Buffy The Vampire Slayer

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Season one of Buffy was patchy.

It was largely monster-of-the-week type episodes, while the main characters are introduced, fleshed out, and/or killed off in the first episode to mess with your expectations. There is an ongoing storyline about "The Master", who somehow earns that title despite being one of the least threatening or adept major vampires to appear in the entire run. The major supporting characters have unfortunate relationships that flesh them out as Real Genuine People; Xander with a giant insect-lady teacher, and Willow with the internet. A demon, I mean. A demon who lives on the internet. This being 1997, he probably manifested most efficiently as a text file.

There’s enough sharp writing and attractive teenagers to get it renewed for a full, 22-episode second season.

Season two was fucking awesome.

We have a plan to anoint some evil kid as vampire leader, but Spike and Drusilla turn up and are much more interesting and fun characters and so Spike pulls the kid into sunlight and burns him the fuck up. Meanwhile, several episodes later, Buffy and Angel get it on; the former as a just-17 year old girl losing her virginity and the latter as a 250-year old demon-infested man who has been killing and fucking through centuries. Of the two, Angel does not take it well. In nailing a hot teenager, he has a moment of "pure happiness" which makes him lose his soul and become evil. This actually does make sense in context, but the important thing for the viewer is that soulless Angel, aka Angelus, is about four hundred and six times cooler than broody, woe-is-me Angel.

Angelus starts watching Buffy sleep and drawing pictures of her to freak her out (though we realise that, post-Twilight, this may not work any more), he kills Willow’s fish (the bastard) and then moves on to objectively worse things, such as murdering Jenny Calendar and setting the body up for prospective-lover Giles to find in a manner so deliciously evil I can only implore you to go watch.

Angelus joins up with Spike in a plot to suck the whole world into hell. Spike comes to the realisation that he’d rather not live in hell, and also that Angelus is probably boning Drusilla, so becomes a snitch to the Slayer.

The final two episodes, Becoming parts 1 & 2 are among the best this show came up with. There’s vampire backstory, a slayer murdered (by the way there was a second slayer for a while, just go with it), GENUINE EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT, sword fighting, softcore pornography (sorry, not really) and snappy dialogue. The gang work on restoring Angel’s soul but just as they succeed, the portal to hell opens and Buffy has to impale her murderous vampire lover and send him to hell to save the world.

Phew!

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