All 22 classic episodes are available for the first time in this exclusive 6-disc collectorÂ’s edition. From ”Faith, Hope & Trick,” ”Band Candy” and ”Bad Girls” to ”Consequences,” ”Enemies” and ”Graduation Day, Part Two,” these Season Three episodes are a must for every true Buffy fan.The third season of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer was marked by the arrival in Sunnydale of renegade slayer Faith (Eliza Dushku), a moody loner who seemed to like her demon-staking calling just a little too much. While Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) was always wary of Faith, the two developed a deep friendship and appreciative rapport–that is, until the evil mayor of Sunnydale (Harry Groener) tapped into Faith’s dark side and lured her into his plot to take over the world, first as a double agent spying on Buffy, then as out-and-out nemesis. And as the mayor’s ascension approached–which happened to fall on Sunnydale High’s graduation day–Buffy and Faith’s battles got nastier and nastier, as Buffy attempted to wrestle with her dark side (literally and figuratively), save the world and her friends, and keep her lover Angel (David Boreanaz) out of Faith’s evil clutches.
Chock-full of exceptional episodes, this third season started out with a bang (the superb season opener “Anne,” in which a runaway Buffy finally returns to her Slayer calling) and never let up. Among other highlights, the season introduced former vengeance demon and soon-to-be regular Anya (Emma Caulfield), fleshed out Angel’s tortured character (and readied him for his own series), and featured a hilarious doppelganger Willow (Alyson Hannigan), a vampire from a parallel universe, who in Willow’s own words was “evil and… skanky… and kinda gay!” (Total foreshadowing there, folks.) The season’s pièce de résistance, though, was the two-parter “Graduation Day,” wherein Faith tries to kill Angel, and the students of Sunnydale High prepare to do battle with a mutated mayor and his army of demons. Aside from the series’ exceptional writing and acting, this compelling year of Buffy was anchored by the consistently excellent Gellar, as well as Dushku’s complicated Faith, a girl you truly love to hate. By the time you finish these episodes, Faith will have cast a spell on you that you’ll find very hard to shake. –Mark Englehart
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March 23, 2008
#1
I find no quality in this program. The writing, acting and directing will never live up to that of a true show.
March 23, 2008
#2
Season 3 was awful!! Not only cause I hate the relationship between Buffy & Angel, but because it was poor. There was nothing good but Spike & Faith. The entry of Angel was a disaster. Alot of stupid “eternal thoughts” with worse than season 2′s idiotic stupid thirst for love. I mean how stupid could a show get? How stupid could a storyline get? What a poor production. I mean didn’t you see that obsession Angel had over Buffy? That was really bizzarre. You really wanna sleep together, then sleep together! Don’t eat our brains. I recommend season 7 or 6 for buying. And I’m warning you don’t buy this season!
March 23, 2008
#3
Pretention is bad enough, but preppie blond cheerleader pretention–that is the worst sort, the kind that makes you wish for your own personal stake-and-vampire-hunting kit to do a number on yourself. “Buffy” clearly falls into the latter category whole-heartedly, as mousy snot-nosed Geller takes her ingenius method of J.Crew style and ice-cream substance to new, er, depths? Overall, of a bad, bad, pretentious little show (who can forget te year they all went on ET and Acess Hollywood to protest the lack of Emmy nominations for this WB disaster?), this season by far ranks as the worst. Why? we have double the buffy introduced. Elisha Dushku. [Shudder]. Even her name sounds like “Buffy” played backwards at 45 speed on a Black Sabbath album.
This is basic 80′s preppie fair. The standard blond, well dressed, never besmudged lead actress does battle with various either very good looking or very ugly evils. Add the lesbian overtones to get preppie boys enticed, and some snappy dialogue straight out of “Valley Girl”, and you have a bunch of intoxicated GAP kids in their khakis discussing the “deeper” meaning of what amounts to Cinemax just-before-dark entertainment.
This show puts everyone into their proper places in the preppie world. Smart people are nerds who need to be followers, not leaders; ugly people are evil or sweet, controllable lapdogs; and fraternities and sororites are not overbearing, ridiculously small-minded institutiuons but the hearts and souls of cheerleaders and happiness.
I must say something of the lighting on this show. Not so many shadows are in most Shannon Tweed movies to hide their cheapness, but yet some peopel call this high-budget. I say the shlock-factory owner who runs this doggy service of a production said, “Dark is scary” and pocketed the money he would have spent on sets, acting lessons, and thespians so he could buy a ferrari and cruise the strip going “I run Buffy. I run Buffy.”
If anyone needs firther proof of Geller’s utter abomination to the word “acting”, see Scooby-Doo. No, don’t see it: your artisitc soul might be burned forever. Take my word for it: it ain’t pretty.
March 23, 2008
#4
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!
March 23, 2008
#5
I recommend buying this DVD box set as well as the season one and season two sets. All three seasons are terrific. However, this is the last season I would recommend buying. If they continue to release all the other seasons, don’t bother wasting your hard-earned dollars. This is the last season that’s really worth anything. After this the stories get washed up and stripped down, two major cast members leave (Angel and Cordelia) and the gang is in college. The acting gets bad and the episodes lack the punch they have here. The whole premise of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in high school ends here, with the gang graduating at the end of this season. If only they had ended it there. That would have been nice. Instead they let the show stray so far from its original roots that now that thing they call Buffy that airs on UPN is like some joke. In my head, and I hope in yours, you see this as the last season, the perils of Buffy and friends ending with graduation. The episodes here are from the old Buffy days when the show was fresh and exciting and such a delight to watch every week. Each episode was a classic leaving you yearning for more. Now, gone are the days of good stories, interesting characters and situations and overall quality. The first three seasons are classic television. TV at its best. Sadly, that cannot be said about the rest of this series. Graduation Day truly was the end of an era…the end of the glory days of one of the greatest series ever.