A Buffy the Vampire Slayer rewatch podcast. Join Steph and Kara as they recap and review every episode from the beginning. This podcast is spoiler-free and friendly to first-time watchers.
Episodes
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Buffy, Dawn, and Xander are all attending the opening of Sunnydale High, and that’s not the only thing coming back from the dead. Has a summer of training by her slayer sister prepared Dawn for her greatest challenge yet? Is the new principal friend or foe? Will someone please take Spike to a hair salon?
Hear us discuss…
- Daddy Giles IS ON A HORSIE
- Steph’s thirst for Robin Wood might be unquenchable
- Xander is actually ok in this episode
- The hero of this episode might surprise you
- Is this a perfect season premiere?
Trigger warnings
Mental illness, stabbing
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Emma
Allison
Julian
Haley
Jordan
Louise
Reece
Amie
Jasmine
Rachelle
Kristi
Laura
Thursday Jan 18, 2024
Thursday Jan 18, 2024
Buffy the Vampire Slayer has rightfully garnered a sustained, international following of devoted fans. Within any such community, there can be a lot of love, as well as toxicity and harm. Is the Buffy fandom OK? It’s back-to-back trials as the Prophecy Girls weigh the evidence against the fandom itself. Ian Carlos Crawford of Slayerfest ’98 joins as a guest judge.
Hear us discuss…
- Origins of fandom
- Podcasts and participatory culture
- Conventions, screenings, and stalkers
- Internalized misogyny of the show and fans
- Bystander casualties of the shipping wars
Trigger warnings
Misogyny, stalking
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Emma
Allison
Julian
Haley
Jordan
Louise
Reece
Amie
Jasmine
Rachelle
Kristi
Laura
Thursday Jan 11, 2024
Thursday Jan 11, 2024
Hear ye, hear ye, all rise for the Honourable Judges Chow and Babcock: court is now in session. The defendant: Willow Rosenberg, once a model student, friend, and Wicca, now Sunnydale’s most wanted. The charges? Everything from wanton destruction of a yellow crayon to near-destruction of the world.
Hear us discuss…
- What is Willow’s worst crime and why is it the pink, fluffy sweater?
- Is Willow’s addiction to magic a mitigating factor?
- Selfishness is the real problem
- Who has jurisdiction over Willow: human or supernatural authorities?
- Is rat rehab better than rat prison?
Trigger warnings
- Blood, death
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Haley
Jordan
Louise
Reece
Amie
Jasmine
Rachelle
Kristi
Laura
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
An unexpected resurrection. An unchecked addiction. An unhealthy obsession. An unwelcome advance. An unworthy death. Season 6: the hits just kept coming. We review the season in its entirety.
Hear us discuss…
- The best episodes of this bad season
- Did the writers go too far?
- Missed opportunities with Xander and Anya
- Why we critique from a 21st-century POV
- What we’re looking forward to from the final season
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Emma
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Julian
Haley
Jordan
Louise
Reece
Amie
Jasmine
Rachelle
Kristi
Laura
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
After Willow suckjobs the borrowed magicks out of Giles, her ambitions grow from ending Jonathan and Andrew to ending the entire world. With Buffy and Dawn otherwise distracted and Anya tending to Giles, it looks like it’s finally Xander’s time to shine. To quote Giles from Season 1, “The Earth is doomed.”
Hear us discuss…
- We let out a breath we didn’t realize we’ve been holding since Giles left
- Is is too much to ask for Buffy to be the hero?
- We would have taken Dawn
- Or Anya
- Anyone other than Xander, honestly
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Amie
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Rachelle
Kristi
Laura
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Newly minted murderess Willow Rosenberg pursues the surviving two members of the Trio. When a pitstop to top-up her magicks at Rack’s inadvertently puts Dawn squarely in Willow’s sights, Buffy’s intervention becomes all the more urgent. But no amount of Sumerian spellwork or slayer smackdown seems capable of stopping Dark Willow. If only there were a librarian in the house.
Hear us discuss…
- Where do we draw the line with Willow’s vengeance?
- Jonathan’s fairweather sense of morality
- Dawn providing some of the most feminist moments of the episode
- Hey, only slayers get to do flippity dos!
- Two words: DADDY GILES!
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Louise
Reece
Amie
Jasmine
Rachelle
Kristi
Laura
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Willow decides her answer to the age-old question of “Am I the bad guy?” is yes as she embarks on a magicks-fuelled rampage of revenge for the death of Tara. No Warren is safe. Buffy, back on her feet, has to act fast to prevent Willow from doing something she might come to regret. Xander is also there.
Hear us discuss…
- This episode is far too similar to “The Body,” especially for Dawn
- How did Spike get to “Africa” so fast?
- Warren’s lack of remorse makes him difficult to defeat
- Anya gets a characterectomy for plot purposes
Trigger warnings
Body horror, flaying, torture
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
News of Willow and Tara’s glowy-O reunion spreads through the Summers residence to popular acclaim. This contentment is shattered, however, by misbehaving men: Xander’s petulant antics, Spike committing an unforgivable act, and Warren refusing to believe he can be defeated by a woman. It’s misogyny o’clock, and we all lose as a result of it.
Bathroom scene discussion: 42:45–1:16:30
The Tara discussion: 1:54:55–2:00:50
Please practise self-care while listening to these intense discussions.
Hear us discuss…
- How much did Dawnifer hear of Tara and Willow last night?
- When will Xander apologize to Buffy?
- Misogyny is the villain of this series, but in this season it feels stale
- Queer representation and missed opportunities
- Buffy Summers is our hero. No further questions
Trigger warnings
Blood, gun violence, misogyny, neck snapping, sexual assault, sexual harrassment, violence against women
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Louise
Reece
Amie
Jasmine
Rachelle
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Buffy does her best to move on from Spike. Xander tries to make amends to Anya, who is having none of it. Instead, spurred on by Halfrek, she seeks solace in the messiest of places. Willow hacks a cameras only to accidentally get a camshow.
Hear us discuss…
- Xander needs to learn that he can’t apologize his way out of this
- Stop trying to make the Trio a thing, Gretchen
- Anya needs her own friends, like us
- Kara has more questions about vampire physiology, sigh
- Willow and Tara!! Need we say more?
Trigger warnings
Sex, voyeurism
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Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
While searching for the Trio’s new lair, Buffy receives a dose of demon venom that gives her visions of an alternate world where she’s a patient in a psychiatric facility. In this world, Joyce is alive, Hank actually cares about being a father, and Buffy has a chance at normal life. She just has to kill her friends.
Hear us discuss…
- Arm needles are back in this season
- We have mixed thoughts about this trope
- What is Willow studying at university?
- Hallucinatory Joyce is as badass as hallucinating Joyce
- Buffy getting to say goodbye is everything
Trigger warnings
Institutionalization, mental illness, neck snapping
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Emma
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Julian
Haley
Jordan
Louise
Reece
Amie
Jasmine
Rachelle
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