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Amazon.co.uk Review
The opening episode of Buffy's Fifth Season, "Buffy vs Dracula", is not just a crowd-pleasing inter-textual slugfest but also a signal that we will be spending time with illusion and the truth it sometimes conceals, sometimes presents. And suddenly Buffy has a younger sister, has always had a younger sister ... Michelle Trachtenberg as the moody, gawky Dawn achieves the considerable triumph of walking into an established stock company of well-known characters--Xander, Willow, Giles and so on--with the perfect assurance of a long-term member of the cast. Of course, nothing is as it seems; even Glory, the mad brain-sucking beauty in a red dress who is the villain of the year, turns out to be even more than she seems. Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy manages to convey heartbreak, self-involvement and real heroism as her relationship with her emotionally dense soldier boyfriend Riley hits the shoals and the blonde much-cheekboned vampire Spike starts to show an altogether inappropriate interest. In sidebars from the main plot--Dawn and her nemesis Glory--we see Xander cope with a cool sinister double, learn the true identity of Willow's lover Tara and uncover Spike's embarrassing pre-vampire past. Any doubts about this brilliant show's capacity to sustain itself are dissipated by this firecracker of a season. --Roz Kaveney
Synopsis
More adventures of a demon kind with Buffy. The episodes include 'Buffy vs Dracula', 'Real Me', 'The Replacement', 'Out Of My Mind', 'No Place Like Home', 'Family', 'Fool For Love', 'Shadow', 'Listening To Fear', 'Into The Woods' and 'Triangle'.