What’s strange about season three of Buffy is it often feels as though it’s just plodding along, making its way to another plane. For the kids at Sunnydale, that means University of California-Sunnydale, where the group (mostly) ends up in the fourth season. In the meantime, a new Slayer appears, one of the series’ best villains establishes himself as the Big Bad and much filler finds its way onto the screen.

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Season one of Buffy introduced a fairly rote villain. Called simply “the Master,” he was a classic vampire, trench-coated and angry, with a legion of Sunnydale’s finest at his beck and call and plans for reopening the Hellmouth upon which Sunnydale is built. Each season of the show has one key villain, the Big Bad, as they’re called, and the Master was the dullest one, which makes it all the more exciting when Sid and Nancy-style vamps Spike (James Marsters) and Drusilla (Juliet Landau) roll into town, and Spike takes his place in my heart as all-time favorite Buffy character.

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