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 059 - Irritating Daylight (S04E03)
March 11, 2020 11:53 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBThings are getting hot and heavy with Plausible Parker when Buffy's campus drama is interrupted by some familiar fangs as Spike returns with the freshly deceased Sunnydale High alum Harmony on his arm. The Buffy Boys are snatching gems from secret corpses in S04E03 "The Harsh Light of Day". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Seizing the Day - Buffy's tension with the unexamined life Neutering the angry puppy: Spike's narrative rehabilitation The self-referential layer building...
Buffy Boys 058 - Annoying Roommate (S04E02)
March 04, 2020 12:48 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBuffy tries to settle into freshman life but is struggling with an overly familiar, farm-raised, Cher loving roommate by day and is haunted by demonic men by night. How will she cope with this relatable gay college experience? The Buffy Boys are guzzling milk in S04E02 "Living Conditions". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: From Slaying to Corpsing - the comedic undertones of the supernatural Face/Off: Buffy's slow and steady moral justification for pre-meditated murder The la...
Buffy Boys 057 - Disappearance on Campus (S04E01)
February 19, 2020 12:22 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBA new widescreen format sun rises for Buffy at Sunnydale U as she's set adrift in the big bad world of being technically an adult. Will she be able to lay down stakes on campus or is she doomed to now be "Willow's friend". The Buffy Boys grab their book bags for S04E01 "The Freshman". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The arcane differences between US and Irish colleges. What really is a major? We'll never know Buffy's growing pains and the transition to the world beyond Season...
Buffy Boys 056 - The Day of Retribution (S03E22)
February 12, 2020 12:32 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBThe big day is here and there's just enough time for some quips, awkward kissing and cryptic dream sequences before the Mayor shows his true scales. The Buffy Boys are getting a kiss from daddy in S03E22 "Graduation Day, Part Two". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Most Important Dream Sequence in Buffy The timeless significance of young people organising and speaking truth to power - with flame throwers! Season wrap up, best monsters, worst bit characters and a lot of ch...
Buffy Boys 055 - The Blood of the Slayer (S03E21)
February 05, 2020 12:41 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBThe Gang gear up for the big day as Anya lets them in on the Mayor's terrible secret - he's Ascending to become an absolute unit. The Buffy Boys are writing "Have a Great Summer!" in your yearbook for S03E21 "Graduation Day, Part One". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Low-Res Nostalgia - the inherent value of 90s quality VHS production in remembering Buffy Transitional teenage moments: does anyone really get out of high school alive? 'Pureblood Demons' and the theme of human n...
Buffy Boys 054 - The Ball of End of Course (S03E20)
January 29, 2020 13:38 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBHigh school is Hell and then it's over, one way or another. But maybe Buffy can have little a perfect teenage moment, as a treat. It's Prom Night folks, grab your bite-proof cummerbunds and garlic corsages - The Buffy Boys are leaving six inches for the Holy Ghost in S03E20 "The Prom". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Undying Love - the tragic paradox of intimacy in an immortal life without boundary Tucker Wells in "Incels Don't Need a Reason" Class Protector: the assertiv...
Buffy Boys 053 - The Box of Gavrok (S03E19)
January 22, 2020 10:01 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBCountdown to the Mayor's Ascension Day is in full swing when the gang have to steal a box of demon spiders and then trade them back for their gay witch best friend. Must be Tuesday! The Buffy Boys are staking their way out of a rut in S03E19 "Choices". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The existential implications of choices and consequences in the Buffy narrative Dark contrasts in Buffy/Angel's age weathered romance and the Mayor's immortality Intersectional Wicca - Willo...
Buffy Boys 052 - Secrets of Healthy Skin (S03E18)
January 15, 2020 12:41 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBBuffy encounters a pair of mouthless demons whose neon blood leaves her infected with the ability to read minds! It's all fun and games with some light invasion of privacy until she overhears (overthinks?) a soon-to-be mass murderer. The Buffy Boy's are wrestling with the lunch lady in S03E18 "Earshot". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Hollow Reflections: Vampires as an uncanny valley to explore your own emotions Sloppy Joes, the sinister lunch mystery of the American high sch...
Buffy Boys 051 - All Against All (S03E17)
January 08, 2020 12:00 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBThe rogue Slayer's duplicity unravels her last chance at redemption (for a while at least) as a de-souling plot goes awry and the Mayor's Ascension plan comes to light. Talk about losing Faith, eh? The Buffy Boys are packing the fishbowl in a suitcase for S03E17 "Enemies". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Chekhov's Stake - the earned audience misdirection of a Buffy mystery Category resistant sexual and emotional friction in Buffy/Faith power dynamic Mayor Wilkins and the ha...
Buffy Boys 050 - The Land of Clones (S03E16)
December 18, 2019 12:17 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBIt's Gay Vampire Christmas as a spell to retrieve Anya's magic necklace brings Willow's demonic double to town. Time for some good old fashioned neck lickin', throat slittin' mistaken identity! The Buffy Boys are getting carded at the Bronze for S03E16 "Doppelgangland". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The trope of 'depraved bisexuals' in the portrayal of mirror selves "Seeing Double - Four Willows!" - exploring character through farce, disguise and reversal The fraught powe...
Buffy Boys 049 - Above the Laws (S03E15)
December 11, 2019 12:53 - 49 minutes - 45 MBDealing with the aftermath of Faith's accidental murder of the Mayor's human lackey, Deputy Finch, the Gang put in the hard work to save her from a dark, tragic path. And then Wesley yeets it all to pieces. The Buffy Boys are not five-by-five in S03E15 "Consequences". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: In the shadow of 'Blacula' - Mr Trick as both representation and racial stereotype The knotted abuse of power in Faith as interpolated victim and victimizer The Watchers Council...
Buffy Boys 048 - El Eliminati (S03E14)
December 04, 2019 13:14 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBAs the Mayor's plan gets kicked into high 'giant snake' gear, fractures appear in Slayer HQ with the arrival of a new foppish Watcher, Wesley and a tragic manslaughter by Faith. The Buffy Boys want - take - have in S03E14 "Bad Girls". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: For Want of a Stake, there Goes Buffy: Faith's dark and reckless mirror of a Slayer without the strength of the found family unit Mundane horror and the Mayor as the face of the genteel American Apocalypse Wesle...
Buffy Boys 047 - Night of the Living Corpses (S03E13)
November 28, 2019 12:49 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBWith a vaguely defined but totally real Apocalypse in full swing, Xander gets sidelined into his own adventure - Zombies! Explosions! Meta jokes! The Boys discover that the real treasure was the friends we ignored along the way in S03E13 "The Zeppo". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Defining the view askew - Whedon and the playfulness of Point-of-View The Mundane as the heart and audience surrogate in fantasy settings Combat knives, vintage cars, snake heads and other penis ...
Buffy Boys 046 - The Final Examination (S03E12)
November 20, 2019 12:32 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBBuffy's 18th birthday takes a traditionally torturous turn as she's de-powered and trapped with a sadistic vampire as part of a Watchers Council test for maturing Slayers. Will anyone forgive Giles for his betrayal? The Buffy Boys are dealin' with daddy issues in S03E12 "Helpless". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Sharp wit and sharper stakes: use and loss of language and humour as a signal of power in the Buffyverse The B&B is Haunted - Sunnydale's real estate market is floo...
Buffy Boys Queering with Slayerfest 98 (Ian Carlos Crawford)
November 13, 2019 12:37 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBIn this Very Special Episode we're jazzed to invite one of our podcasting faves, the host of Slayerfest 98 Ian Carlos Crawford to Buffy Boys! We flap our gums about all things queer in Sunnydale: 'evil' bisexual vamps, Tara versus Kennedy, and Buffy - the hero who gave baby gays hope and unrealistic expectations about super-powered sex. You can follow Ian Carlos Crawford on @ianxcarlos and Slayerfest 98 @Slayerfestx98 on all trendy social media! If you enjoyed the episode you can subscr...
Buffy Boys 045 - Hansel und Gretel (S03E11)
November 06, 2019 12:40 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBSatanic panic clutches the pearls of Sunnydale's suggestible parental population! When Joyce finds two ritually murdered children the town turns just a lil fascist against witches, slayers and other queer allegories. Who Watches The Watcher Watchers? The Buffy Boys do in S03E11 "Gingerbread". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Black nail polish and boy witches: Magic as metaphor for gender defiant transgression Selective memory and mass delusion; resisting dark forces by choosin...
Buffy Boys 044 - Christmas Sun (S03E10)
October 29, 2019 14:54 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBAngel is being haunted by the First Evil who torments him with the memories of all the people, and accents, he has mercilessly butchered. Can Buffy talk him out of his pity party before the sun comes up? The Buffy Boys have a Very Slayer Christmas in S03E10 "Amends". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Emotional Special Effects: Ethical story-telling in the use of traumatic plot points as character flavour The unavoidable Buffy-as-Christ imagery The Call is Coming from Inside t...
Buffy Boys 043 - Best Wishes from Cordelia (S03E09)
October 22, 2019 19:21 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBA heartbroken Cordelia gets her wish answered by a vengeance demon and she's transported to a Buffy-less and vampire-ridden Sunnydale. As the revived Master drains human cattle on the assembly line, will help come from Cleveland in time? The Buffy Boys are grimmer, grayer and kinda gayer in S03E09 "The Wish". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: For Want of a Stake: nature versus nurture in the evolution of Buffy's unique found family Bi Now, Dead Later: Vampire Willow's complicat...
Buffy Boys 042 - Love and Other Troubles (S03E08)
October 16, 2019 12:36 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBSpike is back in town on a whirlwind one-episode-stop to coerce Willow into a love spell that'll win Drusilla back. A magic shop, a 1959 vintage car, and at least four relationships will be ruined before he's done. But what's a little emotional trauma between friends? The Buffy Boys dive into the empty swimming pool of S03E08 "Lovers Walk". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Platonic Slayer: The climax of Buffy's tragic romance and its heralding of the core Buffy format Vamp...
Buffy Boys 041 - Tar Frim! Tar Frim! (S03E07)
October 09, 2019 11:58 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBFaith's new Watcher, Mrs. Post appears with a flurry of harsh truths and imperialist witticisms in search of a glove with mystical Irish properties. But when Xander discovers Angel is alive, it all goes to H-E-double hockey sticks. De réir Buachaillí na mBuif, is fearr Gaeilge briste ná vaimpír cliste i S03E07 "Revelations". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The Monstrous Feminine: the double-edged sword of women in the patriarchal Watchers Council The Xander Harris Hatecast -...
Buffy Boys 040 - Chocolate Effect (S03E06)
October 02, 2019 12:38 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBMystically tainted candy (courtesy of Ethan Rayne) sends Sunnydale's adult population into an emotional time warp, reverting them to reckless teenage personalities. Can Buffy see through the Mayor's distraction to save some delicious babies from being a snake-demon's snack? The Buffy Boys are in another dimension, with voyeuristic intention - it's S03E06 "Band Candy". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Disturbed second childhood: the inverted fairytale of the immature parental fig...
Buffy Boys 039 - The Agony of Choice (S03E05)
September 25, 2019 11:07 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBIt's open season on Slayers as vampire entrepreneur Mr. Trick uses all the technological innovation he can squeeze out of a VHS tape and some pagers to set bounty-hunting baddies on "Faith" (aka Cordy) and Buffy in the iconic 'Slayer Fest '98'. The Buffy Boys cast their vote in a race to the bottom - it's S03E05 "Homecoming". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Bi by default: Deliberate versus procedural inclusion of queer storylines in videogames and interactive fiction One of B...
Buffy Boys 038 - Les belles et les bêtes (S03E04)
September 18, 2019 12:47 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBSomething feral is loose in Sunnydale savaging affable emo teens and compassionate school counsellors alike. Is it Oz,the moon-crazed werewolf? Angel, the Hell-maddened reborn vampire? These hogs we've heard so much about? The Buffy Boys drink the toxic masculinity Kool-Aid in S03E04 "Beauty and the Beasts". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: "Not All Monster-Men": uncovering the paper tiger of 'misandry' in Buffy fandom The many uses of a sturdy library book cage Two men talk...
Buffy Boys 037 - The new little sister (S03E03)
September 11, 2019 12:24 - 54 minutes - 50 MBBuffy's back in school and normality returns. Just kiddin'. Faith, a newly called Slayer, arrives in town on the run from cloven-hoofed elder vampire Kakistos and his Y2K fearing techno-minion Mr. Trick. Will new "heterosexual" love interest Scott Hope get lost in the mix? The Buffy Boys are five-by-five in S03E03 "Faith, Hope & Trick". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Socially Acceptable Slayage - Buffy's "tightly wound" persona assimilates where Faith's emotional rough edges...
Buffy Boys 036 - The Party of the Dead (S03E02)
September 02, 2019 21:05 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBBuffy's doing her best to fit back into her old routine: study, slay, sleep, repeat. But it's tough when she's kicked out of school, her friends are giving her the cold shoulder and so are the zombies her mother accidentally reanimated with a demonic Nigerian art piece. You bring the keg, buddy - the Buffy Boy's are the dip at S03E02 "Dead Man's Party". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Zombi(e) Zeitgeist - the cultural influence of the restless reanimated from traditional Hait...
Buffy Boys 035 - Secret Identity (S03E01)
August 28, 2019 11:16 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBIt's been one bummer of a summer for Buffy - living as a runaway under an assumed name in LA while the Scoobies try to fill her punning protector pumps in Sunnydale. But what'll happen when vulnerable teens get snatched to a brutalist Hell dimension by a youth pastor with a penchant for unsubtle foreshadowing? Abandon hope all ye Buffy Boys who enter S03E01 "Anne". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Helping the hopeless: existential despair as a tangible threat in dispossessed y...
Buffy Boys 034 - Playing With Fire (S02E22)
August 20, 2019 11:53 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBFramed for murder and on the run as Angelus's apocalypse dawns, Buffy will have to make a choice. No weapons, no friends, no hope. Take all that away, and what's left? The 'stakes' have never been higher. Eh? eh? It's the Season Two finale - Save us a seat, the Buffy Boys are going to Hell in S02E22 "Becoming, Part Two". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: "Have you tried not being the Slayer?" Buffy's use of queer coming out terminology to frame issues of personal identity, di...
Buffy Boys 033 - Keys of the Future Pt. 1 (S02E21)
August 14, 2019 11:58 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBBuffy is ready to take the fight to Angelus as a powerful force rises in Sunnydale...the power of exposition. Angel's backstory revealed, Kendra the Vampire Slayer returns and the Hellmouth stirs. Will they save the world from being pulled into a chaos dimension in time to study for finals? The Buffy Boys are ready to make history....end in S02E21 "Becoming, Part One". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Decolonizing the Chosen One: Kendra's death and legacy as a black Slayer ...
Buffy Boys 032 - The Secret of the Fishmonsters (S02E20)
August 06, 2019 21:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBSunnydale High has got swim team fever! Something wet and wild is stalking the rising (sinking?) stars of their most successful sports team leaving nothing but steaming hot skin flaps and poor fashion choices behind. What does this have to do with the fall of the Soviet Union? You'll have to dive in and find out. The Buffy Boys are up to their gills in S02E20 "Go Fish". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The male gaze and consent violation - plastering over lazy writing with con...
Buffy Boys 031 - A Demon Named Love (S02E19)
July 30, 2019 15:44 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBIt's a classic story: Boy loves girl, girl loves boy, girl is his high school teacher, they die in a murder-suicide shooting before the big dance in 1955, boy becomes poltergeist and recreates the tragedy by possessing innocents until a gender-swapped Angel/Buffy give them the cathartic forgiveness they need to escape the cycle of toxic masculinity and rage. How many times have we heard this one, honestly? The Buffy Boys are haunting the punch bowl in S02E19 "I Only Have Eyes for You". K...
Buffy Boys 030 - Death on a round (S02E18)
July 23, 2019 19:27 - 48 minutes - 44 MBBuffy's just plain worn out y'all. Weakened emotionally and physically by her struggle with Angelus as well as a nasty flu she's laid up in Sunnydale General. As the fever rages she'll have to confront her childhood fear of hospitals (for very good reason it turns out) as well as an invisible, murderous creep (eye)stalking the children's wing. The Buffy Boys are leaving balloons, chocolates, and non-committal 'Get Well Soon!' cards in S02E18 "Killed by Death". Key Buffy Bits from this ep...
Buffy Boys 029 - Greetings From the Afterlife (S02E17)
July 16, 2019 20:19 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBThe Buffy Boys are watching through gritted fingers as Angelus's campaign of psychological terror reaches a tragic, though beautifully sketched, crescendo. The rose petals. The champagne. The only floppy disk you ever cared about. Our hearts are literally beating. It's S02E17 "Passion". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The death of Jenny Calendar - 'fridging' moment or elegy for a fully realised woman Changing the Locks: Buffy's lived representation of male violence and fema...
Buffy Boys 028 - A Puzzling Charm (S02E16)
July 09, 2019 18:59 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBIt's Valentine's Day in Sunnydale High and a love spell goes terribly wrong, with hilarious and deadly consequences! You can actually pin-point the second when Xander's heart rips in half. The Buffy Boys wade into the choppy waters of magic, obsession, and consent and emerge, (thankfully) with literal rats only. It's S02E16 "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered". Female agency, witchcraft, and the farce of the male gaze The relative mouth feel of the Roman and Greek pantheons in the nomencl...
Buffy Boys 027 - The Werewolf Hunter (S02E15)
July 03, 2019 11:30 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBThe Scooby Gang have gotten themselves in another hairy situation as a werewolf is stalking lusty teens at Make-Out Point. They'll contend with feral, un-house-broken males of both the mystical and mundane variety - but is the true lycanthrope lying nearer than you would hope? In S02E15 "Phases" the Buffy Boys see a bad moon rising. Werewolves: metaphor for inevitable or just ingrained male aggression? Armoured Closet Gays and the fallacy of the closeted homophobe Angelus as abusive ex ...
Buffy Boys 026 - Angel or Demon (S02E14)
June 26, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBIn S02E14 "Innocence" one moment of perfect happiness costs Angel his soul and nothing will ever be the same again. It's a timeless tale of broken hearts, beautiful demons, and borrowed bazookas. The pain is gone and the Buffy Boys are feeling...just fine. To Kill the Girl You Have to Love Her - threat and dissolution of self emerging from the interpersonal rather than the supernatural Cursed birthdays - when the only thing worse than no-one coming to your party is when someone does Co...
Buffy Boys 025 - The Curse of the Gypsies (S02E13)
June 19, 2019 11:12 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBIt's S02E13 "Surprise" and the Buffy Boys have reached the burning heart of the 'ship. Apocalypse is being Amazon Prime'd into town and Angel has one moment of pure happiness, but will it turn out okay in the end? We think: probably. Happy Birthday, Buffy. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: The iron 'id' in the velvet glove - Drusilla as a sexually enabled mirror for Buffy's desire Buffy's cursed birthday or "Nobody came to my party because they were dead" Delirium dreams and th...
Buffy Boys 024 - Surprise Eggs (S02E12)
June 12, 2019 11:44 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBThe Buffy Boys have some serious questions about the American high school education system in the hard-boiled monster mystery that is S02E12 "Bad Eggs. If you've been affected by the issues raised in this Very Special Episode - well, sucks for you. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: S - E - X and the risk of pre-marital canoodling in American horror fiction Parental plasticity and the resilient Joyce/Buffy relationship Reflection: an ironically useful trope in building a portrai...
Buffy Boys 023 - The Fiancé (S02E11)
June 04, 2019 22:16 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBJoyce meets a new man and sparks fly, but his fragmented behaviour just doesn't compute for Buffy. Will he learn that he's not being very user friendly or he just not wired that way? It's S02E11 "Ted"! Ted's a robot. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Misogyny and Freudian tension through the lens of noted character actor John Ritter Handwaving fantasy physics: the 1950s robot with a floppy disk heart Structuring and integrating parallel narratives in genre fiction: the A, B, ...
Buffy Boys 022 - What Should I Do (S02E10)
May 29, 2019 09:45 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBThe Buffy Boys are seeing double this week - four guns! It's S02E10 "What's My Line, Part Two". The Boys wade through the mire of problematic racial stereotypes and knotted gender politics to recognise the gem that is Kendra (No Last Name). This week she was our favourite Slayer. She was our only Slayer. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Kendra as the anti-Buffy cipher for post-colonial and counter-intellectual tension An excessive amount of phallic objects and exaggerated pene...
Buffy Boys 021 - What is my vocation? (S02E09)
May 22, 2019 10:20 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBThe Buffy Boys are seeing double this week - Two part episode! Two Slayers! It's S02E09 "What's My Line, Part One". The Boys line dance their way through some theory and say "Tarot!" to the oddest and most specific set of tarot cards going. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Lorebuilding through deep dive narrative journeys: storytelling as exploration and reconstruction Highly problematic Jamaican accents which will not be imitated Teenage identity in the 90's: the disruption...
Buffy Boys 020 - Power of Darkness (S02E08)
May 15, 2019 12:42 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBIt's a dark and stormy night for the Buffy Boys in S02E08 "The Dark Age" when the ghost of Giles's teenage rebellion sleepwalks back into his life. As John Constantine said - the ultimate secret of magic? Any Brit could do it. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Erosion of childhood ideals: repetition and disintegration of identity Occult, the bachanal and genderqueer - dark magic as a cipher for self-determination and roleplay The shabby grandeur of the English ghost story - M...
Buffy Boys 019 - Death Wish (S02E07)
May 08, 2019 10:31 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBIt's 'Revenge of the Living Cosplayers' for the Buffy Boys in S02E07 'Lie to Me' as an old schoolyard crush from Buffy's LA days arrives in town with a half-baked cult of vampire groupies, six months to live, and a plan. Can too much LARPing kill you? Yes. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Meeting imitation with interior life in reconstructing a post-Anne Rice vampire Nitro-burning funny cars Nursery rhymes and scary stories as a rubric to strip back the shell of childhood ...
Buffy Boys 018 - Night of Transformation (S02E06)
May 01, 2019 12:04 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBIt's the most wonderful fright of the year in S02E06 "Halloween". The Buffy Boys talk duality, gender play, and thirsty wigs when a cursed costume shop comes to sleepy ol' Sunnydale. But does Giles still hold a black flame candle for its enigmatic owner, Ethan? Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Integration and evolving identities through the lens of feminine expression Ambiguously murdered (?) children Queer joy: living as a minority is an act of defiance Tropes of 'secret...
Buffy Boys 017 - El Demonio Serpiente (S02E05)
April 24, 2019 12:16 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBThe Boys delve into the venomous world of fraternities in S02E05 "Reptile Boy" as Buffy and Cordy get wrapped up with some entitled college fellas who are sacrificing girls in cold blood. Well, the patriarchy can just hiss off! Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Phallic imagery: sometimes a snake is just a snake Sex, death and responsibility - reprecussions of being a teenager in horror Misogyny and the discarded skin of the 'Nice Guy' It's like Hogwarts if every house was S...
Buffy Boys 016 - Inkamuumio (S02E04)
April 17, 2019 12:35 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBThe Buffy Boys wade through the exotic and deadly jungles of deepest, darkest 'Cultural Appropriation' in S02E04 "Inca Mummy Girl". Vengeful human sacrifices - but make it fashion! Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Female agency and sacrifice - the 'chosen girl' across cultures An Eiffel Tower made entirely of cheese Speaker for the dead: ethical representation of cultures which no longer exist The burgeoning Oz and Willow romance, so pure and cute "My dad tried to sell m...
Buffy Boys 015 - Parent-Teacher Conference With Obstacles (S02E03)
April 10, 2019 11:42 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBIt's S02E03 "School Hard" and Spike has arrived in Sunnydale with a pocketful of dreams, a mouthful of teeth, and a car boot full of hair dye. The Boys resist the urge to do an English accent, aren't you proud? Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Eroding the Old World: the post-punk vampire Slayer apocrypha and mythologising dead and nameless girls The sorrowful tale of the Buffy blu-ray project The weird Irish associations with 'Angelus' "you said ‘The cow should touch me...
Buffy Boys 014 - It Needs Retouching (S02E02)
April 03, 2019 11:46 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBThe Buffy Boys 'tackle' S02E02 "Some Assembly Required" when some pint-sized Frankensteins make a 'Hail Mary' to build a girlfriend from spare parts until our 'MVP' Buffy causes them to 'fumble' in the 'end zone'. There's American football in this episode. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Women in BtVS are attacked without becoming victims Plan 9! From Outer Space! The Boys careen from pop-culture reference to reference with a recklessness that approaches Gilmore Girls lev...
Buffy Boys 013 - The Metamorphosis of Buffy (S02E01)
March 27, 2019 12:55 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBIt's the Season 2 premiere and Buffy has come back from summer vay-cay in full on Bitch Mode! Or suffering the symptoms of textbook PTSD (our episode guides disagreed on this point.) The Buffy Boys get to smashin' bones in S02E01 "When She Was Bad". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Fragments and integration - narratives of faded childhood The halcyon days of bootleg VHS tapes Evolving Old World horror - the coming of Spike and the 21st century vamp An extremely brief dis...
Buffy Boys 012 - The End of the World (S01E12)
March 20, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBIn this week's episode the Hellmouth opens. You always remember your first Apocalypse. Will Buffy and her Boys be ready? It's S01E12 "Prophecy Girl". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Collision and dissolution: Buffy queers death Cordelia's Imperator Furiosa level driving skillz The symbolic sundering of the library - subtextual, textual and hypertextual transgression Diegetic cheesy electric guitar Theme Song solos Jokes aside, Buffy is a role model and at least one o...
Buffy Boys 011 - Crazy and Invisible (S01E11)
March 12, 2019 23:22 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBIn this week's episode the Boys live out their prom-queen-revenge-quantum-realm-invisible-assassin fantasy in S01E11 "Out of Mind, Out of Sight". Happiness truly is a warm pun. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include: Gay panic and the Twinkie Defense Growing up in Ireland and watching the bizzaro land of US high schools Buffy's 'dark shadow' and the erasure of the popular girl The use and gleeful abuse of slasher tropes The redemption of Cordelia Chase "Being popular is not j...