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| TV,
Justin Harries,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F5
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Physical displays of violence in television have certainly come a long way. I remember the days of making do as B.A. Baracas hurled yet another slow motion bad guy over the camera, but here, a whole new plethora of body mashing is opened up.
Yes, Buffy has returned and as this is the season premiere, there’s been no skimping on the scrapping. After the rather depressing finale of last season, Buffy has gone into hiding in the big bad city, only to find her need to disappear from everything she knew subtly reflected back as eternal slave labour in an alter-dimensional work camp. Of course, when Buffy realises that spending the rest of her life as such would suck, she learns that you can never truly escape from yourself, which she proves when she kicks several shades of shit out of the camp guards (not that the guards were particularly camp as suchÂ….).
Buffy the series is suprisingly good at mixing emotional content with monster trashing (but then, how many series can you say that about?) A lot of this is dependent on the cast and as this is a pretty much stand-alone episode, Sarah Michelle Geller does well communicating the loss and hurt of her character. Also adept at exploring the landscape of hurt were the guards, especially the one who got an axe in the face. Enjoy.
Sky One Fridays 20.00 BST
The WB Tues 20.00 ET/PT
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