Top 10 Episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer

8. Fool for Love (5×07)

I think that Season 5 of Buffy was its greatest season.  I felt Glory was a superb villain, and it had Buffy deal with her own mortality.  The episode starts with Buffy getting wounded after fighting a vampire which causes her and Giles to research the death of previous slayers.  They are not successful at it and she remembers that Spike (James Marsters) has at least killed two slayers.

This is a great mythology episode as it delves in Spike’s life before becoming a vampire.  I feel the B-storyline  doesn’t fit with the rest of the episode,  but the Buffy and Spike’s storyline is epic.  I found it very interesting to hear that Spike is one of the only vampires to actively seek out slayers to fight for thrills, which makes sense considering that’s exactly what he’s doing back in his first appearance in “School Hard”.  The end of the episode doesn’t feel heavy-handed either.  Buffy insults Spike, which causes him to snap and he seeks her out to shoot her with a shotgun.  When he sees her crying over her mother’s health, he consoles her, which sets up their relationship for the rest of the series.