Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 20: Go Fish
Written by David Fury & Elin Hampton; Directed by David Semel(a.k.a. In Which Buffy Learns About Team Spirit)
David Fury later became one of the key writers on Buffy, serving as deputy showrunner on Season 6 and joint showrunner of Angel's final season. On this episode, and the two episodes he wrote for the third season, he was a freelance writer. Based on the episodes he wrote for Season 3, I can see why he was offered a full-time position, but this Season 2 episode isn't really up to scratch. It's odd to have such an inconsequential episode so close to the big season finale, and had I been planning the season I would have placed it much earlier.
Ignoring its placement, however, and simply viewing it as a stand-alone episode, it's still not that great. It has a lot more in common with the Season 1 and earlier Season 2 "monster of the week" episodes, and there's nothing in it that particularly engages me. I guess, at this point in the show's life, I'm expecting a bit more, having seen what the regular writers were, by now, capable of.
Pretty decent monster make-up, though.
Overall rating: 6/10.
Next time: it all comes to a head with Becoming Parts 1 and 2.
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