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 108 - With Clean Sheet (S06E08)
April 07, 2021 11:57 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBWillow has a classic magical whoopsie with some Lethe's Bramble leaving our amnesiac Scoobies to reverse-engineer their personal relationships while contending with the mythical vampyr. The Buffy Boys...wait, I forget...in S06E08 "Tabula Rasa". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Essentialist identity and extrinsic magical ideation The Folly of Translation: an Ode to Alex Harris Soft-focus emotional indie moments of the 00s "Welcome to the nancy tribe." If you enjoyed the ep...
Buffy Boys 107 - Who Sings Evil Attracts (S06E07)
March 31, 2021 12:33 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBIt's an all-singing bonanza as the Scoobies face two enemies that remain undefeated: Dancing Demon and being dramatic as all hell. The Buffy Boys spin up their old soundtrack CD for S06E07 "Once More With Feeling". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Soft shoe semiotics: the musical format as a short-circuit to revealing secrets Timelessness and television - the impact of the 'Event Episode' sub-genre, its presentation and perception Lesbian Bedroom Flotation and the myth of th...
Buffy Boys 106 - Deadly Kiss (S06E06)
March 24, 2021 13:38 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBIt's the most horrorful night of the year as our erstwhile Key-turned-freshman Dawn steals out into the night to redefine 'necking' with a boy who is so cool he's downright cold. He's dead. The Buffy Boys head to Make-Out Point in S06E06 "All the Way". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Hallowe'en: where gay Christmas meets ancient Irish holiday and our powers are at their strongest Old Man Toy Monster and the machinations of musical misdirection The 00's reinscription of the ...
Buffy Boys 105 - Everyone Against Buffy (S06E05)
March 17, 2021 12:50 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBAnswer we these incel mind games three - Buffy wrestles with big life decisions while beset by evil lint and ontologically shaky time paradoxes. The Buffy Boys have one of those weeks in S06E05 "Life Serial". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Metaphor - I hardly know her! Allegorical vignettes from the troubled personal life of our protagonist Questionable Imperial superweapon construction trivia A mysterious and beguiling check from a rakish uncle "Stop touching my magic b...
Buffy Boys 104 - the head under the water (S06E04)
March 10, 2021 13:24 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBIt's another harrowing episode of Buffy the Debt Avoider as our sullen Slayer tackles her most nefarious enemy yet: unwanted adult responsibilities. The Buffy Boys are mumbling their credit score in S06E04 "Flooded". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The introduction of the Trio - arrested adolescent misogyny writ broad yet tiny (king) The ontological superimposition of the burgeoning Dark Willow arc Dresses versus Skirts: we (I) finally understand the difference "Who's cal...
Buffy Boys 103 - Greetings From Hell (S06E03)
February 24, 2021 14:06 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBBuffy's back! Ripped out of heaven and straight into your living rooms, watch as she tries to wrestle with with post-resurrection trauma as well as a kind of ghost! The Buffy Boys struggle to get a grip on things in S06E03 "After Life". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Railroad spike through the head, but in a cute way: the piecemeal evolution of William the Bloody as heartthrob Metal pipes shooting real fire The superliminal tension between the finality of the text and the ...
Buffy Boys 102 - Chaos - Part 2 (S06E02)
February 17, 2021 13:46 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBThis week we're here to talk about Charisma Carpenter. We believe and stand with her and everyone who has spoken out. Later, we also talk about S06E02 "Bargaining, Part Two". Thanks for listening. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The myth of the pained auteur Buffy's Inferno and her journey out of Hell Nicholas Brendon's paralysed penis "Already been looted! Sorry! Try the appliance store down the block! They've got great toasters!" If you enjoyed the episode you can s...
Buffy Boys 101 - On the Border of Worlds (S06E01)
February 10, 2021 14:06 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBA summer without a Slayer leaves the Scoobies with an itch that only resurrection can scratch (its way out of the grave that is!). The Buffy Boys are innocently hanging out with baby deer in S06E01 "Bargaining, Part One". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Best of Frames, the Worst of Frames: sneaky censorship of mature content Demon Bikers from Mars: the paradoxic apocalypse of an absent Slayer Refurbished Buffy Bots - sisterly substitutes at a fraction of the existential...
Buffy Boys 100 - The Price of Freedom (S05E22)
February 03, 2021 15:02 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBIn every generation there is a Chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She was the Slayer. The Buffy Boys aren't crying, you're crying in S05E22 "The Gift". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Protecting your inner Dawn: Self-love through sororal sacrifice The Annual Buffy Boys List of Numbers and Things Deus Inferni Ex Machina - a defense of concise plot resolutions "The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be br...
Buffy Boys 099 - Hopeless (S05E21)
January 27, 2021 13:39 - 55 minutes - 48.6 MBGlory's Big Day is dawning as the walls between worlds shiver. Willow and Buffy take a dream walk for old times sake and remember that the real friends are the deaths we gifted along the way. The Buffy Boys are reshelving their traumas in S05E21 "The Weight of the World" Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Queer rage and the catharsis of staying alive Heisenberg's Protagonist - the indelibility of doing good Glory as, you guessed it, dark mirror of Buffy's emotional struggle ...
Buffy Boys 098 - Odyssey (S05E20)
January 20, 2021 11:14 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBBuffy runs out of options when Glory closes in on Dawn and stuffs her nearest and dearest into an RV for a high octane swords-horses-and-priests desert chase. The Buffy Boys throw a truck at S05E20 "Spiral". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Episodic content and the cliffhanger structure Stabbing the Fourth - Religious adjacent cult factions The Trolley Problem but it's a Winnebago "'Bring it on', and then, wham! Hell-bitch in orbit."" If you enjoyed the episode you can s...
Buffy Boys 096 - Black Magic (S05E19)
January 13, 2021 13:23 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBThe Scooby luck runs out when Glory zones in on Dawn-as-The-Key but not before an amuse-bouche of Tara Brain Drain. Can Willow and Tara survive their first fight? The Buffy Boys get their Bag o'knives in S05E19 "Tough Love". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Argumental alchemy and the necessity of relationship friction Dangerous Giles is a Tik-Tok and we're relevant again Dawn, the Slayer, and the paradox of caregiving on the Hellmouth "Well that came out a lot more lesbian...
Buffy Boys 097 - Black Magic (S05E19)
January 13, 2021 13:23 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBThe Scooby luck runs out when Glory zones in on Dawn-as-The-Key but not before an amuse-bouche of Tara Brain Drain. Can Willow and Tara survive their first fight? The Buffy Boys get their Bag o'knives in S05E19 "Tough Love". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Argumental alchemy and the necessity of relationship friction Dangerous Giles is a Tik-Tok and we're relevant again Dawn, the Slayer, and the paradox of caregiving on the Hellmouth "Well that came out a lot more lesbian...
Buffy Boys 096 - The Wrath of the Goddess (S05E18)
January 06, 2021 14:34 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBThe Buffy Bot comes to peppy life causing a string of events that appropriately end with Spike being thrashed to ribbons. Buffy goes on a vision quest, as you do. The Buffy Boys bundle up for the desert in S05E18 "Intervention". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: I'm seeing double - Four Buffys! Shadowselves in the midday sun, Buffy Bot and Other Buffy Relitigating quasi-sentient robotic sex slavery Adulthood, emotional chitin, and sororal substantiation "The Slayer forges ...
Buffy Boys 095 - From Time into Eternity (S05E17)
December 17, 2020 11:17 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBWhat do you do the day after the worst day of your life? Buffy arranges Joyce's funeral while Dawn dabbles with the God of Death. The Buffy Boys are wearing black in S05E17 "Forever". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Great Lists of 2020 The magical commercialisation of grief Triptych Buffy - mother, daughter, saint The last episode of the year - Happy Holidays folks! "I have to do these things, 'cause... 'Cause when I stop, then she's really gone" If you enjoyed the...
Buffy Boys 094 - Corpse (S05E16)
December 09, 2020 13:32 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBIt's time. We considered leaving out the opening music for this one - The Buffy Boys watch S05E16 "The Body". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Negative space and the ineffable absence of trauma A gay kiss at the boundary of life and death "Where did she go?" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.fac...
Buffy Boys 093 - Programmed to Love (S05E15)
December 02, 2020 13:57 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBBuffy has her first encounter with World's Greatest Monster, Warren Mears and his indescribably creepy 'girlfriend robot' April. The gang have a merry old time beating up the patriarchy. Then a bad thing happens. The Buffy Boys steel themselves in S05E15 "I Was Made to Love You". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Queasy Familiar and the mundane evil of Warren's misogyny Group dynamics and the character of setting in Season 5 Retroactive Dawn: the quasi-sister's memory of ...
Buffy Boys 092 - The Lovely Love (S05E14)
November 25, 2020 13:23 - 47 minutes - 43 MBDrusilla arrives back in town on Ye Olde Sunnydale Rail to celebrate the Bronze's grand re-opening. Just kidding, it's actually all about Spike's creepy obsession with the Slayer. The Buffy Boys are lounging in chalked outlines in S05E14 "Crush". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Misreading the Quasimodo: The skewed interpretation of Spike's toxic behaviour in the shipping wars What's Past is Premonition - the exit of Drusilla A drop of monstrosity and the shared otherness o...
Buffy Boys 091 - The Key (S05E13)
November 11, 2020 13:49 - 50 minutes - 46 MBDawn finds out she's the Key. The Scoobs learn they're fighting a Hell god. It's Buffy's 20th birthday - time for trauma. The Buffy Boys are collecting shells from the existential beach in S05E13 "Blood Ties". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Little Miss Drama - the reality altering implications of the Key Glory/ Ben: Siblings, Mirrors and distorted humanity Sisters, Spies, and Strategy in the Slayer's suburbia "Glory is evil. And powerful. And in no way prettier than me."...
Buffy Boys 090 - The Review (S05E12)
November 04, 2020 13:23 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBThe Watchers Council of Great Britain descends on the Magic Box with a power play - Buffy passes their tests and she gets crucial info on Glory. But who watches the Watchers? Heh. The Buffy Boys stock up on tweed in S05E12 "Checkpoint". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Spike: A Thesis, and the parodying of academic Buffy Studies in-universe The performative co-dependence of Slayer as instrument/Council as master Plot armour - the compliant pacing of Glory's scheme "We're i...
Buffy Boys 089 - The Hammer of Destruction (S05E11)
October 28, 2020 12:36 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBAnother classic caper from Willow/Anya as their bickering hits a bewitching boiling point and a threatening troll (Anya's hexxed ex) is released to rage through sleepy Sunnydale. The Buffy Boys bite down on that onion blossom in S05E11 "Triangle". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Displaced despair - Buffy deals with heart break by breaking baddies Schrödinger's lesbian: Willow's sexuality and the trouble of over-identification with queer icons Manners maketh Humanity - Anya'...
Buffy Boys 088 - Das Ultimatum (S05E10)
October 21, 2020 12:21 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBWe say goodbye to Riley Finn. Buffy discovers his secret shame as a recreational blood donor and he reacts as we all would, re-joining the army and taking a midnight helicopter to Belize. The Buffy Boys take the escape hatch in S05E10 "Into The Woods". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Normal Boyfriend - the quandary of a quiet Slayer home life Unpacking messy and misaligned parallels between vampirism and sex work Sympathetic resonance and the return of Xander's quarantine m...
Buffy Boys 087 - Hours of Fear (S05E09)
October 13, 2020 15:53 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBWhat to say about this one folks? There's a earwig demon that comes down from space in a meteor to menace Joyce. Riley hangs out in a "vampire drug den". Buffy cries at samba music. And the Buffy Boys slither on through in S05E09 "Listening to Fear". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Thing from Another Genre: Schlock sci-fi meets small town travails Ensemble, Assemble - the roving mid season point of view Paracasual sorority and the paradox of the remembered child "I'd ...
Buffy Boys 086 - Incantation (S05E08)
September 30, 2020 11:56 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBGlory wanders into the Magic Box for a few bits and conjures a himbo Snake Man to menace the Scoobs. But will it be Riley's turtleneck that truly drives Buffy to despair? The Buffy Boys catch a ride on a jpeg in S05E08 "Shadow". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Shadows over Hellmouth - the malaise of immiscible medical malady in a mystical milieu Pre-dating the word: the danger of a primordial power that circumvents youth speak by a factor of epochs The creaky stereotype o...
Buffy Boys 085 - Love Stupefy (S05E07)
September 23, 2020 12:13 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBBuffy has a near fatal encounter with her own stake and seeks out Spike for his firsthand crash course on Slayer death tips and tricks. What made William the Bloody Awful Poet the demon he is today? The Buffy Boys' hearts, tis grown a bulge in it for S05E07 "Fool for Love". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The weight of the soul - where does William end and 'Spike' begin The Slayer's gift: the death and life of Xin Rong and Nikki Woods Crisis on Infinite Buffs - interweavi...
Buffy Boys 084 - Blood Ties (S05E06)
September 16, 2020 11:29 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBTara's family descend on the Magic Box straight from the set of The Crucible to rescue her from the sinful evil of her life as an independent woman, wiccan, and lesbian. It doesn't work out. The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb for the Buffy Boys in S05E06 "Family". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Overlapping Spaces - The Magic Other as both queer outsider and ambassador Dawn's human empathy and family values - learnt behaviour in fictional memori...
Buffy Boys 083 - Enemy Sisters (S05E05)
September 09, 2020 11:35 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBThere's a new Big Bad in town and she's stomping her stilettos through the concrete foundation. She's the Beast in Balenciaga, She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-Because-You-Can't-Afford-It... Glory's here. The Buffy Boys bear witness in S05E05 "No Place Like Home". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Sibling Simulacra - the metaphor made manifest in Dawn as a constructed family member The theatrical versatility of the Magic Box (shop) Vibrant Shadows: Glory as hyper exposed reflective ...
Buffy Boys 082 - When Spike gets mixed up in it (S05E04)
September 02, 2020 12:20 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBThings are heating up in Sunnydale - medically! Joyce gets a strange headache, Spike has some light brain surgery, and Riley's pig-heart finally gives out. The Buffy Boys go inside the mind fortress in S05E04 "Out of My Mind". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Mission's Boyfriend: normcore v. superpowered in the struggle for Buffy's affections In Harm's Way: the unlikely longevity of Ms. Kendall Spike's modular personality - reframing the killer as questionable love inter...
Buffy Boys 081 - Two Drops of Water (S05E03)
August 26, 2020 12:10 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBXander gets zapped by a demon with a magic Latin stick and awakes in the dump to find a doppelgänger has taken over his life! And he's kinda better at it? Awkward. The Buffy Boys are blinding people with pocket coins in S05E03 "The Replacement". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Ferula Gemina and symbiotic duality of personality in Buffy Brian's irrational hatred of Confident-Xander's shiny disc Snoopy Dance - the proof is in the prancing Supernatural stakes and sitcom dyna...
Buffy Boys 080 - Dear Little Sister of Mine (S05E02)
August 19, 2020 10:13 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBA day in the life of Buffy's teenage (?) little sister who has always been here of course what. Harmony makes a gang. Giles buys a Magic Shop. The Buffy Boys are gobbling up curds and whey in S05E02 "Real Me". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: 'Created' family and the manifested metaphor of Dawn Jumping the Spike: Ensemble dynamics and the hurdles of a fifth season Midnight theatre in the round - staging, battlegrounds and the versatility of a good Scoobie gang headquarters ...
Buffy Boys 079 - The Vampire's Bite (S05E01)
August 10, 2020 15:38 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBIn the season opener our punning hero comes face to face with the Transylvanian template himself, Count Dracula (!). The Buffy Boys are scoping out anachronistic suburban castles in S05E01 "Buffy VS. Dracula". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Fine Line: the Slayer's heritage of darkness and death, harnessed for good Unpacking 'Eurotrash' - the friction of classic monster myth and the Sunnydale context The curious case of Mr. Giles and the 'chickpit' Dark Prince...bator...
Buffy Boys 078 - To Each His Nightmare (S04E22)
July 29, 2020 12:11 - 1 hour - 91 MBIn the finale of Season 4 and the aftermath of their primal enjoining spell, the Scoobies are stalked through their dreams by the spirit of a death unnamed and a grief unending - the First Slayer. The Buffy Boys will by firemen when the floods roll back in S04E22 "Restless". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Death of the auteur and the reclaimed queer resilience of found family Rightful trauma - integrating loss as strength in the Slayer line You Can't Go Home Again: dreamsca...
Buffy Boys 077 - Initial Fog (S04E21)
July 22, 2020 12:23 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBIt's self-contained Apocalypse time in the Battle for the Initiative as Adam deploys many more tables to do science on. The Buffy Boys realise the real friends are the ones you mystically enjoin with along the way in S04E21 "Primeval". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Chekhov's Behavioral Modification Chip - the Riley-adjacent resolution of the Initiative plot Shirtless, body obsessed and with Mommy Issues: Adam as the true gay man's Big Bad The Source of Our Power: Construc...
Buffy Boys 076 - The Seed of Dischord (S04E20)
July 15, 2020 12:25 - 43 minutes - 40 MBTaking a running start to deploy Adam's master plan (?) Spike does what he does best - emotionally manipulating the Scoobies into ruining their own day. Giles gets drunk. Angel and Riley fight. The Buffy Boys are on Team Miss Kitty Fantastico in S04E20 "The Yoko Factor". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Regression before progression - pushing the Scoobies to the limit to demonstrate their unity The Call is Coming...From Inside The House: consumerist masculinity and Xander's a...
Buffy Boys 075 - A Love of Full Moon (S04E19)
July 08, 2020 11:23 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBWillow is torn (but not really) between old love and new in the One Where The Ex Meets The Witch Girlfriend. It's queer, and we're here for it. The Buffy Boys give one last a-roo-roo for our OG hound dog Oz in S04E19 "New Moon Rising". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Toxic Lunar Masculinity - the knotted metaphor of supernaturally induced male violence A gay flicker in the dark: Queer representation and validation by candlelight Redshirts by Any Other Name - the 'weakness ...
Buffy Boys 074 - The Insatiables (S04E18)
July 01, 2020 13:07 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBIn a Very Special Episode of Buffy the Gang learn all about the urges of their growing bodies from the best of teachers - a haunted Catholic orphanage of shame. The Buffy Boys are cataloguing their sins in S04E18 "Where the Wild Things Are". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Behind Blue Eyes: Giles and the attraction of not being an emotionally stunted man Ghosts, Lust and the tradition of adolescents charging supernatural breaching points fit to burst The cresting redemptio...
Buffy Boys 073 - Jonathan (S04E17)
June 24, 2020 12:38 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBJonathan has yet another amazing week of saving the day alongside his plucky sidekicks, lil Buffy and the gang. There's laughs, tears, and even some lessons learnt - join Jonathan's Jokers as they discuss the hunk himself in S04E17 "Superstar". Key Jonathan Japes from this episode include: Anatomy of a Hero: Jonathan's journey from child genius to teenage father figure Jacking in with the J Man - the inventor of the internet officially endorsed Tumblr Looking for Jonathan in all the ...
Buffy Boys 072 - In the Enemy's Body (S04E16)
June 17, 2020 12:57 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBFaith takes Buffy's hijacked body for a test drive to torch her life before she skips town. A few hours in her blonde counterpart's well-adjusted pumps brings more hard truths than she can handle. The Buffy Boys find the real body horror were the friends we lost along the way in S04E16 "Who Are You?". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The mess in the middle - deteriorating the comfortable lie of the anti-hero Faith of the Heart: nature versus nurture in the making of a rogue sl...
Buffy Boys 071 - Girl of the Year (S04E15)
June 03, 2020 11:53 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBFaith wakes from her coma in a post-Mayor Sunnydale to find that Buffy has moved on and there's no place for a rogue Slayer. So she's going to carve one out. The Buffy Boys are Freaky Friday-ing in S04E15 "This Year's Girl". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Five by Five What?: The self-fulfilling world view of Faith as outsider The Casual Electrocution of Xander Harris Joyce in the Attic Bedroom - parental figures in absence "I'd hate to see the pursuit of a homicidal lun...
Buffy Boys 070 - The Monster Factory (S04E14)
May 27, 2020 11:16 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBThere's a new Big Bad on the block as bio-mechanical demonoid Adam climbs out of the Initiative, determined to learn what he is: one flayed child at a time. Will Riley stop his flop sweats long enough to deal with his shiny new brother? It's S04E14 "Goodbye Iowa". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Is Frankenstein the Monster, actually? - reinterpreting the Promethean in the new millennium Constructing identity from spare parts: the 'found family' in the Buffyverse Yet more p...
Buffy Boys 069 - Top Individual (S04E13)
May 20, 2020 12:02 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBBuffy's short-lived sojourn as a camoed up commando comes to a shocking, and then very pointed, conclusion as a matriarch falls and a cyborg rises. The Buffy Boys are saying goodbye to smother, MOTHER in S04E13 "The I In Team". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Buffy's vocational Slayage at odds with the military modus operandi Fraught penetrative imagery - the 3rd F in Fight or Flight reflex Accelerating a character arc to frenetic conclusion - the case of the Absent Prof...
Buffy Boys 068 - Metamorphoses (S04E12)
May 13, 2020 11:02 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBGiles is feeling directionless and out-of-the-Scooby-loop as a middle aged, independently wealthy former librarian. His day goes from bad to worse when he's transformed into a demon by his old flame Ethan Rayne (we're making it canon). The Buffy Boys are shipping clapped out warlocks in S04E12 "A New Man". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Bemused Beast Within: ageing as othering in a youth focused setting "Father? Figures...": the family bond expressed in adversary and ...
Buffy Boys 067 - The Sacrifice of the Three (S04E11)
May 06, 2020 11:58 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBBuffy and Riley deal with that classic early relationship issue where you find out that your new beau is also a secret demon hunter. Incidentally, there is also an Apocalypse. The Buffy Boys are returning their way overdue library books in S04E11 "Doomed". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Falling on your Stake: The neutering and reforging of Spike's truth-teller role in the Scoobs The incuriosity of the Initiative in contrast to the uncertainty of magic The unseemly valle...
Buffy Boys 066 - The Scream That Kills (S04E10)
April 29, 2020 12:46 - 55 minutes - 51 MBCan't even shout, can't even cry The Gentlemen are coming by Looking in windows, knocking on doors They need to take seven and they might take yours Can't call to mom, can't say a word You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard. The Buffy Boys are oh, so, quiet in S04E10 "Hush". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Weaponising Voice - Communicating the 'youth speak' in body language Wanna-Blessed-Bes and the superficial/substantial in representative feminist spaces ...
Buffy Boys 065 - Buffy's Wedding (S04E09)
April 22, 2020 13:21 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBA misfired spell causes Willow's wacky wishes to wrestle with reality. Spike/Buffy are writing their vows and Giles is falling over furniture as some friendly vengance demons take notice. The Buffy Boys are wearing white to your wedding in S04E09 "Something Blue". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Shipping, Spike/Buffy and the tug-of-war with fandom Monkey's Paw wishes and the sitcom factor in Buffy Kiss the Librarian novelty mugs "Something about Willow and her griefy "p...
Buffy Boys 064 - Regrets (S04E08)
April 15, 2020 09:42 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBThe Scoobies raise the ire of a vengeful Native American spirit during Thanksgiving and contend with hundreds of years of colonial trauma in an episode critics are calling "definitely an episode of TV" and "there's some funny stuff with Spike at least?" The Buffy Boys are having a big 'Yikes' in S04E08 "Pangs". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The land is haunted because it's stolen: US TV's knotted 'You Tried' relationship with Native American portrayals Youth Speak and the...
Buffy Boys 063 - Schemes in the Basement (S04E07)
April 08, 2020 11:41 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBWillow heartbroken, Spike neutered, Parker decked, Giles floundering, Xander requisitioning, Buffy sleuthing, Prof. Walsh scheming and Riley going commando. Strap in as the season arc moves into higher gear with some star-crossed demon hunter drama. The Buffy Boys are slicing the pie, 360 no-scope in S04E07 "The Initiative". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Contrasting masculinity: Riley's corn-fed traditionalist chivalry as counterpoint to to the male coastal elite The neut...
Buffy Boys 062 - Werewolf heart (S04E06)
April 01, 2020 12:26 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBOz lopes laconically into a lycanthrope love triangle as the enigmatic...Veruca drives a palette swapped werewolf wedge between him and Willow. Who will come out top dog? The Buffy Boys say full hearts, full moon, can't lose in S04E06 "Wild at Heart". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The in-universe narrative impact of production changes and shows-that-could-have-been The Oz-Willow arc: a healthy relationship underwritten by a naturalistic lack of conflict? Willow's calcif...
Buffy Boys 061 - The Beer of Evil Thinking (S04E05)
March 25, 2020 11:11 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBThis week Buffy fights the true and greatest evils of Sunnydale against which no vampire or demon can stand - underage drinking and premarital sex. Also there are cavemen? The Buffy Boys are watching That Episode - it's S04E05 "Beer Bad". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Counter-feminist puritanical holdovers in the Buffy formula The rare beast - a failed Bechdel test Willow will not be seduced by any doe-eyed man, goddamnit "I'm pregnant by my step-brother who'd rather...
Buffy Boys 060 - The Demon of Halloween (S04E04)
March 18, 2020 19:36 - 55 minutes - 51 MBA bit of escapism this week as the Scoobies find themselves unexpectedly trapped in a house while something invisible uses their deepest insecurities to spreads fear and paranoia. Huh. The Buffy Boys are translating Dublin Bus memos in S04E04 "Fear Itself". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Joyce's Tragic Love Life: a hereditary trait? Magic as metaphor for sexual exploration Homage to the penny dreadful horror roots of Buffy "The nose hole seems sad and full of self-lo...