![]() ![]() Then something weird, even by Buffy standards, happens: The Slayer begins to sing. Following a brief overture in the Summers household and Giles’s bookstore, Buffy makes her nightly rounds at Sunnydale’s graveyard, the town’s hotspot for supernatural happenings. The seventh episode of the season, however, strikes a different chord. A resurrected Buffy aimlessly languishes in her responsibilities as the Slayer while working at Sunnydale’s equivalent of a McDonald’s Buffy’s friend Willow (Alyson Hannigan) struggles with a disconcerting addiction to magic Spike (James Marsters) tries to repress his romantic feelings for Buffy and, at the beginning of the season, her mentor Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) leaves Sunnydale for the U.K. It wasn’t hell, by the way, but for fans accustomed to series creator Joss Whedon’s delicate balance between snappy one-liners and spells of pathos, the hard left into a relentlessly bleak season might as well have been. If there is one moment that encapsulates the much-debated sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it’s those first words that come out of Buffy’s mouth in the season premiere, which first aired on October 2, 2001. ![]() Check out The Ringer’s ranking of the best episodes since 2000 ![]()
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