Despite the fact that Cordelia is dating Xander, she still thinks he is super annoying and geeky which she has no problem expressing to him at every turn. And not afraid of doing it publicly. So this episode she goes so far as to break up with him because the popular girls don't want to hang out with her anymore because she is dating such a geek. Cut to Amy, a beginner teen witch that Mark had to remind me we met in the first season (because as you guys know I have a very bad short term memory. And long term memory actually also). Anyway he enlists the help of Amy to cast a spell to make Cordelia love him more, but since Amy is a just a beginning witch she botches the spell and instead it turns out every woman in Sunnydale EXCEPT for Cordelia falls madly in love with him, including Buffy and Willow which leads to some awkward moments. The women of Sunnydale are so obsessed with him that his life is actually in danger because these women would rather see him dead that see him with someone else. But Giles saves the day in the nick of time, he helps Amy reverse the spell just as the women of Sunnydale are closing in, and all's well that ends well. In a way the backfired spell actually works because it makes Cordelia realize that she actually likes Xander. At the end of the episode she ends up telling off the popular girls she had been trying to coddle to fuck off because they make fun of Xander.
Mark here... Laurel did a great job of summing up the episode. It was certainly a fun and inoffensive episode, but a little blah. I think we got distracted a few times after we saw where it was going. Yeah, Xander casts a love spell which includes Joyce and Drusilla. So there's some humor there. It's nice to see Amy again, I can't remember if we've seen her since her appearance last season, but I think not much if so. We find out she's still dabbling in witchcraft.
We'd give this episode 2 stakes....not terrible but a little predictable.
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