Buffy The Vampire Slayer: 10 Reasons Season 2 Was The Best

10. The Dumb Episodes Are Really Dumb

Let's get this out of the way right up front. Season 2 is by no means the most consistent season. That honour probably goes jointly to seasons 3 and 5, which have barely a bad episode between them (though Listening To Fear gets pretty damn close). Both those seasons have a few great episodes and a lot of good episodes and that's fine. But what sort of people are we if all we look for in our entertainment is an even keel? Surely to love something, you must love it at both its best and its balls to the wall mental worst? If the greatest crime a TV show can commit is to be boring then Buffy season 2 is a huge success because, yeah, some episodes are bad, but they're bad in spectacular fashion. Inca Mummy Girl, the first true disaster of the season, has a pretty recognisable Buffy plot- Xander meets girl, girl turns out to be murderous, Buffy saves the day. But they cast someone so terrible, so cripplingly unable to act in the titular part that it felt close to a troll job by the producers. They followed it up with an episode in which Joyce FULL ON DATES A ROBOT but unlike in later seasons with the Buffybot, it's not played for laughs. Then there's Bad Eggs, which teaches the characters lessons on parenting via evil eggs and cowboy vampires, and Go Fish which exists only as proof that Nicholas Brendon, who played Xander, had surprisingly great abs.