Prophecy Girls: A Buffy Rewatch Podcast

By Kara Babcock and Stephanie Chow

What's Prophecy Girls: A Buffy Rewatch Podcast about?

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.

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Prophecy Girls: A Buffy Rewatch Podcast episodes:

05.16.2024
S7E17: “Lies My Parents Told Me” (feat. Ryan B)
Seeking revenge for his mother’s murder, Robin Wood cahoots with Giles to distract Buffy so he can take down Spike. He assembles a killer playlist and sets Spike off on a series of flashbacks to his earliest days as William...
05.09.2024
S7E16: “Storyteller” (feat. Kendare Blake)
Come with us, gentle listeners, as recount for you the deeds of Andrew, Teller of Storyes. Sooth, if ever there was a noble scribe of a Slayer of Vampyre, ‘twas he. Middling of stature and dirty blond of hair, Andrew,...
05.06.2024
Bonus: Sunnymail for Season 7
Between all your hot (s)takes and all our hot guests this season, we can’t keep up! To give your opinions the time they deserve, we’ve saved up some to share in this bonus episode of Sunnymail. Hear us discuss… Slayer lore and...
05.02.2024
S7E15: “Get It Done” (feat. Investigating Angel)
Now aware of Robin Wood’s literal slayer provenance, Buffy shows him the operation: secret hideout, army of potentials, and of course, the big board. In return, Robin gives her a bag. Inside the bag is a box. Inside the box...
04.25.2024
S7E14: “First Date” (feat. Lily Anderson)
S7E14: “First Date” (feat. Lily Anderson) Buffy and Xander each have a first date. Buffy goes to dinner with Principal Wood, who is finally prepared to reveal startling details about his past. Xander picks up Ashanti at a hardware store. Only...
04.18.2024
S7E13: “The Killer in Me”
Giles takes the potentials out to the desert to meet Sineya and Cougar. Buffy stays behind because Spike is being a simp. Kennedy also stays behind, hoping to canoodle with Willow, but this leads to unintended side effects. Hear us discuss… Dawn,...
04.11.2024
S7E12: “Potential”
Buffy’s School for Slayers is in session, and you either graduate or you die. So, like regular school in Sunnydale. After a spell reveals Dawn has a destiny, she wrestles with the implications. But when Amanda shows up with a...
04.04.2024
S7E11: “Showtime”
No, this is not the dinner theatre sequel to last season’s musical. Instead, Buffy concocts a plan to take on the Turok Han while also showing the potentials what it means to be the slayer. It remains to be seen...
03.31.2024
Bonus: The Vampire Diaries
What if Buffy had been produced on the CW instead of its predecessor, the WB? Someone decided to find out, and The Vampire Diaries is the result. Steph and Kara watched the first two episodes of the series together, followed...
03.28.2024
S7E10: “Bring On the Night”
Buffy has put a name to the faces Spike has been seeing: the First Evil is behind everything. But what is it, and how can they stop it? Just in time, Daddy Giles arrives, bringing with him three new stepdaughters...
03.21.2024
S7E9: “Never Leave Me”
With more questions than answers, the Scoobies turn to research and interrogation. Willow runs into Andrew and, after a brief showdown, he joins Spike in the blonde male bondage club at the Summers residence. Just when it feels like they...
03.14.2024
S7E8: “Sleeper” (feat. Left of Skeptic)
After the revelation of her vampire therapist, Buffy swaps her stake for a stake-out—of Spike. She tails him and confronts him about her suspicions that he is feeding off humans again. At first, Spike protests his innocence and reminds her...
03.07.2024
S7E7: “Conversations With Dead People”
Date: November 12, 2002. Time: 8:01 pm. Location: A cemetery. The Summers house. The UC Sunnydale library. Buffy thought vampires were bad enough when they wanted to kill her. Now she’s got one psychoanalyzing her. Dawn’s marshmallow microwave fun is...
02.29.2024
S7E6: “Him”
Razorbacks, Razorbacks, we’re gonna play! We got a secret weapon, and his name is RJ! He’s so dreamy; he’s so cool. He’s OURS, and you can’t have it. Neither can Buffy, or Willow, or Anya, or even Dawn. Hands off...
02.22.2024
S7E5: “Selfless” (feat. Rickey Z)
Anya starts to question if she still wants to be evil. She experiences flashbacks showing how she got to this point. When Buffy learns about Anya’s latest trip across the line, she decides it’s time for the slayer to intervene....
02.15.2024
S7E4: “Help”
Cassie, a student at Sunnydale High, confides in Buffy that she has foreseen her own death. Everyone has a theory: Dawn blames Baby Mitch, Buffy and Xander shake down a deadbeat dad, and Anya would likely say it’s bunnies, but...
02.08.2024
S7E3: “Same Time, Same Place”
Willow returns to Sunnydale, unsure of what reception awaits. She finds … nothing. No one waits for her. The Scoobies are equally perplexed when Willow doesn’t arrive. When a flayed youth is found on Xander’s watch, Willow becomes the prime...
02.01.2024
S7E2: “Beneath You”
A disturbing, subterranean monster besets a young woman. But enough about Spike. When Xander runs into a woman running for her life after something ate her dog, the trail leads the Scoobies to none other than his ex. Anya is...
01.25.2024
S7E1: “Lessons”
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...
01.18.2024
Bonus: The Buffy Fandom on Trial (feat. Ian Carlos Crawford)
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...
01.11.2024
Bonus: Willow on Trial
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...
12.21.2023
Season 6 Wrap-Up
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...
12.14.2023
S6E22: “Grave”
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...
12.07.2023
S6E21: “Two to Go”
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...
11.30.2023
S6E20: “Villains”
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...
11.23.2023
S6E19: “Seeing Red”
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...
11.16.2023
S6E18: “Entropy”
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...
11.09.2023
S6E17: “Normal Again”
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...
11.02.2023
S6E16: “Hell’s Bells”
Xander and Anya’s special day is threatened on multiple fronts. A mysterious old man with a glowy orb. Family squabbles and anti-demon racism. Dereliction of duty by the best man. And just terrible, terrible bridesmaid dresses. It’s a wedding on...
10.26.2023
S6E15: “As You Were” (feat. Ryan B)
Buffy’s life has settled into a comfortable tedium of Doublemeat Medleys and nights with Spike. Then Riley, Buffy’s six-foot-two hunk of dried paint ex-boyfriend, returns to Sunnydale seeking her help. As they fight demons side-by-side like the good ol’ days,...
10.19.2023
S6E14: “Older and Far Away”
Dawn, frustrated that no one wants to pay attention to her on the eve of Buffy’s birthday, makes a wish in front of the wrong person, trapping all the guests at Buffy’s party in the Summers residence. Tempers fray, accusations...
10.12.2023
S6E13: “Dead Things”
Buffy asks Tara to help her figure out why Spike can hurt her. The Trio’s test of a mind control device goes fatally awry, and Warren resolves to frame the slayer. Now under the impression that she has killed an...
10.05.2023
S6E12: “Doublemeat Palace”
Buffy finally decides to pull herself up by her bootstraps via a minimum wage job at a fast-food restaurant. Feeling almost as soulless as the vampire she’s sleeping with, Buffy battles grease, her tyrannical manager, and the ongoing gaslighting of...
09.28.2023
S6E11: “Gone”
From child services to her platinum-haired loverboy, it seems like everyone wants a piece of ol’ Buffy right now. So she turns to a girl’s favourite outlet in times of crisis: new hair. But the Trio’s latest scheme unintentionally spills...
09.21.2023
S6E10: “Wrecked”
The rubble of a house. Burnt pancakes. A hidden den of magic. Missed movie trailers. The hits just keep coming. Last week, Buffy and Willow both fucked around. This week, they find out. Hear us discuss… We are so relieved to hear...
09.14.2023
S6E9: “Smashed”
Tara’s abrupt departure leaves Willow looking for magical comfort from an unlikely source. Buffy looks for physical comfort from an uncouth source. Everyone forgets about Dawn. Hear us discuss… Is rat prison the punishment of the future? Dawn deserves even more milkshake Kara, a...
09.07.2023
S6E8: “Tabula Rasa” (feat. Lily Anderson)
Desperate to fix what she screwed up, Willow works her most audacious spell yet. When it backfires, all the Scoobies get a second chance at figuring out who they are. With a loan shark and vampires hunting Spike, however, their...
09.04.2023
Bonus: Breaking Down OMWF (feat. Breaking the Curtain)
Fellow Canadians Crissy and Jocelyn from the musical theatre podcast Breaking the Curtain join Steph and Kara to break down the musical episode of Buffy! We discuss the episode as a whole and then go through each song. Along the way,...
08.31.2023
S6E7: “Once More, With Feeling”
In this absolutely ordinary, totally mundane episode, everyone talks about their feelings. Hear us discuss… We’ve got a theory Giles and orgasms What songs happened that we didn’t get to see? One night only: Kara understands the Spike appeal So, no consequences for Xander YET AGAIN,...
08.24.2023
S6E6: “All the Way”
Xander finally tells everyone about his and Anya’s engagement, and a party ensues. But Giles has to cut it short to rescue Dawn, who decided to spend this Halloween rolling with a white boy gang. Buffy helps with the rescue,...
08.17.2023
S6E5: “Life Serial” (feat. Kendare Blake)
Buffy tries to figure out what to do with her new lease on life. Should she go back to school? Work construction? Or retail? The Trio’s shenanigans threaten to derail her new life plans before they’ve even started. Spike cheats...
08.10.2023
S6E4: “Flooded”
Buffy’s basement becomes a metaphor for her sudden return to life. The slayer has faced snake demons, demonoids, and hell goddesses. But she isn’t prepared for her biggest challenge to date: bills. Fortunately, a new demon in town will offer...
08.03.2023
S6E3: “After Life”
What do you do when you successfully resurrect your best friend and she doesn’t even have the courtesy to thank you? Pout in the arms of your girlfriend? Gently but firmly hint at Buffy over and over that she should...
07.27.2023
S6E2: “Bargaining, Part 2”
Buffy is back! Well, mostly. Having clawed her way out of her grave, the resurrected slayer stalks the streets of Sunnydale. The Scoobies, unaware that their spell was successful, formulate a plan to fight back against the invading demon biker...
07.20.2023
S6E1: “Bargaining, Part 1”
Buffy Summers was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever, about that. The register of her burial was somewhere in a forest, and she continued to take Dawn to school and make PB&Js and kill vampires. Yes, the...
07.14.2023
Bonus: What We Do in the Shadows (2014) Movie Review
Steph and Kara review one of the most-requested bonus topics! In this mockumentary, four vampires are living together in New Zealand. They’re just trying to get by. But the introduction of a fifth member throws everyone off their groove, and...
06.29.2023
Bonus: The Unaired Buffy Pilot
Welcome to Berryman High! Buffy Summers is ready to start fresh, but will the vampires of her new town let her? Not to mention the creepy British librarian, the weirdly confident Xander Harris, and a Willow who needs no encouragement...
06.15.2023
Bonus: Sunnymail
You start a podcast and suddenly everyone has opinions! We love hearing, and sharing, listener hot (s)takes! This bonus episode brings you all the vintage hot (s)takes we’ve been saving up about previous seasons. There’s a demon in the internet, and he...
06.01.2023
Bonus: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2 (2011/2012) Movie Review
Joining in the bonds of holy matrimony isn’t enough for Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, oh no. Their honeymoon turns serious when Bella learns she’s somehow pregnant (spoiler alert: it’s Edward’s). After baby Renesmee is born, Edward finally turns Bella...
05.18.2023
Bonus: “Fear, Itself” Table Read (feat. Slayerfest ’98 and Left of Skeptic)
Steph, Kara, and an all-star lineup of guests perform the script for 4x4, “Fear, Itself.” Join these podcast hosts as they relive the spooks and scares of a frat house Halloween party gone wrong. Buffy feels broken, Willow is a...

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Prophecy Girls: A Buffy Rewatch Podcast episodes:

S7E17: “Lies My Parents Told Me” (feat. Ryan B)

S7E16: “Storyteller” (feat. Kendare Blake)

Bonus: Sunnymail for Season 7

S7E15: “Get It Done” (feat. Investigating Angel)

S7E14: “First Date” (feat. Lily Anderson)

S7E13: “The Killer in Me”

S7E12: “Potential”

S7E11: “Showtime”

Bonus: The Vampire Diaries

S7E10: “Bring On the Night”

S7E9: “Never Leave Me”

S7E8: “Sleeper” (feat. Left of Skeptic)

S7E7: “Conversations With Dead People”

S7E6: “Him”

S7E5: “Selfless” (feat. Rickey Z)

S7E4: “Help”

S7E3: “Same Time, Same Place”

S7E2: “Beneath You”

S7E1: “Lessons”

Bonus: The Buffy Fandom on Trial (feat. Ian Carlos Crawford)

Bonus: Willow on Trial

Season 6 Wrap-Up

S6E22: “Grave”

S6E21: “Two to Go”

S6E20: “Villains”

S6E19: “Seeing Red”

S6E18: “Entropy”

S6E17: “Normal Again”

S6E16: “Hell’s Bells”

S6E15: “As You Were” (feat. Ryan B)

S6E14: “Older and Far Away”

S6E13: “Dead Things”

S6E12: “Doublemeat Palace”

S6E11: “Gone”

S6E10: “Wrecked”

S6E9: “Smashed”

S6E8: “Tabula Rasa” (feat. Lily Anderson)

Bonus: Breaking Down OMWF (feat. Breaking the Curtain)

S6E7: “Once More, With Feeling”

S6E6: “All the Way”

S6E5: “Life Serial” (feat. Kendare Blake)

S6E4: “Flooded”

S6E3: “After Life”

S6E2: “Bargaining, Part 2”

S6E1: “Bargaining, Part 1”

Bonus: What We Do in the Shadows (2014) Movie Review

Bonus: The Unaired Buffy Pilot

Bonus: Sunnymail

Bonus: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2 (2011/2012) Movie Review

Bonus: “Fear, Itself” Table Read (feat. Slayerfest ’98 and Left of Skeptic)

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