Buffy Boys
160 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTwo boyfriends who won't stop talking about their English Lit degrees comment on a girl who saved the world, a lot.
A weekly re-watch of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' from an LGBTQ, feminist, and literary perspective (also wine!).
New episodes released every Wednesday.
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Buffy Boys 156 - S08E12 Finale! For real this time (Buffy Movie and Ranking Seasons)
June 16, 2022 14:05 - 1 hour - 57 MBIn every generation, there are podcasters. They together will review Buffy the Vampire Slayer from a queer, literary, and feminist perspective. This was the Buffy Boys. In this finale episode we talk about the Buffy Movie, season rankings, and say thank you to every super cool listener who has joined us over the past few years. If the next apocalypse comes, DM us.
Buffy Boys 155 - Ranking the Vampire Slayer [5 - 1!] (S08E11)
June 09, 2022 12:34 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBThe Rankings are complete and we have determined the totally objective best episode of Buffy. Now, our souls may rest. Don't resurrect us. In our S08E11 the Buffy Boys experience go through all the stages: Surprise, Passion, Restlessness, Gifts, and Body? Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The satisfaction of a job well done A summary of overly suggestive rating trends 10 out of 10 "Pleasure moments" and "primo biatches"
Buffy Boys 154 - Ranking the Vampire Slayer [12 - 6] (S08E10)
June 02, 2022 13:30 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBWe crack open the ancient Ranking crypt and disgorge the dusty, inhuman mummies inside. We're so close now. In our S08E10, the Buffy Boys avoid their feelings in the classic ways - musicals, silence, bazookas, and dynamite. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Valuable vinyls and depreciated CDs Rewatching Buffy again of our own volition 10 out of 10 "dead gay jocks" and "bruised vampire testicals"
Buffy Boys 153 - Ranking the Vampire Slayer [21 - 13] (S08E09)
May 18, 2022 13:31 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBThe good ship Ranking arrives after its long voyage to the alien warmth of a new star: we're in the top 20 episodes now. In our S08E09, the Buffy Boys celebrate all the major milestones, graduation, hometown implosion, and becoming an Evil Gay. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The sliver of sunlight that is Xander's heyday Denoument, dedication, and deliciousness 10 out of 10 "Lohechian four-winged soul killers" and "Goblets-ful of O Negative" out of 10
Buffy Boys 152 - Ranking the Vampire Slayer [31 - 22] (S08E08)
May 11, 2022 13:03 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBThe Ranking Expedition crests to the plateau, the summit is in sight. Are the people who made these original ratings still, existentially, us? Who can tell. In our S08E08, the Buffy Boys breathe the rare air of the Lonely Ones from vamp groupies, serial killers, heartthrobs, and the fruit-punch-mouthed. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The simplicity and gothic accessibility of Season 1 - 3 The night of this recording we got drunk and watched Lie To Me again and were relieve...
Buffy Boys 151 - Ranking the Vampire Slayer [41 - 32] (S08E07)
May 04, 2022 14:38 - 1 hour - 64 MBOur Ranking Drill has cracked the succulent core of Buffyworld to extract the ambrosia of the Top 40 Episodes, objectively decided by us. In our S08E07, the Buffy Boys spelunk from misogynists (skinless) through Buffy (ratful) and land at ghosts (horny). Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: We single-handedly solve the Gay Men Crisis in the queer community We panicked about whether we had counted the episodes right up until now for about 15 minutes before recording 10 out of 1...
Buffy Boys 150 - Ranking the Vampire Slayer [53 - 42] (S08E06)
April 28, 2022 13:34 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBIt's 150 episodes of queer, literary, and feminist perspectives! Wow. Remember when we used to drink a lot more wine? In our S08E06, the Buffy Boys go from guzzling milk to feeling conflicted about lesbophobic Amy Adams. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The reification of Cordelia Chase, our hero Single word episode titles are hard to remember 10 out of 10 "removable youth pastor faces" and "5 by 5s" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffybo...
Buffy Boys 149 - Ranking the Vampire Slayer [68 -54] (S08E05)
April 07, 2022 09:29 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBThe Dread Ranking assumes its superlative form as we climb from demon transformation hangovers to deputy mayors (slightly punctured). In our S08E05, the Buffy Boys start with homoerotic subtext (gay) and end with homoerotic subtext (lesbian). Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The greatest fantasy of this show was just a nice room outside your house you were allowed to hang out We might not say "monster kink" a lot on this show, but it's always implied 10 out of 10 "Irish ...
Buffy Boys 148 - Ranking the Vampire Slayer [83 -69] (S08E04)
March 30, 2022 13:10 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBThe Rank-a-thon ranks on from straight love triangles to supernatural-quasi-platonic, queer-coded soul quadrangles. In our S08E04, the Buffy Boys express no strong feelings about crayons of any size or colour. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: We reach down (up?) to #69 which is, yannow, nice The past is a foreign country to us and so are our earliest episodes (Witch was robbed) 10 out of 10 "demonic girlboss temples" and "breeders" If you enjoyed the episode you can subs...
Buffy Boys 147 - Ranking the Vampire Slayer [102 -84] (S08E03)
March 24, 2022 13:44 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBThe Ranking juggernaut digs deep to unearth body swaps in flooded basements and secretly vegan burgers brush up with nightmare clowns. In our S08E03, the Buffy Boys discover if you can really have a favourite 'Adam' episode. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The breakout character sweet spot - from Cordy through Oz and into Spike - when to stop? Sexy Giles, Angry Giles, Sexy/Angry Giles 10 out of 10 "daddy hands" and "bad wigs" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscrib...
Buffy Boys 146 - Ranking the Vampire Slayer [123 -103] (S08E02)
March 16, 2022 14:15 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBThe Great Ranking continues as we travel from pervy posessed puppets to stilted summoned snakes. It's the worst, weirdest and bleh-est of the Buffy hinterlands. In our S08E02, the Buffy Boys ask "how often can a rating also be an innuendo?" Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Would you rather be annoyed, squinting, or bored - a comparative study of Season 1 and Season 7 Sexy mantises, delicious principals, and problematic holidays 10 out of 10 "gay possums" and "annoying vi...
Buffy Boys 145 - Ranking the Vampire Slayer [144-124] (S08E01)
March 02, 2022 08:17 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBThe now definitive review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer returns triumphantly to don the sacrificial amulet of Ranking Every Episode from Worst to Best. Play along at home! In our S08E01, the Buffy Boys eat the show, starting with its bottom. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Jumping the Shark or 'How We Learned to Stop Working And Love the List Fomat' Penis monsters, forgotten love apocalypses, and demons in the Internet 10 out of 10 "boy problems" and "children's bones" If...
Buffy Boys 144 - Chosen (S07E22)
February 02, 2022 14:20 - 1 hour - 108 MBInto every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. Until Buffy Summers changed that, forever. The Buffy Boys want to see how it ends in S07E22 "Chosen". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The sweetest listener mail in all the world from our Superfangs Reflections on this finale, Season 7, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer If you've been reading these show notes, you're a hero "This is Buffy Boys, we were the Buffy Boys. See ya" If you enjoyed ...
Buffy Boys 143 - Your Days are Numbered (S07E21)
January 26, 2022 09:35 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBBuffy finds mʔ, an ancient Slayer weapon, hewn from precious chrome. Caleb falters, the Scoobies rally - What's one more Apocalypse between friends? The Buffy Boys get ready for the end in S07E21 "End of Days". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Opening the Close: the building blocks of a finale Self and Shadow Self - the reintegration of Faith and the dissolution of the Slayer concept Scythe Matters and the focused Potential of Buffy Summers "Well, you know, it's like, uh.....
Buffy Boys 143 - Your Days are Numbered (07E21)
January 26, 2022 09:35 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBBuffy finds mʔ, an ancient Slayer weapon, hewn from precious chrome. Caleb falters, the Scoobies rally - What's one more Apocalypse between friends? The Buffy Boys get ready for the end in S07E21 "End of Days". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Opening the Close: the building blocks of a finale Self and Shadow Self - the reintegration of Faith and the dissolution of the Slayer concept Scythe Matters and the focused Potential of Buffy Summers "Well, you know, it's like, uh.....
Buffy Boys 142 - Moment of Reflection (S07E20)
January 17, 2022 18:25 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBBuffy wanders an evil-ruined Sunnydale kicking down doors despondently as Faith has her first big day out as Head Slayer, and it's going to be a blast. The Buffy Boys butcher their glottal stops in S07E20 "Touched". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Anatomy of a Complete Thought: carving out the final shape of meaning in Buffy Buffy the Home Invader - aesthetics of absence in the fall of Sunnydale Radicalising our Nation's White Minons - we're asking, where were the Bringers ...
Buffy Boys 141 - What Is Left Behind (S07E19)
January 12, 2022 12:22 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBDesertion and dissolution comes to Sunnydale - the High School is abandoned, the Bronze is closing down, and Buffy is unceremoniously kicked out of her own damn house. The end begins. The Buffy Boys have their heads on a swivel in S07E19 "Empty Places". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: "Et Tu, Scoobie?" the collapse of the Hero's support network Turn the Light Off On The Way Out Of Town - dismantling the conceit of Sunnydale's setting as the show ends A deluge of Potentials ...
Buffy Boys 140 - Unclean Women (S07E18)
December 22, 2021 16:19 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBAn ex-preacher, a veteran Slayer, a reformed Bostonian, a soft-eyed construction worker, and a gaggle of Potentials walk into a Vineyard - tell us if you've heard this one before? The Buffy Boys lament Nathan Fillion's hair in S07E18 "Dirty Girls". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: A Patriarch you can punch - existential evil made manifest in Caleb The Reformation Roundabout and Faith's integral spoke of the Buffy ethos A Girl in a Dark Alley - modelling the self-renewing fem...
Buffy Boys 139 - A Heavy Past (S07E17)
December 15, 2021 13:04 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBHark the tale of William the Bloody (Awful), overflowing in maternal affection and lately deceased. And Robin, orphaned vampire hunter with a Slayer Mom and a Watcher Dad. Let's see these two good boys talk things out. The Buffy Boys feel positively effulgent in S07E17 "Lies My Parents Told Me". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Freud Bait: Spike, stakes, his mother, and making his name into an icky verb The Mission is What Matters - the war for Buffy's Soul Vigilante-forward...
Buffy Boys 138 - Stray Director Andrew (S07E16)
December 08, 2021 13:01 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBWelcome weary travellers and let us tell you a tale - the rousing, genre breaking adventures of Buffy, Slayer of the Vampyrs and the most nebbish of her entourage, Andrew (you know, Tucker's brother?) The Buffy Boys pull focus in S07E16 "Storyteller". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Blair Snitch Project: camera as character and foil Undeniable narrators and the inherent motivated perspective of the self-appointed observer Ancient, Maleovent, and kinda flirty: the gaybai...
Buffy Boys 137 - Slayer Power (S07E15)
December 01, 2021 13:19 - 53 minutes - 49 MBTragedy at 1630 Revello Drive leads Buffy through time and space to the source of the Slayer's power - which unsurprisingly involves dealing with some men who just reckon they're in the right. The Buffy Boys exhale a long sigh in S07E15 "Get It Done". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: General Slayer - the icky mire of militarisation of potential Big Bag of Plot with the Lads: Nikki Wood and legacy building The Worst Sleepover and the public nature of Scooby self-discovery "...
Buffy Boys 136 - Fatal Dating (S07E14)
November 25, 2021 14:19 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBDeep social awkwardness is in the air as Xander engages in lightly fatal rope-play with a passing demon and Robin reveals his tragic backstory in the most Freudian way possible. The Buffy Boys have had enough of smother - MOTHER - in S07E14 "First Dates". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Ashanti Paradox - using the empty set to unpack the swirling themes of Season 7 Motherhood and the Slayer and Robin's emotional inheritance The Measure of a Man: shifting definitions of...
Buffy Boys 135 - Inner Murderer (S07E13)
November 17, 2021 13:29 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBIn an Unexpected Lesbian Sidequest, Willow suffers some grief-lust induced Warrenification and the Gang (plus Andrew) drive hours out of town just to touch Giles. The Buffy Boys show some Initiative in S07E13 "The Killer in Me". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Hit Remix on that Lore - Amy Madison, Riley Finn, and Warren Mears, an unlikely narrative blend The inviolable dad in the desert: Giles and the threat from within A Chip with Intent: concluding Spike's defanged arc ...
Buffy Boys 134 - In a Tough School (S07E12)
November 10, 2021 12:59 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBThe Potentials get some field training from General Buffy and her trusty hound Spike. Like all gifted teens, Dawn learns a harsh lesson about being pretty normal after all. The Buffy Boys celebrate mundanity in S07E12 "Potential". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Transmuting Teen Self-Discovery: Dawn's burgeoning identity in the kiln of Slayer-adjacent angst Reinscribing before the Fall - Buffy's imitation of a Watcher as a step to a new paradigm The Demon/Gay intersectional...
Buffy Boys 133 - Exercise of Style (S07E11)
November 03, 2021 13:03 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBThe Summers all-inclusive Potential and Scooby summer camp is open for business. Buffy unspools a razor-sharp plan as Evil lurks among us, y'all. The Buffy Boys play with those little coin operated bus station TVs in S07E11 "Showtime". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Extradimensional Exegesis: Baljoxa's Expositionary Eye Potential Tokenism and identifying the Chosen by their One personality trait Military-grade Slayer: Welcome to Operation Hellmouth, maggots "If we all do...
Buffy Boys 132 - the dawn of the last day (S07E10)
October 28, 2021 12:25 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBGiles returns to Sunnydale with a new zeal for personal space and three Slayers-in-waiting in tow. Buffy faces down the anti-Slayer. Anya and Dawn prepare to scald Andrew. The Buffy Boys get drafted in S07E10 "Bring on the Night". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Cavalcade of Calamities - the pile-on of Season 7 character, conflict and strife Slayer Seccession: divesting heirarchial power from the established lines of play The Case for Kennedy - reexamining the trope of the ...
Buffy Boys 131 - Bringers of Evil (S07E09)
October 19, 2021 18:17 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBAndrew and Spike make a classic "interrogated in adjoining rooms" odd couple as the OG übervamp rises and the Watchers Council suffers a minor setback. The Buffy Boys bury the dweeb in S07E09 "Never Leave Me". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Deconstructing the Patriarchy - With Explosives! Synthesis of Superimposition and the layering portrayals of the reflective First Robin Wood's Unfixed Aegis: the cryptic principal mystery "He's primed. I'll be pumping him in no time" ...
Buffy Boys 130 - Innocently Guilty (S07E08)
October 13, 2021 12:42 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBSpike's freshly minted soul hangs in jeopardy as newbie sired vampires crop up with his dental fingerprints all over them. But is it regular evil or you know, Evil? The Buffy Boys party in the basement for S07E08 "Sleeper". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Monstrous Man Inside Me: Duality of Spikes Check out this Fit...of Pique! Recontextualising the domestic vampire I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up Because I'm the Undead - elder care attitudes in the supernatural communit...
Buffy Boys 129 - Evil Enchanting (S07E07)
October 06, 2021 11:39 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBHell is empty and the dead walk the Earth - and they won't shut up about it! The First bears down on the gang with fighting words and the Buffy Boys break the Seal in S07E07 "Conversations with Dead People". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Eschewing wordy promo blurbs because of the limitations of long episode titles on character counts - A Life in 280 Charac- The Immaterial Coil: Codifying a formless Big Bad Marshmallow Manifestations - Slasher callbacks with D. Summers ...
Buffy Boys 128 - Proofs of Love (S07E06)
September 29, 2021 14:30 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBThe Scoobie ladies are bewitched and bewildered by Sunnydale High's star quarterback('s jacket) - and now they'll spare no embarassment or military ordnance to get him. The Buffy Boys caterwheel into a very serious episode with S07E06 "Him". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Paranatural Penis Problem - and whether Willow can work around it Final Girl by way of a staircase and a good shove Buffy's Hands-on Counselling Modality "You're older and hotter and have sex that's...
Buffy Boys 127 - Identity Crisis (S07E05)
September 22, 2021 11:01 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBAnya's demon exploits lose their laugh track when a dozen frat boys get the heart-ripping-spider-demon treatment. She's set for a showdown with Buffy where only one outcome is certain - everyone's hair looks great. The Buffy Boys feel a bit Aud in S07E05 "Selfless". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Buffy as supernatural Judge, Judy, And Executioner - justice under the Slayer code Swedish Synecdoche: Anyanka's intrinsic outsider nature From Beneath You, It Makes You Cry: The ...
Buffy Boys 126 - In Need of Help (S07E04)
September 08, 2021 11:44 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBBuffy's in a race against the clock to save a prophetic high school girl from a premature death at the hands of some cultish dudebros who would've gone wild for Bitcoin. The Buffy Boys are hauling ass to the counselor's office in S07E04 "Help". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Buffy the Ally - progression of queer cameo in the supernatural periphery The apotheosis of the Spike archetype from gravedweller to champion Buffy trying to talk about the 'hood - that's all "Have you ...
Buffy Boys 125 - Willow's World (S07E03)
August 24, 2021 14:23 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBWillow's back but she's a couple of visible dimensions short of a full set. With her and the Scoobs unable to see each other, how will they navigate the social foibles/skin slurping demons? The Buffy Boys are posing their pliable Dawns in S07E03 "Same Time, Same Place". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Another one for the Camden Toy-box: Buffy's unsung creature feature extraordinaire The Mystical is the Meaning: textual magic as interpersonal cipher The Dawn Summer's Reclam...
Buffy Boys 124 - You Don't Deserve You (S07E02)
August 18, 2021 11:53 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBA newly tubular ex-boyfriend leads the Gang to some smouldering revelations - something old, something new, Spike's got his soul and he's wearing blue. The Buffy Boys polish their bastinatas in S07E02 "Beneath You". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Multifarious Soulfulness - the grace and pathos of Spike's metaphysical endowment Rennt, Jägerin, Rennt: dragging the Slayer mythos to the forefront for the final season Men in tailored suits - so shocking we said it twice ...
Buffy Boys 123 - Back to the Beginning (S07E01)
August 11, 2021 13:31 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBSchool's back in session! At New Sunnydale High, Buffy relives her greatest hits - ghosts, basements, and a vampire with a tortured soul. But something eldritch is coming and it's going to eat us all, starting with your bottom. The Buffy Boys are passing cootie-catchers in S07E01 "Lessons". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Reinscribing Mythos - how the Season 1 imagery changes meaning on the return Culmination and the answer to the question of Buffy Summers Sunnydale has a ...
Buffy Boys 122 - Two for the Grave (S06E22)
August 05, 2021 06:56 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBIn this season finale, two powerful women battle each other to find themselves again amidst a miasma of grief and trauma. But wait 'til you hear what Xander has to say about crayons. The Buffy Boys covet Giles's fit in S06E22 "Grave". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Perplexing Prosperpexa - the demoness smashing the glass ceiling of Hell for one apocalypse, ready to order Soft Strength: Buffy's hard earned empathy compared to the brashness of force Cutting the Gordian Soul ...
Buffy Boys 120 - On the Viewfinder (S06E21)
July 28, 2021 12:48 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBWillow continues her hunt of The remaining Trio (Duo?) through the styrofoam walls and deserted streets of Sunnydale. Buffy tries to talk before punching rather than during. The Buffy Boys look excitedly for their dad in the doorway in "Two to Go". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Truman Effect - bumping up against the genre walls as Willow stretches where the show can set a scene Closing the circle on male toxicity: Andrew and Jonathan breaking in opposite directions Th...
Buffy Boys 121 - On the Viewfinder (S06E21)
July 28, 2021 12:48 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBWillow continues her hunt of The remaining Trio (Duo?) through the styrofoam walls and deserted streets of Sunnydale. Buffy tries to talk before punching rather than during. The Buffy Boys look excitedly for their dad in the doorway in "Two to Go". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Truman Effect - bumping up against the genre walls as Willow stretches where the show can set a scene Closing the circle on male toxicity: Andrew and Jonathan breaking in opposite directions Th...
Buffy Boys 120 - Avenging Angel (S06E20)
July 21, 2021 12:41 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBIn the wake of Tara's death, Willow's tremendous power, skill, and rage is set to exact bloody revenge on Warren. But he has an ace-in-the-hole in which he has absolute faith - he is a man. The Buffy Boys see how that works out in S06E20 "Villains". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The protean metaphor of magic - lesbianism, addiction, metastasizing into queer wrath Structural collapse of narrative as Willow crosses boundaries personally and in genre convention The vanish...
Buffy Boys 119 - Tragic Ending (S06E19)
July 14, 2021 11:47 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBBuffy and the gang deal, more than ever, with why the hardest thing in this world is to live in it. The Buffy Boys talk about the mess and what it means to them in S06E19 "Seeing Red". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Spike and Buffy - trying to understand the bathroom scene in 2021, the whys and why nots Willow and Tara - reflecting on queer visibility and how caring about our queer characters can hurt and be joyful Warren and women - recognising his misogyny as the mundane...
Buffy Boys 118 - In the Chaos of Emotions (S06E18)
July 07, 2021 11:49 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBAnyanka is back in town and she's got her heart set on some tenderly vengeful hex action with her cold footed, flop sweated ex-fiancé. But will a 3/4 full bottle of whisky and a 240p webcam ruin it all? The Buffy Boys are mean to Xander in S06E18 "Entropy". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Livestream Fails with the Troika The Inconvenient Bisexual Cipher A Modest Proposal to Address the Heterosexual Question "You're lesbians, so the hating of men will come in handy." If y...
Buffy Boys 117 - And Again Everything Is Fine (S06E17)
June 30, 2021 11:33 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBWe come to the sad story of Buffy Summers, a normal girl formerly of Hemery High and now a long term patient of this facility who entertains a delusion - that she is the 'Slayer'. The Buffy Boys up the dosage in S06E17 "Normal Again". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: St. Elsewhere, east of Sunnydale: the post-modernist motivation of 'it's all a dream' tv plots The feminist value of 'why' over 'what' and how the details don't matter, except when they do Give Sarah Michelle Ge...
Buffy Boys 116 - The Noose Around the Neck (S06E16)
June 23, 2021 11:42 - 49 minutes - 45 MBOn the cusp of marital bliss, Xander goes back to the future to heed dire portents of trauma, alcoholism, and disrespectful half-elf children. Also, Buffy juggles. The Boys are back and sitting on the bride's side in "Hell's Bells". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: 'Part Satyr on your mother's side' - the matrilineal demonic dynamics of Anya's vengeance heritage Family Should be Heard and Not Seen: metaphor made manifest and mortal in the Harris household Redeemable for Off-...
Buffy Boys 115 - At Ease, Track (S06E15)
June 02, 2021 12:38 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBAgent Riley Finn is back on the Sunnydale scene, with a badass (tm) black ops wife and mysterious scar in tow. What will this mean for Buffy and her permanent burger stench? The Buffy Boys seek a leathery egg in S06E15 "As You Were". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: To Sound the Riley Reveille: military minded counterpoints to the Season 6 soap opera Sartorial sexual signals - deliberate fashion mirroring and unmirroring in the Buffy/Spike relationship The Helicopter back to...
Buffy Boys 114 - Happy Birthday, Buffy (S06E14)
May 24, 2021 14:56 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBIt's the Buffster's birthday - time for bad fashion, mortal peril, and uncomfortable personal revelations! What do you get the Slayer who has everything? A phase-shifting demon trapped in a sword of course. The Buffy Boys bring the charcuterie in S06E14 "Older and Far Away". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Apothesis of Tara Maclay: a supporting character who grows towards her own dissolution "Mr Redshirt was my father" - people as throwaway narrative devices reverse-engin...
Buffy Boys 113 - Slave to the Senses (S06E13)
May 19, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBWarren's misogyny and Buffy's trauma collide on a downward spiral as Season 6 kicks into a gear that'll take more than a spell and a witty comeback to fix. The Buffy Boys dial down the laugh track in S06E13 "Dead Things". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: "Sensors, or Whatever" the hodge-podge of magic and technology in Buffy's plotting "Your Ex? That's Messed Up" - the veneer of the 'boys will be boys' sliding scale of acceptably gross behaviour Slayer? I hardly know her!: T...
Buffy Boys 112 - Paradise for Gourmets (S06E12)
May 12, 2021 12:46 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBBuffy is a vision in polyester as she explores her exciting career options in the quick service restaurant industry. But does something sinister lurk beneath the bun of this capitalist dream? The Buffy Boys deal with yet another Wig Lady in S06E12 "Doublemeat Palace". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Feminist Vengeance - Femigeance? Xander's anti-demon micro-violence contend with Halfrek's macro-violence approach Something borrowed: Amy's infusion of ill-begotten power as a ...
Buffy Boys 111 - The Invisible Woman (S06E11)
May 05, 2021 12:40 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBA glancing blow from the Trio's latest superweapon transforms our Slayer into an invisible menace to pedantic social workers, proud hairdressers, and problematically nude vampires alike. The Buffy Boys lament a parched wig in S06E11 "Gone". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Googly Eyes of the Beholder: female gaze in the unseen mode the repressed tech nerd to lesbian witch detective pipeline Troi(ka) - the coalition of misdirection "I swear, it's not... what it looks...
Buffy Boys 110 - All Scrap (S06E10)
April 21, 2021 13:26 - 54 minutes - 49.4 MBPancakes, larva Stinky yak cheese in my bra Willow dances on the ceiling, Amy does some herb-y stealing, Dawn's arm's broken, Buffy rants: -Spike's in flesh-toned underpants! The Buffy Boys didn't start the fire in S06E10 "Wrecked". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Implicit versus Explicit - vampire/slayer slash as star-crossed or horned up parables Imperfect Magical Metaphors: the widening gyre of Willow's sudden moral spiral Threadbare Ensemble and the maturing ...
Buffy Boys 109 - When Crossing a Line (S06E09)
April 14, 2021 10:38 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBWillow de-rats Amy, her old witch-in-arms from high school and they hit the Bronze for a carefree romp with no emotional repercussions whatsoever. Spike and Buffy explore the exciting world of home remodelling. The Buffy Boys buckle up in S06E09 "Smashed". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Schrödinger's Chip: variable perceptions and inhibitions from Spike's plot device Double Double, Gigilo Trouble - lampshading problematic behaviours through the lens of magical boys dancing i...