Variations on the theme: this season, identity and family have been explored, now the theme reaches out to include Tara (and by extension, W...

Story arc for season five is started, and we meet Glory--although we don't learn her name for a while, and its even longer before we fin...

Transition episode, but at first glance, it looks like one of the "slice of life" metaplot episodes. And it is, beginning the Ben/...

Xander-angst! Last season, Xander was a misfit. He wasn't in college, he couldn't keep a job, he was at loose ends and stagnating. T...

Season Five begins with this entry. Giles has bought the Magic Box, despite misgivings from the Scoobies (who note that Magic Box owners hav...

Sure, it's a cute episode. Snappy dialogue, good characterization. And it makes sense that sooner or later, the Count himself would show...

Season four ends not with vanquishing Big Bad, but with an artful, experimental show of dream sequences. Much has been written about this ep...

Buffy calls a meeting, and in an interestingly staged conversation--Giles, Willow, Xander and Buffy standing on a sidewalk (maybe, symbolica...

Pivotal episode, in the "things that can't be unsaid" realm. The basic premise is simple: Adam will take care of Spike's c...

I can imagine the meeting the writers had before sketching out this script: "Well, here's the list of things that we need to have h...