The Buffy/Angelverse In Significantly Fewer Episodes, Season 4: The Fangtastic Four

I'm the midst of coming up with a Stargate In Significantly Fewer Seasons. But, much like when I did Star Trek In Significantly Fewer Seasons, my unfamiliarity with the series makes creating anedited season challenging, as I have to watch every episode before I can figure out a good bar for quality. I wished there was a series that I was more of an expert in, whose entire run I had seen at least two or three times alr...Buffy!

There are 254 episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel. I have whittled it down to the 80 best. Buffy and Angel seasons each tended to be defined by a Big Bad, where each season had one main enemy. I've ditched that, and tried to end each season on the series' biggest emotional beats.

Season Three was probably the most creative season, as the writers had to make up for the lack of interesting villains. This season focuses mainly on Angel/Angelus and his family of vamps: Darla, Spike, and Drusilla.

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Season Four:
The Fangtastic Four

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Episode 1: Darla
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Spike, Drusilla, Darla, The Master, Lindsey, Holland)

There is a lot of backstory in this episode as Darla was captured by Wolfram & Hart between seasons, and it's up to Angel to save his fellow vampire with a soul.


Episode 2: The Trial
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Drusilla, Darla, Lindsey, Holland, The Valet)

Darla is dying fom syphilis, so, natch, Angel has to keep her alive. But Wolfram & Hart has other plans.


Episode 3: Reunion
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Kate, Drusilla, Darla, Lindsey, Holland, Lilah)

Whelp, Darla and Drusilla are back to being a pair of superbad vampires with the power to wreck lives. Is Team Angel powerful enough to survive them?


Episode 4: Real Me
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Joyce, Anya, Tara, Riley, Dawn, Spike, Harmony)

While Darla & Drusilla reign chaos in LA, Sunnydale has grown calm, so calm that their biggest threat appears to be...Harmony? Things have gotten so chill, they're even letting Buffy's sister Dawn join in on the fun...wait...Buffy has a sister?


Episode 5: No Place Like Home
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Joyce, Anya, Tara, Riley, Dawn, Ben, Spike, Glory)

It's the newest biggest bad so far in Buffy history, as Glory shows up. Also, Buffy learns an important secret about her sister, who most Buffyfans Hate.


Episode 6: Family
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Tara, Riley, Dawn, Ben, Spike, Glory, Harmony)

For the first time, we get an episode mostly centered on Tara, whose family tends to go all demony when they reach the age of...ohh...you know...the age Tara is now. Can the Scooby gand prevent the transformation while still fending off Glory?


Episode 7: Fool For Love
(Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Joyce, Tara, Riley, Dawn, Ben, Spike, Drusilla, Darla, Harmony)

More backstory and more Darla and Drusilla badassery as Buffy asks Spike to explain how he has previously killed slayers so that she can prevent her own death at the hands of vampires.


Episode 8: Redefinition 
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Drusilla, Darla, Lindsey, Lilah)

Angel fired everyone at the end of the last episode, so the gang must try and figure out their place in the LA demon scene without him. Meanwhile, Angel is still trying to stop Wolfram & Hart's dynamic duo of Darla and Drusilla.


Episode 9: Reprise
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Kate, Darla, Lindsey, Holland, Lilah)

Are they called the Scoobies on Angel? Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn try and run a successful demon hunting business despite a skeptical human populace as Angel goes house on Wolfram & Hart who appear to have been abandonned by Darla & Drusilla.


Episode 10: Epiphany
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Kate, Darla, Lindsey)

Team Angel Investigations must work together again as Angel and Darla have done something that is going to seriously destroy the status quo of the Buffyverse.