Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure

By Jenny Owen Youngs & Kristin Russo

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Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure began in 2016 with Buffering the Vampire Slayer, an episodic rewatch of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, hosted by Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo — and now continues through some of the most iconic genre shows rooted in the 90s and 00s. Now rewatching Yellowjackets Season One.

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Doomcoming: A Yellowjackets...

02.01.2023

It is time for the TITULAR DOOMCOMING, people!!! Let's tell the forest creatures how gay we are!!! Let's trip on mushrooms so hard that we confuse people for forest creatures?!?! Let's scream-sing KISS FROM A ROSE in 1996 and, in ...

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02.01.2023 Doomcoming: A Yellowjackets Podcast \| 1.09 Doomcoming It is time for the TITULAR DOOMCOMING, people!!! Let's tell the forest creatures how gay we are!!! Let's trip on mushrooms so hard that we confuse people for forest creatures?!?! Let's scream-sing KISS FROM A ROSE in 1996 and, in ...
01.25.2023 Doomcoming: A Yellowjackets Podcast \| 1.08 Flight of the Bumblebee In '96, Van is alive (again!), Laura Lee is going to get help by flying the Hail Mary Full Of Heroin Plane (oh no), Coach Ben is gay (hot), Travis is being a dingus (sigh). In '21, Jeff is being ...
01.18.2023 Doomcoming: A Yellowjackets Podcast \| 1.07 No Compass On the one hand OH NO, it is wolf-o-clock in the '96 woods, but on the other hand OH YES, we have nearly all of our adults in a high speed, glitter-covered chase for the ages?! Also introducing a new ...
01.11.2023 Doomcoming: A Yellowjackets Podcast \| 1.06 Saints This week on Doomcoming, Yellowjackets gives us a lake baptism, some sexting, and a helping of very confusing birthday and graduation math — amongst other things (like learning Adult Nat actually always wears casual fishnets and that all version of ...
01.04.2023 Doomcoming: A Yellowjackets Podcast \| 1.05 Blood Hive The halfway mark in our Doomcoming journey has arrived bringing us more Triangle Buddy, a slumber party seance, an owl cam, Callie on Molly, and Montell Jordan — among other things. This week we are talking about 1.05 "Blood Hive," ...
12.21.2022 Doomcoming: A Yellowjackets Podcast \| 1.04 Bear Down This week on Doomcoming we are talking about the fourth episode of Yellowjackets: "Bear Down"! We've got a whole lot of Nat, a whole lot of trauma, Misty drinking her chocolate fucking martini, adultery via mini golf, and our now ...
12.14.2022 Doomcoming: A Yellowjackets Podcast \| 1.03 The Dollhouse This week on Doomcoming we are talking about the third episode of Yellowjackets: "The Dollhouse"! We've got a lot of Taissa, ever-increasing love for Van, us choosing which 1996 girl we'd have been and which we'd have a crush on, ...
12.07.2022 Doomcoming: A Yellowjackets Podcast \| 1.02 F Sharp Welcome to Doomcoming, a little "winter treat" of a rewatch podcast where we dig into the first season of Showtime's Yellowjackets one episode at a time. This week we are talking about 1.02 "F Sharp"! There's a whole lot of ...
11.30.2022 Doomcoming: A Yellowjackets Podcast \| 1.01 Pilot Welcome to Doomcoming, a little "winter treat" of a rewatch podcast where we dig into the first season of Showtime's Yellowjackets one episode at a time. Today we are discussing the pilot episode of the series where we meet our ...
11.23.2022 Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure \| Trailer Welcome to Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure. While our trek through Buffy has come to a close, our podcasty love affair with iconic television is just beginning. If you’ve been paying attention, you already know that in 2023 we’ll be looking ...
11.02.2022 Angel On Top \| 5.01 Conviction Buffy may be off, vacationing in the UK (???) but Angel is still hard at work at a new law firm with some new Sunnydale arrivals... As a treat, here is the first episode of our sister-pod, Angel On Top, ...
10.12.2022 0.44 Curtain Call One last one for the road, scoobs — in this very special Curtain Call episode we journey through Jenny's "Supernaturalatives," discussing some of our favorite arcs (and favorite hunks) in the series, read through some of your beautiful letters, talk ...
09.28.2022 7.22 Chosen Anything we say is gonna sound like goodbye.It's Season 7 Episode 22, "Chosen," live from Brooklyn's Bell House.We love you oh-so-much.
09.14.2022 7.21 End of Days It's a scythe, it's an axe, it's a great big .... one handed weapon, okay?! Buffy is BACK, the team is back together, the sword has been pulled from the stone, there's an old lady (she looks great for her ...
08.31.2022 7.20 Touched The First is blippin' in and out all over Sunnydale and our scoobies are doing a lot of their own blippin' on many surfaces of 1630 Revello Drive. It's Season 7 Episode 20: Touched and the end is fast approaching ...
08.17.2022 7.19 Empty Places LaToya Ferguson, pod-nemesis, joins us in conversation about S7E19: Empty Places! There are hot pockets, sexual tension on the Revello porch that might make your head set aflame, a proper recipe for a bloomin' onion, and a power struggle for ...
08.10.2022 0.43: Willow: Jewish, Witch, Jewitch? Kristin is talking with with Rabbi Leah Jordan and Pam Grossman — writer, curator, and teacher of magical practice and history — to dig deep into Willow's Jewishness, her witchy-ness, and how those two identities are in conversation with each ...
08.03.2022 7.18 Dirty Girls Faith is back in Sunnydale and we are feeling dirtier than ever, Nathan Fillion's bangs are the most evil part about Caleb, Spike remembers the entire galloping, warm champagne monologue (vampires, they're just like us!), and a lot of other ...
07.13.2022 7.17 Lies My Parents Told Me We've got mommy issues, we've got daddy issues, and we've got A LOT OF BULLSHIT! In flashbacks, Spike wants to bring his mom on vacation with Drusilla (lol) and tiny, adorable Robin knocks over a trash can to assist his ...
06.29.2022 7.16 Storyteller Welcome, gentle viewers, to our taping of S7E16's "Storyteller" LIVE from Philadelphia!!! We have shirtless cereal pours, many mispronunciations of the word VamPYRE, two oven mitts and a smoking jacket, a history of mirrors, and many Andrew-feelings from special guests ...
06.15.2022 7.15 Get It Done We've got a heaping scoop of racism and colonialist bullshit this week, including but not limited to a very troubling (and problematic af!) origin story of the Slayer line! We also have a damn fine performance by Lalaine, a deep ...
06.01.2022 7.14 First Date Robin Wood is taking Buffy on a date to a hidden restaurant in the alleys of Sunnydale (that makes brandied pears?!), Xander is helping Ashanti pick out the right rope to help tie him up over the Seal of Danzalthar, ...
05.18.2022 7.13 The Killer In Me You know that feeling when you kiss a girl and it hits you so hard that you turn into the dude you killed last season?! And then you run into the girl who you kept as a rat in a ...
05.04.2022 7.12 Potential Listen. We love Dawn, okay? She f*cking rules!! Join us and special guest Jessie Blount as we praise Dawn's virtues, question some of Buffy's choices as head counselor at Camp Potential, welcome Amanda into the fold and dig deep into ...
04.20.2022 7.11 Showtime You know that feeling when you're a centuries-old vampyric ancestor named Turok-Han and you just want to kill a bunch of potential slayers so that you can keep the world's oldest evil happy, but then you wind up at a ...
04.06.2022 7.10 Bring On The Night Giles is back in corduroy with some new potential slayer step-sisters, Drusilla as The First is wriggling and giggling about, Xander and Andrew cannot stop flirting, and Turok-Han is really, really strong. So strong, in fact, that he almost undoes ...
03.30.2022 0.42 Welcome to the HelenMouth: Linguistics in Buffy with Helen Zaltzman Dear friend of the pod Helen Zalztman (The Allusionist, Answer Me This!) joins us today for a deep dive into linguistics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Why does Giles' leatherbound book use a "Y" in Vampyre? Why does television rely ...
03.18.2022 0.41 Celebrating 25 Years of Buffy from Sunnydale High We celebrated the 25th Anniversary of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Torrance High School, aka Sunnydale High, with hundreds of your beautiful nerdy faces — and it was one of the best nights of our damn lives. We are going ...
03.09.2022 7.09 Never Leave Me Andrew is cosplaying as Spike and being interrogated by Xander and Anya while Actual Spike is drinking blood out of bags and shattering chairs to bits (at the behest of another More Evil Spike). The scoobies would do well to ...
02.23.2022 7.08 Sleeper Time to repair all of the broken windows at the Summers' house, see Aimee Mann at The Bronze, and get a little kinky with Spike in the name of detective work! The thing beneath us is also getting PARTICULARLY hot ...
02.09.2022 7.07 Conversations with Dead People Special Guest Hrishi Hirway joins us to discuss S7E7: Conversations with Dead People! Cassie is back in the library making Willow cry (which makes us cry), Dawn is microwaving marshmallows with poltergeists, Spike is on a date, Holden Webster is ...
01.26.2022 7.06 Him You know that feeling when something from beneath you is devouring and you're like, really trying to sort what the hell that is so you can save the world for like the billionth time, but then some high school student ...
01.12.2022 7.05 Selfless We are BACK, the year is 2022, and everything is coming up Anya. We go deeper into understanding Anya's origins and past then ever before, we get a brilliantly horrible CGI spider, Kristin dubs the frat house "Murdercrombie" (did she ...
12.15.2021 7.04 Help Buffy is using all of her slayer know-how to be a guidance counselor at the new Sunnydale High and it seems that, as many might have anticipated, those two skill sets do not have significant overlap — though she is ...
12.01.2021 7.03 Same Time, Same Place Today's episode was taped LIVE and both of us were in the same place at the same time ...to talk about Season 7 Episode 3, "Same Time, Same Place"! HOW NOVEL. Will there be Gnarl impressions? Yes. Will we re-enact ...
11.24.2021 0.40 Seeing Red & "The Monster Myth" This is a re-airing of "Seeing Red & 'The Monster Myth,'" which originally aired in our Patreon feed alongside Buffy's S6E19: "Seeing Red" We've chosen to re-air this episode in the main feed the week after Season 7's second episode, ...
11.17.2021 7.02 Beneath You From Beneath You, This Episode Devours. That's it, that's the whole description.
11.12.2021 Angel On Top — 4x1 Deep Down This is the very last time that Angel On Top will air in the Buffering feed, so please subscribe to them using the links below so that you can continue listening!! -- Scoobies, we are back... and better than ever? ...
11.03.2021 7.01 Lessons Sunnydale High School is BACK, and so the f*ck are we!!!! Welcome to Season 7, scoobies. We've got ghost zombies, blueprints, and a brand new principal — not to mention a second ensouled vampire hiding in the basement with every ...
10.13.2021 0.39 Unbury Your Gays As a part of a four-episode series surrounding 6.19 Seeing Red, Kristin curated a conversation with Emma O'Sullivan — a former Kitten Board member who met her wife on the Willow & Tara boards in the early aughts — and ...
09.15.2021 6.22 Grave We are heading out of the grave and into the light, dearest scoobies — it is the end, the end of Season Six! WE MADE IT!!!! Dark Willow did not destroy the world, Giles did not die (but did smolder), ...
09.14.2021 Angel On Top — 3x22 Tomorrow It's the season finale, scoobies!!! We've got a whole entire family feud up at the top to kick us off into Angel's S3E22: Tomorrow — and don't you worry because Justine is also here, along with her new... theme song? ...
09.08.2021 6.21 Two To Go Oh mannnnnnn Dark Willow needs to kick every square inch of Buffy's ass and is also driving a truck by standing on top of it and is also making cops take naps and by the way did you know she ...
09.01.2021 Angel On Top — 3x21 Benediction Hello, Scoobies. Naturally, Angel Season 3 continues its focus on fathers and sons (sons and fathers) with "Benediction," an episode where our heroes really need a nice, hot shower. But you know what this episode also continues? The season's focus ...
08.25.2021 6.20 Villains She owes you! She owes you paaaain! Whewwwww, that's right scoobies: Willow has gone and smooshed her vengeance seeking hands into all of the dark magic books and slurped up so much dark magic that her hair and eyes have ...
08.18.2021 Angel On Top — 3x20 A New World Slow motion. Questionable CGI. Whatever the plural of "chamois" (which is NOT spelled "shammy") is. Consider it what to expect when you're expecting "A New World." (That's the Angel episode title there, Scoobies.) Join your hosts LaToya Ferguson and Morgan ...
08.12.2021 0.38: A Conversation with Amber Benson Amber Benson is here with us, in conversation with Kristin & Jenny, and we could not be more overjoyed!!!! We talk about witchcraft, memories from the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the impact of queer characters on television, the ...
08.11.2021 6.19 Seeing Red Seeing Red is here, whether we want it to be or not! This is one of FOUR episodes we produced and recorded to cover the episode as responsibly as possible. Making space for nuanced conversation on both the bathroom scene ...
07.28.2021 Angel On Top — 3x19 The Price Now, we're not sure if you've heard, but there is always a price to using dark magics. That's a lesson our foes over on Buffering the Vampire Slayer learned earlier this season (with "After Life"), and it's a lesson we're ...
07.21.2021 6.18 Entropy If Spike and Anya doing it on the Magic Box table wasn't enough for you (Giles would be scandalized!), then how about Ira Madison III here in-episode with us talking about all of his hottest takes on Season 6?? One ...

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