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Summary: Every Buffy Season on DVD is Worth the Purchase!
Review: If you are a true Buffy fan, this and all the other seasons on DVD are for you! There are not many extras, but the sheer joy of being able to watch each season whenever you want is extra enough.
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Summary: Buffy takes the cake.
Review: I was never one for 'Buffy' back in the early days. I caught a few episodes now and again but I never really gave it the chance it deserved. When the show released on dvd, something compelled me to buy them and now I can say that Joss Whedon is a creative genius. 'Buffy' is a highly energized and original show. The dynamic between Buffy and her friends, and the insane chemistry between her and Angel is so real it makes your heart ache. All of the seasons are good, but season 2 is the one that truly sold me on Buffy and cemented my loyalty as a fan. Its just a beautiful season, where we really start to feel for the heroine... where we see that just because she is the slayer, she is also human and that the very things that break our hearts, can also break hers. Please do yourself a favor and let yourself indulge in this spectacular series. You'll relish every second of it.
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Summary: I LOVE Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Review: Hey I bought this DVD because I love Buffy and cuz I got Season 4 and I loved that season so much that I got this season and season 3.
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Summary: Awful picture quality.
Review: I like Buffy a lot, but this American DVD- Set has an incredibly bad picture- quality. the picture ist grainy, way to dark, the colors are awful and there are a lot of compression artifacts. Someone said this is the quality it was filmed in, but this is NOT TRUE. I bought the first season here in Germany and the quality is WAY BETTER, especially in dark scenes. I bought the second season in America because i wanted to have a complete set and these sets are much more expensive in Europe, but now i know that it was a very bad decision. The second season is one of the best, but you simply cannot enjoy it with this set. Better go to amazon.de and get the European version.
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Summary: Buffy Season 02
Review: This has season has one of the best episode of Buffy...Becoming part 2!! I really enjoined the overall arch of the season, Angel, Spike/Dru worked amazingly well but if the season was examined in individuals episodes as the DVD ultimately accomplishes, you see how the season fails. It lacks the fresh look of season 01 and the shorter supply of episodes. It seems as if the staff was trying to work out a 22 episode season (up from 12) and used a lot of filler. It creates an unbalanced and flawed masterpiece. But if you remove all the filler and leave the essential episodes: the early episodes, Passion, Innocence and Becoming, you have yourself a true piece of art, a drama that excels all that has come before and leaves you feeling all the emotions these characters portray. Watch this for Becoming. Stay for the fun of the filler, they are fun but don't work well in DVD format. A Must own for Buffy fans. FOr the uninitiated, go to season 1 or 3 before you try this, you may be confused but yea.
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Summary: The Best Love Story on Television
Review: Some fans would label the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the first season. In a way, it is the first season...well, the first COMPLETE season. The first season was created as a midseason replacement for some cancelled show on the WB. Anyhow, I drifted off-topic...This season features the best love story on television, in my opinion. It takes the star-crossed lovers and throws them together. The turning point in the relationship explodes like a volcano, and the sadness, anger, guilt, shame, hate, and love all maneuver together like a rubix-cube that has just been solved. The end results in tragedy, of course, but that it what makes this season so brilliant. EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES by Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz! The only downside to this box set is that the video quality is grainy at times. However, I don't blame it on the people who assembled the DVD sets, I blame it on the budgeting of the show when it was in its earlier years. If there was ever a season of Buffy to own, and everyone should own every season, this is the one if you are looking for the best love story to ever hit your television.
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Summary: questions.....
Review: ok, im confused...to those of you who have season two,does it actually have the episodes of the season? Well, i only ask because it says audio commentary, interviews and other of the sort but never actually says the episodes and how many there are.On all of the other season details, it clearly states the number of episodes and lists each and every one.......e-mail me back if you have the answer! Thanks......signed, Kylea, a buffy fan!
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Summary: From extraordinary...
Review: ...to a pinnacle of achievement. It's hard to describe Buffy the Vampire Slayer's transition from the first season, which establishes a solid framework for a really good TV show, to the second, which knocks the framework down and transcends to TV greatness. Buffy, for those who were fooled by the show's name at the time, was one of the brightest points in the rather dismal history of television writing. It was smart, witty, fun, dramatic, intoxicating, and entirely accessible - a combination that is almost unbeatable. The second season picked up where the first left off with a vengeance. "When She Was Bad" gets pretty far into establishing that circumstances aren't going to be the same this year as they were last; Buffy was going to be able to change and grow, which is pretty remarkable for a TV character to begin with. It stumbled a little at "Some Assembly Required," but the subsequent "School Hard" introduced Spike and Drusilla. Spike would be perhaps the show's most loveable villain, but he still earned his fangs. Even down episodes like "Inca Mummy Girl" and "Reptile Boy" were still great writing and character advancement. It turned around, though, with "Halloween" - bringing in another solid villain in Ethan Rayne and playing with all-new rules. "Lie To Me" is a brilliant commentary on real-world "vampire" thought. Then "The Dark Age" hit and the character revelations started to truly come clear. Giles' past was a revelation that we then thought couldn't be topped. "What's My Line?," the first Buffy two-parter, introduces what a "normal" slayer is like in the gradually likeable character of Kendra, and also finally lets Spike and Dru play big bad for a while. "Ted" is a brilliant, relatively unconnected episode that brings out a lot of psychological factors. Even another lesser episode like "Bad Eggs" is pretty close to the best that a lot of TV shows can offer. Then "Surprise" hit with a brutal punch. The Buffy / Angel relationship is finally consummated, and Angel loses his soul - bringing his character to a completely new level, and indeed elevating the show a lot higher. "Innocence" brings Buffy into conflict with Angelus, and he begins to show why he will rank high among Buffy's villains of all time. "Phases" brings the weirdness home in a different light than before, and "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" is a masterful Valentine's Day episode that brings out a lot of great stuff about the odd Xander / Cordelia relationship. "Passion" follows up strongly on the dare set by "Surprise" by killing off a major, likeable character. "Killed By Death" is a genuinely creepy, disturbing horror episode. "I Only Have Eyes for You" is more so, and brings out even more wrinkles in what is going on with Buffy and Angelus. "Go Fish" is another one of those good episodes in the midst of absolutely brilliant episodes; by itself, it's pretty good, and it does do a lot for characters even if it's not up to the brilliance surrounding it. "Becoming" shows Buffy taken to her final extreme, in many ways the ultimate test for her, and its ending is an amazing Pyrrhic victory. To kill Jenny Calendar was one thing; killing Angel took real guts. It is the kind of season finale that would really set Buffy apart from everything else on television at the time. Buffy took the high school metaphors to a really higher level in this season; the ultimate of these was Angel / Angelus. The relationship between Buffy and Angel was built so well, so sweetly, so entrancingly, that the betrayal was a real shock. It is perhaps the show's ultimate achievement that it really changed things in this midseason; characters went beyond surprisingly two-dimensional and into bewilderingly three-dimensional. And it would only get better the next season. Through it all, Sarah Michelle Gellar was the glue that held the show's disparate elements together. She could be happy, or serious, or fun, or brooding, or lovey-dovey, or heartbroken, all with a tender genuineness. She gets to run the gamut of emotions, and proves that she can pull anything and everything off in the course of the season. "Becoming" is some of her best work. Ever. The pain in that two-parter is real and affecting. The rest of the cast backs her up with style. David Boreanaz manages both the dark, brooding Angel that we know and love, and the hateful, cynical Angelus with a contrast that is entirely believable and totally real on screen. You *know* that his character has changed. The tension between Nicholas Brandon (Xander) and Alyson Hannigan (Willow) is downplayed after a few episodes, but very real throughout. Their relationships with Oz (Seth Green) and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), respectively, are also masterfully written. Anthony Head - a great actor to begin with - gets to add about a hundred interesting layers to his stereotypically British character in this single episode. In the secondary parts, James Marsters (Spike), Juliet Landau (Drusilla), and Robia LaMorte (Jenny Calendar) all manage to create definitive, real personae who add a lot of the season's unique flavor. LaMorte also had great chemistry with Head that was never really explored as thoroughly as I would've liked. It's one of the finest acting ensembles that was ever assembled for a television show. For seven years, Buffy was the best show on television. Just watch an episode or two from this boxed set, and you'll wonder why more shows this good don't get made. I know I do.
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Summary: Even Better Then Season One!
Review: This is my favorite TV series and season Two is even better then Season one which I also like and I liked how the stories, clothes and hairstyles etc, improved and I liked the addition of Spike and Drucilla as recurring characters though I really loved it when Spike became one of the main characters in season Four My favorite season Two episodes are When She Was Bad School Hard Halloween The Dark Age What's My Line, Part One What's My Line, Part Two Surprise, Part One Innocence, Part Two Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered Passion I Only Have Eyes For You Becoming, Part One Becoming, Part Two I recommend this DVD set it's so worth buying because this is a an awesome show!
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Summary: Buffy's BEST Season by far
Review: Ah, the nostalgia. No sooner had I popped in the DVD of the first 4 episodes, that I was sent back to my Junior Year of HS, when Buffy was my favorite show, and the memories it brought back (mostly of waiting on line for David Boreanaz' autograph the DAY AFTER the season finale). And among the memories of season's past, I also got a chance to dissect these episodes even further looking for common threads that linked them to the later seasons (like Jonathan, I had no idea he was in SO MANY episodes) But I'm aside myself. THIS was Buffy's finest (22) hour(s). Many of the greatest plotlines and jaw dropping story twists took place right here, from Angel's turning evil, to Spike and Drusilla's appearance, to Oz's first time as a werewolf (not to mention when he and Willow began dating). All the classic episodes like Inca Mummy Girl, What's My Line, Ted and I Only Have Eyes For You. All are here. Memories for all the Buffy fans who grew up with her, went through High School and College alongside her (like I did), all the fun, laughs and tears shed. I know this sounds weird, but if you only buy one season on DVD, make it this one. You will NOT be sorry you did.
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