Once More With Commentary: A Buffy Podcast

This week, we rehash the high school years in Sunnydale, talking our favorite villains, monsters, episodes, and more! And don't miss our list of Senior Superlatives for the Class of '99!

We graduate from Season 3 of Buffy and Sunnydale High, with one heck of a speech and Giles' library full of explosives. The Scoobies take on the mayor and faith, Angel skips town after a brush with death, and Buffy has to decide just how like Faith she ultimately wants to be.

This week, Claire's back! We chat with her about her thoughts on Season 3, whether Buffy could get into Northwestern, and why Joyce wins mom of the year. In Sunnydale, teams get into position for a showdown on Graduation Day, and Buffy finally gets her perfect high school moment. Oh, and Angel decides he's leaving.

This week, Faith overplays her hand and reveals her involvement with the Mayor and his plans. Angel plays bad to help trap Faith but does it a little too well. Then, after a brush with demon blood, Buffy can hear the thoughts of everyone around her. It's all fun until she hears a plan to kill students at the school. But even that can't top the worst news of all, involving Giles and Joyce and a police car and, ew.

This week, Faith and Buffy experience the consequences of a slaying gone wrong, putting them both under suspicion from the police and pitting Faith against the Scoobies and the Watchers' Council. Later, Anya is still stuck in Sunnydale and in high school, and her attempt to regain her power brings Vampire Willow into existence, causing mayhem, confusion, and general delight for everyone. Bored now.

This week, we grapple with loving a Xander-centric episode, as Xander sets out this week to prove he's cool and ends up finding more trouble than he bargained on with a gang of zombies and an encounter with Faith, but he accidentally saves the world while Buffy, Giles, Angel and Willow face the Apocalypse. Then, Faith lures Buffy to the dark side but ends up going too far when she stabs a guy who doesn't explode into dust.

Fairy tales are real this week, as Hansel and Gretel send Joyce on an anti-magic bender and Buffy and Willow find themselves tied to the wrong end of a book burning pile. Then, it's Buffy's 18th birthday, and following her usual tradition, it does not go well.

Welcome to the Darkest Timeline! This week, we meet Anya and "Bored Now" and see what might have been if the Master had been a more effective villain. Cordelia rocks some serious revenge-chic outfits and The First rocks some serious Jenny Calendar face. Angel tries to meet the sunrise, but Buffy and a miracle snow have other plans.

This week, we see the beginnings of the end of the Buffy/Faith tentative friendship as the gang learns Angel's back and Faith's new watcher manipulates her way to a magic mitten. Then, our favorite blonde vampire is back! Spike's on a bender and looking to stir up a little trouble to mend his broken heart. Willow and Xander continue to annoy us. We also analyze Buffy’s chances of getting into college - does slaying count as an extra curricular?

Welcome to Slayerfest '98! Cordelia proves she may be no slayer but she's no slouch at slaying, and Buffy just wants to be a normal girl again, but we hope for the last time. Giles and Joyce have a fun night out on the town thanks to Ethan's Band Candy, while Snyder just wants some friends. We won't mention what's going on with Willow and Xander more than we have to. Please make it stop.