 What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here? This is the review the long overdue review I have for the second season of my favorite show ever Buffy the vampire slayer Now picking up at the beginning of season two. It's like a couple of months after the end of season one We're catching back up with Buffy Willow Xander Giles. We're back in Sunnydale It's been a couple of months the summers gone by Since Buffy defeated the master the the main big bad of season one each season We have this new villain Recognized as the big bad that that's the term coined when Buffy was on the air called the big bad and Season two is really where I think the show finds its footing I know for a lot of people they feel like the show is still very gimmicky at this point But honestly, I feel like it's a mix it's a mixed bag of both and Buffy kind of takes its own The show finds its own footing and it starts going to those places that it probably would not have been going or you wouldn't expect it to go because of how gimmicky and cartoonish some of the prior episodes have been we still have those filler episodes With the monster of the week types where it's just like throwaway episodes like income mummy girl or just those throwaway Episodes that no one really talks about Outside of the stuff that has to do with the main ingredients of this of the actual season I feel like each season of Buffy has to do there's a different theme and a different message each season I feel like season twos lesson and theme about the show that is trying to get off or get across is how the consequences that we have for our actions and how Buffy the vampire slayer the show itself is about a young girl Going from adolescence to Adulthood and navigating her way through that and all of these demons and all this stuff in this show They're basically metaphors for all the things that that we face in our everyday lives as we're struggling to make sense of life and be responsible adults and face these hardships that come in our life and Taking them head on and knowing that we can get through them and things do get better and we're not always alone Season two above I feel like is where the show find its footing We are reintroduced back with the characters that we met in the last season We're catching back up with Buffy willow xander jiles angels back Cordelia we get some new characters thrown in there I believe this is a season where we meet Oz who begin who quickly becomes a love interest For willow or he develops a crushing will I don't think the two actually start dating until halfway until the end halfway at the end of The season all the way through until he his his departure from the town in season four spoiler alerts I Getting into like what the whole season is revolving around again It's a few months after the end of season two or the end of season one. We're back at Sunnydale high school starting back up Buffy's back in town. She's spent the summer away with her father. She hasn't really come to terms or Come the terms or like hope with the fact that she actually did die at the end of the last season at the hands of the Master she kind of never really got over that whole ordeal And I feel like I don't know what she's kind of going through I think it's like a PTSD of sorts PTSD of sources She's going through just from simple fact that she died and she came back She hasn't really dealt with that in the most healthy manner. She's being mean to her friend She's being mean to angel who angel and Buffy's relationship heats up to the maximum degree that I think anyone wants to relationship to get to for for better and for worse these two their relationship is Tested like I've never seen any other relationship tested before in my life But she's on this like bad girl mean girls trick She's like having this Cordelia vibe to her similar to how she was prior to becoming the slayer because we know how Buffy was in LA if you've seen the original Buffy film Buffy even described to herself That she was just like Cordelia Cordelia before she was Given these responsibilities as the slayer And she was given a new looking last to see things through life on But yeah school starting back up. We're back at Sunnydale High There's a new villain in town. This is the season that introduces us to James Masters Well-acted character who stills I feel like every time he's on screen. He is brilliant. He this character just never gets old The character of spike. I feel like he is one of the most Well-developed characters that I've ever seen come across any TV series. He starts off in a very And he starts off as a villain and as the show progresses He goes into other territories where he's kind of battling that inner he's battling He's torn between that shed of humanity That's room that might be remaining in him because I know in this show in any show vampires. They don't have a soul But spike kind of shows that maybe there's some remnants There's some remnants of that person that this that the demon in them is it's just at a At a war a constant war with and the way his character progresses throughout the show and The changes he goes through. I just think he's and The in the send-off that he gets at the end of the show. I think he is just he is an amazing character I'm glad that they did not Originally kill him off as as was planned. He was supposed to be killed off. He was supposed to be a one-off villain I'm glad they kept him around and just had him stick around for more seasons on this show Uh Giles his relationship with mrs. Callender is building we learned several things about her and her connections to angel We learn more about why angel is How angel got his soul as a vampire how he was cursed and his connection to mrs. Callender and We actually see angel lose his soul in this series or in this season rather And we are introduced to the character of Angelus who is the alter ego of angel when he does not have his soul This is what angel was like before he got his soul He's a blood thirsty Vendictive and quite destructive vampire I like how this is all brought about by the first encounter that he and him and Buffy have when they have sex on on the night of her Birthday and I just like how it how it relates to the consequences that come when you make Decisions that you might not you're not ready for I Just like how the whole the whole villain arc here I believe with Angel and Buffy and her losing her virginity to him I like how it's kind of just a big metaphor and a big representation of of something that could occur in life not in that degree, but you could deal with some Some severe consequences when you're making decisions that you may not be ready for such as the one that Buffy did when she just Had had sex with Angel when she probably should not have done that And I believe Angel was actually pushing for pushing for them not to but he he gave in because that's what Buffy wanted The season is this is one of the best seasons of the show season two is right up there in the top three To the series it's in the top three no doubt if my if the if the audio just went just went mute for a second It's because my mic fell so I do apologize there It's season two is one of the better seasons of this show is well-acted Sarah Michelle Geller is absolutely amazing once again in the role as Buffy This is the season where the show actually finds its footing and it goes in some areas that I never really thought I It goes in areas that I feel like a lot of people didn't think the show would go in back when it originally aired because season one was kind of just a meh Could live without it not getting another season But when it gets to season two it really hooks you in and you're like Okay, I want to see more of these characters. I want to I want to See what else this show can do with these characters because they all end up in a very different Different position by the end of season two will is dabbling with magic. She she finally has a boyfriend She's no longer lusting after Xander. She is still to some degree actually less than after Xander But she finally is becoming her own person. She's growing out of that shyness Xander's dating Cordelia Jiles is having to come to terms and grapple with the betrayal of the woman. He loved Buffy's learning from the consequences that she made by having sex at a very young age of the consequences of having sex at a very young age and just a plethora of other things that I feel like Season two season two is one of those seasons of a show I think there's almost nothing wrong with it outside of the fact that it was probably a little too short You probably wish it could have gone on a little bit longer season two above it the vampire slayer is absolutely amazing I love it and the show has nowhere to go but up from here and then it goes down a bit after season five We'll get to that when we get to those seasons But living to what you guys think about season two down the comment section below What are some of your favorite episodes from this season? Oh and also in this season We are introduced to another slayer Something that was sparked from the result of Buffy dying because if we recall fans of this series I'm sure you're aware of this in every generation. There's only one chosen one and the next layer isn't called Until the slayer actually dies Buffy dying at the end of season one Even if it was for a split second created this issue in the slayer line Well now there's two slayers that are alive Buffy technically shouldn't even be alive right now. She should be dead and it should have been this new slayer That we meet her name is Kendra She's Buffy in this case technically should not be alive But she is and we have this loophole here in the slayer line in the magic surrounding it And this kind of is also where we get the breadcrumbs I think setting up the things that come in the final season of the show But let me know what you guys think about season two down the comment section below if you haven't already make sure you subscribe It's on our post notifications So you never miss a video in the description. 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