Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 4, Episode 5: Beer Bad
Written by Tracey Forbes; Directed by David SolomonI'm not sure how much of the Oz/Veruca storyline was always intended to take place and how much was made up at the last minute when Seth Green suddenly announced that he was leaving, but the existence of much foreshadowing in this episode seems to suggest that there was always some attention of having him become attracted to a fellow werewolf. Unfortunately, most of the good stuff going on in this episode tends to be overshadowed by the absolutely ridiculous storyline of Buffy drinking beer and being reduced to a Neanderthal state. To some extent, Buffy has always been about overdone metaphors, but this one takes the cake. Yes, it's true that there are few sights more pathetic than that of a crowd of college/university students pissed out of their skulls, but even so, this is overkill. Presumably it works better in the US, where you have to be over 21 to buy alcohol, but over here, where certain people seem to consider drinking yourself into a stupor to be a mandatory component of any college/university curriculum, I suspect it would have been greeted by most viewers with gales of laughter, and not the sort of laughter the writers were intending.
Overall rating: 5/10.
Next time: Wild at Heart.
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