Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Ranking Every Season From Worst To Best

Why It Was Great

For the Scooby Gang's final year in high school, the show went out all guns blazing. Buffy was operating at its peak in Seasons 2 and 3, although the former just pips it to top spot.

Building towards the stunning two-part Graduation Day, it was a near-perfect encapsulation of high school life and the trials and tribulations you have to go through. Though in this case, they included the Mayor of Sunnydale, Richard Wilkins, as one of the show's most charismatic-yet-scary Big Bads. It's also notable for bringing in Faith, a new slayer who had a great fall, providing a truly dark mirror to Buffy herself. It's probably the most consistent season, and once it gets going the hits just don't stop coming (from Homecoming to The Zeppo is a ridiculous run of form). Slightly more mature, but still with the zippy dialogue and character interaction we loved, this is BTVS being really sure of itself, and it shows.

Why It Wasn't

The season takes a good few episodes to really get going, as it spends its first few episodes having to re-establish the status quo, bringing back Buffy (or Anne) and Angel, and introducing Anya and Faith.

Also we had to say a real farewell to Angel and Cordelia, which was fitting, but it doesn't get any easier. Yeah, there's not much to dislike here.

Best Episode: Dopplegangland (S3 E16)