Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Season Six

Season Six
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Season Premiere	October 2, 2001
Season Finale	May 21, 2002
Episode Count	22
Notable Episodes	6x07 - Once More, With Feeling 6x18 - Entropy 6x19 - Seeing Red
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Season Six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the first season of the show to be aired on UPN after the network outbid The WB for the show. This is also the season where the show decided to get much darker and more human, its main storylines straying away from the supernatural.

This season starts off three months after Buffy's death in "The Gift". The Buffybot serves as the replacement to Buffy as Willow works and tinkers with it every single day to ensure that the essence of Buffy never dies. However, unbeknownst to Dawn and Giles, the rest of the Scooby Gang have been hard at work figuring out the perfect time to revive Buffy. This season deals with the aftermath of Buffy's death and eventual resurrection, as well as Willow's continuing bid for power and Xander and Anya's quickly collapsing relationship.

The supernatural aspect of the show once again takes a backseat in this season in favor of the character's lives and how growing older is affecting them all in different ways. Many of the episodes in this season have a focus grounded in reality, including acquiring jobs, paying bills, loving another person, and attempting to gain more influence in society.

The theme that is explored throughout this whole season is reality. As the façade of youth and the supernatural disappears, the characters have to deal with the real world and how they're going to go about continuing to live in it.

Episodes

#	#	Title			Airdate			Prod.
101	1	Bargaining (1)			October 2, 2001			6ABB01
102	2	Bargaining (2)			October 2, 2001			6ABB02
103	3	After Life			October 9, 2001			6ABB03
104	4	Flooded			October 16, 2001			6ABB04
105	5	Life Serial			October 23, 2001			6ABB05
106	6	All the Way			October 30, 2001			6ABB06
107	7	Once More, With Feeling			November 6, 2001			6ABB07
108	8	Tabula Rasa			November 13, 2001			6ABB08
109	9	Smashed			November 20, 2001			6ABB09
110	10	Wrecked			November 27, 2001			6ABB10
111	11	Gone			January 8, 2002			6ABB11
112	12	Doublemeat Palace			January 29, 2002			6ABB12
113	13	Dead Things			February 5, 2002			6ABB13
114	14	Older and Far Away			February 12, 2002			6ABB14
115	15	As You Were			February 26, 2002			6ABB15
116	16	Hell's Bells			March 5, 2002			6ABB16
117	17	Normal Again			March 12, 2002			6ABB17
118	18	Entropy			April 30, 2002			6ABB18
119	19	Seeing Red			May 7, 2002			6ABB19
120	20	Villains			May 14, 2002			6ABB20
121	21	Two to Go (1)			May 21, 2002			6ABB21
122	22	Grave (2)			May 21, 2002			6ABB22