The essential episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Buffy the Vampire Slayer — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Buffy Summers, a high school sophomore, faces her destiny as a slayer of the undead.
- 02
Buffy discovers Angel's horrifying secret.
- 03
Angel plots to revive an ancient demon bent of sweeping everything on earth into hell itself.
- 04
Spike strikes an unlikely alliance with Buffy to keep Angel from destroying the world.
- 05
Spike returns to Sunnydale and kidnaps Willow in hopes of creating a magic spell that will make Drusilla love him again.
- 06
In an effort to distract Buffy from the Ascension, the mayor instructs Faith to poison Angel.
- 07
On Ascension Day, Buffy and her friends prepare for the ultimate battle as they face off against the mayor and a hoard of vampires.
- 08
A group of murderous creatures called 'The Gentlemen' straight out of a fairytale steal the voices of Sunnydale.
- 09
Having switched bodies with Buffy, Faith enjoys freedom. Meanwhile, Buffy finds herself at the mercy of the Watcher's Council.
- 10
After being bested in a fight by an ordinary vampire, Buffy asks Spike to explain how he killed two Slayers many years earlier.
- 11
Buffy, Dawn, and their friends deal with the aftermath of Joyce's death.
- 12
As Glory prepares Dawn for a bloodletting ritual that will open a portal to another dimension, Buffy and her friends prepare for battle.
- 13
Willow tries to solve too many problems with magic, accidentally making herself and the others forget who they are just as a demon loan shark and his boys come looking to collect a debt from Spike.
- 14
Conversations with Dead People
Buffy has a conversation with a vampire who once went to Sunnydale High, and learns something interesting about Spike. Joyce materialises to Dawn in the living room. The ghost of Cassie brings a message to Willow from beyond the grave. Meanwhile, Andrew and Jonathan have returned to Sunnydale on a mission to save the town
- 15
After killing Caleb, Buffy conceives a plan to defeat the First once and for all. Willow invokes a magic spell that alters the ancient Slayer spell and gives Buffy the allies she needs to fight the Uber-Vamp army. An epic battle ensues and several good friends are lost. At the end, Buffy faces a completely new problem - one she's glad to have.
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