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Summary: Better than most movies or television
Review: This is the season where the Buffy cast hit its stride. There is a rich tapestry of plot and myth associated with this show, and most of it started in season two. Sadly, most of you who read this review are already sold on the quality of the show, but there are legions who would be dumbfounded by the consistant quality if they could only get past the title.
Do yourself a favor - take a chance on a sure bet. This DVD is guaranteed to entertain. Pick it up and be amazed.
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Summary: The Slayer Has Returned
Review: I am a HUGE Buffy fan. I own Season I & now i'm dieing to collected all the seasons. Season 2 brings Buffy & Angel to a stand still when her love lifts the curse and Angel returns to his evil ways. Season 2 In my opinion tops the first. Seth Green's charicter Oz is introduced, and a main charicter meets her end at the hands of Angel. I will pre order this DVD pack as soon as possible.
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Summary: The second season is the best!
Review: Out of all the seasons, this is the best by far! It is just so intense and real. This is the season that really defined Buffy as a show. I highly reccomend buying the 2nd season on dvd. All the great episodes are here plus some awesome special features like original scripts, photos, and biographies. You get to witness first hand the amazing love between Buffy and Angel and watch as it crumbles when he gets a true moment of happiness.
Episodes:
When She Was Bad: Buffy returns from LA and is very eager to break off her relationship with Angel. She keeps having reoccuring dreams about her ordeal with the master which leads to hardships for the gang
Some Assembly Required: Two brothers begin robbing graves of young girls in order to creat a girlfirend for their brother who they rose from the dead
School Hard: Buffy's mom along with other parents get trapped inside Sunnydale high during an open house by Spike and his minions in order to attack Buffy.
Inca Mummy Girl: Xander falls for an incan princess who is over 500 years old when she poses as an exchange student living with the Summers after she was brought back to life.
Reptile Boy: Buffy and Cordelia attend a frat party and find themselves being offered as human sacrifices to a snake-like creature in order to ensure that the frate members have wealth and happiness.
Halloween: Buffy, Willow, and Xander rent halloween costumes from a new shop in town opened by Ethan Rayne. They all find themselves turned into their costumes while Spike hunts for the slayer, who is as helpless as a newborn baby!
Lie To Me: When Buffy's friend from LA comes to visit, he lures her into a trap set by Spike in order to be turned into a vampire.
The Dark Age: An demon that Giles and Ethan Rayne conjured up in their teens comes back seeking revenge in Sunnydale, putting everyone in danger.
Whats My Line Part 1: Its career week as Sunnydale High and Buffy is having trouble coping with it. Spike summons 3 professional bounty killers to put her future to an end. While he trys to restore Drusilla-capturing Angel in the process.
Whats My Line Part 2: A slayer named Kendra joins up with Buffy on a quest to save Angel from the ritual that will kill him.
Ted: Buffy's mom starts dating a computer salesman named Ted who Buffy doesn't like at all. She is on a task to prove that Ted is the love MACHINE.
Bad Eggs: During a health project, Buffy, Willow, Cordy, and Xander are to take care of mutant eggs that posess their human bodies.
Surpirse: Its Buffy's 17 birthday and Spike has birthday plans for her which are very deadly and almost cost her and Angel their lives.
Innocence: Along with the deadly demon the Judge, Buffy also has to cope with Angelus (angel) after he loses his soul after expericencing true happiness.
Phases: Secrects are discoverd by the gang as they try to destroy a werewolf, a hunter, and themselves.
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Cordy breaks up with Xander on Valentine's Day, but he wants to turn around and break her heart so he casts a spell causing the entire female population to be maddly in love with him.
Passion: Ms Calendar sturggles to restore Angel's soul while he adds to his torment of Buffy and the gang.
Killed by Death: Buffy is in the hospital with the flu and she battles a demon preying on the life of sick children. Only the sick itself can see the demon.
I Only Have Eyes For You: Sunnydale High is spooked by ghosts of two lovers from past years.
Go Fish: After members of the Sunnydale High swim team go missing and turn up skinned alive, Xander goes undercover trying to figure out what is happening.
Becoming Part One: Kendra is back trying to help Buffy stop Angel from reviving an ancient demon that will suck the earth into hell.
Becoming Part Two: Angel tortures Giles, Spike makes an alliance with Buffy, and Buffy must make a heartbreaking decision involving her future with Angel.
This season is just so intense! Joss Whedon does an amazing job! If your not a Buffy fan . . I would start out with the first season but if you are a Buffy fan this is a definite MUST!!!
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: After gaining some fame during the twelve-episode run of the first season, "BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER" was given a full twenty-two episode comeback for season two. Many fans consider the show's second season to be its best, and there are definitely some great episodes here.
Beginning a year after the end of the first season, "When She Was Bad" is a surprisingly poor effort from the genius behind the show, Joss Whedon. The following episode, "Some Assembly Required", isn't much better. But at the third season, the series begins picking up. I'm talking about "School Hard", which introduced the characters of Drusilla and Spike, the ever-so-awesome badass vampire who would play a pivotal role later on in the series. Seth Green joins the cast of the show in "Inca Mummy Girl", as Oz, who takes an interest in Willow (Alyson Hannigan). Other great episodes include "Halloween", "Lie to Me", "The Dark Age", and "What's My Line (Parts 1 & 2)". John Ritter guest stars in "Ted".
The most important part of season two is Angel's (David Boreanaz) transformation from the kind and protective Angel to the murderous, sadistic killer Angelus. You see, Angel was cursed by gypsies who restored his soul - however, if he experiences one moment of true happiness, he'll revert back to his less-nice form. He experiences that moment in an unbelievable cliffhanger at the end of "Surprise". As he mentally tortures Buffy and threatens her friends, Buffy tries to work up the courage to kill once and for all her former lover.
The season ends with "Becoming Part 2" which, in my opinion as well as that of countless others, is the best episode of the entire show. The ending is so heartbraking and depressing that you can't help but shed a tear.
Sporting great performances from the cast - especially Sarah Michelle Gellar, who deserves a box full of Emmys - as well as creative and endlessly surprising writing, the second season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is supreme entertainment, television at its finest. When you find a show that will keep your heart racing throughout the entire season and then leave you dying for more, you know there's something great here.
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Summary: The best TV show ever !
Review: Buffy's second season is probably the best show I ever watched. The story between Buffy and Angel is so romantic. The fact that Buffy is the slayer and that Angel is a vampire makes the story even more interesting. It is certain that this season does not have a lot of action and suspense, but according to me, it's the best. If you love love stories, you'll like this show. If not, the other seasons are better. Congratulations to Joss Whedon !
I love Buffy and I have all the seasons, even the compact discs !
Five stars !
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Summary: Bestb episodes are...
Review: By the end of this season, you should have an idea as to why Buffy is, as I say, the Greatest Show of All Time. But, of course, don't start here--you must start with the First Season and watch this in its proper order. Buffy is not standard tv-fare, viewable in any which way. There are running storylines, and the characters evolve and grow (as does the overall tone of the show); it demands to be seen in order.
The Second Season contains what is possibly the best episode of all of television, all time: Becoming. Becoming's main competition comes from other episodes of Buffy. Becoming, and the Second Season, are as wonderful as they are for the emotional impact they produce. Becoming is devastating, haunting, and its climactic moment should be studied by all prospective writers as to define what "climax" is, and what it should do. Becoming is not, of course, the only great episode of the season. There are several others, including When She Was Bad (the season opener), Lie to Me, Innocence, Passion and I Only Have Eyes for You.
There are a few episodes which are sub-par, by Buffy's high standards, but these are normally mitigated by the generally witty and spot-on dialogue, strong and consistent characterizations and the overall fun and fancy of the show itself. Representatives of the lower end include Bad Eggs, Reptile Boy, Killed by Death, and Go Fish.
Notable also are a guest appearance by John Ritter (in the episode Ted) who provides one of the best guest spots in the series, the creation of the marvelous villains Spike and Drusilla, the addition of the always likable Seth Green, and the breakout acting of David Boreanaz (as Angel).
The Second Season is arguably the best season of the series (I agree with this view). It has wonderfully fun plots and moments you'll never forget. Its theme is love (what other show can you intelligently talk about its seasons having *themes*!?) and the ecstacy, madness and dangers therein.
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Summary: Awesome, but...
Review: Established: Buffy is the best show that has ever been on T.V.
That being said, I'll get on to the second season.
The setup is this: Buffy and Angel are in love, which is great, except Angel's a vampire. Granted, he has a soul, but he is still a vampire. And when he and Buffy finally...um...he loses that soul. Now Buffy had a supervamp to deal with, one who's wearing her boyfriend's face--because of course back before Angel got his soul he was one of the most powerful vampires in centuries.
The first 1/2 of the series has the major villains being Spike and Drusilla, a pair of seriously slutty, and in Drusilla's case more than a little insane, vampires. They're extremely powerful and used to run with Angel back when he was the evil Angelus. Now they're hanging around Sunnydale making trouble.
Note: James Marsters did an exceptionally good job playing Spike; his performance was interesting enough for the writers to insert an extremely unlikely plot twist in Season Five to get him to stick around (a chip in his head? um, nice, but requires some suspension of belief). An actor who can turn a slightly important baddie into a full-time cast member is pretty talented. Funny performance--even while he was trying to be evil and serious it came off as really, really funny.
The whole 'Angel turns evil after he and Buffy get intimate' thing was interesting because of many teenage girls' experiences with boyfriends after intimacy. Many say that their partners completely changed and sometimes seemed like entirely different people after they (the girls) 'gave it up'. Seems to me that the writers took that common dilemma and extended it with the whole Angel/Angelus business.
"Becoming, Part II" was one of the best single episodes ever to air on television. First of all, because it had swordfighting. I'm big on swords, don't ask me why. Second, because of the intense emotion involved. Buffy's decision was difficult, almost heart-wrenching, yet she makes it with barely a blink because she has to. I especially love when Angelus disarms her in the courtyard and says, "...No weapons, no friends, no hope. What do you have left?" And thrusts the sword at her heart. Buffy just looks him in the eye and says, "Me." Excellent point.
Another great part of the finale was when Spike and Buffy team up. The whole thing was halarious, esp. when Joyce says, "Have you tried not being a vampire slayer?" Spike looks so out of place sitting on Buffy's couch, and their conversation by the police car is a laugh riot. I thought it was interesting the way, after they decided on their temporary alliance, they are walking toward Buffy's house and keep glancing sideways at each other. Both Gellar and Marsters do an excellent job portraying the whole, "I cannot believe I'm doing this!" mindset. It's pretty obvious even then why the writers decided to make Spike stick around; they've got great chemistry (not just of the sexual variety).
Oh and also David Boreanez (sp?) does an excellent job going from heartbreaking vamp-w/-a-soul to evil Angelus who lives to torture Buffy. "Passion" was an exceptionally good episode.
The only problem I have with this season is that I'm really not a fan of all the unrequited/star-crossed love stuff. If you're a fan of agonizing, gut-wrenching misery then you'll lap this season up--but it kind of bugged me. If it's not real then I like happily-ever-after, thanks.
Although I understand that the season wouldn't have been half as good if it had been happily-ever-after for Angel and Buffy.
All in all, an excellent season in a superb series.
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Summary: yeah
Review: The Becoming prt 1 and 2.
Hands down the best acting in the entire series of Buffy.
Close seconds came in season 4 with Hush and Restless.
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Summary: The best season....
Review: of ANY show EVER! Having defeated The Master a sullen Buffy must now do battle Spike and Drusilla, who are like a psychotic vampiric Romeo and Juliet. Also Buffy must deal with her growing attraction to Angel, an attraction that will lead to deadly consequences. Everybody brought their A-Game to the table, the writers did an excelent job crafting the seasons main storyline with plenty of shocking twists and turns. The actors all turned in excelent performances, especially Sarah Michelle, anybody who doubts her acting abiities must have never seen this show. Overall if you're looking for a quality show to watch you can't go wrong with Buffy season 2. EP
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Summary: Buffy Rocks
Review: I loved this boxed set, but felt there was much more they could have added in regards to special features. So far none of the Buffy boxed sets have had any cast interviews except the 6th season, which was only a Academy of Arts and Sciences featurette. I wish they had more special features!
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