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b"And we're into Season 3 of Buffy!

Without Buffy or Cordelia, the rest of the gang is trying to take care of the vampire problem- not very successfully, either. Willow has had a significant upgrade to her wardrobe, but she's still lacking- I hope this means that her character will finally become more than what she is now. It's progress.

Buffy, though, is working as a waitress in LA, living in a crappy apartment, when she runs into Lilly, one of the vampire groupies from last year. Unlike the rest of the population of this world, she actually seems to remember what's going on. When he boyfriend goes missing, she turns to Buffy for help. It turns out that there's some demons in a weird time-slowed realm that are kidnapping homeless teenagers, working them for centuries, and returning them the next day having aged into their sixties. It's weird. Poor Lilly is caught up in it, and Buffy goes to the new realm to save her.

And then in episode two, we get Buffy returning, dealing with the fallout of her running away from her mother and her friends, with only Cordelia there to defend her. Being a slayer is hard, guys, your feelings are a low priority. Get your shit together. Be more like Cordy. Also, don't throw a massive house party for your friend when you need to reconnect. Also beware of zombies, cause that's a thing that happened and went absolutely nowhere.

The show is improving, 100% in quality over where it was in the first season, but let's be honest, it's still doing too much, retreating to its comfort zones and not giving its storyline enough time to breathe. I'm excited to see the show improve, it's almost at the point where I would watch this as a weekly show."