It's these big bads who often get the credit as the best villains in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, though we might not want to sleep on the monsters-of-the-week. You need only look to one of Buffy's perfect episodes, season 4, episode 10, "Hush," for proof. Nor would we want them to be the big bads, because the more we got to know them, the less frightening they would be. The monsters-of-the-week deliver the chills, while the big bads deliver fascinating villainy laced with humanity and incredibly high stakes. So no, the "monsters-of-the-week villains are scarier than the big bads" argument doesn't apply to all monsters-of-the-week in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.