The Ultimate Ranking of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes

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We are the Redundant Pundits! We're just two siblings who have complicated feelings about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Joss Whedon's work in general. (Don't we all?)
We were going through various articles written by people claiming to rank the best episodes of BTVS, and to our shock, they were all wrong! So we embarked on a nearly two-year quest to rewatch BTVS and re-rank all the episodes. Painstakingly. Scientifically. Accurately.*


R is the resident Buffy expert, having seen the entire show at least a dozen times. She's also our makeup/SFX/costume expert, dog appreciator, and Anya stan.
J has only watched the show once before this project. They're our person who yells "CINEMA" at cool shots, spreadsheet/website master, and Spike disliker.






*To be clear: this, like any ranking, is our opinion. There are 5.5x10249 possible rankings of the 144 episodes of this show, and not a single one is "correct" because it's ultimately the list-maker's opinion of what constitutes "good" and "bad" that defines the list.