2x01&02 When She Was Bad/Some Assembly Required

Published: Nov. 2, 2016, 9 p.m.

b"Oh look, they finally got some money to make this show! Buffy is back, and she's got a terrible attitude. Unfortunately, so is the anointed one. Honestly, I can feel the show starting to improve, but it sure is taking its time. So, to recap. Buffy is back, and she's pissed of and angsty about what the Master put her through, and apparently killing him isn't enough, She needs to spend an entire summer sulking and being a twat to her friends. We get our first black vampire (well, our second if you count that woman in the background of the second episode, but we haven't seen her since, so no. No credit) and he seems intent on resurrecting the master. And through a willful mistranslation, Buffy thinks they need her to bring him back. But they don't, they need all her friends. Except Xander, because fuck him. Then she works out her issues by breaking shit- the master's bones, specifically. Also Angel is there. Angel is around more for the second episode as well, and he starts off with a passive-aggressive argument with Buffy in the graveyard. Someone's robbing graves, graves of freshly-dead young women. This turns out to be a Frankenstein plot to build a girlfriend for a Frankenstein monster that already exists. And they want Cordelia's head, because there's nothing like a rotting corpse with a bad attitude. I really hope this show picks up steam, and soon. I hung on all through season 1 \\xa0. . . I'm ready for the Buffy everyone told me about."