| Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Fifth Season (Slim Set) | 
 enlarge | Directors: Christopher Hibler, Daniel Attias, David Grossman, David Solomon, James A. Contner
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Emma Caulfield, Michelle Trachtenberg
Studio: WB Television Network, The
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 744
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Number Of Items: 6
Running Time: 990
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1
MPN: 024543233213
UPC: 024543233213
EAN: 0024543233213
ASIN: B000EHSVM8
Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 1997
Release Date: May 30, 2006
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Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 30-MAY-2006
Media Type: DVD
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 Buffy - Season Five November 10, 2008
Inferior to the first three seasons of Buffy, this season is a slight improvement over season four. Whedon takes Buffy to a more serious level and focuses on the great theme of Sacrificial Love throughout the season spanning story arch. This is a certain buy for all of the Spike fans out there.
 Buffy: Season 5 September 29, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well, I ordered Buffy Season 5, and received Buffy Season 7. I tried getting back to them about it but nothing happened. So now I'm stuck with Season 7. It was sent quickly, but disappointing.
 "We will bring you the limp and beaten body of Bob Barker" August 6, 2008
RELAX...the quote in my review title is straight from Season Five. No actual Bob Barker was harmed during the filming of this review.
As Season Five opens, this show had safely made the full transition from Sunnydale High to the college years, and instead of getting entrenched in "Buffy Hills 90210" petty collegiate fluff, it headed straight into death, loss, and gut-wrenching emotions.
As a season-long central villain, Glory mixes the every-hair-in-place diva obsession of Cordelia with the twisted and consistently disturbing psyche of Drusilla (who returns to find her ex-lover Spike "tired of playing" her kind of games). Glory's "minions" provide fawning comic relief in an otherwise heavy season (one of them is the source of the quote mentioned above). Think "Smithers" from "The Simpsons" in little ogre bodies.
The new "central hub" for meetings is Giles' new business venture, the magic shop. After witnessing the death of the store's umpteenth owner, he sees profit in his future, buys the store, and hires Anya as his cashier (more comic relief). Naturally, it also becomes a favorite visiting place of demons with heavy blunt objects, who inflict thousands of dollars worth of damage on the store and its merchandise as the season progresses.
There's some closure with the characters of Riley and Buffy's mom (hence much of the season's dire weight), as well as the show's writers filling in the blanks on the mystery / backstory of Buffy's little sister Dawn (and her link to Glory).
It would have been extremely easy for the show's creators to play it safe in Season Five by establishing a formula and cranking out tiresome episode after episode. They chose to do the opposite...to take some big risks, to pull out some major surprises, to defy expectations.
There's a significant emphasis on Spike in Season Five, culminating in a "spoiler moment" that comes at the end of Episode 18, "Intervention." As actor James Marsters has mentioned on a number of occasion, Whedon's original plan for the character was to kill him off after his initial appearance. Luckily for the series, they took a sharp left turn and decided to develop Spike into one of the show's most memorable characters.
In the Season Four box set, there's some discussion of the episode "Hush." Apparently someone told creator Joss Whedon that THE reason for the show's success...the SINGLE REASON...was the dialogue between Buffy and the other characters, the verbal interplay. It was shortly after receiving that feedback that Whedon decided to craft an episode that was completely silent after the first few minutes.
I've got to believe that a similar desire to defy expectations and "think outside of the box" went into the production of this season.
Buffy Season 5 July 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this series, I like season five. Glory is a great villian, but so far season six is the all time best!!!
Wonderful! Have you checked out the comic books? July 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a big Buffy and Angel fan, so 5 stars goes without saying. But have you checked out the comic books? Finally season 8 by Joss Whedon!
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