Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Homecoming (1998)
Season 3, Episode 5
Slayerfest 98
1 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Homecoming deals with Buffy missing her old life as popular girl and wants to reclaim her crown by winning the home coming queen award. Cordelia feeling like she is stepping on her territory wages her own campaign against her causing friction within the group causing them to set up a rise to get them together and evil sets out to kill both slayers. The episode is great at humor as both girls wage war against one another by posting pics over each other's faces, flirting with the guys and trading insults. I found it sweet how the team care so much about their friends they spring for a limo to get their friends to make up or play favorites and treat each other the same through out the competition. Buffy may have befriended them longer and been nice yet once your apart of the circle your in no matter your history.

On a side note I love the idea of Slayerfest yet it feels like a retread of what's my line using different assassins to try and take out the two slayers just set in a new location. Still it does have it's perks as Cordy toughens up to help her take them on by figuring out the corsage has a tracking device inside of them and even stakes a vampire about to bite her. I find it heroic & hilarious how she uses her personality to scare off the feared Lyle Gorch instead of him making her into a snack showing the champion inside.
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