Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! It is TIME for BUFFY and ANGEL to KISS!! TWICE!!! Which means it is *also* time for Joanna Robinson to guest host with us! We will discuss the first kiss, which ends in Angel throwing himself out the bedroom window. We will discuss the drama that ensues, which ends in Angel being thr...
Feb 05, 2025•2 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Find all of our Season 2 coverage in the Doomcoming Feed! Lend us your EARS, kids, because we are baaaaack with our coverage ofYellowjackets Season 2! Triangle Buddy is here, a man is being buried naked in the woods, Natalie is weaponizing forks, Steve-watch has COMMENCED, Misty may get to harmonize in the woods, and we are having a cheerful dinner of slightly-charred-with-murder-evidence franks an...
Jan 29, 2025•2 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This podcast originally aired on February 6, 2020. Do any human beings ever realize perfect television while they watch it--every, every minute? Somehow we are here, at the final episode of My So-Called Life. Brian is going to write a letter, Jor...
Jan 26, 2025•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! You know that feeling where you're possessed by the spirit of a hyena and your hunger cannot be satiated by hot dogs alone?! Your sense of smell heightened, your need to be MEAN skyrocketing, and your cackle enhanced beyond recognition??!! A traditional high school rite of passage! L...
Jan 22, 2025•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This podcast originally aired on January 30, 2020. It's the penultimate episode of My So-Called Life, and what better way to celebrate than by finding a pair of handcuffs in Patty and Graham's bed! Let's talk about who the episode tops are, what ...
Jan 19, 2025•2 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This podcast originally aired on January 23, 2020. Angela is "totally over" Jordan Catalano and what's more, she's high as a kiiiiite she just miiiiiight stop to check you out NA NA NA NA!!! It is the episode that takes us on a ride through the l...
Jan 12, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Sure, FINE, maybe we need to deal with some Anointed One rising from the ashes of five or whatever, but have you SEEN WHAT A HUNK OWEN IS?!?! Surely seems like he should be allowed some of our focus despite any pending apocalypses. We are here this week to discuss Buffy's "Never Kill...
Jan 08, 2025•2 hr 44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This podcast originally aired on January 15, 2020. It is 1995... and no one told Jordan! As we enter into a brand new year we get an *incredible* gym scene between Rayanne and Sharon, a tutoring match up for the ages with the infamous Brain Krako...
Jan 05, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This podcast originally aired on December 19, 2019. Rickie is homeless for the holidays, Jordan is lighting candles, Juliana Hatfield is here, and Joanna straight-up *sobs* during our discussion of this episode because... woof. It's a beautiful, ...
Dec 22, 2024•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! You CLEARLY know that feeling when you develop a crush on your new substitute teacher who then turns out to be a giant praying mantis, right?!?! A high school rite of passage. Today we get to revel in all of the glory that is Ms. French aka the She-Mantis as we cover Buffy's S1E4 "Te...
Dec 18, 2024•2 hr 47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Buffy wants to be a cheerleader! Cordelia wants to be a cheerleader! Amy's mom, who has swapped bodies with Amy, wants to be a cheerleader AGAIN! Hands are aflame, mouths are being witchily erased, Cordelia loses her sight, and there's a CAULDRON of GREEN BUBBLING LIQUID. So beginnet...
Dec 11, 2024•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This podcast originally aired on December 12, 2019. Rayanne is 33 days sober and wants to be the lead singer of "Between Names," Patty and Amber have conflicting parenting approaches, and Jordan and Angela have broken up but... have they?!?! Also...
Dec 08, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast BUFFY PROM 2025 IS BRINGING US BACK TO SUNNYDALE HIGH, SCOOBIES!! APRIL 4 & 5, 2025 in TORRANCE, CA All Information: bufferingcast.com/prom Tickets on Pre-Sale for All Patrons on Thursday, 12/5 at 10AM ET Tickets on sale publicly on Friday, 12/6 at 12PM ET OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adv...
Dec 04, 2024•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This podcast originally aired on December 5, 2019. Let's talk about sex, baby. Let's also talk about Jordan and the fabled eight-bedroom house that requires entering but no breaking, Rickie's poetic and powerful views on intimacy, Cynthia Hargrov...
Dec 01, 2024•2 hr 38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. It’s the FINALE of Season 2 of the X-Files and Mulder is taking LSD to celebrate. Scully cannot believe she didn’t get an autopsy *or* a bath, but she did get to sit at Mulder’s bedside and get yelled at by several different men!! We have conspiracies aplenty, a full adult size alien (just add water!) and Mulder in his teeeeny little undies. It’s S2E25 “Anasazi”! Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking...
Nov 27, 2024•2 hr 58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Buffy is grounded, we’ve got a cymbal decapitation, Giles is taking his glasses off, and Luke — may his precious biceps rest in peace — is giving us the gayest shit we have ever seen. We love it *almost* as much as Darla. It’s S1E2 “The Harvest”… once more with spoilers!!! IN EPISODE...
Nov 20, 2024•2 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This episode originally aired on November 21, 2019. Let's all skip out on geometry review so we can MAKE OUT IN THE BOILER ROOM, huh?!?! Finally, we come to the inspiration point that gave our podcast its name! Meanwhile, Brian is SO MAD, Daniell...
Nov 17, 2024•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. Though we are discussing "Our Town" today, it is decidedly NOT the play by Thornton Wilder but rather an episode of The X-Files in which the townsfolk are dining on... other townsfolk! Cannibalism: the other red meat?? Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1/5 Outsiders We Have To Deal With IN EPISODE LINKS https://indianpueblo.org/what-does-anasazi-mean-and-why-is-it-controversial/ SCOOP THE NEW ...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This episode originally aired on November 13, 2019. It's time for the World Happiness Dance and for women to do all of the emotional labor! Rickie has a crush, Brian breaks Delia's heart, Graham is great at wallpaper, and Angela melds with the ch...
Nov 10, 2024•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! November 6, 2024 seems like a fitting day to say "Welcome to the Hellmouth," so let us get right to it. Darla is using her combination princess-voice and killer fangs to upend expectations, Cordelia is Cordelia-ing out, Giles has ALREADY CIRCLED A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN RED MARKER, Buf...
Nov 06, 2024•2 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This episode originally aired on November 6, 2019. This is the one where COULD ANYONE HELP PATTY HANG THE DAMN STREAMERS?! It's also the one where Rayanne overdoses, Graham becomes deeply distressed by the square footage of a turkey in his refrig...
Nov 03, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. This Halloween, we urge you to up the horror — forget ghosts, goblins, and demons and please reflect on that spoooooooky feeling where your shadow is NOT YOUR OWN!!!!! It's Season 2, Episode 23: "Soft Light" and the train station is your only safety... mwahahahahaha Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1/5 Shadows Cast SCOOP THE NEW MERCH!!! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! ...
Oct 31, 2024•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This episode originally aired on October 31, 2019. Rayanne is VAMPIRE and Ricky is BRIAN and Brian's KEYS are in Brian's PANTS and did you know that ghosts are real and there's one named Nicky Driscoll haunting the halls of Lincoln High? Also Sha...
Oct 30, 2024•2 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join us — Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs — this November as we head back into the Buffyverse for Buffering the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Spoilers! We’ll be discussing all 144 episodes of Buffy for a second time (!!!), but this go-round *with* spoilers — a never-before-attempted feat of love and chaos! See you right here in the Buffering: Rewatch Pod Feed and in our dedicated Buffering the Vampire Slayer pod feed on November 6th with "Welcome to the Hellmouth" (AGAIN!)!! Ahhhhhhh!!! In t...
Oct 23, 2024•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This episode originally aired on October 17, 2019. Sharon's dad has a heart attack, Graham contemplates the value of his life, Angela hides behind her own fears and the sheepskin'd shoulder of Jordan Catalano, and Rickie tells it like it fucking ...
Oct 20, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. The first television episode in history that Kristin refused to watch a second time!! We've got some bugs, we've got some escaped prisoners, we've got some pustules (which we nearly exclusively refer to as rainbows so that we could survive the conversation), and we've got Chris Carter saying that the "look of this episode is wonderful." Ahhh, yes, 'tis The X-Files S2E22: "F. Emasculata." Producer LaToya Ferguson gives thi...
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This episode originally aired on October 10, 2019. He was going nowhere, going nowhere fast, and everything looked black 'til he found her... That's right everyone, and he called her "Red." Buckle up (GET IT?! BECAUSE RED IS HIS GODDAMN CAR), bec...
Oct 06, 2024•2 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. WHY ARE TWINS ALWAYS EVIL!?!?! Did you learn about *wind* in kindergarten?? Why would you ever throw away three good ice cream cones?! Do old women have names???? We dig into these questions and more this week in our coverage of The X-Files S2E21: "The Calusari." Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.2/5 Problems with the Wiring SCOOP THE NEW MERCH!!! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop JOIN US F...
Oct 02, 2024•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This episode originally aired on October 3, 2019. Liberty High has a new substitute teacher by the name of Vic Racine who is shaking things up by mismatching his socks and allowing some very sexy haikus (that are not actually haikus) to be printe...
Sep 29, 2024•2 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. Re-airing here in the Buffering: Rewatch feed to celebrate the show's 30th Anniversary with special introductions ft. Jenny Owen Youngs! This episode originally aired on September 26, 2019. Angela's life feels just about as clogged as her pores and meanwhile *both* of Sharon's boobs made the infamous Top Sophomore Girls list. Rayanne excitedly touts her listing as "most slut poten...
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