THE CHOSEN ONE HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN… Now you can own the entire second season of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. All 22 classic episodes are available for the first time in this exclusive 6-disc collector’s edition. From “When She Was Bad,” “Surprise” and “Innocence,” to “Passion” and “Becoming, Part One” and “Becoming, Part Two,” these Season Two episodes are a must for every true Buffy fan.At the heart of the first years of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the romance between Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), slayer of all things evil, and hunky Angel (David Boreanaz), the tortured vampire destined to walk the earth with a soul. The second season of Buffy took the Buffy-Angel pas de deux from ecstasy to agony in a now-classic plot arc that catapulted the show from WB teen drama to true TV greatness. You see, if the cursed Angel ever experiences true happiness for a moment, he’ll revert to being an evil vampire again. And guess what happens after Buffy and Angel finally declare their love for one another and consummate their relationship…
Buffy found its true momentum during the second season, as geeky Xander (Nicholas Brendon) fell in love with popular girl Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), Willow (Alyson Hannigan) gave up her crush on Xander in favor of werewolf boy Oz (Seth Green), and watcher Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) began a sweetly tentative relationship with computer teacher (and witch) Jenny Calendar (Robia LaMorte). Mayhem came to Sunnydale, though, in the form of evil vampires Drusilla (Juliet Landau) and Spike (drolly wicked James Marsters), who were more than ready to aid and abet Angel as he turned bad. It all sounds like horror-action mayhem (and there are great fight scenes), but Buffy took on its plotlines with amazing depth, intelligence, and humor. And oh, man, the love story! Buffy and Angel’s tragic relationship is one of the most heartbreaking you’ll ever find. Buffy’s final dilemma finds her having to save the world at Angel’s expense, and Gellar (who deserves a passel of Emmys for her work) is phenomenal at telegraphing Buffy’s swirling conflicts between love and duty. This is some of the best TV ever made, period. –Mark Englehart
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March 20, 2008
#1
I was told this was the best season of buffy ever and i have to say i let the hype carry me a way. I was not inpressed with this season at all.
March 20, 2008
#2
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
March 20, 2008
#3
In the first season I thought it was cute how Buffy acted when she wanted to do normal teenage things. Alright, roll in the second season and now Buffy is acting like a whiny brat. With the exception of Innocense there isn’t any expisode that goes by when I want to slap her silly. The season gets worse when it was decided that Angel will have a bigger role. Not only is David Boreanaz (in the first 3 seasons)a bad actor but he and Sarah Michelle Gellar have absoulutly no chemistry. It’s boring watching a couple who cannot light up the screen. The whole Angel story arc was disturbing and ridiculous. The curse didn’t make any sense and if Angel was so bent on redemption then why was he cradle robbing a whiny little girl? One of the season’s worst episodes Surprise had Buffy foolishly jumping into bed with Angel becasue she still was so naive to mistake first love with true love. The only good thing about this season was the introduction to T.V.’s most complex charcter Spike. Spike and Dru has to be one of the most fascinating vampiric couples.
March 20, 2008
#4
The strength of Buffy the Vampire series truly rests not in its ability to entertain and titillate, but in its intelligence. In spite of its popularity with teenagers, as well as many others, the show retains qualities that almost always displace oppressive (Western,American) cultural ideologies about morality, and above all, negates notions about gender and sexuality in ways that anti-woman shows such as 7th Heaven and Everybody Loves Raymond, among others, will never be able to do. For instance, “castrated” (of the phallus as power), Angel is a sweetheart. He turns into Angelus, the hyper-masculinized vampire, as many guys do after they believe they “possess” their female lovers. Fortunately, Buffy fights back. Furthermore, the series takes on issues relevant to culture itself–season three was about the malfunctioning of education mediums (schools to parents); season four took on the government and military’s ignorance and futility; season five looked at the bonds of sisterhood; and season seven explored the influence of the death drive. One could easily write a book about the rich examples the series gives. Academics abroad were so fascinated with series that they created and dedicated a journal to Buffy studies!
March 21, 2008
#5
I doubt I am the biggest Buffy fan out there, but I am enough of one to shell out a lot of money for a Boxset and in return expect decent picture quality and packaging that won’t damage when I drop it on the floor. I have had a heck of a time with two of my Buffy Box sets, mostly the packaging, but I was disgusted to discover the horrible picture quality in episodes like “Some Assembly required”. I personally think that Fox should have their head’s examined, thinking they could release Buffy fans this kind of DVD. I was so upset the quality of this DVD that I wrote Fox a big letter complaining about it. If you feel like Buffy fans deserve some respect or your just annoyed by the film transfer, then send a letter Fox’s way. I have to imagine that the entire budget for this DVD was spent on the the overly elaborate 3d menu’s.