Summary: The macabre adventures of Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her Sunnydale comrades continue. This collection includes all 22 episodes of the third season, which introduces Faith (Eliza Dushku) and features the departure of Angel (David Boreanaz) and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter). Episodes include "Anne, " "Dead Man's Party," "Beauty and the Beasts," "Revelations," "Gingerbread," "The Zeppo," "Doppelgangland," "The Prom," and many more.

The macabre adventures of Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her Sunnydale comrades continue. This collection includes all 22 episodes of the third season, which introduces Faith (Eliza Dushku) and features the departure of Angel (David Boreanaz) and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter). Episodes include Anne, Dead Man's Party, Beauty and the Beasts, Revelations, Gingerbread, The Zeppo, Doppelgangland, The Prom, and many more.

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Action-packed Season Three develops major characters and plot lines brewing over the last couple of years. The Mayor, this season's major baddie, wants to become an invincible demon by slaughtering everyone at Sunnydale High's graduation ceremony but he's going to torture them all by giving his speech first. Bad-girl vampire-slayer Faith wants to get one over on Buffy and becomes even more rotten. Angel comes back from hell but isn't sure what to do about his girlfriend. Willow meets her evil gay vampire duplicate from another dimension. Xander loses his virginity but still has to contemplate his essential uselessness. Cordelia gets less whiny and has to work in a dress-shop when her father becomes bankrupt. Giles wears tweed and drinks tea, though it is revealed that he used to be a warlock and in a punk band. Besides the soap opera, there are monsters, curses and vampires (inevitably). --Kim Newman

On the DVD: The DVDs are presented in a standard television 4:3 picture ratio and in a clear Dolby sound that does full justice both to the sparkling dialogue and to the always impressive indie-rock and orchestral scores. Special features include an overview of Season Three by its creator Joss Whedon, and by writers Marti Noxon, David Fury, Doug Petrie and Jane Espenson and documentaries on the weapons, clothes special effects of the show and the speech/verbal tone which makes it what it is-"Buffyspeak". The episodes "Helpless", "Bad Girls", "Consequences" and "Earshot" have commentaries by, Fury, Petrie, director James Gershman and Espenson, in which we find out some fascinating details about the way the scripts mutate and about the particular illuminations added to scripts by actors' performances. After complaints about the Season 2 DVD packaging, the disc envelopes include a protective coating. --Roz Kaveney

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Featurettes - 1. Season 3 Overview, 2. Buffy Speak, 3. Special Effects, 4. Wardrobe, 5. Weapons, Audio Commentaries, Scene Selection, Interactive Menus, Photo Gallery, Shooting Scripts, Biographies - 1. Cast
Year:	1998
Release Date:	October 29, 2001
Runtime:	935 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	22813 D V D
Keywords:	Season, Collection, General, Three, Vampire, Slayer, Horror, Buffy, Occult, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult