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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: WB Television Network, The
Salesrank: 3922
Released: May 30, 2006 |
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Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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 collector's edition. From "When She Was Bad," "Surprise" and "Innocence," to "Passion" and "Becoming, Part One" and "Becoming, Part Two," these Season Two episodes are a must for every true Buffy fan.
Description of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Second Season (Slim Set):
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 (Slim Set) Reviews:
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.
revue
2009-09-11 - Really liked this series.
Don't know how I missed it
first time around.
