The second part of the Fourth season of Buffy the vampire slayer has held together some of the best episodes the show has ever had. From the breathtaking comeback of Faith in 'This years Girl' and 'Who are you', to the extremely entertaining and imaginative season finale 'Restless'.
Buffy and her new boyfriend Riley become a 'can't take their hands off of each other' couple and we also find out more about Riley and the Initiative, not to mention Buffy joining it herself. Due to this Willow starts to feel slightly 'left out' as Buffy has hardly any time to even talk to her, but she has already found herself a new friend: under the name of Tara.

Willow and Tara met in the first half of season four in an episode called 'Hush' at a Wicca group that disappointed both of them. They become good friends and perform their first spell together in 'Goodbye Iowa', but for an unknown reason Tara mucks it up while they have their eyes closed.

We also find out about a new evil that has been named 'Adam'. He is part-demon, part-human, part-robot. Built together by the Initiative in a secret lab called '314'. Lying on a table, waiting to woken. But his impatience leads him to wake himself and he escapes and kills his main creator, Maggie Walsh in the episode called 'The I team.'

Roll on Season 5

Reviewed by Jack Munnelly
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