Unspoiled! Buffy the Vampire Slayer

And we're into Season 3 of Buffy!

Without Buffy or Cordelia, the rest of the gang is trying to take care of the vampire problem- not very successfully, either. Willow has had a significant upgrade to her wardrobe, but she's still lacking- I hope this means that her character will finally become more than what she is now. It's progress.

Buffy, though, is working as a waitress in LA, living in a crappy apartment, when she runs into Lilly, one of the vampire groupies from last year. Unlike the rest of the population of this world, she actually seems to remember what's going on. When he boyfriend goes missing, she turns to Buffy for help. It turns out that there's some demons in a weird time-slowed realm that are kidnapping homeless teenagers, working them for centuries, and returning them the next day having aged into their sixties. It's weird. Poor Lilly is caught up in it, and Buffy goes to the new realm to save her.

And then in episode two, we get Buffy returning, dealing with the fallout of her running away from her mother and her friends, with only Cordelia there to defend her. Being a slayer is hard, guys, your feelings are a low priority. Get your shit together. Be more like Cordy. Also, don't throw a massive house party for your friend when you need to reconnect. Also beware of zombies, cause that's a thing that happened and went absolutely nowhere.

The show is improving, 100% in quality over where it was in the first season, but let's be honest, it's still doing too much, retreating to its comfort zones and not giving its storyline enough time to breathe. I'm excited to see the show improve, it's almost at the point where I would watch this as a weekly show.

And we come to the end of season 2 of Buffy. Angel and Kendra are both dead. I care about one more than the other. Apologies for the choppy audio on this, guys, I did my best to clean it up.

There's another MacGuffin buried under the town, and this time it can open a portal to hell. Which was a disappointment- they spoke about this demon with a name, so I was hoping we'd get to see another cool demon costume. Oh well.

The key to this gateway to hell is Angel. And we get to see him being turned by Darla and turning Dru in turn- Spike's origin is still just alluded to, but now that Angel is dead and Spike on the run I'm assuming that will have to wait for the spin-off show.

Willow picks up where Jenny left off, and after one interruption that kills Kendra, she tries again. And it works, all culminating in Angel being returned to goodness right before Buffy stabs him with a sword.

This was an exciting end to the season, but we have to admit there was *quite* a bit of chaff here, I'm hoping the show gets streamlined and less detour-y.

RoShawn joins us for a fun couple of episodes.

There's a ghost at the school, and it turns out that back in the fifties some douche killed his teacher. Who he was sleeping with. Yeah that was squicky. But it gives Buffy a chance to process nsome of her feelings toward Angel. And shoot him.

And then we get a guest star, and you people know how I love me some guest stars. RoShawn and I gush about how we love his body while Bitches audibly eye-rolls.

Also we discuss terrifying disciplinary methods our parents/commanders used on us, and dolphin herpes.

More whiplash!

Jenny has been on the outs for several episodes now, and she does the honorable thing by trying to figure out a way to re-curse Angel.

Things do not go well for her.

Honestly, I saw this one coming, but I genuinely liked Jenny as a character and was very frustrated by the writer's non-utlization of her. I'm hoping there's some additional content about her somewhere, because honestly, the Romani techno-pagan is the most interesting conecpt in here, far more than the chosen one.

Also, there's that stupid death demon in the hospital. I don't even want to talk about it. See you next week, guys, when we'll have another special guest!

Happy new year, listeners! We're joined by a special guest, Maggie Benzvi this time.
These were two of the least serious Buffy episodes we've had so far, but they were also two of the most fun, in my opinion.

There's a werewolf skulking around and it's killing bunnies and possums, which both Bitched and Maggie seem to have it out for. But because this is the hellmouth, that's not exactly weird.

We go through a big red herring of one of the school bullies, Larry, but it just devolves into some gay panic. It turns out Oz is the werewolf, having been bitten by his baby cousin. I'm curious how the cousin got it. Also there's a werewolf hunter, but no one seems to get iced this episode except poor Teresa.

And then on to a very problematic but also very funny episode- Xander has a breakup with Cordy, and enlists Amy (who is carrying on the family tradition of invoking the wrong goddess) to cast a love spell, but she misfires and now everyone wants to jump Xander's bones, excpet for Cordelia. And then they get back together.

Not too substantive, either of these episodes. But both fun. Also Willow can finally get some D.

Merry Christmas everyone! Have a special bonus episode! Can you believe Bitches has never seen Die Hard?

I'm starting to notice that Spike is really the driving force behind what makes this show worth paying attention to. There's lots of monster-of-the-week camp, which is fine, and fun to take the piss out of, the real character drives come from the chaos that is Spike.
This pair of episodes is about Buffy's heartbreak, because her vagina turns Angel back into a monster. And I'm kinda done with good!Angel anyway, as evil one, and his dynamic with Dru & Spike is much more fun when he's on the wrong side of things.

We also learn a bit about Ms. Calendar- apparently she is Romani, a distant relative of the ones that cursed Angel int have a soul and a conscience. Though is was probably pretty stupid of them to have an out clause the second he becomes happy. Her uncle shows up briefly, but since he gets eaten, there's not really a whole lot of impact to him being around. Just driving a wedge between her and the rest of the gang.

I'll keep this one short, as most of you aren't reading this anyway. Enjoy the episodes!

I'm getting whiplash from how quickly this show swings from camp to seriousness.
In our first epsiode, we meet Ted, played by the late John Ritter. Ted has been dating Joyce, and poor emotional, vaguely-stable Buffy walks in on them making out. And she's having none of this.

We never really figure out what Ted's plan is- other than it involves putting heroin in his food. I don't know if that tastes good or not, but apparently it makes everyone like him. I don't knwo how much heroin you'd have to put into it before you'd get me to try fried pizza, though.

Buffy needs to get some therapy and learn to accept her parents' divorce, but her instincts are right here. Ted is a killer robot. We never know why, though- he doesn't need to eat, so I guess he needs to pay property taxes on his little hideout, and that's why he's marrying and killing women for years? Whatever.

Also, someone needs to privde a real-life example of high school students being forced to take care of a fake baby. I think this is entirely an invention of Saved By The Bell. At least this one has the boys taking care of the eggs as well.

The egg storyline was fine, but I was honestly more into the dumbass redneck vampires. I would totally watch a remake of Interview With The Vampire starring these two dumbasses, fucking everything up as they go.

Buffy manages to take down the massive glowing brain beneath the school. Not really any ramifications to this other than her getting grounded.

Honestly, this was a big step down from Kendra last week. Hoping it picks up again soon!

MORE OF THIS!!!!!!!!!!111!!1!
Money here, and I want a spinoff show just about Kendra the vampire slayer. She adds some much needed diversity to the show, as well as depth of character and nuance.
Plot summary is as follows:
Spike decides its high time to bring Drusilla back to full strength. Much digging into old books (especially the one pilfered from Giles) to find an answer, though Drusilla seems to be pretty damn good with the Tarot readings as far as answers.
Three assassins are summoned- the biker, the worm, and the ginger. But none of that really matters because Bianca Lawson is on the scene, chewing the hell out of the scenery and fucking shit up.
The first two-parter since the premiere, and it's welcome. The show spends too much time trying to encapsulate its storylines into forty-minute chunks, and when it gives itself some more breathing room, it really shines.
Let's get some more of this.

OMG what a fun podcast this was!

Bitches & Money slayed at this year’s LosCon! Join us for this adventure as Money finally consumes that piece of queer culture that he managed to avoid all these years!

We talk consent, which of our college professors we slept with, and why toast is thrown at the screen. Also we diverge to talk about Grease a bit.

Have a listen, it’s super fun!