Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 15: Phases
Written by Rob Des Hotel & Dean Batali; Directed by Bruce Seth Green(a.k.a. In Which Buffy Learns That... actually, I don't know what she learns in this episode)
I decided to speed up my Buffy watching and no longer restrict myself to watching one episode a week. Perhaps it's indicative of the fact that, at this stage in the second season, the show is much better than it was when it started out... or maybe it's just that I want to get on to the later episodes (the more I think about it, the more I'm looking forward to seeing Seasons 4 and 5 again).
Either way, Phases is a decent but not great episode. The funniest things about it are Oz's various unsurprised reactions to his discovery that he's a werewolf. Otherwise, for such a crucial episode for the characters of Oz and Willow, it feels oddly disconnected from the main arc of the season. Okay, we get a couple of mentions of Angel's soul loss, and he shows up once to prove that he's still bad, but given what a major event that was, and especially given that it happened only last week, it seems to be of bafflingly little consequence in this episode.
Overall rating: 7/10.
Next time: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.
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