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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Second Season

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Second Season

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: welcome to HELL!!!!!!!!!!! mouth.
Review: Although I've only recently boarded the Buffy express, I'm glad I decided to purchase this DVD set. When you consider this season as a whole, it is dizzying to think about all of the story lines that extended simultaneously, often times intertwining. This was the season where Whedon began to truly flex his story telling muscles-from the producer's angle. There is so much to love about this season that it is easy to gloss over the few weak points. Although I despise romantically themed stories, it was easy to put up with the Buffy-Angel trauma because there were so many eye-popping detours, from disgusting monsters to hammy, well-acted villians/villianesses. Where the stories succeed the most are when they challenge the viewer and force them to become introspective long after the closing credits for a particular episode have been run. Episodes such as "Passion" "I Only Have Eyes For You" and the unforgetable season finale, "Becoming, Part Two" will not only leave you feeling like you walked through a war, but will haunt you for a long time after. If you loved the Universal Classic Monsters of the 1930s and 40s, then you will also love this season, because all bases are covered: Some Assembly Required (Frankenstein), Phases (the Wolf Man), Inca Mummy Girl (the Mummy), and Go Fish (Creature from the Black Lagoon) all pay their respective homages to the great ones of the past. Truly what made this series shine brightest was the story arcs created by Whedon. Granted, the doomed Buffy-Angel romance was the central theme of the second season, but the mesmerizing enjoyment only began when the side-line players such as Spike and Drusilla (swaggering into town in and staggering out by the season's end in that black car!), principal Schneider, and even the Judge try to seemingly sabotage this arc. In the end, that is what you can say about the show as a whole: it doesn't walk in a straight line, and the zig-zags it takes with plot and character development are what make universe of Buffy such an enjoyable place to be, or at least visit until dark.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Buffy Season
Review: The best Buffy season of them all. It has all the best scenes: Buffy's[]dance with Xander, Angelus, Spike at his hottest, Spike talking about people as "happy meals" on wheels. If you're going to buy a Buffy DVD set, buy this one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The ultimate Challange
Review: Here Buffy falls completely in love with Angel though the first disk is my faviorite watching Buffy in in the the first ep of the season made my blood hot she was so sexy ! Yet at the saetime she made her way through the season ending it with something no women should have to face ... How do you let go of the one you love yet still have to live each day with him in your mind .. ..

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Chosen One is Back
Review: Truly magnificent. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season II is the heart of the series. Back due to popular demand, Season II begins with Buffy and the Scoobies returning from Summer Break, only to find that the Master may not truly be gone. When his lackeys due their best to ressurect him, the episode focuses on the emotional damage left on Buffy due to her death. She comes to terms with it, and grows both emotionally and physically.

That is basically the theme of the season. Growth. As juniors, the Scoobies find themselves at an awkward time. But one that is perfect for TV. The Season focuses on Buffy coming to terms with her role in the world, as presented in "What's my Line" Pt. 1 and 2. It also finds Willow breaking out of her shell and becoming more outspoken, and Xander actually obtaining a girl-friend, albeit Cordelia, who also grows from a snotty popular girl, to a snotty popular girl with semi-important points.

We also learn about the past lives each character has lived. We learn more about Buffy's past at Hemory High, and discover just how evil Angel really was. We then find the Scoobies pushed to their limit without the merciless acts perpetrated by their former friend Angel, and the effects of one of those acts, that being the death of one of the main characters. Angels descent into darkness brings out a side of Buffy not yet seen...her willingness to do whatever is right...no matter what the cost, even if it kills her one true love.

At a time when budget increases give Whedon more room to work and more space to realize his dreams, the series hits one of its two highest points, the next not seen until the fifth season. Buffy hits a creative peak here. This is after the limited resources which made the plots some what hokey, and before ratings importance forced the show to comform to whatever the viewers wanted to see the most. If you truly want to understand Buffy, then Season II is what you want.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: one of the best moments on tv
Review: critics and fans praised this powerful season very sad every week we tune in to see buffy and angles unforchinitly doomed realisionship.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best of the three!
Review: The second season of Buffy is my favorite! It is the "nail biter" out of the first three. Handy fold out holder just like the other two and every episode is a Must see!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Darkest season ever
Review: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" season 2; boy, TV dosn't get much grimer than this. The first part of the season is Buffy coming to terms with her responsability as a slayer and her attration to Angel. The second half is near Shakespearian tragedy, with Angel losing his soul and reuniting with Spike and Drucilla to wage war against Buffy and the gang. The end of the season is increadibly bleak. The best episode is certainly the last one; if you don't cry, I'll be suprised. I realize I'm being vauge to an audiance that has probably already seen all these shows, but just in case someone hasn't...

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: a true horror movie
Review: very scary, how do people take this seriously, oh and she cannot act! and has the dumbest one liners in the world. call it what you want, add some gothic touches to it, but when you melt it down into what it really is, all I see is a night time soap opera. The guiding light!
you could call it, as the world burns

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Dramatic, Action-Packed, Funny, What Else Can You Ask For?
Review: This is a great show and I REALLY recomend it. The script is amazing and will leave you on the verge of screaming with joy and suspence when you finish the season.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best season
Review: BtVS is the best TV series ever made. And this season is the best one of all. All the tragedy, comedy, horror and despair is gothic in nature and gives good creeps.


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