‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Episodes Ranked

James Marsters as Spike in ‘Fool for Love,’ Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Nov. 2000)

I don’t necessarily agree with this Louis Peiztman’s list on BuzzFeed, but I admire his tenacity. It takes a lot of time, effort, and hardcore “fanage” to rank all 144 episodes of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’ Seriously there were like seven seasons on two different networks. So I have to give props to him where props are due.

Peiztman’s favorite episode is ‘Becoming’ Part 1 and 2. I guess this is where reasonable people can disagree. We are all going to have different favorites. Unfortunately, some of my favorites were at the bottom of his very long list, but moving on…  I do acknowledge that watching Buffy stab Angelus (Angel without a soul), push him into the hellmouth, all the while he receives his soul back becomes puppy-dog eyed Angel again was good television, especially in the late 90s.

However, my favorite episode is the more upbeat, ‘Fool for Love.‘ You can see a great review of my favorite episode here. And lest we forget the main ingredient of this episode was the incredible James Marsters as Spike. In this episode Spike challenges Buffy by telling her that she enjoys killing…just… a… little…too…much. Oh before Spike became Billy Idol’s vampiric twin, he was a sweet-natured, brown-haired, dowdy poet.

What is your favorite Buffy episode? See where it ranks. Check out Peiztman’s list here.