The Buffy/Angelverse In Significantly Fewer Episodes, Season Two: In The Dark

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 One introduced us to  the good guys, showed us how many of them could or did become bad guys, some of them becoming good again. We begin this season with "Becoming", which shows us the potential for change, which is one of the major themes for the whole series.

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Season Two:
In The Dark

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Episode 1: Becoming
​Buffy, Angelus, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Oz, Joyce, Merrick, Kendra, Spike, Drusilla, Darla, Snyder

Despite all of the horrible things he's done since his transformation, Buffy is determind to return Angelus's  soul to him. Kendra returns to stop them all, and a vampire with a dodgy sense of allegiance is dodgy in their allegiance.


Episode 2: Faith, Hope & Trick
​Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Oz, Joyce, Faith, Snyder, Trick

Remember how when Buffy died for a minute, a new slayer came to take her place. Welp, some slayer must have died because here's another new slayer, and she comes with some ancient vampire nemesis baggage. 


Episode 3: The Wish
​Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Oz, Joyce, Harmony, Jonathan, Larry, Anya, The Master

​Anya the vegeance demon grants Cordelia a wish that exposes an alternate Sunnydale timeline where things are much worse. It's kind of like Community's darkest timeline or the 2018 we're currently living in. 


Episode 4: Bad Girls
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Oz, Joyce, Faith, Wesley, Trick, The Mayor

Buffy has a new watcher, and Faith is still around helping out. So...vampires...and the reveal of a new Big Bad.


Episode 5: Consequences
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Joyce, Faith, Wesley, Trick, The Mayor

Due to an accidental death in the previous episode the police are actually investigating one of the many, many murders that take place in Sunnydale. WIll the bad guys keep getting away with being hugely evil demons because a slayer killed the servant of a demon?


Episode 6: Dopplegangland
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Oz, Joyce, Faith, Wesley, Anya, Snyder, The Mayor

While the Scoobies investigate The Mayor, Anya returns, desperate to get her amulet back. While performing a spell to help her, Willow accidentally brings the alternate version of Willow from "The Wish" into the main reality.


Episode 7: Earshot
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Oz, Joyce, Wesley, Jonathan, Larry, The Mayor

After getting demon blood on her, Buffy briefly gets telepathic powers. During this time, Buffy hears that someone in the school is planning on committing mass murder of the student body.


Episode 8: Graduation Day
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Oz, Joyce, Wesley, Harmony, Faith, Snyder, The Mayor

Buffy is scheduled to play slayer out of town during Sunnydale High's graduation. It turns out that both The Mayor and Faith also have been big plans for the day. 


Episode 9: City Of
Angel, Cordelia, Doyle, Lindsey

Buffy's favorite vampire leaves Sunnydale for Los Angeles, where he and the fame-seeking Cordelia team up with a demon named Doyle to help people with supernatural problems. They quickly make enemies with a demonic law firm (I know, I know, it's redundant) called Wolfram & Hart.


Episode 10: The Harsh Light Of Day/In The Dark
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Oz, Anya, Harmony, Spike

Spike is back in Sunnydale, looking for an amulet that allows him to go out in the bright light of day. Buffy relieves him of the gem and sends it, via Oz, to Angel in LA, where Spike decides to go next.