Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire slayer is a TV series that began in 1997. It has an extensive cast of characters (a pattern typical of the creator Joss Whedon), funny (and intentionally unrealistic) dialogue and tons of pop culture references. Oh, yeah, and there are some vampires and demons, and a girl with superpowers who fights them - but all that is of secondary importance.

It is highly recommended to watch the entire series, but given that it's 7 seasons (plus 5 more in the spin-off series, Angel), and the fact that especially the first seasons are beginning to show their age, it may be easier to get into the series by watching selected episodes. This list is my selection of such recommended episodes.

Even though I've listed episodes throughout the series, I actually recommend starting from season 4 and working your way up to the musical episode (season 6, episode 7). The musical episode is the best thing ever to be made for TV, but please resist the temptation to skip directly to it, since it spoils a lot of plot points and you won't understand most of the things that are being revealed. Watch however many preceding episodes you have time and patience for, giving preference to those marked with stars * (more stars being more important), then watch the musical episode. If you don't "get" the series and are thinking of quitting, then skip directly to the musical episode, but otherwise try to watch at all the episodes with two stars or more in seasons 4-6.

After the musical episode, assuming you now at least kind of enjoy the series, you can either continue to the end from there, or skip back to season 1. Seasons 1-3 are set in high school and are really funny as such, and they give rise to the spin-off series, Angel. The reason for my suggestion of starting from season 4 is just that the story from there onwards also works on its own, and may be easier to get into. Episode 4x04 is as good a starting point as any, it's a funny standalone episode that still gives quite a bit of character backstory.

Anyway, the list of suggested episodes follows. Read the recap for all seasons that you skip episodes in. Also note that this list skips most of the "big bad of the season" plots in favour of standalone episodes. Generally the main plots are not important in Buffy, save perhaps for season 7.


    Season 1

Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, California with her single mother, Joyce. She learns that she is a Slayer, a chosen one with powers to fight demons and powers of evil. Slayers have existed since prehistoric times, always female, and always only one at a time, the next one's powers awakening upon the death of her predecessor. Slayers are instructed and trained by a secret organisation called the Watchers' Council. The school librarian, Rupert Giles, is Buffy's Watcher.

Sunnydale is a seemingly ordinary little town, but it turns out that it's situated on top of a HELLMOUTH, whence demons and forces of magic spring forth into the world. In season 1 Buffy goes to high school, befriends Willow, Xander and Cordelia, and battles demons in mostly standalone episodes. The big bad of the season is The Master, an ancient vampire who tries to re-enter the world. Buffy is helped by Angel, a notorious vampire who has been cursed with the return of his soul, making him "good" again, but kind of emo as he suffers with the knowledge of the evil he has caused. Buffy and Angel start dating.

** 1x01-1x02 Welcome to the Hellmouth / The Harvest
    Buffy's first day in Sunnydale High.
*** 1x07 Angel
    Buffy learns the truth about Angel.
1x09 The Puppet Show
    There's a murderer in the school, and Willow has to perform in a play.
*** 1x12 Prophecy Girl
    Buffy battles The Master.

End of season: The Master kills(!) Buffy, but Xander manages to revive her. Buffy then manages to slay The Master, and all is well again. Joyce (Buffy's mom) is still unaware of her only daughter's double life as a Slayer.

    Season 2

In season 2 Buffy's good-vampire boyfriend Angel loses his soul again (due to experiencing true happiness, which triggers a condition in his curse to be unhappy), and becomes the evil Angelus again. Willow stars dating a new character, Oz, who turns out to be a werewolf. Ethan Rayne, a warlock from Giles' past, causes some trouble. Spike and Drusilla, an evil vampire couple from Angelus' old gang, come to town. Also, since Buffy technically died in season 1, a new Slayer - Kendra - had her powers awakened. Kendra has different views on how to be a good Slayer, but after some misunderstandings she teams up with Buffy.

* 2x03 School Hard
    It's parent-teacher night, and Spike arrives.
2x06 Halloween
    People become their Halloween costumes.
2x07 Lie to Me
    Buffy's old flame has a thing for vampires.
*** 2x14 Innocence
    Buffy has sex with Angel, causing him to lose his soul and become the evil Angelus once more.
* 2x15 Phases
    Oz discovers his inner wolf.
* 2x16 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
    Xander tries to woo Cordelia with love magic.
** 2x17 Passion
    Giles is dating Jenny, who tries to restore Angelus' soul.
2x20 Go Fish
    The school swim team goes fish.
*** 2x21-2x22 Becoming
    Joyce invite Spike in for tea, and finally finds out about Buffy being the Slayer.

End of season: Spike's girlfriend Drusilla kills Kendra (the other slayer). Angelus has killed Giles's love interest, Jenny. Angelus opens a portal to bring about the apocalypse, but immediately afterwards the gang manages to restore his soul, turning him back into the good Angel. However, the only way to close the portal to hell is to send Angel into it, which Buffy tearfully does. Buffy leaves town with the intention of never returning.

    Season 3

Buffy lives in Los Angeles for a while, but eventually returns to Sunnydale. Since Kendra died at the end of last season, another new Slayer was called. This time it's Faith, a troubled misfit of a girl. Angel returns from his exile in Hell, even more haunted and emo than before. The gang is also joined by Anya, formerly knows Anyanka, a notorious "vengeance demon" (kind of an evil genie who fulfills wishes of revenge, but usually so literally that the wronged person realises they didn't actually want it after all). Anya loses her demon powers while posing as a schoolgirl, and joins Buffy's gang since she now has nowhere else to go. Meanwhile Giles fails his Watcher's test, and is officially replaced by Wesley, an unimaginative by-the-book Watcher whom Buffy dislikes. The big bad of the season is the town mayor (along with Faith, who gradually strays towards being a menace).

3x05 Homecoming
    Buffy and Cordelia vie for the crown.
3x06 Band Candy
    Magic candy makes adults like children again.
* 3x08 Lovers Walk
    Spike has trouble in love.
*** 3x09 The Wish
    Anya, the vengeance demon, arrives.
* 3x10 Amends
    Angel, haunted by guilt, attempts suicide.
*** 3x16 Doppelgängland
    Willow has a vampire double.
3x18 Earshot
    Buffy hears voices.
3x20 The Prom
    Anya asks Xander to the prom. Joyce is worried about Angel's influence on her daughter.
3x21-3x22 Graduation
    The mayor attempts to eat the schoolchildren on graduation day (now that they're ripe).

End of season: Faith (the other Slayer) poisons Angel. Wesley (the new official Watcher) fails to convince the Watchers' Council to help Angel (due to him being a vampire, albeit with a soul once more). Enraged by this, Buffy decides to quit listening to the Council altogether, and Wesley is fired as Watcher because of this. Buffy stabs Faith in order to use her blood to cure Angel. Faith goes into a coma (conveniently, since her death would call another new slayer). The mayor performs an ascension ritual and turns into a huge demon, but the gang blow up the high school and the mayor with it.

On the love front, Willow has sex with Oz. Anya is still wooing Xander, but things are delayed as she temporarily flees the town for fear of the mayor's ascension (as she has witnessed a similar event some 800 years ago). Unable to really be with Buffy due to his curse, Angel leaves Sunnydale and moves to Los Angeles, as does Cordelia.

The spin-off series, Angel, begins next season with Angel, Cordelia, and Wesley migrating to that show. Angel as a series has a more serious tone than Buffy, apart from season 5, and it is not necessary to watch it to follow the Buffy storylines. There are some individual episodes that directly continue the story from Buffy, these are indicated in the episode lists to follow.

If you do decide to watch Angel, you should watch season 1-4 of Angel at the same time as seasons 4-7 of Buffy, so that the Buffy episode comes before the corresponding Angel episode, i.e., Buffy 4x01 first, then Angel 1x01, then Buffy 4x02 followed by Angel 1x02, etc. This is the way they originally aired. Angel season 5 - which I very highly recommend (unlike the other Angel seasons) - comes after the end of the Buffy series, and is discussed separately after season 7.

    Season 4

Buffy and Willow start their freshman year at the university, while Xander is working in construction. There's a top secret military installation, The Initiative, beneath the UC Sunnydale. (A slight improvement over the hellmouth beneath the high school.) The Initiative is run by the psychology professor, Dr. Walsh. Buffy starts dating Riley, who turns out to secretly be an Initiative operative. Willow starts studying magic, befriending a fellow wiccan called Tara. Buffy's former Watcher, Giles, runs a magic shop while helping Buffy and the gang unofficially.

The Initiative hunts vampires and demons, albeit with military techniques rather than superpowers. However, they secretly perform experiments on the demons they capture. The big bad of the season is Adam, a cyberdemon built by the Initiative out of parts of other demons. Spike, the vampire, also returns to cause trouble, although his evil plans are thwarted by the Initiative installing a microchip in his brain. Faith wakes up from her coma during the season.

4x02 Living Conditions
    Buffy has a roommate from hell.
4x03 The Harsh Light of Day
    Spike returns, with Harmony (a former cheerleader bimbo turned vampire).
    (Continued in Angel 1x03.)
** 4x04 Fear, Itself
    A fear-demon is about to manifest in a haunted house on Halloween.
4x06 Wild at Heart
    Oz feels animal attraction.
4x07 The Initiative
    Spike is captured by government operatives, and they install a microchip in his brain which causes him to feel intense pain every time he tries to harm a human.
* 4x08 Pangs
    Xander gets syphilis from a dead native-American tribe, Spike comes over for Thanksgiving, and Angel visits town.
    (Continued in Angel 1x08.)
** 4x09 Something Blue
    Spike proposes to Buffy.
**** 4x10 Hush
    Demons steal everyone's voice.
* 4x12 A New Man
    Giles has a bad hangover.
4x17 Superstar
    A superhero saves the world.
4x18 Where the Wild Things Are
    A haunted house forces Buffy and Riley to have sex repeatedly.
4x19 New Moon Rising
    Oz returns to Sunnydale, but Willow's new girlfriend, Tara, is in the way.
*** 4x22 Restless
    Everybody dreams.

End of season: Spike has had a microchip installed in his brain by The Initiative, and is now unable to physically harm humans. He's technically still a soulless monster, but ends up helping the gang (especially since he is able to harm demons and other vampires). Willow's former boyfriend, Oz, has left town for good, and Willow is in a lesbian relationship with fellow wiccan Tara. Anya and Xander are a couple, as are Buffy and Riley. Giles continues as Buffy's mentor, but since Buffy isn't on speaking terms with the Watchers' Council, he officially just runs Magic Box, a genuine magic shop.

Oh, and there was Adam, the demon made in the Initiative laboratory. He killed his maker, Dr. Walsh. The gang performed a spell, using Willow's emerging magical powers, to enjoin all of their strengths into Buffy's body, enabling them to defeat Adam in the form of super-Buffy. Spike, betrayed by Adam, joins the gang and the remaining Initiative forces in mopping up the other demons. The government shuts down the Initiative for good.

    Season 5

Even though Buffy is an only child, suddenly she has a little sister, Dawn, who lives with their mother Joyce. No-one considers this strange, it is as if Dawn has always been there. It turns out that this is because she is the Key, a secret weapon hidden in human form (false memories included) by a secret order of monks, to protect her from an evil goddess, Glory, who is trapped inside the body of Ben, a hospital intern. Needless to say, Glory is the big bad of the season, and as a deity much more powerful than any Buffy has faced before.

Meanwhile Buffy breaks up with Riley, who leaves town to join a new secret government project. Spike, who is still unable to harm humans due to the microchip in his brain, helps the gang more and more, and eventually realises that he is in love with Buffy. Buffy doesn't reciprocate the feelings.

** 5x01 Buffy vs. Dracula
    The vampire celebrity is in town, and makes Xander his butt-monkey.
** 5x05 No Place Like Home
    Dawn's secret is out.
*** 5x07 Fool For Love
    Spike tells of his past.
    (Continued in Angel 2x07!)
** 5x12 Checkpoint
    Buffy turns to the Watcher's Council for help against Glory, but has to taken an exam.
5x14 Crush
    Spike tells Buffy about his feelings for her.
*** 5x16 The Body
    Somebody dies.
* 5x18 Intervention
    Spike has a sex robot.
* 5x20 Spiral
    Glory is now aware of Dawn's identity, and the gang has to flee.
* 5x21 The Weight of the World
    Glory, now holding Dawn captive, prepares for the ritual.
** 5x22 The Gift
    Buffy saves the world. Again.

End of season: Dawn remains part of the family, for everyone (including herself) has memories of Dawn being Buffy's sister, despite knowledge that these were faked by some mystic monks. Spike is now effectively a part of the gang, and struggles with his love for Buffy. Giles is once more the official Watcher, after Buffy basically told the Council to either accept her terms or keep on pretending to be important without a Slayer to watch. Buffy's mother, Joyce, dies in what is possibly the darkest episode of the series (5x14, The Body).

The gang mounts a desperate attack on Glory and her minions. Buffy hammers Glory in the face until she turns back into the human form of Ben, and Buffy spares Ben's life. Meanwhile Glory's creepy minion uses Dawn's blood to open a portal to bring about the apocalypse. The portal can only be closed by Dawn's blood - all of it - but Buffy realises that as her sister she shares the same blood, and sacrifices herself by jumping into the portal. Buffy dies saving the world. Giles murders Ben to prevent Glory from returning. It's all very dark and sad.

    Season 6

Buffy is dead and buried, and Giles returns to his native England. Willow's magic has grown stronger, and the rest of the gang works with her to bring Buffy back from whatever hell dimension they believe she has been sent into. Of course they succeed in doing so, and Buffy rises from her grave (literally). However, she does not seem to be herself anymore.

Xander and Anya become engaged to be married, which scares both. Willow and Tara are together, but Willow's increasingly wanton use of magic is tearing them apart. Spike still has feelings for Buffy, who eventually uses him to forget her own suffering. The gang is occasionally joined by Clem, a semi-good demon.

In contrast to early seasons, this season is mainly about various overarcing plots, so almost every episode is on this list. On the other hand, the "big bad" is just a Trio of geeks the gang used to know back in school: Warren, Jonathan, and Andrew. (Or perhaps the big bad is life itself.)

* 6x01-6x02 The Bargaining
    Buffy: the Resurrection.
** 6x03 After Life
    Buffy adjusts to life after life after death.
6x04 Flooded
    Buffy and Dawn are financially broke after the basement is flooded.
    Giles confronts Willow about the use of dangerous spells.
6x05 Life Serial
    Buffy tries to audit classes Willow and Tara are taking, but the Trio torments her.
* 6x06 All the Way
    Dawn secretly goes on a date on Halloween.
    Willow and Tara fight about Willow's overuse of magic, but Willow magic to erase Tara's memory of the fight.
***** 6x07 Once More With Feeling
    THE MUSICAL EPISODE
    (Do not skip this for any reason!)
*** 6x08 Tabula Rasa
    All is forgotten, but Spike has to flee from a (literal) loan shark.
** 6x09 Smashed
    Willow tries to magic herself a companion.
    Spike discovers that he can hurt Buffy despite his microchip implant, and one thing leads to another between them.
6x10 Wrecked
    Willow's addiction to magic ends up hurting Dawn while Buffy is off having sex with Spike.
** 6x11 Gone
    Buffy's out of sight.
6x12 Doublemeat Palace
    Buffy has to get a job at a burger place to pay the bills.
    Anya's vengeance demon friend, Halfrek, is invited to Anya and Xander's wedding.
6x14 Older and Far Away
    Buffy's birthday has some uninvited guests over, and even the invited ones don't seem to leave.
* 6x16 Hell's Bells
    Anya and Xander's wedding day.
** 6x17 Normal Again
    Buffy hallucinates of being normal. Or maybe she sees the reality for the first time.
* 6x18 Entropy
    Anya, now a demon again, tries to get vengeance on Xander for breaking up with her.
*** 6x19 Seeing Red
    Willow and Tara reconcile, as do Buffy and Xander.
    Buffy fights off a lovelorn Spike (who had sex with Anya previously), Spike leaves town.
    The Trio's plans are thwarted, but with tragic consequences.
6x20 Villains
    Willow fails to magic the murdered Tara back into life, and goes into an evil rage.
    Spike undergoes trials in Africa to restore himself to his former self.
6x21 Two to Go
    Willow, having killed Warren, seeks to finish off the two remaining Trio members.
    The rest of gang pursue Willow with Anya's help.
6x22 Grave
    Darth Willow tries to end the world, while the gang battles her with the aid of Giles.
    Spike's ordeal continues in Africa.

End of Season: Everything is turning out so dark: Tara was murdered just after her reconciliation with Willow, Anya and Xander broke up on their wedding day, Anya became a vengance demon once more, Giles left town, and everyone found out about Buffy and Spike's wild sex, eventually causing Spike to flee to Africa. The Trio of geeks was reduced to two not-so-evil geeks, Jonathan and Andrew, after Willow killed Warren for (accidentally) shooting Tara (although, to be fair, he did intend to kill Buffy instead).

Willow went all crazy in the end while seeking revenge for Tara, and was only prevented from destroying the world by Xander declaring his eternal friendship. Buffy didn't do much slaying this season, instead struggling with her friends wrenching her out of heaven.

    Season 7

The big bad of the final season is The First Evil, given an edge as a side-effect of Buffy's resurrection last season, causing the balance of good and evil to tilt toward the latter. The First is capable of appearing in the ghostly form of any dead person. The First is assisted by an evil cult, the Bringers, lead by a sadistic preacher, Caleb. The cult destroys the Watchers' Council. The First Evil raises an army of powerful ubervampires, Turok-Han, from the Hellmouth.

Buffy gets a job in Sunnydale's rebuilt high school, attended by Dawn. Xander and Anya attempt to reconcile, while Willow is healing emotionally from the death of Tara and her subsequent meltdown. Spike has regained his soul after his African ordeal, but is driven insane by both remorse and the First Evil. The high school principal, Robin Wood, turns out to be the son of a slayer killed by Spike in the past. Faith (the bad girl Slayer from seasons 3 and 4) returns to Sunnydale, now reformed by Angel (in the spin-off series). Andrew, a surviving member of the evil geek Trio from the previous season, also eventually reforms and joins the gang.

"Potential Slayers" are a big part of the plot - the potentials are girls who have the Slayer's powers locked inside, but latent until the death of the previous Slayer.

Despite the dark season 6 and the seemingly undefeatable big bad of season 7, the overall tone for much of the season is more reminescent of the earlier seasons. However, many of the episodes revolve around the main story arc, so this list has most of the episodes once again, i.e., the number of listed episodes does not imply that this is the best season, but rather that you can't skip as many episodes while still being able to understand the rest. 

** 7x01 Lessons
    Sunnydale's new high school opens with Dawn as a student.
    Willow is recovering in England under Giles's supervision.
7x02 Beneath You
    The gang confronts Anya about her continuing work as a vengeance demon.
    Willow departs England for Sunnydale.
    Spike reveals his re-ensoulment to Buffy.
** 7x04 Help
    Buffy, working as a school counselor, helps a girl who predicts her own death.
*** 7x05 Selfless
    Buffy fights the demon Anya.
* 7x06 Him
    Spike becomes a reluctant Xander's reluctant roommate. 
    Buffy and Dawn both have a crush on the same guy.
*** 7x07 Conversations with Dead People
    One night in Sunnydale.
    Andrew and Jonathan (of the former geek Trio) return.
7x08 Sleeper
    Spike is killing humans again, but doesn't seem like himself.
** 7x09 Never Leave Me
    Andrew, guided by the First, tries hard to be evil while coping having murdered Jonathan. The gang interrogates him.
** 7x10 Bring on the Night
    The gang researches the First Evil, now that they know who their adversary is.
    The Ubervamp tortures the imprisoned Spike.
    Giles returns from England, bringing several Potential Slayers with him.
* 7x11 Showtime
    Buffy fights the Ubervamp and rescues Spike.
7x12 Potential
    Buffy trains the Potential Slayers with Spike.
    Willow casts a spell to find more Potential Slayers.
7x13 The Killer in Me
    Kennedy, a Potential Slayer, romances Willow, triggering some magical effects.
    Giles takes the other Potential Slayers on a road trip, but is he really Giles?
    Spike's microchip implant starts acting up.
*** 7x16 Storyteller
    Andrew makes home videos.
** 7x17 Lies My Parents Told Me
    Principal Wood plots with Giles to kill Spike, whom they see as a threat without the microchip.
*** 7x18 Dirty Girls
    Willow returns from re-ensouling Angel (once again) in Los Angeles, and brings Faith (now reformed) with her.
    The gang fights Caleb and the Bringers.
7x19 Empty Places
    Citizens and demons alike flee Sunnydale, which becomes a ghost town.
7x20 Touched
    Faith has taken over as leader of the gang, who no longer trusts Buffy's leadership.
    In preparation for the final battle, various couples find comfort in each other.
* 7x21 End of Days
    Buffy is re-established as the leader and tries to get Dawn out of harm's way.
    Angel brings assistance, making Spike jealous.
*** 7x22 Chosen
    Buffy kills Caleb. Willow uses magic to activate the Potential Slayers.
    An epic final battle ensues.

End of Series: Due to the magic in the last episode, all the Potential Slayers gained their powers, effectively relieving Buffy (and Faith) of their burden. Anya and many of the (formerly Potential) Slayers are slain in the final battle against the First Evil's armies. The amulet brought by Angel is used by Spike to burn all evil vampires. As the hellmouth collapses from the amulet's power, Buffy tells Spike that she loves him, and although he doesn't believe to be true, he thanks her for saying so before being consumed by the amulet. Buffy leaves Sunnydale with the survivors, now free to do anything, as she is no longer the only Slayer.

Surviving main characters from this season include Buffy, Dawn, Willow, Kennedy (now Willow's Girlfriend), Xander, Faith, Principal Wood, Andrew, and Giles.

Season 5 of the spin-off series Angel takes place after Buffy season 7, and has many of the same writers and directors involved. I highly recommend watching it, even if you don't watch the preceding Angel seasons.

    Angel Summary Pre-Season 5

Angel, after moving to Los Angeles (the city of Angels) following Buffy season 3, forms a private detective agency, Angel Investigations, together with Doyle - a half-demon guy with visions from the Powers That Be - and Buffy's former schoolmate Cordelia. Doyle eventually dies, but transfers his visions to Cordelia. The group is then joined by Wesley - Buffy's failed replacement Watcher - and Charles Gunn, a vampire hunter. Later they rescue Winifred "Fred" Burkle, a physicist trapped in another dimension, who also joins Angel Investigations. Another important character is Lorne, a flamboyant demon night club owner who has the ability to foretell people's future, but only when they are singing (leading to some awkward karaoke sessions for Angel and company).

The evil law firm Wolfram and Hart is the main adversary for much of the Angel series. The multidimensional firm is run by ancient demons ("senior partners") behind the scenes, but one of their main lackeys in LA is Lindsey McDonald, a star lawyer.

During the course of the series Angel ends up sleeping with his former vampire fling, Darla, who was brought back to life (as a human) by Lindsey as part of a plot to turn Angel evil again. As a result, they have a son, Connor. Wesley discovers a prophecy that Angel will murder his son, and tries to steal the baby Connor away to save him, but the plan fails and Angel's old adversary, Holtz, steals the baby into another dimension instead. Enraged by Wesley's betrayal, Angel banishes him from the group.

Some time later Connor returns, but is now a teenager due to being raised by Holtz in another dimension where time moves differently. Holtz has himself killed in a way that implicates Angel as the murderer, and Connor takes revenge by burying Angel in the bottom of the ocean. Wesley rescues Angel, and becomes part of the group once more.

The big bad of Angel season 4 is called simply the Beast, released by Jasmine, a power being that is secretly controlling the mind of Cordelia. In order to defeat the beast, the group makes Angel lose his soul again, since his evil self, Angelus, has vital information about it. Jasmine (using the body of Cordelia) frees the evil Angelus, but eventually Faith and Willow (visiting from Buffy) manage to restore his soul once more. Jasmine controls almost everyone's minds, but Angel manages to reveal her true demonic nature to everyone, breaking the spell. Connor then kills Jasmine, revealing that he, too, was controlled by her.

In the end of Angel season 4, Wolfram and Hart - the evil law firm - congratulates Angel and company for preventing world peace (albeit under control of Jasmine), and rewards them by offering them control of the LA branch of the firm. Angel agrees to the deal, in exchange for Connor getting a normal life with a human family, without memory of Angel or any of the events that transpired.

    Angel Season 5

At the start of season 5, Angel and company take control of the formerly evil law firm, Wolfram and Hart, or at least the LA branch thereof. The main cast is soon joined by Spike(!) and Harmony from Buffy, and other Buffy actors appear in individual episodes. Several actors from Joss Whedon's brilliant but tragically short-lived sci-fi series, Firefly, also appear in guest roles throughout the season.

There is no list of suggested episodes for Angel season 5: simply watch the entire season.