SLAY!!! A Queer Buffy Podcast
Presented by Recovering Gleek, a spoiler free Buffy the Vampire Slayer rewatch podcast, hosted by two long time friends, Lena Conatser and Ian Allred, and looked at through a queer lens. New episodes every Wednesday!Follow us! @rgpresents_podcast Support this podcast: patreon.com/recoveringgleek
BtVS S4E2 Living Conditions
Buffy experiences the growing pains of having to share her space for the first time, it doesn't help that her roommate is a soul sucking demon, literally?
BtVS S4E1 The Freshman
We're back and we're adults now! Buffy is off to college, new campus, new community, new vamps, and she's feeling like she may no longer be the same old her.
BtVS Season 3 Wrap Up
The highs and lows of Season 3, superlatives, and listener emails
BtVS S3E22 Graudation Day Part 2
High school's ending, it's time to say goodbye to your childhood, enter the real world, start your future, and kill a giant snake by blowing up your high school
BtVS S3E21 Graduation Day Part 1
Buffy is getting ready to graduate high school, but first she has to deal with her ex friend trying to kill her ex boyfriend
BtVS S3E20 The Prom
Buffy's going to give her friends a night to remember if she has to kill every single person.
BtVS S3E19 Choices
Buffy, Faith, and Willow must face the repercussions of past, and possibilities of future, choices. If you have decision paralysis, this episode is NOT for you!
BtVS S3E18 Earshot
Buffy gets the power to read minds and doesn't immediately recognize that that is a curse and will ruin your entire life
BtVS S3E17 Enemies
It's a queer persons worst nightmare, the two objects of your affection are kissing each other instead of you
BtVS S3E16 Doppelgangland
It's the land of twins as Willow's look alike teachers her a lesson in not judging others and answers the ultimate question, when met with your clone do you fight or f***?
BtVS S3E15 Consequences
Every bill comes due, and every murdered deputy mayor comes back to haunt you and cause a rift between you and your girlfriend
BtVS S3E14 Bad Girls
You ever tried to impress your crush and ended up losing sight of who you really are? You ever let it escalate to the point where the two of you commit sapphic murder?
BtVS S3E13 The Zeppo
The Apocalypse is here! Again! But Xander's been put on doughnut duty as the rest of the group fears he's too big of a liability. He spends the possible last night on earth desperately trying to prove his worth to his friends and himself.
BtVS S3E12 Helpless
For Buffy's 18th birthday she gets a taste of what if feels like to be an adult, you're weak and tired all the time and even those closest to you betray you.
BtVS S3E11 Gingerbread
Everything you know is wrong! Little kids are evil! Witches are nice! The powers that be are lying to you!
BtVS S3E10 Amends
Nothing like torturous guilt for your past sins to put you in the holiday spirit! Angel is haunted by his past and Buffy is haunted by the fact that she still can't get over this lame ass old buzzkill
BtVS S3E9 The Wish
Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get one of the best episodes of the series thus far.
BtVS S3E8 Lover's Walk
A heartbroken Spike returns to Sunnydale and puts everyone through hell in his attempt to get his groove back
BtVS S3E7 Revelations
Faith has a new watcher who went to the Regina George school of mindgames and breeds tension among the Scoobies, which erupts when everyone finds out Angel is back from the dead.
BtVS S3E6 Band Candy
Buffy's tired of being treated like a kid! Until every adult in town starts acting like one, and her mom and teacher make out, and her principal wants to be best friends, and all the babies in town go missing
BtVS S3E5 Homecoming
Cordelia and Buffy compete for the title of Homecoming queen while a group of hunters compete to be the one to kill them both
BtVS S3E4 - Beauty and the Beasts
Angel's back, Oz's wolf got out, and Buffy is unsure about her new relationship
BtVS S3E3 - Faith, Hope & Trick
A new Slayer comes to town and we can't even be chill about this because it's our girl!!! She's here!!! Today is the first day of the rest of our lives!!!
BtVS S3E2 Dead Mans Party
Tensions boil over as everyone is mad at each other but also too non-confrontational to do anything about it. Buffy feels out of place, Willow feels abandoned, and Joyce has a lesbian lover. Throw in some zombies and you've got a dead man's party, who could ask for more?
BtVS S3E1 Anne
Our girl is BACK, except no she's not because she ran away and is living under a false identity. While Buffy fights her inner demons the rest of the scoobies are fighting actual demons without the help of the Slayer, but a familiar face might be what Buffy needs to set her back on the right path. THIS EPISODE IS ABOUT COMING TO TERMS WITH YOUR SEXUALITY. IT IS A QUEER ALLEGORY. ANNE IS GAY MEDIA
BTVS Season 2 Wrap Up
Before we head into Season 3 we are taking a look back at our favorite, and least favorite, moments of this season and bringing in a Buffy virgin to hear what they think will happen next
BTVS S2E22 Becoming Part 2
Sometimes you get kicked out of school, sometimes your mom reacts badly to you coming out and kicks you out of the house, sometimes you have to kill your boyfriend, and sometimes all those things happen the same night.
BTVS S2E21 Becoming Part 1
ITS THE TWO PART FINALE! We're learning about who Angel was, while who he is prepares to end the world and Buffy tries to stop him.
BTVS S2E19 Go Fish
Performance enhancing drugs can cause mood swings, lowered immune system, and full body transformation into a fish man
BTVS S2E19 I Only Have Eyes For You
At the Sadie Hawkins dance you have the stress of finding a date, buying a dress, and being possessed by the culprit in a 40 year old murder suicide.
BTVS S2E18 Killed by Death
There are some harsh realities in life that you can't change, you just have to accept. Or maybe you can just manifest them in demon form and take out your frustration on them so you never have to come to terms with how powerless you are against the universe.
BTVS S2E17 Passion
DIVA DOWN! It's a big one, it's a sad one, passion makes you act recklessly but also makes life worth living
BTVS S2E16 Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered w/ Claire Manning
Claire Manning (@claireunteed on tiktok and instagram) joins to discuss what happens when a teenage boy acts rashly and emotionally and Sarah Michelle Gellar has to be offset to host SNL
BTVS S2E15 Phases
Teenage boys are like werewolves, their hormones take hold and completely lose control. And they sometimes grow fur and crave human flesh
BTVS S2E14 Innocence
IT'S A BIG ONE! Young love is hard, sometimes you realize they don't feel the same way about you, and sometimes you find that out because they go on a killing spree.
BTVS S2E13 Surprise
What do you get the Slayer who has everything? Bad dreams that portend trouble for her boyfriend and a disembodied arm
BTVS S2E12 Bad Eggs
Balancing your school and personal life is hard enough and now you've got to parent an egg for health class? AND take down the hive mind that is quickly infecting your entire town??
BTVS S2E11 Ted
Is your mom's new boyfriend actually a girl hating cyborg or do you just not want her to be happy?
BtVS S2E10 What's My Line Pt 2
A little rivalry can push you to be better, and help you thwart the ancient ritual that's going to kill your undead boyfriend
BtVS S2E9 What's My Line Pt 1
As a teenager the prospect of what you'll do with your life can seem overwhelming, as can being hunted down by a team of supernatural bounty hunters