I stopped posting the Buffy/Angel headcanon a few years ago, knowing there was at least one more season to go. But I'd reached the end of the actual Buffy shows, hadn't read the comics, and mistakenly thought I'd seen all of Angel, but not recently enough to properly recall it. It turned out, I had missed several episodes of the final three seasons. But I've recently fixed that, watching the last few seasons of Buffy and all of Angel together with my fiance, who hadn't seen past the first two seasons of Buffy. 

Personally, I think I enjoy the last televised season of Angel more than the final televised season of Buffy. Not the final episodes (Buffy had some fantastic episodes in the final season, they were all just sort of crammed together with a bunch of filler between them, while Angel made every episode count, using different tones, not always progressing the overall story, but always giving the viewer something entertaining. I would say that it's a shame that Angel was cancelled before they got to do another season, but if the graphic novels are at all representative of what Whedon wanted to do during the next season, then television dodged a toxic, stinky bullet.

The rapey elephant that's showed up in the room between when I started creating this headcanon and now is that Whedon has been outed as a misogynist, racist, and general abuser. Even actors who work with him, and say positive things about him tell stories that they think are charming that actually expose what a complete piece of shit Joss Whedon has always been.

Normally, I'd say this brings up the argument about separating the art from the artist. But, for my two cents? I don't think Whedon wrote a single episode or comic issue that anyone ever enjoyed. I think Whedon has always been a complete hack who happens to be buoyed by an excellent writing staff and talented actors/artists. It is a shame that he gets any money for this franchise, but I think you can safely enjoy the best parts of this universe, secure in the knowledge that, while Whedon took credit for it, he probably didn't write anything you actually enjoyed. His comic work has exposed that he's not a very talented writer. His ideas can best be described as stale, his plots aimless and dull. But if you give his characters and an outline to one of his TV writers, or a storied comic writer, you can end up with gold.

This season is just the best parts of Season Five of Angel. I had a great time watching it, especially as I'd missed so many of the good episodes when I watched it in reruns on channels like TNT.

101. Shiny Happy People
(Angel, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Conor, Jasmine)

When we last left the gang, Cordelia was pregnant, and an apocalypse was going down. (Must have been a Tuesday.) We pick up this season with Cordelia's child having been born an adult (beats being raised in a Hell Dimension between episodes, amirite Conor?) She seems absolutely lovely. It's like there isn't even going to be any tension in this storyline. 


102. Peace Out
(Angel, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Conor, Jasmine, Lilah)

Ok, so Cordelia's kid was a total nightmare. Probably evil. Definitely not good for the city of LA, and the gang has to put her down. Who's surprised? Raise your hand.


103. Home
(Angel, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Conor, Lilah, Knox)

Say goodbye to the hotel, Angel and the gang move up in the world as they are given the reigns to Wolfram & Hart, you know, the Big Bad that's been responsible for much of the suffering during the entire run of the show. Things are obviously about to change in a major way.


104.Just Rewards
(Angel, Spike, Wesley, Gunn, Harmony, Lorne, Fred, Knox)

Team Wolfram & Angelhart received a surprise in the mail. An amulet fell out and *poof* Spike appeared. Spike The Sort Of Friendly Ghost Vampire haunts the office and adds some much needed humor into the team. Also, Angel's receptionist is Spike's ex, and everyone's second favorite mean girl from Buffy (RIP Cordelia), Harmony!


105. You're Welcome
(Angel, Cordelia, Spike, Wesley, Gunn, Harmony, Lorne, Fred, Lindsey, Eve)

Wait, Eve is working with Lindsey? Awww. I'm glad he's back for some closure. And, speaking of closure, this is a much needed episode involving Cordelia, who deserved better than the mommy-in-a-coma treatment that was used to write her off the show. It's not perfect here, but it's cathartic, and nice to see her on screen again.


106. Smile Time
(Angel, Spike, Wesley, Gunn, Harmony, Lorne, Fred, Knox)

Puppet Angel may be one of the highlights of this season. The overall story may be a bit of silly villain-of-the-week nonsense but it's very welcome after the last melodramatic season and a half.


107. A Hole In The World
(Angel, Spike, Wesley, Gunn, Harmony, Lorne, Fred, Knox, Eve, Drogyn)

A seemingly random delivery in this episode has dire consequences for the rest of the series (there isn't much left, I realize), as we say goodbye to one cast member and find out how many of the other characters are somehow complicit in their departure. This is probably the saddest episode in the season.


108. Origin​
(Angel, Spike, Wesley, Gunn, Harmony, Lorne, Illyria, Conor, Cyvus Vall)

Conor's back? Well, earlier this season Angel made a deal with The Powers That Be so that Conor would forget everything about his life and grow up with a nice, normal family. But they didn't take away his strength or agility, so when he's unaffected by being run over by a truck, his new, normal family does some research to determine the best people to help them figure out what's wrong. So they take him to Wolfram & Hart, which not only brings up some emotional trauma for Angel, it also returns the memories of the rest of the cast who'd forgotten he existed, which means they forgot a ton of their interpersonal problems from both last season, and the beginning of this one.


109. The Girl In Question
(Angel, Spike, Darla, Druisilla, Wesley, Gunn, Harmony, Lorne, Illyria, Andrew)

The penultimate episode of the TV portion of this headcanon is a much needed comedy break. Fred's parents, who don't know she died in the last episode, come for a visit, (that's not the funny part) and Illyria pretends to be her. The funny part? Angel and Spike are sent on a mission to Italy to stop a demon war and keep getting distracted because their old nemesis is also in Italy and is...dating Buffy. Plus, we get to see Andrew for the first time this season!


110. Power Play/Not Fade Away
(Angel, Spike, Wesley, Gunn, Harmony, Lorne, Illyria, Conor, Lindsey, Eve, Cyvus Vall)

​It's the end of the TV version of this headcanon. That must mean another apocalypse is nigh, and the surviving members of the cast are off to probably meet their deaths.

Episode 1: Selfless
(Buffy, Willow, Xander,  Anya, Dawn, D'Hoffryn, Halfrek)

Last season ended on a downer, huh? One of the Scoobies turned out to be The Big Bad. But that threat is totally over now, and things can get back to normal. Wait, is the new Big Bad another Scooby? Damn it.


Episode 2: Soulless
(Angelus, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Connor, The Beast)

Well, if the Big Bad is going to be from the main cast of good guys over on Buffy, let's wander back to LA and check in with...seriously? Angelus?  I mean, they're just using Angelus to get at the real Big Bad, The Beast. So I guess it's fine that the main character of the show is evil now. Fine. Everything's Fine.


Episode 3: Cavalry
(Angelus, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Connor, Lilah, Wo-Pang, The Beast)

Woah. The Beast took out Wolfram & Heart? Is The Beast maybe not The Big Bad that we thought? Or is The Beast such a Big Bad that it's powerful enough to take down all the previous Big Bads? Does this mean the surviving lawyers will be joining Angel's Investigations?


Episode 4: Salvage
(Angelus, Cordelia, Faith, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Connor, Lilah, The Beast)

Ooooh, a slayer is in town! A Big Bad is unbiggenated. Someone dies, and someone else is bound to be born. This kind of stuff is usually saved for a season finale, I wonder where this weird story will go next.


Episode 5: Conversations With Dead People
(Buffy, Willow, Xander,  Joyce, Spike, Anya, Dawn, Jonathan, Andrew, Warren, The First)

In possibly the darkest episode since The Body, each member of The Scooby Gang has an interaction with a different dead person, as the real Big Bad for the Buffy portion of this season reveals itself. 

Episode 6: Release/Orpheus
(Willow, Angelus, Cordelia, Faith, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Connor)

Back to LA, precisely where we left it. But Angelus is talking to himself. Oh, man. Is The First here, too? Do we finally have a non-vampire Big Bad crossing over to both shows? This calls for a witchy guest appearance!


Episode 7: Storyteller
(Buffy, Willow, Xander,  Spike, Anya, Dawn, Jonathan, Warren, Andrew, Principal Wood, Kennedy)

I'm skipping over the entire middle of the final season of Buffy. It's not bad, but if you're going to invest all the time with the minutae of the final season, you should just watch every Buffy episode out there. This episode gives you all the info you need on the entire season, as a familiar face sort of joins the Scooby Gang, and updates everyone on exactly what's been going on as the apocalypse approaches.


Episode 8: Dirty Girls
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander,  Spike, Faith, Dawn, Andrew, Principal Wood, Kennedy, Caleb)

Willow didn't come back from LA alone, Faith is with her, making Buffy's house more full of slayers than any other house in history. Also The First recruits a mini-Big Bad who totally changes the game for the final two episodes of the season.


Episode 9: Touched/End Of Days
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander,  Angel, Spike, Faith, Dawn, Andrew, Kennedy, Principal Wood, Caleb, The First)

The penultimate Buffy storyline. You know shit is real when both the two major slayers, and the two major good guy vampires are all in the same episode. 


Episode 10: Chosen
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander,  Angel, Spike, Faith, Dawn, Andrew, Kennedy, Principal Wood, Caleb, The First)

It's the end of the Sunnydale portion of the Buffy/Angelverse. Villains will be redeemed, love will conquer, people will die (it is a Joss Whedon show, after all), and there will be a game changing event that, should the forthcoming Buffy series end up being less of a reboot, and more of a different story told within the same continuity, makes the world significantly more interesting. And don't be too sad about this being the last Sunnydale season, there's still an entire season left over in LA.

Episode 1: Bargaining
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Dawn, Tara, Spike)

How can you have a show called Buffy The Vampire Slayer is Buffy is dead? Do you get Sandy Duncan to join the cast and call it The Hogan Family? Add James Garner & David Spade until the show suffocates under its own mediocrity? Nah, it's a sci-fi show, BRING HER BACK FROM THE DEAD!!! Everything will now be fluffy unicorns and sparkly vampires. Yay!

 
Episode 2: Deep Down
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Conor, Lilah, Gavin))

Everything's fine over here in LA. Angel is keeping up with his swimming lessons, his somehow nearly adult son is hanging out with his vampire fighting friends, and Wesley is practicing his throat singing. This season is just so bright and shiny!


Episode 3: Once More With Feeling
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Dawn, Tara, Spike)

In fact, everything this season is Just So Wonderful, that it's time for a musical episode!  Sing about how happy you are! Keep singing until the world is happy forever!


Episode 4: Spin The Bottle
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Conor, The Beast)

Love is in the air! Let's get all middle school slumber party and play a game of spin the bottle. Oh, you know what, forget it. Just forget everything. It will all work out in the end. This is the happy season!


Episode 5: Apocalypse Nowish
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Conor, Lilah, Gavin, The Beast)

Love is in the chair! That's why we keep tying people to it and demanding information! Love is in the chair! But who is The Beast? And why is making people's dreams all boo-hoo-hoo when he could be making them a reality like in those late night infomercials?


Episode 6: Tabula Rasa
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Dawn, Tara, Spike)

It's Spin The Bottle again! But this time in Sunnydale! It's so easy to be so happy when you don't know who you so are! But once you remember, oh, it's time for the ones you love to leave you.


Episode 7: Normal Again
(Buffy, Willow, Xander, Joyce, Dawn, Tara, Spike, Jonathan, Warren, Andrew)

What if Buffy never died? What if Buffy never moved to Sunnydale? What if Buffy wasn't The Slayer at all? Would that have made everyone happy? Is this what happiness looks like?


Episode 8: Awakening
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Conor, The Beast)

How  can everything be sunshine and lollipops if someone has blocked out the sun? LA is So Dark under the rule of The Beast. Well, at least if nothing's happy here then Angel can't be turned into Angelus. Nobody wants to see that guy again.


Episode 9: Seeing Red/Villains
(Buffy, Willow, Xander,  Dawn, Tara, Spike, Jonathan, Warren, Andrew)

See, everything is all happy again! Tara and Willow have reconciled, Buffy is a completely sane slayer, the season's villains are just three dudes the Scoobies went to high school with. Nobody could possibly be in danger from these three idiots. So everything will be fine.

​
Episode 10: Two To Go/Grave
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander,  Dawn, Tara, Spike, Jonathan, Andrew)

Last episode revealed a new Big Bad for this season. So much more dangerous than three high school idiots. So much more heartbreaking than an angry god or an old vampire. So say goodbye to this happy, joyful season.

Episode 1: Checkpoint
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Joyce, Tara, Dawn, Ben, Quentin, Glory)

While the Scoobies are trying to figure out how to handle Glory, The Watchers' Council shows up in Sunnydale to evaluate Buffy's job as The Slayer.


Episode 2: Crush
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Joyce, Tara, Dawn, Ben, Spike, Drusilla, Harmony)

We're back to the whole Fangtastic gang from last season, as we see how awful love is for pretty much everyone in the show.


Episode 3: The Body
(Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Joyce, Tara, Dawn)

In a show dedicated to the dead and undead, we finally reach an episode dealing with grief. Don't watch before a big date or...leaving the house even.


Episode 4: Through The Looking Glass
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Groosallug)

Things are too sad in Sunnydale. Even LA isn't far enough away, so let's go to Lorne's home dimension and meet the newest member of Angel Investigations.


Episode 5: Lullaby
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Darla, Gavin, Lilah, Sahjhan, Holtz)

At the end of last season I said something happened between Angel and Darla that was going to change the game. Well, this is the episode where the fallout hits. 


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

Buffy is lost, Spike is creepy, Glory is a god, and somehow it seems like things just might work out.


Episode 7: Sleep Tight/Forgiving
(Angel, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Lilah, Sahjhan, Holtz)

This season is going to close with a bunch of misunderstandings about prophecies. Over in LA, Wesley learns of a prophecy that suggests that Angel is unlikely to win Father Of The Year, so he decides to do something about it.


Episode 8: A New World
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Connor, Groosalugg, Lilah, Holtz)

Oh, cool. The prophecy was wrong, Angel's son is totally fine, he's just uhhh...well, he's a teenager who grew up in a Hell dimension. I'm sure that's fine. Everybody can go back to being friends and stuff now, right, guys? Right...guys?


Episode 9: Tomorrow
(Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, Fred, Connor, Groosalugg, Lilah)

Yea. Totally fine. Father and son fight demons together, Wesley gets a new job. Everything is sunshine and rainbows in LA. Even Cordelia is, ummmm, moving on. What a great way to leave the gang until next season.


Episode 10: The Gift
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Tara, Dawn, Ben, Glory)

Meanwhile, everything in Sunnydale is just going to go great, too. Sure, there's a prophecy about how one of the Summers family must die in order to vanquish Glory, but we've already lost one this season, so obviously the gang will figure out a way to beat a god without a single one of them dying. Obviously.

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 brought back 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 gang 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 abandoned 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.

In the first two seasons, we witnessed every major character be both hero and villain. We saw a slayer and a vampire fall in love, we saw a couple of slayers die, we saw some fan favorite vampires staked, we saw one come back to life and move to LA! What else is there to be done? It's time to get Tropey and Weird.

Episode 1:  The Initiative
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Riley, Forrest, Walsh, Miller, Harmony, Spike)

There's a new demon fighting crew in town. A professor at Buffy's college is running a morally questionable paramilitary outfit, and they've captured Spike! Are they allies or  the new Big Bad?
(Tropes: rival characters could be friend or foe, mentor with ulterior motives)


Episode 2: Pangs
(Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Riley, Forrest, Miller, Harmony, Spike)

It's Thanksgiving and the gang battles...Native...Americ---that can't be right, can it? Have the Scooby Gang become the bad guys? Also, why is Angel back in Sunnydale?
(Tropes: White guy writes Native American mythology where Native Americans talk like mid-century Western stereotype, Native Americans are magical)


Episode 3: Something Blue
(Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Tara, Riley, Spike)

Drunk Willow casts a truth spell that fucks evvvvvvvvvvvvvrything up for everyone.
(Tropes: Wish fulfillment goes awry, heartbroken woman causes chaos)


Episode 4: Hush
(Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Tara, Riley, Forrest, Walsh, Spike)

Shhhh...it's the quietest episode ever. The Gentlemen pay a polite visit to The Hellmouth.
(Tropes: Mostly silent episode)


Episode 5: I Will Remember You
(Angel, Buffy, Cordelia, Doyle, The Oracles)

Concerned about his previous visit to Sunnydale, Buffy goes to LA and discovers that Angel is now human.
(Tropes: Ex lovers are totally not over each other but wish to convince each othey they are)


Episode 6: Hero
(Angel, Cordelia, Doyle)

Angel is a vampire again. Doyle leads him and Cordelia in a battle against a group of demons called The Scourge.
(Tropes: Sacrifice/martyrdom)


Episode 7: Parting Gifts
(Angel, Cordelia, Doyle, Wesley, The Oracles)

Sunnydale's least impressive watcher joins the crew, after Cordelia is granted visions from The Powers That Be.
(Tropes: Formerly normal character gets powers they don't want, nerdy outsider redeems himself)


Episode 8: This  Year's Girl/Who Are You
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Tara, Riley, Joyce, Forrest, Miller, Spike, Faith, The Mayor, Adam)

Faith is out of her coma and out for revenge against The Scoobies. Or is Buffy out of her coma and out for revenge? It's slayer vs slayer vs everyone. Also, the blandest season-long villain makes an appearance: Adam. Despite his awesome name, his arc is unfulfilling, so this will be the only time you see him.
(Tropes: Body swap!, identity confusion)


Episode 9: New Moon Rising
(Buffy, Giles, Willow, Xander, Oz, Anya, Tara, Riley, Forrest, Miller, Spike, Adam)

Ok, Adam's sort of in this episode, too. But the real story is....Oz is back! And he's totally got the whole werewolf thing figured out. Too bad for him that Willow has got the whole lesbian thing figured out.
(Tropes: werewolves, ex returns precisely when one starts a new relationship)


Episode 10: Five By Five/Sanctuary
(Angel, Buffy, Cordelia, Wesley, Faith, Darla, Lindsey, Lilah)

After her disastrous time in Sunnydale, Faith gets hired by Wolfram & Hart to kill Angel. After a few dangerous interactions, Buffy shows up to try and help solve the problem.
(Tropes: Redemption!, wuv twianlge that isn't weally weal)

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.

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 introduces us to "The Scoobies": Buffy and the friends who surround her and help her fight vampires and demons. 

Episode 1: The Chosen One
Buffy, Merrick, Amilyn, Lothos, Pike

Much like the Stargate continuity, we start with a movie that features none of the actors from the tv series, but a fun background to the series featuring over-the-top acting. In this case, we get Dylan from 90210 (or Archie's dad from Riverdale, if you prefer) vs. Pee-Wee Herman, and one of the most epic death scenes ever. Buffy is just your average high school cheerleader who is born to fight vampires and demons with the assistance of her watcher, Merrick.   (90 minutes)


Episode 2: Harvest
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Joyce, Harmony, The Master, Darla, Collin

After the ending of the movie, Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, where, unfortunately, there are loads of vampires attracted to the town due to something called The Hellmouth. After meeting her new watcher, Giles, and accruing some friends, Buffy learns of a very old vampire called The Master, who intends to open a portal and unleash Hell on Earth.


Episode 3: Angel
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Joyce, The Master, Darla, Collin

Three vampire warriors are sent by The Master to take vengeance on Buffy by targeting her family and friends, and framing Angel. Giles learns that Angel is, in fact, a Very Bad Vampire.


Episode 4: Nightmares
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Joyce, Hank, The Master, Collin

Each member of The Scoobies is confronted by their worst fear, as Buffy has its very own Nightmare On Elm Street episode.
 

Episode 5: Prophecy Girl
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Joyce, Jenny Calendar, The Master, Collin

According to an ancient prophecy that Giles discovers, The Master's plan to open a portal and destroy Sunnydale will fail. Unfortunately, the prophecy states that, for The Master's plan to fail, Buffy must die.


Episode 6: School Hard
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Joyce, Jenny Calendar, Snyder, Spike, Drusilla, Collin

The Scoobies have a big problem. Two new badass vampires have come to town to fill the void left by The Master. They, too, have big ties to Angel. Unfortunately, Principal Snyder thwarts Buffy's plans to go out slaying.


Episode 7: Halloween
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Joyce, Jenny Calendar, Oz, Larry, Snyder, Spike, Drusilla, Ethan Rayne

It's time for Giles's past to bite everyone's bottoms, as one of his old friends moves to town and opens a costume store just in time for Halloween. When his costumes transform the people wearing them, it's up to the non-Trick-or-Treat crowd to try and save the day.


Episode 8: What's My Line
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Kendra, Oz, Jonathan, Larry, Spike, Drusilla

When a slayer dies, a replacement is sent to carry on the legacy. So when Buffy briefly died in "Prophecy Girl", Kendra The Vampire Slayer was called to Sunnydale. While two slayers seems nice, in theory, Kendra's approach and her unfamiliarity with the way The Scoobies operate threaten to destroy the status quo.


Episode 9: Surprise/Innocence
Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Oz, Joyce, Jenny Calendar, Spike, Drusilla

For her 17th birthday, Spike and Drusilla have hired The Judge to dispose of her, her friends, and her family once and for all. To celebrate everything going right in the end, she and Angel decide to become intimate, which, unfortunately, makes everything Go Wrong.


Episode 10: Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered/Passion
Buffy, Angelus, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Oz, Joyce, Jenny Calendar, Harmony, Spike, Drusilla

We end the season with looooooooooove, as Xander decides to get back at Cordelia by having a witch cast a spell to make Cordelia love him. It goes....awry. Then Giles and Jenny Calendar make romantic plans now that Jenny has figured out a way to restore Angelus's soul. But...uhhh...that goes awryer.