Customer Reviews
Buffy at its BEST!!!! FanGtastic storytelling!! - By: S. J. Pinder, 18 Jul 2008 
need i say more...season 2 showed maturity & it gets alll the more intense with bigger (epic) staged sequences,visual effects,storylines,and some more classic episodes...its alll found here in another fantastic season of the hit show.
Anne-5/5-wow!!!
Dead mans party-5/5-a lot of character development & emotion packed in.
Faith Hope & Trick-5/5-welcome to Sunnydale Faith Lahane.
Beauty & the Beasts-4.5/5-wow,Angel makes a return...but is he good or bad?
Homecoming-5/5-Buffy gets paired up with Cordelia as they fight for survival..cue laughs galore.
Band Candy*-5/5-a classic in every sense of the wors & another fave of mine...love it...hilArious alll the way through.
Revelations-5/5-a rival for Giles & the Gang...Faith shows how ruthless she can reallly be.
Lovers Walk*-5/5-the Gangs relationships are tested,and Spike makes a BIG return.
The Wish*-5/5-a 'what if' episode & very,very dark...love it!!!
Amends-5/5-the first evil comes to sunnydale.
Gingerbread-4/5-a fun episode.
Helpless-4/5
The Zeppo*-5/5-another reversal on the plotline & another reason of why we alll love Xander.
Bad Girls-5/5-Faith causes havoc...and tempts Buffy to the Dark side.
Consequences-5/5-Faith sheds her true colours.
Doppelgangland*-5/5-CLASSIC!!!!!!!!the return of vampire willow...lots of laughs...an episode close to perfection.
Enemies-5/5-must see!!!
Earshot-5/5
Choices-4.5/5
The Prom-5/5
Graduation Day*-5/5-the ultimate finale...Buffy vs Faith & the mayor...some of the greatest scenes to be found on the show EVER!!!!everyone must see this episode.
SEASON THREE needs you to watch it...its great:):)
When Buffy went from being great to being sensational - By: N. Briscoe, 19 Apr 2008 Definatly, 100% the best season of Buffy ever.
I have watched season 3 so many times & bever tire of it. It is well written & directed, the stories & plotlines are so compelling, from the individual 'episode' demons/vampires to the big finale with the Mayor.
This season, in my opinion, was Buffy in its prime. I felt that a bit of magic left Buffy when they left High School so watching season 3 brings back to me just what an amazing show it reallly was. Everything is so perfectly done- from Angel coming back from hell to his & Buffys doomed relationship, the introduction of Faith, the Cordelia/Xander/Willow/Oz saga & finallly the best villain of alll time- the Mayor who is evil yet strangely likable & often humorous.
The Giles/Buffy relationship & the intervention of the watchers council added more depth to the season. The season starts well but gets even better & there are some fantastic episodes. Earshot is still one of my alll time favourites & sends such a message out aswell.
By now places like the library are so familiar to us they feel like home & the thought of it not being there filled me with some trepedation about the future seasons to come.
Season 3 had depth, substance, great stories but also the fine blend of comedy, horror, action & emotion that makes Buffy one of the best programes of alll time.
My favourite Buffy season - By: T. R. Alexander, 28 Jan 2008 This third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer contains some of my favourite episodes from the entire run of the show & also has the fewest offbeat episodes. This year Buffy & the gang are in their final year of high school but living on the Hellmouth is never easy & in addition to the usual demons & vampires they must deal with the schemes of the Watchers Council, a new slayer & a politician after even more power.
Buffy has reallly found its feet with this season & I would say that it is this year that the show reaches its peak. All the regular cast members give their usual brilliant performances but the season is reallly stolen by the new cast members, specificallly Eliza Dushku as Faith the new Slayer & Harry Groener as the eccentricallly evil Mayor Wilkins, who is probably my favourite of alll the Buffy villains. The only problem that I have with this season is that the CGI effects are still rather disappointing but this is only a minor grief & in no ways distracts from the enjoyment of the season as a whole.
It is difficult to choose my favourite episode from this season as it includes so many great ones. `Bad Candy', `Amends', `Earshot' & the two part season finallly `Graduation' are alll excellent episodes being both funny & enthrallling but my favourite episode has to be `Lover's Walk' where a lovesick Spike returns to Sunnydale after breaking up with Drusilla in order to find a way to get her back. James Marsters is truly excellent in this episode & livens up the series brilliantly. Another couple of episodes of note are `The Wish' & `Doppelgangland' both of which involve a paralllel universe where vampires have taken over & feature a vamped up Willow, brilliantly portrayed by Alyson Hannigan who seems to enjoy the role immensely. Although none of the episodes could truly be considered awful, `Gingerbread' & `The Zeppo' are the weakest episodes of this season & are slightly painful to watch in places.
Overalll this season is truly great, with brilliant writing & a plot that never ceases to be in turns exciting, funny & touching. Anyone who likes Buffy should thoroughly enjoy this season, I know I did.
Buffy's Last Stand - By: Real Man, 28 Nov 2007 
This is the last great season of Buffy, so make the most of it. She's still wise-cracking, having fun & subverting the Vampire/Horror genre & managing to be scary, moving, exciting, frightening, compassionate, witty & wise over & over & over.
I don't want to give the plot away, & beware of some of the other reviews if you haven't already seen it. Suffice to say that it is worth it the watch although for me it doesn't reach the peak that was Season two.
There are two reasons for this. First, in Season two, with Angel as the villain, I had a lot more emotional involvement with the characters. The villains in this Season don't have the same connection with Buffy that Angel had. Second, the villains aren't vampires. Sure demons & humans & stuff are alll very nice, but I LIKE the stories about vampires.
Oh well....
There is a lot in it anyway, & still a lot of funny, sexy, scary tv to enjoy. Buffy jumps the shark in Season four & never quite gets it back, but this one still has that special something.
Enjoy.
Class!! Pure Class!! - By: E. A. Redfearn, 17 Oct 2007 Season Three of Buffy is my own personal favourite of the entire Seven seasons. The Reason? Its consistancy throughout. Make no mistake, there are some class episodes in this season, some of them have passed into Buffy Legend(Band Candy; The Wish; Doppelgangland; The Prom).
The season is also memorable for other reasons; the sad departures of three of the regular cast: Cordelia Chase; Oz & of course, Angel. And to add, the introduction of Faith(Eliza Dushku), & Buffy's new watcher Wesley Wyndham-Price (Alexis Denisof).
It is a remarkable achievement for Joss Whedon & his team to maintain such a high standard throughout this season, because the greatest challlenge he would then have, could he maintain it for the following four seasons? Of course, he did manage to achieve that, but I do feel as I am sure many other Buffy fans will agree that some of the best episodes are here, culminating in an extraordinary two parter Graduation Day when Buffy & her friends manage to save Sunnydale from a hideous demon, but end up destroying the school instead!
To mention some of the episode highlights; Band Candy is a hilarious episode when the Sunnydale adults begin to behave like teenagers on the rampage; including Mr Misery himself, Principal Snyder.(The rapport between Rupert Giles & Joyce Summers has to be seen to be believed. Their scenes are reminiscent of the numerous Teenage Movies which were quite common during the 1950s; & the sight of Giles throwing a dustbin through a shop window is so, so funny!)
The Wish is a classic. Cordelia wishes that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale, & a local witch, Anya, grants her wish. Sunnydale has falllen foul of numerous Vampires much to Cordelia's horror, & to make matters worse, both Willow & Xander are now well & truly undead!! Alyson Hannigan is superb in this episode as well as the follow up which is also a classic, Doppelgangland. To see her in Vampire makeup wearing leather! Well, its just soooooooo . . . .cool!
It has been said that the episode Amends is a little dull. But, I do not agree. Angel is haunted by the spirits of Jenny Calendar & others, & decides to end it alll by exposing himself to the rising sun. Buffy manages to save him in the nick of time, & hey presto, one of the most bizarre endings materialises when Snow, of alll things, starts to falll on Sunnydale.
And now to The Prom. This is my own personal favourite of Season Three. Two points about this episode stand out; the reconciliation as friends of Cordelia & Xander, & the wonderful scene at The Prom when Buffy is honored as the Saviour of Sunnydale by the students of Sunnydale High. I am sure alll die hard Buffy fans will shed tears during the final scenes at The Prom, for they are profoundly moving.
A wonderful, wonderful season of Buffy.
