Week One -	Buffy Vs Dracula just beat Welcome To The Hellmouth.  I mean, who didn't love the Slay before bedtime and the You think you know, what you are, what's to come?  You haven't even begun.  We just KNOW this season is gonna be good.  I did like The Freshman and especially Sunday.  Why did they have to stake her?  And Anne?  So so.  We got a look at Buffy without Angel and her pulling a major isolation rift like Angel usually does on his show.  It took sixty minutes just to get her back to Sunnydale.  However, it's stupid and unrealistic just to have Buffy back again like everything's bright and shiny and new.  Like Yeah I killed Angel, I brooded by the seaside.  Now I'm back, myseriously accepted back into the school and ready for another season of Slaying.  So Anne was nessecary.
Week Two -	After the cliffhanger at the end of Buffy Vs Dracula, Real Me is a great follow-up through the eyes of Buffy's l'il sis.  We're still confused and none the wiser how she showed up.  I loved Living Conditions - comical superb. The Harvest follows closely behind.  And Dead Mans Party was good for the big Love and Trauma at the end with Joyce and the Scoobies confronting Buffy.  They have no idead what she went through.  However, Anne was sort of a weak start and doesn't guve us any true indication how good season three turns out to be.
Week Three -	This is quite a strong week.  Two superb Spike episodes; School Hard and The Harsh light Of Day.  Witch was enjoyable as a 'filler' episode.  Funny, quirky, only bad point?  No David Boreanaz this week.  Sigh.
Week Four -	I'm not a big fan of Out Of My Mind, the only redeeming thing from this episode was Spike's dream at the end.  I try my best to like Riley.  Up until S4's Goodbye Iowa I did like him but after that he just got right on my ****.  Sorta sick of the Woe Is Me, Buffy Loves Another attitude.  Fear Itself dealt well with abandonment (Of Xander and Buffy).  However with Buffy's Call of The Wild monologue and the revelation Angel has returned a monster, Beauty and The Beasts wins.  It has it's flaws (Like Buffy's kicked harder ass than that freak) but Angel turning back from a beast to wrap himself around Buffy at the end was incredible.  Superb performance from Sarah Michelle Gellar.  Visually stunning.
Week Five -	Beer Bad.  Episode even crapper.  Probably the worst hour of Buffy i've ever sat through.  I have rewatched it, as sometimes this changes my opinion but then I just wasted another hour of my life.  Xander's more involvement is probably the only thing I marginally enjoyed.  Go ahead Buffy, take two episodes to get over jerky Parker but with Angel, do it offscreen in the summer.  Pfft.  I know this annoyed a lot of people.  So the excellent Homecoming tops the group with some considerable competition from No Place like Home.  Reptile Boy - Buffy and Angel finally over the whole Lets-Not-Do-This syndrome?  Yay.  Although, I'm still confused (yes I bite) - what exactly did Buffy mean when she said to Angel 'When you kiss me i want to die.'??? Answers on a email to LJSAngel@supanet.com
Week Six -	NO OZ, NO!  Beautifully poignant episode.  God I was choking.  My whole life, I've never loved anything else...  That's love.  See Spike in Lovers Walk.
Week Seven -	The first real 'OhmiGod' moment in this series - Angel's a vampire.  My ffavourite episode of Season One.  Touching, mysterious and at the end, painful.  Do we know how much we're (or some of us) are gonna care about this pairing?
Week Eight -	Lovers Walk vs. Pangs.  Spike's return and the loss of love for everyone in Lovers Walk pushed it over the edge.  At times, Pang bumbles along but it sets us up for a helluva episode in IWRY over in LA.
Week Nine -	God this was sooo close.  In my opinion Something Blue is not only the best episode in the whole of Season four but one of the funniest episodes in the whole 'verse.  However, The Wish was fantastic.  From the whole A.U. to the Angel meeting a scarred Buffy to the vampire Willow and Xander (Oh yes) and to the moving slo-mo fight at the end with the callous dusting of Xander by Buffy, irony of Oz dusting Willow, Angel dying to save Buffy (nothing's changed there then) and the breaking of Buffy's neck by the Master.  Beautiful episode.  Introduction of Anya also helped it win.  Quick word about the Puppet Show - Loved the play at the end.  "Oh Edipes, Edipes that is all I have called you and all I ever shall call you"  Grin worthy.
Week Ten -	Hush vs Amends vs Nightmares vs Whats My Line Pt 2.  Very strong week.  Hush comes out on top because of the superb quality and great concept of silence.  Loved Nightmares with Buffy as a vampire  -- "Well we better hurry, because I'm getting hungry". Great episode.  Look at the parrellels between this and Restless.  Willow has to sing in S1 and has to act in S4 (Althought the play is a metaphor for her sexuality). Amends is a visually terrific and heart tugging B/A episode with sweet dream/sex sequences.  Angel again tries to kill himself for Buffy.  Damn.
Week Eleven -	I thought Triangle brought some relationships to a certain point - Willow/Anya, provided the all important Hammer and was quite funny -- "Can it be babies?" Out of Mind, Out of Sight was very thought provoking using another metaphor and helping bring Cordy into the Buffy world a bit more. Love her -- "Hang out with that social leper colony?".  Spike saved Doomed from awfulness, and his Hawaiian shirt. Ted boasting a great guest star John Ritter but Gingerbread wins for the concept - Books are evil, Witch Hunt etc.  Well handled issue with good jokes
Week Twelve -	Prophecy Girl, the season one finale showing Buffy is a human being.  She doesn't want to die at 16.  I can watch this episode over and over for the scene where she finds out -- "Does it say how he kills me?  Do you think it'll hurt?"  and the part where she's hurling the books at Giles -- "Read me the signs!  Tell me my fortune!"  So powerful.  Helpless comes close because this actually humanises Buffy.  Being normal.  As much as she resents being the Slayer, she doesn't *want* a normal life.  She needs to be able to fight the big bad.  And also for the beautiful B/A scene.  Charactization is flawed in this ep.  Buffy/Giles and why didn't Angel walk her home?
Week Thirteen -	When i say that Surprise just beats Blood Ties I mean by a really short length.  Surprise is a beautiful episode centered around Buffy and Angel and results in the best evil vampire ever in the BuffyVerse (you know I mean Angelus).  Blood Ties boasted an AMAZING performance from Michelle Tractenberg.  My god this girl is good.  The climax in the hospital with Glory (by the ever excellent Clare Kramer) with Buffy and Dawn having a 'blood brothers' moment is pivotal to The Gift.  How would you expect to react if you were told you weren't even real and none of your memories happened?  The I in Team showed us where we stand with the Initiative with a great finish.  The Zeppo was a great Xander episode but you have to get the joke to get the episode.  Dear God, get this joke because man, it rules.
Week Fourteen -	Crush just beat Innocence.  Spike and too many women... Buffy, Dru, Harmony, Dawn.. Wait.. DAWN?!  Yup.  The weirdest of the weird lurve triangles.  Spike-Buffy-Dawn.  Can I have an eww?  Innoncence wasn't as beautiful and tantalising as Surprise but Angelus?  My God he's hot.  Let's see those leather pants...
Week Fifteen -	Love Faith back.  First of four Faith episodes on both shows.  I get wicked rowdy watching these.
Week Sixteen -	The Body.  Enough said.  Although in my opinion this is the strongest week.  I rate everyone of these episode in at least the top three of the season. BB&B is  incredibly funny and love the bit with Xander and Co at the Bronze.  "It's beautiful.. thank you.. I wanna break up."  Doppelgangland.  I love the scene where the gang is mourning Willow.  "She was truly the best of all of us"-Giles. "Way better than me."- Xander "Yes. Much better."- Giles
Week Seventeen -	Forever-  Angel back and the Buffy/Dawn fight and cry session at the end sold me on this.  I *LOVE* every one of these episodes.  But the end of Forever was incredible.
Week Eighteen -	Intervention - That ending.  I'm not pro B/S though I'm way pro-Spike but that was stunning.  Very funny.  "I'm not having sex with Spike - though I'm starting to think you might be!"
Week Nineteen -	IOHEFY was the episode that sold Joss on the idea of ANGEL: the series.  Highily enjoyable.  We've got Angelus and B/A mush all in one epsiode.  Throw in a little angst and smoochies and bring to boil
Week Twenty -	As much as I enjoyed the Riley ass kicking, The Prom remains ever watchable and lump-in-the-throat and buckets of tears stuff.  Angst rather than TYF's sickly "I'm so in love with you i can't think staright".  I know a lot of B/A shippers who tolerated Riley until this ep.
Week Twenty One -	Becoming Pt. One was a major Angel telling of history episode.  Moving, slick, and well paced setting us up for the emotion of Becoming Pt.2.  And Kendra!  Blub! Graduation Day Pt. 1 was so close as well with Faith shooting Angel and Willow and Oz panicking.
Week Twenty Two-	They were all so close but it's the last ten minutes of The Gift that makes it win.  For the record, I would rate it 1-The Gift, 2- Becoming Part 2, 3-Graduation Day part 2 and 4-Restless.  Not that it matters because they are all on par with each other.