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Welcome to Beyond Buffering, where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs & Kristin Russo rewatch all of their favorite television shows that exist outside of the Buffyverse! In this feed you will find conversation on 90s classics such as The X-Files & My So-Called Life plus current favorites like Yellowjackets & Fallout!

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The eX-Files 3.20 Jose Chung's From Outer Space | An X-Files Podcast
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#320
Today at 3:29 PM

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

We have arrived at Kristin's absolute favorite episode of The X-Files (to date), so buckle up! 

 

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The eX-Files | The X-Files 3.17 Pusher and 3.18 Teso Dos Bichos
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#317
10/29/2026

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

We are back with not one but TWO episodes of X-Files coverage! In the first — S3E17 “Pusher” — our fearless agents investigate the science behind “the whammy.” In the second — S3E18 “Teso Dos Bichos” — we have a dog who ate a cat who ate a rat, a whole heap of white nonsense, and the cementing of our already-existent fear of things coming out of toilets.  


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3.05 Homecoming LIVE from Brooklyn | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#305
10/28/2026

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers!

Hello and welcome to SlayerFest 98… we mean Homecoming!! This episode was recorded in front of a live audience in Brooklyn NY, in the fine company of extra special guest Joanna Robinson, as part of our celebration of the 10th anniversary of the pod!! We have been training our whole lives for this (and by “this” we mean a LOT of making two water bott...


Watcher's Diary #29: Unpeel Your Eyes | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#304
10/21/2026

Kelly Clarkson wants some respect and a goddamn bird, Alanis Morisette simply loves when soccer teams get lost in the Canadian wilderness, snakes are falling from the sky in Nashville, and Xena's Ululating might have something to do with something that is none of Jenny's business. Come, join us for a watcher's diary, won't you?


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3.04 Beauty and the Beasts | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#304
10/14/2026

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! There are two types of monsters, but three in particular are running around Sunnydale: one keeps his shirt on the whole time (thanks, Pete), one keeps his shirt on half the time (nothing but respect for you, Oz), and one has never worn a shirt in his entire life (WELCOME BACK, ANGEL). Also, Buffy... that is way too much jello. Come along as we disc...


Watcher’s Diary #28: Sisters? We’re Close.
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#303
10/07/2026

First Watcher’s Diary of Season Three is HERE and we are talking about Practical Magic 2, Jenny’s son heckling her, the ongoing saga of URINE: IS IT STERILE, what Dawn has been doing, and some more on lovers that are also baskets. 


Practical Magic 2 Spoilers: 4:37 - 12:39

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“Wicker, Bread Husbands, and Heterofabulism”

Dark Academia on WICKER

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The eX-Files | The X-Files 3.16 Apocrypha
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#316
10/01/2026

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

Buble is back, Mulder and Krycek go on a boys roadtrip, Scully is literally at everyone's bedside, and WE DON'T CARE IF YOU HAVE TO STAND OUT IN THE HALLWAY YOURSELVES, THIS MAN HAS TO BE PROTECTED. It's Season 3, Episode 16 "Apocrypha." Ask not what you can pull from the oily muck, but what the oily muck can pull from you!


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3.03 Faith, Hope & Trick | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#303
09/30/2026

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Mr. Trick is HERE. Faith Lehane is HERE. (Scott Hope is also here). We are gonna wrastle alligators and our feelings!! We are gonna get hungry *and* horny!! We are gonna don our boob windows in celebration, because we have arrived at Season 3, Episode 3, "Faith, Hope & Trick"!! PS: Here also beginneth our campaign for giving Faith a dang place to live. Our original coverage of "...


3.02 Dead Man's Party | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#302
09/16/2026

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers!

There's a zombie cat! PAT IS HERE! There's a mask with glowing eyes! PAT IS HERE! Buffy is kicked out of school! BUT PAT IS HERE! There are EMPANADAS BECAUSE PAT IS HERE AND WE KNOW HER FROM BOOK CLUB OKAY?!?!?! Pass us the schnapps, it's Season 3, Episode 2: "Dead Man's Party." Our original coverage of "Dead Man's Party" — with no spoilers! — aired on Septe...


The eX-Files | The X-Files 3.15 Piper Maru
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#315
09/11/2026

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.


This week we've got men in black AND frenchmen in black, Mulder is sniffing an unidentified oily substance that he's picked up on his ungloved fingers, Scully IS A MEDICAL DOCTOR OKAY, Krycek has returned to be incredibly attractive actually, and we meet the star of the X-Files: Jeraldine. It's S3E15 "Piper Maru," so put that in your piper and... maru it. Or whatever.


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3.01 Anne | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#301
09/02/2026

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers!


Some people go back to school in September, but WE go back to Sunnydale!!! Time to dive head first through a boob window into Season 3. Get your Trapper Keepers in your Jansport backpacks and make sure you put a hammer and a sickle in your pencil case, because our first stop is The Big City and we’ve gotta sling...


The eX-Files | The X-Files 3.14 Grotesque
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#314
08/27/2026

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

The French say GARGOOEY, okay?! Mulder's third (fourth?) daddy figure takes center stage while Scully and Skinner share concerned eyebrow raises, Patrick Swayze gently cradles Mulder as he makes his little pottery, and Scully gets the sh*t scared out of her by a leaping cat! Please, join us on this ride through The X-Files S3E14, "Grotesque." Come for the gargoyles, stay for corpses you can find inside!

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Encore Episode: “Buffy vs. Dracula” Live from Philadelphia's World Cafe Live | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#234
08/26/2026

Philadelphia really knows how to show two girls a good time! Special guests Ian Carlos Crawford and Joanna Robinson joined us at World Cafe Live back in 2019 to discuss the comfortability of Riley’s elbow, the wrestling move known as "Tilt-A-Whirl Headscissors Take Down," that one time Friday the 13th fell on October 25th, and whether Giles a Daddy or a Zaddy. Plus, the inaugural chant of "Mom is drunk." An epic live event, indeed.


This episode originally aired on September 18, 2019

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Watcher's Diary #27: World's Hottest Basket
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#233
08/19/2026

We are talking Backrooms, baseball, and bulgarian choirs this week in our LIVE Watcher's Diary — recorded with our patrons in attendance just last week! Come for the Drake Equation, stay for the Women's Hockey League L-Word-Style Chart! Something for everyone.


Backrooms Spoilers: 7:27 - 19:34


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MST3K&J: The Trailer for “Wicker”

Carl Sagan on The Drake Equation

SETI on The Drake Equation

PWHL L-Word Chart


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The eX-Files | The X-Files 3.13 Syzygy
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#313
08/13/2026

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

Oh no, the devil is coming after blonde virgins?!?! WHAT ARE THE ODDS. In this episode of the X-Files we find out what happened to the Eve twins when they got to high school!! Just kidding, these are two entirely different smug bitches who just happen to have been born on the same day and who are celebrating their birthdays with lots of murder murder murder! We've got astrology, we've got Keystone...


Encore Episode: “Beer Bad” Live from NYC's Littlefield | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#232
08/12/2026

There's beer! There's a history of alewives! There's a fresh divorce! Please enjoy our encore airing of "Beer Bad," live from Brooklyn's Littlefield. Special guests Louis Pietzman, Kathy Tu, and Heather Hogan join us — and the beer is good, actually.


This episode originally aired on July 17, 2018

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Encore Episode: “Reptile Boy” Live from LA’s NerdMelt | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#231
08/06/2026

Our first EVER live recording with special guests Brittani Nichols, Chris Farren, and Gabe Dunn at the now-shuttered NerdMelt space in Los Angeles! It’s possible that we had the most fun, actually, that has ever been had??? Please enjoy this encore episode, which first aired on February 7, 2017. We are certain that was just a few weeks ago…

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Encore Episode: Interview with James Marsters | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#230
07/30/2026

It was an honor and privilege to sit and chat with James Marsters! We talked about his early theatre days, what he learned about his craft from Anthony Stewart Head, the finer details of maintaining various pieces of Spike’s iconic wardrobe, and so much more. We’re thrilled to be re-airing this interview (perhaps our favorite cast conversation of all time) which originally aired on March 26, 2019.

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The eX-Files: The X-Files 3.12 War of the Coprophages
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#312
07/30/2026

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

We hate that you have to hear it from us, but there are roaches simply EVERYwhere in this episode! In the basement, in your buddy’s makeshift drug lab, in the bathroom, in the motel, even in the poop warehouse. Egads! At least there’s a cute little robot to help take the edge off… and also our new gal pal Dr. Bambi. But let’s face it, this is no place for an e...


Watcher's Diary #26: A Cadre of Nymphs
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#229
07/22/2026

A humdinger of a Watcher's Diary is upon us!! Including but not limited to: the women's pro baseball league (!!!), Juliette Lewis, dead dads, Love Island, books that our kids love, fly hotels, Diana (Goddess of the Hunt), and soooo much more.

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The eX Files: The X-Files 3.11 Revelations
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#311
07/16/2026

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

Since the beginning of the series, we’ve been wondering what the limit might be on what Fox Mulder is willing to believe (if the limit does indeed exist)… and in S3E11, “Revelations,” we have found it. Stigmata? Guardian angels?? A fiery-handed demon?! Sorry, Mulder’s filing cabinet is suddenly at capacity! Scully, however, finds herself Wanting To Believe as this episode barrels down a Catholic-adjacent path and she is forced to wonder...


Encore Episode: Interview with Juliet Landau | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#228
07/15/2026

Druuuusilllaa!! Youuuuu filllaaa my heart with dread and still I’m led right back to youuuuuu.


Bonus: Xena Warrior Princess Exclusive from Patreon | Xena Ululating 01: "I Could Get Up There Behind You"
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#227
07/10/2026

All you really need to know is that Kristin loves Xena more than most things on planet Earth and she's only seen one episode???

In our pilot episode  — which aired exclusively for patrons on June 19th — we will be discussing Xena's three-episode arc on Hercules and the pilot of Xena: Warrior Princess, "Sins of the Past."

If you'd like to listen to the second episode, it is up now right here on Patreon!

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Encore Episode: Interview with Marc Blucas | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#227
07/08/2026

The most butterscotch of all the hunks, and one of our favorite interviews EVER — Marc Blucas sat down with us to talk about all things Riley (and yes, also compared hand sizes with Jenny). No matter your feelings on Riley Finn, there is no way you can meet Mr. Blucas and not swoon?!?! Maybe he SHOULD take boots off slowly after all.

This month we're sharing some of our favorite Buffy cast interviews from the Buffering archives. This interview originally aired on February 11, 2020

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The eX Files: The X-Files 3.09 Nisei and 3.10 731
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#309
07/02/2026

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

We have returned to the filing cabinet labeled “X” to discuss a Season 3 two parter: Episode 9, “Nisei,” and Episode 10, “731”! Myth arcs return, Mulder’s hair is reaching peak form, Scully needs PROOF and also is ONE OF THEM, and Skinner’s head shines like the beacon of light he is! Oh and Mr X is back even tho he sweaaaars he cannot get involved, Cigarette Smoking Man smokes, and the train conductor wins t...


Encore Episode: Interview with Kristine Sutherland | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#226
07/01/2026

One of our very first cast interviews was with the absolutely wonderful Kristine Sutherland, and we are sharing it for the first time as a standalone conversation! We chat about Buffy coming out to Joyce, the cop car scene in "Band Candy," her relationship with the Buffy fandom, filming "The Body," and so much more.

This month we're sharing some of our favorite Buffy cast interviews from the Buffering archives. This interivew originally aired in two parts on October 18, 2017 (in "Band Candy") and May 6, 2020 (in "The Body with Kristine Sutherland")

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Watcher’s Diary #25: Do You Know What A Clam Slam Is?
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#225
06/26/2026

We’ve got thoughts on Love Island, Euphoria, and pool safety PLUS some new ideas on Angel’s curse, a veeeery tiny Sunnydale, and a new pet sound that Jenny couldn’t sing without dancing. IN EPISODE LINKS

Miniature Downtown Sunnydale
MST3K&J: Gloria Estefan "Bad Boys"


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Encore Episode: Checkpoint with Ira Madison III | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#225
06/24/2026

Back in 2020 Ira Madison III joined us (righhhhht before we would all find ourselves in quarantine...) to chat about  "Checkpoint," and discuss the hottest member of the Watcher's Council, paying Buffy Summers, and how Willow is bi but it was 2001, so even *she* probably didn't know it.

This month we're sharing some of our favorite "special guest" episodes from the Buffering archives. This encore episode originally aired on March 4, 2020. (What a time!)


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Encore Episode: Enemies with Hrishikesh Hirway | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#224
06/19/2026

Our first ever hangout with Hrishikesh Hirway from back in 2018!! We've got erotic novels, warm milk left out on countertops, the birth of JENNY AND THE TWO PENNIES (!!), discussions on Angel's preferred candle scent, and so much more. A real humdinger of an episode.

This month we're sharing some of our favorite "special guest" episodes from the Buffering archives. This encore episode originally aired on February 7, 2018.


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Watcher's Diary #24: The Sausage Link You Didn't Order
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#224
06/17/2026

A little unexpected Watcher's Diary because we do what we want!!! Including discussions on Survivor, Love Island, Widow's Bay, and our children's summer plans (to see each other).

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Encore Episode: Innocence with Joanna Robinson | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#223
06/10/2026

This month we're sharing some of our favorite "special guest" episodes from the Buffering archives, and there's no better way we could think of to kick things off than with our very first Buffy chat with BFF of the pod Joanna Robinson! Up for discussion: claddagh rings, Angelus's foundation, what exactly IS "one moment of true happiness" and is there a corresponding equation by chance?!


This encore episode originally aired on April 26th 2017.

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The eX Files: The X-Files 3.07 The Walk and 3.08 Oubliette
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#307
06/04/2026

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

An episode we didn’t like at all and episode we kinda liked, actually!! Together in one pod we’ve got thoughts on “death by boiling” (sorry), child kidnapping (WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS, X-FILES), and perhaps most importantly why Kristin has started to like (some of) this show despite how often she has to yell at it?!


It’s Season 3, Episodes 7 “The Walk,” and Episode 8 “Oubliette.”

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Watcher's Diary #23: Joanna Robinson is Here to Talk to Us
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#222
05/27/2026

Joanna Robinson helps us close out Season 2 of Buffy and also helps Jenny explain Morning Glory Milking Farm to Kristin. Plus Euphoria, The X-Files, and a new theme song for Joanna's perfect cat Bug! 

Learn more about Joanna and her work here: https://www.jowrotethis.com/

In Episode Links MST3K&J&J: Tori Amos' "A Sorta Fairytale"

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The eX Files: The X-Files 3.06 2Shy
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#306
05/21/2026

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.


Just another fat-sucking, misogynist vampire on the internet for your Thursday! It's Season 3, Episode 6, "2Shy" and all we really have to say is... f*ck off, Virgil!

Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 5/5 LATOYA OFFICIALLY* QUITS THE PODCAST (*Not really, but you people can’t force her to actually watch this episode until she’s good and ready. So this is the rati...


2.22 Becoming (Part 2) | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#222
05/13/2026

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers!

The winter here is cold* and bitter and even your best overalls will not keep you warm. Swords are gonna clang, orbs are gonna orb, and hearts are gonna break. We have arrived (again) at one of the best episodes of the series, and all we can say is… ouchhhhh. *for proof pls see S3E10


Our origin...


“It’s THE SHOW”: Passion of the Nerd’s Ian Martin on Season 2 of Buffy
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#221
05/12/2026

After ten years of creating Buffy content in our own little corners of the universe, we are beyond delighted to have FINALLY spoken with Passion of the Nerd's Ian Martin! We chat about Season 2, the reboot, depression, and the recipe that makes Buffy the beating heart of television for oh-so-many of us.


PASSION OF THE NERD on YouTube

PASSION OF THE NERD'S "Lie To Me"

Learn more about our guest, IAN MARTIN


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The eX Files: The X-Files 3.05 The List
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#305
05/07/2026

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.


Apart from Kristin learning more about flies and maggots, nearly everything else that we have to wade through in this episode is wildly problematic! In between racist wardens and horrible prison systems we find a tale of reincarnation (or, transmigration, perhaps?) that is confusing enough to leave even Mulder and Scully confused by the end of the episode. At least Bokeem Woodbine is here! Wheeeeee! It's Season 3, Episode 5, "...


2.21 Becoming (Part 1) | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#221
05/06/2026

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers!

The one and only Hrishikesh Hirway joins us for our conversation on S2E21 "Becoming Part 1" (we hope you don't mind his Irish accent)!! We discuss very important things such as covalent bonds, the shape of an obelisk, the green ribbon tied around Darla's neck, and disks that are either hard or floppy! Also also: the Kendra jingle has now been masterfully reco...


Watcher's Diary #22: If You Want To Hear Drusilla Say "Moo"
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#220
04/29/2026

Pondering big questions like if Lilah Morgan and Faith Lehane would maybe make out (and why it wouldn’t be good for either of them?!) as well as limiting Jenny to five minutes of survivor talk (she somehow did manage to keep it under six). Plus Kids in the Hall, Bleak Midwinters, and Pet Sounds!

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⁠Kids In The Hall: He's 45⁠

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⁠MST3K&J "Hero" ⁠


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2.20 Go Fish | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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#220
04/19/2026

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers!

We've got speedos and kickboards in close proximity, fish monsters slip 'n sliding in the boys' locker room, and heaping piles of the patriarchy ...plus it REALLY smells like low tide in here?! It's S2E20 "Go Fish," and yes that IS Shane West in the steam room.

Our original coverage of "Go Fish" — with no spoilers! — aired on June 14, 2017 and you...