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Summary: Ground Breaking Television, It Isn't.
Review: In the last ten years, Commerical network television has really sunk to new lows and this show is one of them. It has a cheesy premise, with cheesy acting, and it really looks more like a cheap MTV music video then a TV program. It's shallow premise makes it a perfect fit for today's young teens who do not know any better.
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Summary: Awesome DVD collection!
Review: I've got the season 2 DVDs and it's amazing! Best Season of Buffy. You have to love the season 2 episodes which include 'Halloween', 'What's My Line pts 1 & 2' and 'Becoming pts 1 & 2'. It's the season of Drusilla & Spike, and when Angel turned bad. Special guest stars include Jason Behr (Roswell/ I don't watch it, but i bet some of you used to) who's in the episode 'Lie to me' and Brian Thompsom (X - Files) who's in the episode 'Innocence'.You get audio commentary by David Greenwalt, Joss Whedon and Marti Noxin. The audio commentary by Joss Whedon in one of the episodes is very interesting, explaining an overall view of Buffy and it's actors/actresses and how buffy is a mix of genres. He also says something about Anthony Head on the set about his pants, which is amusing. Great featurettes, excellent in fact, revealing the inside of Buffy and the work put into designing sets and make up. Interviews by Nicholas Brendon, Joss Whedon, Charisma Carpenter etc. are in the featurettes and tell us about their point of view in Buffy. Some scripts included as well as trailers/ biographies and more. The sound quality is good, a rating of 4/5, only really because it's in Dolby Digital 2.0. The picture quality is good, but watch for the dark scenes because it gets pretty dodgy. The episodes are fantastic! Especially the stunning season finale of Buffy in the episodes of The Becoming. I can keep on watching the last two episodes of the season and always get a thrill out of them each time. Season 2 by far stands out as the best season and important as it not only had awesome episodes but proved "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer" was an extreme hit. Well worth the purchase for any Buffy fan or any new Buffy fans or anyone in fact! It's AWESOME!
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Summary: Nothing less the absolutely brilliant!
Review: This season is almost twice as long as season one, thus allowing the characters, storys arcs and relationships mature gradually and not seem rushed. Season two of Buffy cannot be touched by critics, it is perfect in every way. Season one was merely the stepping stone to season two; it introduced the characters, it made us familiar with Sunnydale and showed us that some very weird stuff happens there. Season one was fun entertainment, but always had a darker underbelly. Season two, although still extremely fun, took the darker underbelly and painted it all over our TV screens. This season is hard to describe, as is the Buffy series as a whole, there is comedy, jokes, drama, action, fun and tragedy. And it's the way the writers and actors deal with their characters' happiness, joy, anger, love despair, grief and sadness that makes these characters so believable. When someone smiles we believe it is because they're happy, when somone cries we believe it's because they're grieving. And season two definitely delves deeper into the dark than season one did. I can't say much more other than this is Buffy at it's greatest, to say more would spoil the twists of the season's plot, which ultimitely proves devastating. You'll cry, you'll laugh, you'll have fun, but most important, you'll be entertained.
As for the DVD extras: A few interesting commenteries on a few of the episodes by Marti Noxon and Joss Whedon; three featurettes(in the British version anyway), which explore how the actors feel about the show, how the monsters of Buffy are brought to life, things like that; and a very interesting (and sometimes confusing) animated menu; and a couple of other bits and bobs. In the UK the first four seasons have been released on DVD, and they all are absolutely fantastic. Thank you for listening, and understand me that this is one of the best and most intelligent shows on the planet that isn't afraid to break the boundries that other shows are confined to.
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Summary: Another great DVD collection!
Review: For some reason, all these Buffy DVD collections will be great. First of all, this is one of the best seasons of Buffy (aside from season 3, featuring Faith, of course). I guess you could call this season the most romantic. Buffy and Angel's love is very poetic and I enjoyed this season because it got deeper and more dark than the first season. Also, a lot of different elements are added to thicken the plot. Great DVD collection to go with a great series.
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Summary: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Second Season
Review: I not only like the Buffy Series I loved them and I hope that they put all of the seasons out on DVD. The Buffy series has always left me excited to see the next ones. I have the first series. I am glad that this one will have even more to watch. with having the 999 minutes it will take longer to be able to review everything that these disc have to offer. If you like watching a girl kick butt than this is the series for you also it has drama, and romance, comedy, and action. It has a little of everything for all types of people.
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Summary: "Whom Gods Destroy..."
Review: "...they first make mad." Buffy's second season succeeded in elevating romantic melodrama into high epic tragedy. With Buffy's successful defeat of The Master, the Order of Aurelius is in chaotic disarray. Enter the psychopathic vampire Spike (James Marsters), a.k.a. "William the Bloody," and his demented paramour Drusilla (Juliet Landau), to rearrange the pecking order and initiate a violent ongoing vendetta against the Slayer. Spike has two Slayer kills already to his credit, and is eager for a third; mad Drusilla, before the season is out, will bag one of her own to match him. The Bonnie-and-Clyde vampire duo were created by Buffy's great love, Angel, before his soul was restored - when he was known as Angelus, the Scourge of Europe. With classic hubris, Buffy unknowingly sows the seeds of her own psyche's doom by consummating her love with Angel, costing him his regained soul and reverting him to the exceedingly violent killer he once was. The act ends up costing her the lives of many near and dear loved ones - and pits her in a life-and-death apocalyptic struggle that will force her to lose her greatest love...or the world, itself. This was the greatest tear-jerker season of Buffy, and - along with the third season - its highest dramatic peak. The melodrama is intense, the tragedy even more so. The story arc is very impressively handled, focusing first on Buffy's conflict with Spike and Drusilla, and the two killer vampires' newfound conflict with their sire and former mentor in evil, Angel, and then lethally tipping the scale with Angel's fall from grace and reunion with the diabolical duo. New loves are to be found, along with new cast members, most notably Seth Green as Oz, Willow's lycanthropically cursed boyfriend. There are numerous surprises and betrayals, and more twists and turns in loyalties and allegiances than can - or should - be easily recounted. Watch the second season collection, and see what really hooked an entire generation on this incredible series.
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Summary: Season 2 Rocks
Review: Season 2 begins where the first left off with a part two of "Prophecy Girl", though not an offical second part it shows the aftermath of the slaying of the "Master". This season is really a continuation of the original format and story line from the first. Vampires, strange monsters and lots of Slayer action, but with interesting twists and turns. In season 2 we meet Spike for the first time and his lover Dru when they come to Sunnydale to take over. Joss introduces more feelings from the "Gang" than he did in the first and feelings are very evident half way through 2 when Angel and Buffy consummate their relationship causing a very interesting twist to that relationship. Angel becomes evil and we see Angelus for the first time giving fans a real look at the character and a strong appreciation for who he is, what he is and was. Joss sets up the other Buffy seasons in 2 and the Angel series with small actions between Buffy, Angel and the rest of the "gang". I think season two is one of the best in that we really get to know the characters as they leave the background of being just friends and classmates to being "front and center" of several episodes. Joss introduces new characters in 2 that all Buffy fans have come to know and love. Spike and Dru play a large part in 2 as does Willows new boyfriend Oz, the Werewolf. Cordelia becomes a major character in 2. She's not just the school snob that refuses to associate with the "Scoobies". Season 2 brings romance for the entire gang including Giles. It's also tragic for all and full of surprises. The first season introduced us to the Slayer. Season two is the real begining of her life and all that that life involves. Season 2 is the true begining of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer".
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Summary: Buffy Rocks
Review: Me and my 2 children absolutely LOVE Buffy....there is no doubt it is the BEST show on TV. We didn't start watching till last year but have caught ALL of the previous episodes on reruns on FX and have not missed any of the new ones either. The whole Angel/Buffy thing was terrific, but we are loving the Spike/Buffy thing now. Season 2 was undeniably a wonderful season. We have Season 1 and are looking forward to owning Season 2 when it is released in June. We cried at the "Becoming Part 2" episode. In just 12 short months we have all 3 become Major Buffy FANATICS!! I recommend Buffy DVD's to everyone. I just hope Buffy and "The Scoobies" are around for years to come. We can't wait to see what is next.
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Summary: A great show's greatest moments?
Review: 'Buffy' is a marvel, and the second season was the show's Great Leap Forward. Angel, the tormented vampire/loverboy, was too much of a cipher during Season One to really matter, and David Boreanaz's acting was nothing to crow about. But the second season saw Boreanaz, his character, and the show blossom into something special. The show's central metaphors -- a girl 'wrestling with her demons', a school that feels as if it's (it actually is!) sitting on the mouth of hell, a gang of young kids trying to fit into a world hounded by the Old Ones -- took on new richness as Whedon and Co. finally provided some of the mythological backstory that the show deserved. Ironically, the show is somewhat weak on that overall (this is no 'Lord of the Rings'; the horrorshow mythology is generally handled in a utilitarian way, and the fascinating character of the First Slayer [aka 'The Primitive'] shows up far too rarely). But Season Two's forays into Angel's past effectively communicate the torment of a man with a century of accumulated deeds both good and Very Bad. Some would argue that Season Two represents the show at its peak; I'm not certain. The acting has improved with each passing year; the writing has stayed excellent overall, with moments of magic (all the Season 4-6 Whedon episodes, the second half of Season Five, the undoing of the Buffy/Angel relationship in Season Three, and the most recent episode, 'Seeing Red', for instance) far outnumbering the truly sorry moments. [Fans might complain about Season Six; don't listen. It's a change, a complicated and painful one, but potentially an enriching one.] To be sure, the Season Two finale, 'Becoming', is a gut-wrenching experience, certainly in the top five episodes of the show overall. And there is a majesty to the climaxing second season that is rare on television (the weight of the first two years of the series comes crashing onto Buffy and Co.). But this season and the rest are part of a larger story, and the later seasons are, though less compelling in a grand Gothic romance way, even more emotionally complex. The trauma of 'Innocence', 'Passion', 'Becoming' -- of sexual awakening in all its pain and potency -- gives a rich vein of remembered tragedy to the later episodes, and inspires them to new (emotional, aesthetic, complex) heights. For first-time 'Buffy' viewers: watch Season One. This is a very serial show; it builds power as it goes along. A survey of a half-dozen episodes of the first run should get you ready for this one, but do yourself a favor and don't skip around in Season Two. I guarantee that the fuss over this show isn't for nothing.
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Summary: Buffy is for all ages-Teen to Adult
Review: Season 2 is one of my favorites. Buffy grows up a little and enters a world of intense romance with Angel. I am proud to say I am a 36 year old viewer who got hooked taping it for my too busy (then) freshman daughter. My 42 year old husband and I have watched it from day one and now that he's overseas, I have to give online reports! The writing is amazing, the subtle and hilarious comedic aspects of this show catch you off guard every time! Even after 6 seasons, they will say something that will catch you totally offguard. In seasons 1 & 2 if you watch the episodes carefully, they translate from a demon story into a story of current problems our kids are facing in everyday life. For Instance, a story that involves a boy who turns into a demon when he gets jealous, resulting in violence towards his girlfriend and other people in the situation. Also Willow fighting her magic "addiction" in the current season. You can relate almost every story to a problem our kids face everyday and the kids from sunnydale seem to make it through. The writing is excellent, and the casting is brilliant. I know someday this series has to end, so keep putting out the dvd's. We never get tired of watching our beloved "Buffy".
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