At least Spike’s modulated away from this Cary Grant impersonation … Continue reading →