That’s Me In The Corner (As A Vampire)
“Doppelgangland,” the sixteenth episode of Season 3, is essentially a sequel to “The Wish,” the one where Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) unwittingly reboots Sunnydale’s recent history by telling Anya...
View ArticleBattle Of The Fin(n)s: The Law vs. The Military
In our previous Battle Of The Fin(n)s, Detective Odafin Tutuola fended off Meadow Soprano ex-BF Finn DeTrolio to retain his Fin(n) title. But another ex-BF -- a Buffy ex-BF -- is about to take the...
View ArticleOne Girl In All The World
Why rewatch Buffy in its entirety? As with so many of my PTV projects, "why not" is an important element here, as is its superiority to drecky summer programming, but primarily it stems from two recent...
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The End Of The Beginning
If the first season of Buffy aired today, would I keep watching it? Probably! It's not great, overall. I've never thought it was strong; a confident beginning and a couple of nicely done episodes in...
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When She Was Pretty Good
Despite the carryovers from the first season -- all the main characters, of course, and the continued wannabe influence of the Annoying One (tm Spike) even after the gang dispenses more finally with...
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Willow Power
I didn't make many notes during my latest run of Buffy episodes. That means I was mostly watching them, enjoying them. I had a few thoughts (and strenuous objections...Jason Behr), but primarily I...
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Ted Talks
A handful of very-good-to-great episodes, marred by character work that hasn't aged well, as we head into the S2 crucible. Better Than I Remembered "What's My Line, Part 2" The "famous" lines don't...
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Turn Of The Screw
If we put it to a vote -- best sequence of Buffy episodes all-time -- this rounding-the-clubhouse-turn set from Season 2 is the likely winner. Season 3 is my desert-island Buffy season, but none of...
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Master Of His Domain
Given his status as Buffy The Vampire Slayer's first Big Bad, The Master didn't exactly tear (bite?) up the bad-ass category. Sure, putting a King Lear-esque spin on "You've got something in your eye"...
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Actually, That Cut Is The Deepest
My recollection of the half-dozen episodes that end Buffy's Season 2 isn't accurate, and thank goodness. I remembered it as "Passion," a couple dullish MOTW episodes with the odd cutaway to Angel...
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Return Of The Slay-tive
The opening set of the third season is good TV, while at the same time not very likable TV. It's interesting; it's emotionally truthful, mostly; and it's a dicky few hours for almost everyone except...
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Think Different
I've said all along that the third season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer is my favorite, but a third of the way in, it's a position I'm hard put to defend. It's not bad, but compared to what it was in my...
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Dust In The Wind
Now at the halfway mark of the third season, I still feel mostly let down. Xander's relationship to Buffy's whole deal with Angel continues to yaw between unwarranted self-righteousness and girlish...
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Watching The Watchers
Our next pack of Buffy Rewatch episodes is the inverse of the previous one: all fairly solid, with one stinker (though not everyone agrees it's a stinker, and even I think it's sort of interesting...
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Congratulations, Class Of 1999
It's not possible for me to start watching the last quarter of Buffy's third season and not keep going until the end. It has a majestic, sad momentum to it, and though some of the suspense is lost --...
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The Old College Try
I've said for years about Buffy S6 that its primary problem is a failure to understand that "realistic" does not automatically mean "interesting." It's a frequent sticking point in all kinds of...
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Initiative Rituals
Starting with "The Initiative," Buffy begins to reveal to us and then to the characters exactly what Riley's -- and Professor Walsh's -- deal is. Unfortunately, that reveal doesn't play as well on a...
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Candles And Pretense
It's interesting to watch the beginning of Buffy S5 having just come off the Sleepy Hollow season premiere. For those of you not watching that cramazing histupernatural hour of TV, the second season...
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With Heavy Hearts
Buffy The Vampire Slayer returns to its heroine's singularity many times over the course of the series. Well, until the writers' room decided it had no further use for it, but I'll complain about that...
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Oscar, Meet Emmy
You will watch the Academy Awards on Sunday to find out which movies will take home the movie industry's biggest prize. But network TV executives will be watching, too, for an altogether different...
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