It’s a new era. High School is over and the characters are entering a new chapter in their lives. It’s time for the College Season. Buffy will gain a new boyfriend, Willow undergoes a complete change whilst other characters deal with lives changing. Giles is now unemployed whilst Xander is directionless. These all combine with a greater force finally taking an interest in the war against demons – but their interest grows larger than just … want to read more?

This is the season where Buffy loves and loses her innocence, has to face her true love in battle, meets Spike and Drusilla, ends up a fugitive and basically starts the road to womanhood.
Originally, I can recall this being my favourite Buffy season – it has a lot of strong episodes and a solid emotional character arc that runs through it all. Is it as good as I remember? Let’s find out episode by episode…

On a personal level it affected us. On a fan level it affected the nature of online fandom. It affected the role of women as lead characters. It spun a lot of imitations and became a huge cult favourite. It gave us a brilliant spin-off show and made it’s showrunner have a huge devoted fan-following.
So as a show that dragged me into the Cult TV Show following; it’s time to revisit Buffy Summers season-by-season as … want to read more?