Buffering the Vampire Slayer

By Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure

What's Buffering the Vampire Slayer about?

Buffering the Vampire Slayer is a rewatch podcast in which your hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo discuss Buffy the Vampire Slayer, spoiler-free, one episode at a time. Every installment of the podcast also includes a new original song recapping each glorious Buffy episode! *wolf howl*

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Buffering the Vampire Slayer episodes:

04.05.2024
Re-Broadcast: In Conversation with Ira Madison III on 3.20 "The Prom"
We are two weeks away from Buffy Prom in Brooklyn — April 19th - 21st! — and so we thought we'd re-share our conversation with Ira Madison III on Buffy's Season 3, Episode 20: "The Prom"! We recorded this just...
03.20.2024
Re-Broadcast: Buffering the Vampire Slayer's 3.19 "Enemies"
To mark the 25th Anniversary of Buffy's Season 3, Episode 19: "Enemies," we are rebroadcasting our Buffering episode from back in 2018 — with special, beloved guest (and velvet choker owner), Hrishikesh Hirway. In re-listening to this episode we also...
03.13.2024
9.01 Angel + Faith "Live Through This"
Here, as a special treat, is our first episode covering the Buffy Season 9 comics as released by Dark Horse — specifically the first 5 issues of Angel and Faith: "Live Through This." This episode went up for all of our...
01.31.2024
Interview with SLAYERS' Laya DeLeon Hayes
Laya DeLeon Hayes sat down to talk with Kristin all about playing our badass new slayer Indira in Slayers: A Buffyverse Story. We talk about how she has just started watching Buffy for the first time (they had her start...
01.24.2024
Interview with SLAYERS' James C. Leary
James C. Leary aka CLEM is here with us today to talk about Clem's incredible return to the Buffyverse in SLAYERS: A BUFFYVERSE STORY plus his time on the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Clem is one of our...
01.10.2024
Interview with SLAYERS' Amber Benson and Christopher Golden
We sat down to talk about the making of Slayers with the brilliant Christopher Golden and Amber Benson!! We learn about the casting, communally attempt to manifest a second season, and dig into the new lore together. Plus we learn...
12.28.2023
S1.09 "Slayers: Episode 9"
Our final episode covering Slayers: A Buffyverse story is HERE! We discuss vampire Giles, “slurp play,” and our dreams of LaToya Ferguson being cast in season two to play the role of Angelus. PROM 2024 TICKETS https://www.eventbrite.com/e/buffering-a-rewatch-adventure-presents-buffy-prom-2024-tickets-770304570707?aff=odwdwdspacecraft LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny...
12.21.2023
S1.08 "Slayers: Episode 8"
The penultimate episode of Slayers: A Buffyverse Story is here! Did Indira's sunlight spell work? Will Anya and Anyanka have to rent a U-Haul to assist them in a merger? Is Spike evil again? Is a jar of sperm an...
12.14.2023
S1.07 "Slayers: Episode 7"
The episode in which LaToya Ferguson says we were "really on one." Spike and Dru are hot and heavy, we've named Anya/Anyanka/Jasper "Janyaska," and Indira does a fake sunlight spell that maybe is fake but is it fake?!?! It is Slayers: Episode...
12.07.2023
S1.06 "Slayers: Episode 6"
Indira is busy "resurrecting" Spike while Clem coughs up some lion fur-balls, we busy ourselves opining that perhaps Ms. Bang and Drusilla (miss)banged back in the day, and Anyanka licks Anya's face but actually it is Jasper so nothing to...
11.30.2023
S1.05 "Slayers: Episode 5"
Jonathan is a GHOST. Anyanka is in a PUPPY. Giles and Clem are in a ZOO. Listen, we have fully entered into Alternate Universe Sunnydale and in addition to the standard chaos, Indira also wants Spike to pretend he has...
11.16.2023
Interview with SLAYERS' Kc Wayland
We sat down with Kc Wayland, Producer and Co-Director of SLAYERS: A BUFFYVERSE STORY to chat about the making of the series! Join us to hear some behind-the-scenes stories, *very* fun facts about Kc's dog Nacho, and also to learn...
11.02.2023
S1.04: "Slayers Episode 4"
Amy Madison is back and she is not a rat (but she is in a cage), Cordelia and Giles have a conversation that makes us cry, Clem cannot stop chomping on heads, and Olivia gets the delicious donut she deserves....
10.26.2023
S1.03 "Slayers: Episode 3"
Giles is back and he is in love with OLIVIA and they are having EARLY MORNING DALLIANCES inside of their QUAINT BOOKSHOP. This is not a drill, people. Giles! And! Olivia! Are! Back! Also, Anyanka is freed from being a...
10.19.2023
S1.02 "Slayers: Episode 2"
Well, kids, if you had Drusilla and Tara on your bingo card then you really scored big this week, and Mr. Pickles can plunk out a celebratory tune for you on his little monkey piano. Anya and Anyanka have come...
10.12.2023
S1.01 "Slayers: Episode 1"
As though we dreamt it up and then it became reality, the Buffyverse is back, baby. All nine episodes of "Slayers: A Buffyverse Story," written by Christopher Golden and Amber Benson (!!) and performed by an iconic list of Buffy...
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. LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs: @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.comKristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.comBuffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook,...
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, "Beneath...
11.17.2021
7.02 Beneath You
From Beneath You, This Episode Devours.That's it, that's the whole description. LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs: @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.comKristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.comBuffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagramLearn more about our team at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/our-team Produced by:...
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), Dawn...
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...
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...
08.12.2021
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...
07.21.2021
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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Buffering the Vampire Slayer episodes:

Re-Broadcast: In Conversation with Ira Madison III on 3.20 "The Prom"

Re-Broadcast: Buffering the Vampire Slayer's 3.19 "Enemies"

9.01 Angel + Faith "Live Through This"

Interview with SLAYERS' Laya DeLeon Hayes

Interview with SLAYERS' James C. Leary

Interview with SLAYERS' Amber Benson and Christopher Golden

S1.09 "Slayers: Episode 9"

S1.08 "Slayers: Episode 8"

S1.07 "Slayers: Episode 7"

S1.06 "Slayers: Episode 6"

S1.05 "Slayers: Episode 5"

Interview with SLAYERS' Kc Wayland

S1.04: "Slayers Episode 4"

S1.03 "Slayers: Episode 3"

S1.02 "Slayers: Episode 2"

S1.01 "Slayers: Episode 1"

0.44 Curtain Call

7.22 Chosen

7.21 End of Days

7.20 Touched

7.19 Empty Places

0.43: Willow: Jewish, Witch, Jewitch?

7.18 Dirty Girls

7.17 Lies My Parents Told Me

7.16 Storyteller

7.15 Get It Done

7.14 First Date

7.13 The Killer In Me

7.12 Potential

7.11 Showtime

7.10 Bring On The Night

0.42 Welcome to the HelenMouth: Linguistics in Buffy with Helen Zaltzman

0.41 Celebrating 25 Years of Buffy from Sunnydale High

7.09 Never Leave Me

7.08 Sleeper

7.07 Conversations with Dead People

7.06 Him

7.05 Selfless

7.04 Help

7.03 Same Time, Same Place

0.40 Seeing Red & "The Monster Myth"

7.02 Beneath You

7.01 Lessons

0.39 Unbury Your Gays

6.22 Grave

6.21 Two To Go

6.20 Villains

0.38: A Conversation with Amber Benson

6.19 Seeing Red

6.18 Entropy