Buffy Season One Episode Six

This was the hyena episode. Thought the first half worked very well, with the cool guys walking the line between being normal bullies and being ferocious beasts. Something of a star turn for Nicholas Brandon; he gets to use his dark good looks for actual darkness. Ramps up the latent confidence that you know is in Xander if he's only able to access it. Also gives a sense of why Xander might not want to access it, why he might not want to be a handsome swaggering teen. Episode gets less interesting as the smirking teens become merely hungry animals, but that is what has to happen, I suppose.