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Elated with having Buffy back from the dead, her friends never wonder if she may have been in a better place. Only Spike knows the truth and as Buffy struggles to readjust to life, she begins a relationship with Spike that torments her as much as it brings her fleeting comfort. Yet even as Buffy fears that the magic that brought her back has somehow changed her, Willow's growing reliance on magic is an addiction she can barely control - and one that threatens everyone.

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The sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer followed the logic of plot and character development into some gloomy places. The year begins with Buffy being raised from the dead by the friends who miss her, but who fail to understand that a sacrifice taken back is a sacrifice negated. Dragged out of what she believes to have been heavenly bliss, she finds herself "going through the motions" and entering into a relationship with the evil, besotted vampire Spike just to force her emotions. Willow becomes ever more caught up in the temptations of magic; Xander and Anya move towards marriage without ever discussing their reservations; Giles feels he is standing in the way of Buffy's adult independence; Dawn feels neglected. What none of them need is a menace that is, at this point, simply annoying--three high school contemporaries who have turned their hand to magical and high-tech villainy. Added to this is a hungry ghost, an invisibility ray, an amnesia spell and a song-and-dance demon (who acts as rationale for the incomparable musical episode "Once More, with Feeling").

This is a year in which chickens come home to roost: everything from the villainy of the three geeks to Xander's doubts about marriage come to a head, often--as in the case of the impressive wedding episode--through wildly dark humor. The estrangement of the characters from each other--a well-observed portrait of what happens to college pals in their early 20s--comes to a shocking head with the death of a major character and that death's apocalyptic consequences. The series ends on a consoling note which it has, by that point and in spite of imperfections, entirely earned. --Roz Kaveney

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1, 1.78:1
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.5 x 1.75 inches; 4 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Bill L. Norton, David Fury, David Grossman, David Solomon, Douglas Petrie
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Full Screen, Subtitled, Box set, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Dubbed
Run time ‏ : ‎ 16 hours and 30 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ May 25, 2004
Actors ‏ : ‎ Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Emma Caulfield, Michelle Trachtenberg, James Marsters
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Studio ‏ : ‎ 20th Century Fox
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000DANYD
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 6

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Buffy and the Scoobies learn the real world is very harsh

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 4, 2004

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When I first watched the sixth season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" I pretty much took it for granted that this was the weakest season of Joss Whedon's creation (the second is still the best for me). But as I watched it again on DVD I found that even if it is indeed a weak season by "BtVS" standards it still ends up being worth 5 stars. The weakest Big Bads in the show's history give way in the final episodes to the biggest surprise Big Bad since Angeleus. You have to get bonus points for not seeing that one coming (although you can clearly see how it was set up from the first episode when you watch it again). Besides, just tally up the surprises that come at the end of the season, specifically in terms of what happens at Xander and Anya's wedding at the end of "Hell's Bells," to Buffy at the end of "Normal Again," to Tara at the end of "Seeing Red," to Warren at the end of "Villains," with Giles at the end of "Two to Go," and with Dawn, Xander, and Spike at the end of "Grave."
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Sixth Season" is about leaving childish things behind and taking on responsibility in the adult world, which explains both why Buffy is working at the "DoubleMeat Palace" (the only "BtVS" episode to lose sponsors when fast food restaurants were offended) and why the Big Bads for the season are the Nerds (Flooded), who are still very much into playing with their toys. The doctor (Michael Warren) in "Normal Again" is on target when he talks about how lame these guys are compared to the Master, the Mayor, and Glory, but they are the perfect flip side to the major themes of the season. Xander and Anya have convinced themselves that they are ready for the next step and announce their engagement ("Life Serial") while Buffy and begins a destructive intimate relationship with Spike ("Smashed" & "Wrecked") and Dawn is having major abandonment issues ("Older and Far Away").
With Anthony Stewart Head departing the cast it was nice to see Alyson Hannigan get the final spot in the credits, and I was looking forward to seeing Willow continue to build on the power and position she assumed at the end of the previous season. She looks to be on track when she succeeds in bringing Buffy back from the dead in "Bargaining, Part I," but Giles points out the danger ("Flooded") and Willow uses magic to fix her relationship with Tara ("All the Way"). When the couple break up ("Tabula Rasa") Willow goes off the deep end and hits bottom ("Smashed"), which only sets up the tragic end game of the season. As Willow treads the Wicca path to the dark side Buffy has to deal with the consequences of crawling out of her grave ("Bargaining, Part 2") and finding herself living in hell on earth ("After Life").
When Buffy died at the end of the fifth season her tombstone reminded us that we "she saved the world...a lot," and one of the biggest ironies of the sixth season is that this time somebody else gets to do it. On the downside for the season it does have the weakest Halloween ("All the Way") and Buffy birthday ("Older and Far Away") episodes of all time, both of which deal with Dawn in her major whining period, but on the plus side we have the stellar musical episode "Once More With Feeling" courtesy of Joss Whedon and the prime comedic moments of Buffy trying to sell a mummy's paw at the Magic Box ("Life Serial"), Joan the Vampire Slayer ("Tabula Rasa") and a fight between invisible people ("Gone"). But overall things are clearly a lot darker this season, which is appropriate since it is not a lot of fun out there in the big bad world. Joyce is dead, Giles has gone back to England, and Buffy and the Scoobies have to grow up, whether they want to or not.
Overall, the two performers who stand out most for me in the cast for this season are Amber Benson and James Marsters. Benson not only has memorable moments on her rollercoaster relationship with Willow, but similar scenes with Buffy and Dawn. Marsters contiues to provide shadings on Spike's feelings for the Slayer, although often his moments with Dawn are the most real. This is not to slight Sarah Michelle Gellar's acting because she is still one of the best weepers on television and her comic timing has improved tremendously. However, notice at the end of the opening credits the final shot is not of Buffy but of the Buffy Bot.
If I had any questions about what ranking to give this DVD the extras would certainly settle the issue. On Disc 2 with "Once More With Feeling" there is an Academy of Television Arts and Sciences panel discussion featuring pretty much everybody (Gellar the notable no show), David Fury's video diary giving us a behind the scenes look at the musical, three "karoke" numbers that are really sing alongs (the original voices are still there) and there is also an Eager egg in the Subtitles menu for the musical. On Disc 6 there is the excellent 30-minute "Life is the Big Bad: Season Six Overview," a 43-minute television documentary "Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Television with a Bite," and a few outtakes (Gellar avoids showing up here too).
In terms of the commentary tracks Whedon shines as always on "Once More with Feeling," and we get good efforts from Marti Noxon and David Fury on "Bargaining" and Drew Z. Greenberg on "Smashed." But Rick Rosenthal and Diego Gutierrez on "Normal Again" and James Conter and Fury on "Grave" tend to get caught up with watching, and David Soloman and Rebecca Rand Kirshner on "Hell's Bells" are too busy making jokes to offer much insight.

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Robert W. Moore

A stunning year in which Buffy explores her dark pages

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2003

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Seasons One through Five of Buffy were very close to universally enjoyable: to see them was to love them. Many erstwhile Buffy fans, on the other hand, dislike season Six. Having died at the end of Season Five, Buffy's friends resurrect her at the beginning of the season, and the recurring question is: Did she come back "right"? In Seasons One through Five, the monsters Buffy and the Scooby Gang are all external, but in Season Six, although there is a relatively minor threat posed by the dorky would-be villains Warren, Jonathan, and Andrew, all the genuine monsters are internal. Traumatized by her unexpected removal from what she suspects was heaven, Buffy spends the entire season exploring her own dark pages.
Many Buffy fans (including my daughter) were uncomfortable with the darkness, with Buffy's self-destructive behavior, with her less-than-heroic behavior. But I loved this season as much as any. It is a different Buffy, an older Buffy, a Buffy who struggles with life's everyday problems, not always successfully. If the first three seasons was high school Buffy, and the fourth and fifth seasons were college Buffy, then the sixth season was adult Buffy. I haven't conducted a scientific survey, but I have a very strong suspicion that this season appeals far more strongly to Buffy's older viewers. Younger fans may not feel as acutely Buffy's dilemmas about whether to pay the phone bill or the electric bill, how to placate a social worker to keep Dawn from becoming a ward of the state, or her struggle to see past a sea of petty problems to regain a glimpse of the grander scheme of things, but most adults will.
Not only Buffy, but all of the Scooby's go to some very dark places. Dawn struggles with a serious shoplifting problem. Willow becomes more and more dependent upon magic, to the point of addiction. Xander leaves Anya at the altar, leaving their relationship in shambles and wrecking both of their lives. Giles senses that he is in the way of Buffy's growing up, and with great reluctance decides to leave and return to England. Spike becomes more and more obsessed with Buffy, and after their brief but enormously self-destructive affair, attempts to rape her and leaves Sunnydale to change radically his entire existence (and as we learn in Season Seven, he succeeds). Tara, troubled by Willow's growing dependence on magic, leaves her, and shortly after reconciling with her, is accidentally killed, sparking Willow's emotional and spiritual breakdown. The season, however, ends on a note of hope. Although Willow comes excruciatingly close to destroying the planet out of her agony at Tara's death, she is diverted by Xander's love and friendship. Although Buffy has spent the year struggling with rediscovering a desire to live, at the end of the season she decides that she does, and expresses to Dawn a desire to show her many of the things that makes life important. Spike finds a salvation that quite nearly drives him insane, in being granted a soul by after surviving a series of trials. Only Anya ends the season in an unbearable place.
Despite the darkness of the season as a whole, there are nonetheless many spectacular moments and some hysterically funny ones. The highpoint of the season is unquestionably the seventh episode, the justly celebrated musical "Once More, With Feeling." Many television shows have attempted musical versions of the show, but none have even remotely approached the excellence of this episode. The songs are all at least good, and some are quite good indeed. All the performers do their own singing. Sarah Michelle Gellar does a pretty decent job singing her songs, but several display excellent voices, especially Anthony Head (Giles), James Marsters (Spike), and Amber Benson (Tara). Dawn sings lightly, but demonstrates some surprising dance ability, obviously the result of some formal training. The brilliance of the episode isn't merely the competent musical numbers, but the fact that each one carries the plot forward far more effectively than a nonmusical show would have. We learn that all are under the spell of a musical demon, played brilliantly by Broadway song and dance man Hinton Battle (the Scarecrow in the original stage version of THE WIZ), and must reveal their deepest feelings in song.
The episode that follows "Once More, With Feeling" is "Tabla Rasa," arguably the funniest in all of Buffy. A spell that Willow casts goes awry, and all the gang while at the Magic Box temporarily lose their memories, including their memories of one another and their own identity. The scene where all awake, trying to figure out who they all are, is hysterical, especially Spike's realization that he, like Giles, is a "Nancy boy" and their conclusion that he must be Giles's son "Randy" (deducted from a label in the coat he is wearing). Buffy tellingly decides that her name must be "Joan" (with obvious overtones of another great female hero, Joan of Arc), and discovers that she must be a superhero because she is "wicked strong."
The season as a whole has both many terrifying moments and many funny ones. Buff's appearing in her Doublemeat Palace fast-food uniform combines both. Willow's apotheosis as the darkest of evil sorceresses in the final episodes is very nearly overwhelming, and is completely evil when, after skinning Warren alive for having killed Tara, she looks at her friends before going off to complete her revenge against Jonathan and Andrew and says, "Two to go."

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Ron Hubbard

This Is The Last Season

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2022

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And I can't say too much without giving away a fantastic jaw dropping ending to the series. The First Evil is back with an army of vampires that even all the other vampires fear. Can Buffy and gang defeat it? Who will survive, and who will die in the final battle? Get season six and be utterly amazed!

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A. W. Wilson

BUFFY SEASON 6 DVD

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 26, 2021

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The DVD is fine. Good picture sound and subtitles with extras as ever. But...What have the writers done to our Scooby's? Dour, deprssing storylines. A Buffy who is permantly unhappy (not surprising really!!!) The introduction of the 3 idiots who, we are told present a real danger to "the world" yet look icapable of wiping their own..... Of course it isn't all bad. Willow is deveoping into something scary. (Tara is still soft though). Michelle Trachtenberg is developing nicely, and it is good to see Giles back. Anya and Xander are funny, and, last, but not least...Spike is beginning to rule the roost. Hit and miss episodes, but after series 1-5 this is a disapointment

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Mr. L. R. BUXTON

Brilliant Buffy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 16, 2013

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Spoiler alert...

Buffy is arguably the funniest, sharpest-written, best-cast, most consistently well-acted, best blend of comedy, drama, horror and farce you will ever see. Across its 7 seasons it raised the bar to an extraordinary level, which even Joss Whedon's sister show (or should that be brother show) Angel struggled to match throughout its own successful 5 season run.

This, season 6, was bought to complete my set after my 'old' discs started to play up. It's one of the darkest, sitting in the run between the suddenly sober season 5 (where poor Buffy lost her Mum, gained a sister (to the annoyance of much of the fanbase ) and the elegy-like season 7. Here, Buffy battles not so much external enemies (like the simple but terrifyingly powerful, diva-like Glory in season 5, and the equally unstoppable and equally merciless natural causes ) but her own darker impulses and those of her friends, making it arguably the series' most introspective and 'internal' season. Unlike the bright, blinding but harsh sunlight that permeated season 5, season 6 mostly takes place in the dark, with previously much-loved characters turning on each other in shocking ways. Xander, for so long the willing butt of the jokes, suddenly has cold feet about his wedding, which threatens to completely shatter a happy and unsuspecting Anya. Willow's love of the power and respect that comes from her magic use, finds herself unable to stop, threatening the people she loves and most of all her relationship with the loyal, responsible and concerned Tara. Giles departs for England at arguably the worst possible moment, leaving those who always looked to him for advice and wisdom rather lost. Dawn, Buffy's sister, while mostly free of the danger she experienced last season, feels neglected. And then of course there's Buffy herself, unwillingly brought back from the dead into a world where she has to once again thanklessly fight evil, delving into a self-destructive and miserable relationship with a still-soulless Spike simply in order to feel, and worst of all having to work endless double-shifts in a fast food joint, just to keep a roof over her sister and herself.

Despite all this though it's still Buffy, one of the wittiest series to hit TV, and of course there are moments of light amid the darkness - personally I found more to laugh at in the 1st half of season 6 that all of season 5 put together. The Trio, for instance - robot-designer Warren who Buffy clashed with in season 5, shy wannabe illusionist Jonathan (familiar to long-term fans as a recurring character), and weak-willed Andrew ('the other one') seem to be almost a parody of a set of camp, technology-obsessed geeks who are out of their depth acting as 'arch-nemesises' to Buffy. But when a shocking accident happens later on in s6, things get very dark indeed - expect bloodshed of several characters, and a heartrending but oddly cathartic conclusion where 1 much-loved central character finally embraces their grace, 1 finally embraces life, and 1 - well - that would be telling!

My advice? Buy s1 to s7, watch them in order (as i did) and experience a brilliant show with depth, themes, story arcs mixed with great one-offs, and enjoy. Lots!

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Trevor Willsmer

Going through the motions

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 24, 2012

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Challenging, ambitious, courageous, daring and not particularly good, the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a curious paradox, boasting some of the most quotable dialogue (the supergeek supervillains argument over the best Bond, Spike's every other line) and one of the most fondly remembered episodes but never being able to shake the feeling that they really should have left the gal and the show in their grave. There are some intriguingly dark ideas - torn out of Heaven by her friends, Buffy spends much of the season trying to come to terms with being brought back to a life of fear, loss and uncertainty while the leader of the initially comic geek trio displays an ugly undercurrent of misogyny - but too many episodes are just lazy. Always boasting smart writing, the temptation at times veers to settle for smartass, only just dodging the bullet. Not only is the fun gone, but the often unremittingly joyless tone of the season ensures that none of the intended dramatic highs stand out - when everything is one-note miserable, what's another crisis more or less? There's not even much slaying going on as it piles on more soap opera angst, turning it into a veritable Sunnydale 90210. There's little of the real emotional power that enabled some of the supporting players to show their strengths as actors here: they have character arcs, many of them interesting, but it can't shake the feeling that they've been doing this too long to really be enthused by it. And yet it has one of the smartest episodes - Once More With Feeling, where creator Joss Whedon almost seems to turn the show into a mirror on conflicting emotions to its return with songs like Going Through the Motions. Still, it rallies for the finale, though.

Decent but insubstantial extras on the boxed set, but once again the UK set is cropped widescreen rather than (as per the US edition) the original fullframe.

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Beanie Luck

Irritating

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 13, 2014

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I have recently decided to watch Buffy again from the beginning, this to me is the most irritating season of them all.

Buffy and Spike, WIllow and her whining cold turkey, Dawn screaming all the time get out get out get out, Xander and Anya almost wedding, oh and Giles leaving, the monsters were pants and worst of all are the arch nemisises their words not mine of the 3 amigos being warren, andrew and johnathon.

Once more with feeling was however brilliant and the arrival of Dark Willow kicked total butt, however for me this is the weakest Season.

I like Spike, i just dont like Spike with Buffy.

I was glad when the season was over.

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"thomps2001"

'Life is the Big Bad'

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 23, 2003

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This is the season of Buffy where our heroes (and the audience) are put through the emotional wringer. The main theme is addiction, and we are taken to some pretty dark places by the end of season finale.
Whilst the show has never been afraid of tackling controversial issues, and has always prided itself on being prepared to sacrifice a major character if it's in keeping with the story, this is much bleaker than the usual Buffy. There are some genuinely shocking and disturbing scenes which still resonate long after you have finished watching.
This was the direction the show needed to move in, and with an outstanding ensemble cast and such good quality writers involved it is handled well. Even in its darkest places Buffy is never less than entertaining and there is still plenty of the trademark humour to be found.
The DVD itself is very nicely presented and there are plenty of extras to enjoy.
Overall, if you like Buffy you'll be buying this anyway, so enjoy. It is also worth considering if you are used to watching the edited version of the show on tv as it really needs to be seen uncut to appreciate it properly.

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