Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 16: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Written by Marti Noxon; Directed by James A. Contner(a.k.a. In Which Buffy Learns That Xander Can Resist Her Feminine Charms)
I didn't really remember much of this episode from the last time I watched it, back in 2003, but watching it again today it struck me how outrageously funny the whole concept, and indeed the execution, was. It's also a great character-driven episode. Despite laying on the saccharine a bit too thick at the end, it works because it changes the character of Cordelia for ever, and paves the way for her more intelligent, caring persona that would emerge on Angel. Okay, so it may not be the most substantial episode of all time, but it shows how it was that Season 2 managed to handle all the overhanging doom and gloom where Seasons 6 and 7 failed. Maybe I'm rating what is, in the face of it, just a throwaway episode too highly, but, of all the Season 2 episodes I've made my way through thus far, this has been the most purely entertaining.
Overall rating: 9/10.
Next time: Passion. The best episode of the season? Possibly.
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