Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 4, Episode 18: Where the Wild Things Are
Written by Tracey Forbes; Directed by David SolomonWatching people slobbering all over each other for a few minutes in an episode is bad enough, so as you can probably imagine, an entire episode of nothing but people slobbering over each other (and more besides) is pretty awful. Strangely, though, I like it more than Superstar, because at least the self-consciousness that invaded that episode isn't present here. Unfortunately, in its place is a spirit that infests a house and gives everyone inside it rampant libidos, so Buffy and Riley begin boning each other pretty much as soon as the opening credits have finished and don't stop until the closing credits are about to start. Okay, perhaps I'm exaggerating slightly, but it's pretty grotesque nonetheless and certainly not my idea of hijynx. For all intents and purposes, this is one of the many episodes that follows the "trapped in a haunted place" formula (see Fear, Itself earlier in the season for a better example of how to pull one of these off) and takes a break from the Adam storyline. As such, it's a fairly non-essential episode, although it does end up giving the Xander/Anya relationship more meaning than it had before, so I suppose you can call that a progression of sorts.
Plus, Giles singing goes some way towards making up for all the screwing.
Overall rating: 5/10.
Next time: New Moon Rising.
2 Comments:
Given the scores you've been giving these episodes so far, are you absolutely certain that seasons six and seven are worse? Scary thought.
By Baron Scarpia, at 14:25
Believe me, several episodes from Seasons 6 and 7 will be getting ones and twos. In retrospect, Season 4's defining characterstics are its peaks and troughs: when it's good, it's really good, but when it's bad... well, you know how it goes.
By Whiggles, at 14:34
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