Adapting to life in Sunnydale without the Slayer isn’t easy, but the scoobies seem to be doing fine. At least in surface. But the truth is, they can’t accept the fact that Buffy is dead and Willow convince them all that their friend is trapped in Hell and she can bring her back.

Thanks to her friends, Buffy wakes up six feet under, trapped in a coffin. After clawing her way out, what she finds looks every bit like Hell. Maybe the Powers That Be were cruel enough to pull her out of eternal rest and throw her down to Hell. No, this is good ol’ Sunnyhell and the first thing Buffy has to do is fight for her life. Welcome home Buff.

Buffy has to adapt to being alive again and she doesn’t seem to be doing it fast enough to Willow’s tastes. But they have a bigger problem than Willow’s sensitivity. The spell to bring back Buffy created an un-corporeal demon who needs to kill the object of the spell in order to exist in our reality: Buffy.

And the beauty that is life keeps on smiling up at Buffy. Not only has she been pulled out of heaven, but all this so she could live a life where all she does is fight for others, and to top everything up, she’s as broke as one can be and the stupid bank people won‘t give her a loan.. I think Anya is absolutely right on this one: Why can’t they pay her to save the world?

After three tentative at putting her life back on track and failing miserably thanks to outside interference from a trio of geeks, Buffy goes to Spike to try drowning her sorrows in alcohol. She asks him to help her find the invisible enemy who’s been having fun making her life difficult.

It's Halloween and once again, evil breaks the rules, Sunnydale vamps refuse to take the traditional break. And of course, our little Dawn gets herself into trouble. After the scoobies celebration of Xander and Anya's big announcement, Dawn lie to her sister about going to sleep over at her friend, and instead, decides to spend the night out in town. Of course, she encounter some vampire action as she makes out WITH a vamp (big sis influence here?). But luckily for her, Buffy, Spike and Giles get there on time to save the little airhead.

Wow, the MUSICAL. No words to describe that, but I'll try anyways. Since Buffy's return from the dead, the Scoobies are all hiding secrets from one another. But this all change with the arrival of a new demon in town. Sweet. This one is all about dancing, and singing, flowers and puppies. Ok. More like dancing and singing, fire and death.. All of a sudden, everybody in Sunnyhell is bursting into songs.. Including Spike! That would be kinda cute, if it didn't make them pour their heart out against their own will, and eventually burst into flames. So Giles admits he's leaving, Tara's mad at Willow for using too much magic, Spike tells Buffy how he feels, and Buffy let out the fact that she was in fact in Heaven and that her so-called friends ripped her out of there. Lots of confusion, lots of heart ache. They end up winning, but did they really win? Well, we did, since Buffy kissed Spike in the end and that‘s all we wanted!! (lucky her!)

Deciding once again to play with everybody’s life, (God Willow was beyond annoying that season) Willow decides to ignore the promise she made to Tara the night before and play with magic again. Her excuse? She’s upset about Buffy’s declaration and wants to make her forget. Result? Collective amnesia for everybody. Geez Will, you really do know how to get people to like you. Unfortunately, when everything goes back to normal, things are not that funny anymore. Giles still leaves for England, Tara leaves Willow,and Buffy seeks comfort in Spike's arms... again.

Geez, I must have watched this episode a hundred times and still, all I can remember is: Buffy and Spike had sex. Is there something wrong with me? Doesn’t that scream “Pervert” to you? :-D

Babysitting Dawn, Willow thinks it’d be a neat idea to take the girl with her to see her new black magic pusher. Good common sense Will. Buffy is reduced to ask Spike for help even though seeing him is the last thing she wants all the denial… “It's never going to happen again, I'm disgusted with myself, blah, blah, blah, blah.” Yep, that's our Buffy alright.

Buffy is on a roller coaster with Spike and doesn’t seem to know what she wants. But when the nerds of Doom turn her invisible, her first reaction is to go to him for Crypt sexcapade 2002. She’s still not keen on living, but when she learns that the invisibility could dissolve her into nothing offering her an escape hatch from this life… she choose to live. (I’m sure the great sex helped her make that decision.)

I’d normally say this episode is too bad for me to review, but I’ll be professional and give you the 411 anyway.
Because of her money problem, Buffy is forced to take a crappy job at a local fast food restaurant called Double meat palace. After her first day, she's already on to something. Everybody is acting weird at her new job, and people keep disappearing without explanation. After assuming that the special ingredient in the burgers is human flesh, she realizes a little late that she was wrong and that people disappear because of some demonic old lady who eats them. But Willow saves her, and Buffy keeps her job.

When one of Warren’s experiment end up with him killing his ex-girlfriend Cathrina, he decides to use the Slayer to cover up the murder. He uses Jonathan’s talent to make her believe that she’s the one who killed the girl. Spike tries to stop his slayer from throwing her life away by going to the police, but all he gets for his trouble is a very bruised face. Fortunately enough, once inside the police station, Buffy hears the name of the victim and puts two and two together… (Very good episode!!! Full of Buffy/Spike interaction... And the Bronze scene? STEAMY!)

It’s Buffy’s birthday. Enough said. After a seemingly eventless party, the guests find themselves trapped in the house with some kind of nasty demon. Yeah, Dawn wished that everybody would stay around her more. Could someone tell that brat never to make wishes to vengeance demons?… Please?

And yet another episode I refuse to review in season six.
Riley comes back, blah, blah, blah. He’s married, blah, blah, blah. Buffy breaks up with Spike (screw you Marti… I’m sure that was YOUR brilliant idea) And since I’m doing this, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Marti Noxon for taking a promising season and turning it into the most depressing thing on TV and making BtVS fans suicidal all over the world. Good job. Really.
And please, who was the loser who had the brilliant idea to bring White Bread back in the first place?!

Xander and Anya's wedding is not exactly going as it should. But luckily for them, they have super bridesmaid Buffy to keep it all together. Until old Xander comes to crash the party by showing his younger self what his future holds. Unfortunately, it is not a pretty sight and it frightens Xander into running away. It turns out that old Xander was not really old Xander but a demon seeking reveange on Anyanka. But it doesn't matter anymore: the damage was done, the wedding is off, and Anya's heart is broken for good.

Very excellent episode. Dark and depressing too, but brilliant in a way. After being stung by a demon, Buffy keeps going back and forth between two very different realities. In one, she is the Slayer, and in the other one, she is a delusional girl in a mental institution in L.A. The doctor convinces her that she is sick but she can get better if she accept the reality that she's just a normal girl with no super powers and the only thing that keeps her in her fantasy world of Sunnydale, are her friends and her sister. She therefore decides to kill them all so she can be normal again. Will she go through with it?..

When they find cameras spying on Buffy’s house, the reaction isn’t the logical: “The nerds trio strikes again.” No. It’s: “Could it be Spike?” Of course, it came from Xander. But Buffy still has the nerves to actually go ask Spike about it, hurting him more than she ever did with her lack of trust. And to make sure to drive the nail home, she turns around before leaving and tells him to move on. Heartbroken, he goes to the magic shop to try to find some kind of spell to ease his pain. What he finds is an equally hurt Anya who offers him a drink. They drown their sorrows together and one thing leads to another… What they don’t know is that there’s a camera on them and Buffy and Xander are watching.

Daddy's back home, and the kids haven't been good. Tara is dead, Willow is out of control, Buffy’s been sleeping with Spike, Xander called off his wedding… I’m sure Giles now realize that him leaving wasn’t such a great idea after all. He manages to control Willow with a binding spell for a while, but it doesn’t last. She escape it by doing some mind control on Anya, and now, she’s out for blood. Any blood. She’s willing to kill her friends if they get in her way. She kicks Anya’s ass, Buffy’s, and Giles. But thanks to Giles’ trick, and a little Xander lovin’ she stops and regain her sense, just short of ending the world. I think it’s safe to say that that’s grief in it’s absolute ultimate form. The scene cuts and takes us to Africa. Spike successfully passed all his trials and gets what he wanted… His old self back. His soul.

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