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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3, Episode 6: Band Candy

Written by Jane Espenson; Directed by Michael Lange

Ah, now this is more like it. It's the best episode of the season so far, and I can easily understand why so many people put it in their personal Top 10. I wouldn't go that far, but it is undeniably fun, with the only real negatives being the continuation of that baffling Xander/Willow affair and a bad-looking CGI snake that, as it turns out, is merely a foretaste to the really hideous one that appears in the season finale. The main element, though - the personalities of Young Giles, Young Joyce and Young Snyder - is brilliantly executed and, between you and me, I think that Jane Espenson, whose first episode of Buffy this was, did a far better job with the "reverting to youth" plot mechanic than Joss Whedon did with the Season 4 Angel episode Spin the Bottle (which will be reviewed in due course, I expect).

Overall rating: 9/10.

Next time: Revelations.

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