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THE CHOSEN ONE HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN... Now you can own the entire second season of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. All 22 classic episodes are available for the first time in this exclusive 6-disc collectorÂ's edition. From Â"When She Was Bad,Â" Â"SurpriseÂ" and Â"Innocence,Â" to Â"PassionÂ" and Â"Becoming, Part OneÂ" and Â"Becoming, Part Two,Â" these Season Two episodes are a must for every true Buffy fan.
Description of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Second Season:
At the heart of the first years of Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the romance between Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), slayer of all things evil, and hunky Angel (David Boreanaz), the tortured vampire destined to walk the earth with a soul. The second season of Buffy took the Buffy-Angel pas de deux from ecstasy to agony in a now-classic plot arc that catapulted the show from WB teen drama to true TV greatness. You see, if the cursed Angel ever experiences true happiness for a moment, he'll revert to being an evil vampire again. And guess what happens after Buffy and Angel finally declare their love for one another and consummate their relationship...
Buffy found its true momentum during the second season, as geeky Xander (Nicholas Brendon) fell in love with popular girl Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), Willow (Alyson Hannigan) gave up her crush on Xander in favor of werewolf boy Oz (Seth Green), and watcher Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) began a sweetly tentative relationship with computer teacher (and witch) Jenny Calendar (Robia LaMorte). Mayhem came to Sunnydale, though, in the form of evil vampires Drusilla (Juliet Landau) and Spike (drolly wicked James Marsters), who were more than ready to aid and abet Angel as he turned bad. It all sounds like horror-action mayhem (and there are great fight scenes), but Buffy took on its plotlines with amazing depth, intelligence, and humor. And oh, man, the love story! Buffy and Angel's tragic relationship is one of the most heartbreaking you'll ever find. Buffy's final dilemma finds her having to save the world at Angel's expense, and Gellar (who deserves a passel of Emmys for her work) is phenomenal at telegraphing Buffy's swirling conflicts between love and duty. This is some of the best TV ever made, period. --Mark Englehart
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Second Season Reviews:
Buffy & Angel forever!! 
2009-12-03 - By the time season 1 was done, season 2 put on the throttle and the series went from 0 to 60 in great fashion. The writing was cleaner, the visuals were more impressive and the characters came more into focus. As we fall more and more in love with Buffy and watch her trials and tribulations, characters like Xander, and especially Willow become so endearing and near to our hearts that you feel they are almost real. This is also the season that Buffy's love affair with Angel becomes ultra hot and heav. Then we meet Spike -- My favorite baddy of all time!!!! Listen closley to what Spike says in the episode "School Hard" when he referes to his relationship with Angel, because it is completley wrong, and the writers did not correct it till later once Drusilla's orgin was connected with Spike's. James Marster's Spike character was only supposed to be around for one or two episodes and then die, but he became an immediate hit so they left him on the series, hence the writers going back to correct the flub. You gotta love Josh for letting the mistake stand, he could have re edited the scene or did a voice over, but he left it just the way it was, worts and all. Get season 2, its classic, and to me, marked its territory as hands down the best show on TV, despite the emmy nominating committees suggesting otherwise.
Season 2, Episode 1: When She Was Bad
Original Air Date--15 September 1997
Buffy returns from her summer vacation after defeating the Master and is not the same fun-loving slayer she used to be. Her cold, distant behavior escalates when she discovers that the remaining vampire population are planning to resurrect the Master.
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Season 2, Episode 2: Some Assembly Required
Original Air Date--22 September 1997
The bodies of several recently deceased teen girls are stolen from their graves. When most of the parts are discovered in a dumpster on school grounds, the gang discovers a disturbing plot to build a new person from parts of dead ones.
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Season 2, Episode 3: School Hard
Original Air Date--29 September 1997
Principal Snyder puts 'worst students' Buffy and real rebel Sheila Martini in charge of parents night preparations as a last chance to avoid expulsion. The surviving vampires at the hell-mouth agree whoever kills the Slayer who eliminated him may succeed the Master, then are surprised by the return of Spike, who happily reunites with his princess Drusilla and promises the Anointed boy Colin to do the job. Giles and Calendar warn Buffy next Saturday is St. Vigeous night, vampire prime day, still she joins the gang at the Bronze, where Spike sees her slay and promises revenge on Saturday. As if parent day weren't going bad enough, Spike's band attacks early. Buffy doesn't know Sheila was caught and bitten in advance, so she's a danger in her back, and on whose side is Angel, who knows Spike well?
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Season 2, Episode 4: Inca Mummy Girl
Original Air Date--6 October 1997
While on a field trip to the local museum, one of the students breaks a ceramic seal in the coffin of an Incan mummy, who rises and must consume the life-force of others in order to remain alive. She tries to fit in with the students at Sunnydale, and even starts to have real feelings for Xander. But when Buffy, Willow, and Giles realize who and what she really is, they may have to rescue Xander before he becomes the mummy's next victim.
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Season 2, Episode 5: Reptile Boy
Original Air Date--13 October 1997
The people around Buffy start needing more and more, and she starts feeling pulled apart. When Cordelia's college crush shows up on campus with a friend who has eyes for Buffy, Cordelia convinces Buffy to come with her to the frat party. But the party soon turns sinister, and Buffy learns the connection between the fraternity and the local girls who have recently gone missing.
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Season 2, Episode 6: Halloween
Original Air Date--27 October 1997
When a curse causes the Sunnydale masses to become their Halloween costumes, Buffy becomes an English noblewoman, Xander a soldier, and Willow a ghost. Spike seizes the moment of Buffy being totally helpless, and decides to attack.
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Season 2, Episode 7: Lie to Me
Original Air Date--3 November 1997
Ford, an old friend of Buffy's from L.A., shows up unexpectedly in Sunnydale, and seems to know that she is the Slayer. When Xander, Willow, and Angel discover that he is involved with a cult-like group of disillusioned teens who idolize vampires, they must find out Ford's true agenda before it's too late.
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Season 2, Episode 8: The Dark Age
Original Air Date--10 November 1997
The secrets of Giles's dark past come back to haunt him when an old friend turns up dead in Sunnydale. As a troubled youth, Giles and his friends summoned a demon. Now, it has returned and is hunting down the people summoned it. And it's quest for revenge may place the life of someone dear to Giles in extreme danger.
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Season 2, Episode 9: What's My Line?: Part 1
Original Air Date--17 November 1997
Its "Career Week" at Sunnydale High and Buffy is faced with the reality that she has no future apart from that of a Slayer. Meanwhile, Spike sends four deadly assassins to ensure the Slayer has no future at all.
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Season 2, Episode 10: What's My Line?: Part 2
Original Air Date--24 November 1997
The girl who attacked Buffy turns out to be no vampire but another slayer, Kendra, who assumed her duty while Buffy was drowned dead for a minute and works far more by the book Buffy ignored even to exist. Angel fears to die as the rising sun reaches into his holding place, but is dragged out in time by snitch Willy, only to be sold to Spike, who needs Drusilla's sire to revitalize her in a demonic ritual in an abandoned church which will kill Angel, and allows her first to enjoy torturing the shirtless hunk with holy water. Helping Cordelia escape the maggot-made Taraka order-killer makes Xander spike their formally continuing hatred with hot kisses, twice, a female killer fails to kill Buffy as police recruiter on career day...
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Season 2, Episode 11: Ted
Original Air Date--8 December 1997
Buffy has parental issues when Joyce comes home with a boyfriend, the computer expert and master chef Ted, whose charming personality impresses everyone except Buffy. Buffy insists there's not something right with Ted, but everyone keeps telling her she's just being paranoid...
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Season 2, Episode 12: Bad Eggs
Original Air Date--12 January 1998
The students are given eggs to look after, and Buffy finds out that there is something inside of the eggs. Soon the eggs hatch, the creatures inside take over the minds of their owners. Also, a pair of cowboy vampires show up in town.
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Season 2, Episode 13: Surprise
Original Air Date--19 January 1998
As Buffy's 17th birthday nears, and the gang prepares a surprise party for her. But when the gang find out that Spike and Drusilla are planning their own party, Angel may have to leave Sunnydale to keep Dru's party guest, an immortal demon called the Judge, from painting the town red.
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Season 2, Episode 14: Innocence
Original Air Date--20 January 1998
Angel's night of fleshly passion with Buffy has transformed him again into the super-vampire Angelus, without a soul, who teams up with Spike, Drusilla and the assembled demon Judge, offering to eliminate Buffy with love. Willow is shocked to see Xander kiss Cordelia and turns to fellow nerd (but band member) Oz. Just sensing Angel doesn't truly love her back devastates Buffy, seeing him turned vampire again reduces her to useless tearfulness, then makes Giles's lady-friend Janna 'Jenny' Calendar, who clearly knew something, tell about Angel's soul-curse, while angel turns to her gypsy Uncle Enyos. Meanwhile Xander works rather literally on the line 'it took a army' to defeat the Judge...
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Season 2, Episode 15: Phases
Original Air Date--27 January 1998
Buffy and Giles track down a werewolf roaming in the woods while trying to stop a maniacal werewolf killer. Meanwhile Willow tries to get closer to Oz.
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Season 2, Episode 16: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Original Air Date--10 February 1998
Nice, insecure Xander's unnatural passionate yet loveless relationship with snooty, selfish Cordelia has never felt right, but when her friends find out and decide that's the end of her popular status, she dumps him without hesitation, ironically without getting back in their favor. Being dumped on Valentine's day after he gave her a swell heart-shaped necklace is too much abuse even for Xander's low self-esteem, so when he notices Amy has taken up her mother's witchcraft, he blackmails her into putting his scorner under a love spell so he can take his revenge by dumping her hist as painfully. Alas the novice's ineptly executed spell works on every girl except Cordelia and that means dangerous irrationality. Meanwhile vampires Spike, Drusilla and especially spiteful Angelus have their own unconventional ideas about celebrating Valentine's day...
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Season 2, Episode 17: Passion
Original Air Date--24 February 1998
Because of the way Angelus, who enjoys taunting Spike at the Hellmouth but above all his scorned lover, once took revenge on Drusilla's family, Buffy fears a similar fate for her ma Joyce Summers, but may not tell her the truth. Gipsy Jenny hopes to redeem her deceit of Buffy and Giles by attempting to translate the Gypsy curse in Rumanian on a vessel fit for soul transfer, hoping to restore to Angelus his human soul and thus transform him back into loving, suffering Angel, but he is ahead of her as Giles finds to his personal grief as the gang loses a member and finds he took off for revenge on his own...
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Season 2, Episode 18: Killed by Death
Original Air Date--3 March 1998
When Buffy is admitted to hospital with a raging fever she meets Ryan, a young boy who has the same flu virus and claims that the sick children in the hospital are being persecuted by a monster that may be death himself.
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Season 2, Episode 19: I Only Have Eyes for You
Original Air Date--21 April 1998
Even by Sunnydale standards, pupils and teachers have disturbing illusions which make them do crazy things. Giles soon realizes that is a poltergeist, and insists it must be his Jenny, but Willow's research in her PC -preparing to take over her computing classes- points to the 1955 incident Buffy witnesses in a vision, when student James Stanley shot dead his teacher and lover Grace Newman, one of them is the ghost stuck in reliving the fatal tragedy, especially as its anniversary is on the high school's annual, now approaching Sadie Hawkins Dance with gender role reversal. Willow plans an elaborate exorcism, but the ghost plays dirty. Angelus' appearance changes everything...
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Season 2, Episode 20: Go Fish
Original Air Date--5 May 1998
When several members of the Sunnydale High swim team are mysteriously skinned alive, Buffy and the gang take it upon themselves to protect the remaining members, which results in Xander revealing a side of himself rarely seen.
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Original Air Date--12 May 1998
How it all has begun: how Angel became a vampire, how Buffy became a slayer, and how Willow is starting to become a witch... Angelus and Drusilla are calling for the end of the World as we know it.
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Season 2, Episode 22: Becoming: Part 2
Original Air Date--19 May 1998
Buffy arrives too late to save the gang from Drusilla's surprise attack, and ends up being arrested for the murder of one of her friends after Principal Synder (acting under orders from a mysterious, unseen third party), has her framed for the killing. Escaping from the police, she discovers that Willow is comatose, Giles has been kidnapped, and she is almost totally alone going into the final battle with Angelus. She heads out to rescue Giles and stop Angelus once and for all... with the help of a most unlikely ally: Spike who wants a temporary alliance so Buffy and kill Angelus and he can have Drusilla back.
pretty good 
2009-11-22 - I got what I expected, just had some problems with delivery - not that quick, and there was a problem with the shipment, though that's probably more the postage office's fault than anyone else's....
Terrible video quality. 
2009-10-26 - I love the show. I hate the video quality of this DVD. It looks like it was mastered with a VHS tape or maybe worse. Terrible video quality. Highly disappointing. At least I got it cheap.
best season
2009-10-21 - If I could only own one season of buffy it would be this one. The second season is actually what drew me in because it's amazing, the rest of the series is great too but this season is just the best. There's everything you could want, romance, hot guys, funny moments, angst, action, kinda scary moments, and something only Joss Whedon does that I just can't name. I would say what it's about but plenty of other reviews plus the summary already tell you. I just want to add another 5 star review because this season deserves it.
One of the best seasons of television ever
2009-10-13 - And I really mean that. This is by far my favorite season of Buffy. This season opens up with a bang. (This review will contain many spoilers). The first episode, "When she was bad", is one of my favorite episodes in the whole series. Buffy comes back from summer vacation acting very different. She is very moody, and is acting very wild. Her friends assume she is possessed by some sort of demon. It turns out that she is just in a deep depression from her death at the end of the previous season. The episode "School Hard" introduces Spike, the villain for the first half of the season, who is also one of the best fictional characters of all time as far as I'm concerned. "Halloween" and "Lie to me" were two other great episodes, the first for its exceptional comedy, the second for its excellent drama. The two-part episode "What's my Line" was not one of my favorite episodes, but a scene from it caused me to laugh out loud at this show for the first time, the scene where Xander and Cordelia start making out. Their whole relationship was funny. Some people didn't think it worked, but I thought it was great. However, the downside of this episode is the character Kendra. She was way too wooden, and her accent was horrible. The two episodes "Surprise" and "Innocence" chronicled Angel's loss of his soul and his return to being a vicious killer. I have to say, Angelus is definitely my favorite villain in the whole series, possibly one of the best TV villains of all time. In "Becoming", the two-part season finale, Buffy loses everything. Her friend Kendra is murdered, she is wanted by the police for said murder, she is expelled from school, and her mother kicks her out of the house. She has to stop Angel from awakening a demon that will swallow the world. She sacrifices him to save the world, after his soul has been restored by Willow. That scene almost brought me to tears. And I'm a guy. A macho guy. And I knew he had his own spin-off series lined up, but still. Buffy then leaves Sunnydale to get away from her calling as a slayer.
This was a huge improvement over the first season. If you read my review of season 1, you know I had some problems with it. The acting, the effects and makeup, and the actions scenes were not very good. They weren't horrible, but they weren't great either. The acting is much better this time around. Anthony Head is brilliant as usual, but Willow, Xander, and Angel's acting has improved a lot. Even Buffy, who ironically is not one of my favorite characters, does a pretty good job. The romance between her and Angel is pretty believable. Contrast that with the relationship between Xander and Cordelaia. Their relationship was funny and enjoyable to watch, but it was not very realistic. Someone as superficial as Cordelia would never have publicly dated Xander. But hey, it's a TV show, not real life.The action scenes are not very well-choreographed in the first few episodes, but they get better as the season progresses. By the second half of the season, they are great. The final fight between Buffy and Angelus (a sword fight) was very entertaining. Everything about this season was almost perfect. There were a few cheesy episodes, such as "Some Assembly Required", "Inca Mummy Girl", and "Go Fish", but, you know, nothing's without a few flaws. Overall, this was a very good season. If you have never seen it, or if you have seen it but just want to own it, buy this DVD.
