Re-Watcher's Council | Buffy the Vampire Slayer S5E21 "The Weight of the World" Spoiler Review

Dawn is gone. Glory has won. And Buffy Summers — the Slayer, the one who always gets back up — is just... gone too.This week on Re-Watcher's Council we're covering "The Weight of the World," the penultimate episode of Season 5, and it is a quieter kind of devastating. With Buffy catatonic from the shock of losing Dawn, Willow takes it upon herself to dive into Buffy's mind and pull her back — and what she finds there is a fascinating, heartbreaking look at the guilt eating Buffy alive. Meanwhile Spike and Xander track down Doc for information, Glory and Ben's increasingly unstable coexistence reaches a breaking point, and Giles says the thing nobody wants to hear out loud: maybe the only way to stop Glory is to kill Dawn.We're unpacking Willow's journey through Buffy's subconscious, what the looping memory sequence tells us about Buffy's psychology, the brilliant chaos of Glory and Ben fighting for dominance, and how this episode does the incredibly hard work of setting up a finale that has to pay off an entire season's worth of grief, loss, and impossible choices.One episode left. We are not ready. Are you?