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! Our Fallout Season 1 coverage will begin airing in this feed on November 20th so you can rewatch the first ten episodes along with us leading up to Fallout's Season 2 premiere on December 17th. Our show calendar can be found here! The eX-Files Season 3 returns March 5th! LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET  Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; ⁠⁠jennyowenyoungs.com⁠⁠ Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; ⁠⁠kristinnoeline.com⁠⁠ Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs. LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT? Head over to ⁠Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top⁠! PATREON | ⁠⁠patreon.com/bufferingcast⁠⁠ MERCH |⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop⁠⁠ +++ Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.  Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at ⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. It's the FINALE of Season 2 of Yellowjackets!!! We are making Hot PhenobarbiCocoa at Camp Lottie, burning down cabins in the wilderness, and surviving on a dinner of Roast Javi. Jeff is in cohoots with Walter. Coach Ben is moving into a tree. Saracusa is totally fucked. Teen Shauna is writing in her slam book in the attic. Not enough knives are dulled for a present day hunt. A LOT OF SAD THINGS HAPPEN THAT WE DON'T WANT TO WRITE ABOUT BUT WE ARE FORCED TO TALK ABOUT. It's time for Season 2, Episode 9: "Storytelling" ... which means it is also time to ready ourselves for SEASON 3 OF THIS WILD SHOW, premiering February 14th. Wow. We did it. Our episodes are spoiler-free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny... WHAT'S THE BUZZ IT IS THE FINALE, THERE IS NO WHAT'S THE BUZZ!! LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET  Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; ⁠⁠jennyowenyoungs.com⁠⁠ Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; ⁠⁠kristinnoeline.com⁠⁠ Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs. LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT? Head over to ⁠Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top⁠! PATREON | ⁠⁠patreon.com/bufferingcast⁠⁠ MERCH |⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop⁠⁠ +++ Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.  Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at ⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Uh-oh — Queen of Hearts ACTIVATE — we've officially decided to craft a ritual for eating our friends in the wilderness!!! It's not because we want to though it is is because the wilderness wants us to. Make sure you remember that! Triangle Buddy said FEAST UPON THINE FRIENDS JUST AS I ONCE DID WITH SKELETON BUDDY. Also, in the present timeline, Van throws the keys to the van (no relation) into the woods so we are all stuck in the sharing shack together revealing secrets and pouring phenobarbital cocktails. It's time for Season 2, Episode 8: "It Chooses." Our episodes are spoiler-free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny... WHAT'S THE BUZZ 1:26:08 - 1:31:45 IN EPISODE LINKS ⁠Javi's Drawings⁠ ⁠Adam's Tattoo⁠ LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET  Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; ⁠⁠jennyowenyoungs.com⁠⁠ Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; ⁠⁠kristinnoeline.com⁠⁠ Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs. LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT? Head over to ⁠Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top⁠! PATREON | ⁠⁠patreon.com/bufferingcast⁠⁠ MERCH |⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop⁠⁠ +++ Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.  Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at ⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. We are burying many things this week, and perhaps most dangerous of all: OUR FEELINGS! In the past, the search begins for Crystal (where the f*ck is Crystal, y'all), Ben shaves, and Shauna's most authentic self kicks the ever living shit out of Lottie's most authentic self. In the present we've got a musical, a goat named Bruce, and a snowy dance of glee between old pals who have a very grounded and healthy history together! It's time for Season 2, Episode 7: "Burial." Our episodes are spoiler-free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny... WHAT'S THE BUZZ 1:39:49 - 1:46:19 LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET  Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; ⁠⁠jennyowenyoungs.com⁠⁠ Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; ⁠⁠kristinnoeline.com⁠⁠ Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs. LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT? Head over to ⁠Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top⁠! PATREON | ⁠⁠patreon.com/bufferingcast⁠⁠ MERCH |⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop⁠⁠ +++ Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.  Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at ⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Reunited and it feels so good: BFF of the pod Joanna Robinson joins Jenny to discuss an episode that is absolutely none of Kristin’s business at the moment! Shauna completely forgets about the most important cookies she ever read, Misty endures the sobbing of some granola losers in the name of culinary excellence, and LOOK OUT because Jeff got the aux back!! Also the show finds new ways to upset us more deeply than we ever thought possible… how DO they do it?! It's time for Season 2, Episode 6: "Qui." Our episodes are spoiler-free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny... WHAT'S THE BUZZ 1:41:43 - 1:45:09 LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET  Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; ⁠⁠jennyowenyoungs.com⁠⁠ Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; ⁠⁠kristinnoeline.com⁠⁠ Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs. LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT? Head over to ⁠Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top⁠! PATREON | ⁠⁠patreon.com/bufferingcast⁠⁠ MERCH |⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop⁠⁠ +++ Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.  Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at ⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Walter and Misty find Natalie at Camp Lottie (shout out to the phrase "woo woo bullshit" appearing in this very episode), Shauna pretends to sleep with Randy, Callie leans into her new life of crime, Shadow Tai plants one on Van, and in the 1997 wilderness Crystal falls from a cliff and Shauna goes into labor ALL DURING A SNOWSTORM. Also Javi has "a friend." There's a lot to discuss, ok?! It's Season 2, Episode 5: "Two Truths and A Lie"! Our episodes are spoiler-free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny... WHAT'S THE BUZZ 1:42:09 - 1:51:00 IN EPISODE LINKS Dan Savage, ⁠This American Life “Return to the Scene of the Crime”⁠ LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET  Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; ⁠⁠jennyowenyoungs.com⁠⁠ Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; ⁠⁠kristinnoeline.com⁠⁠ Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs. LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT? Head over to ⁠Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top⁠! PATREON | ⁠⁠patreon.com/bufferingcast⁠⁠ MERCH |⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop⁠⁠ +++ Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.  Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at ⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Let's have a hunting competition! The winner gets a trip to the mall, where you can try to eat Chinese food as it snows behind you?!?!?! You just have to follow me right down this hatch to retrieve your award, and don't mind Leonard the Bear on your way ! We've also got sinking, frozen albino moose, a goldfish taking a ride in Adult Natalie's mouth, and a NEW JINGLE FROM JENNY OWEN YOUNGS ALL ABOUT THAT TIME IN A YOUNG GIRL'S LIFE WHERE SHE MUST SIMPLY SLICE HER PALM! It's Season 2, Episode 4: "Old Wounds"! Our episodes are spoiler-free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny... WHAT'S THE BUZZ 2:02:20 - 2:10:52 IN EPISODE LINKS Vulture "Yellowjackets’s Sophie Thatcher Unpacks the Guilt Consuming Natalie in Season Two" ⁠https://archive.is/Ds8M9⁠ LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET  Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; ⁠⁠jennyowenyoungs.com⁠⁠ Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; ⁠⁠kristinnoeline.com⁠⁠ Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs. LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT? Head over to ⁠Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top⁠! PATREON | ⁠⁠patreon.com/bufferingcast⁠⁠ MERCH |⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop⁠⁠ +++ Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.  Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at ⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Everyone knows that after a five course meal of your best friend/good friend, the best way to unwind is with a large goblet of TRAUMA! Let's pour our glasses full! Shauna can tell us about how to roll back skin, Van can be incredibly helpful by explaining what part of Jackie Taissa ate TO TAISSA WHO IS ALREADY ENTIRELY DISSOCIATING, and Ben can imagine what life might have been like if he'd stayed in the loving arms of his clam-chowder making boyfriend while we all weep. Fun! It's Season 2, Episode 3: "Digestif." Notes of chocolate horror, mulberry, and full-body-panic. Our episodes are spoiler-free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny... WHAT'S THE BUZZ 1:43:38 - 1:48:12 LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET  Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; ⁠⁠jennyowenyoungs.com⁠⁠ Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; ⁠⁠kristinnoeline.com⁠⁠ Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs. LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT? Head over to ⁠Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top⁠! PATREON | ⁠⁠patreon.com/bufferingcast⁠⁠ MERCH |⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop⁠⁠ +++ Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.  Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at ⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. In the past we are eating Jackie and in the present we are making hamburger patties as a way to process being investigated for murder!! In the past we are having astral-plane threesomes and in the present we are flirting at the bar with an undercover cop who bought us a shot of Fireball even though we are underage!! In all timelines and universes, Coach Ben is HORRIFIED. It's Season 2, Episode 2: "Edible Complex." Let's go! Our episodes are spoiler-free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny... WHAT'S THE BUZZ 1:48:01 - 1:53:37 LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET  Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; ⁠⁠jennyowenyoungs.com⁠⁠ Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; ⁠⁠kristinnoeline.com⁠⁠ Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs. LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT? Head over to ⁠Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top⁠! PATREON | ⁠⁠patreon.com/bufferingcast⁠⁠ MERCH |⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop⁠⁠ +++ Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.  Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at ⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Lend us your EARS, kids, because we are baaaaack with our coverage of Yellowjackets Season 2! Triangle Buddy is here, a man is being buried naked in the woods, Natalie is weaponizing forks, Steve-watch has COMMENCED, Misty may get to harmonize in the woods, and we are having a cheerful dinner of slightly-charred-with-murder-evidence franks and beans! It's Season 2, Episode 1: "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" and you simply love to see it. Our episodes are spoiler-free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny... WHAT'S THE BUZZ 1:48:04 - 1:54:07 IN EPISODE LINKS ⁠ECT Reddit Thread⁠ ⁠Opening Credits Differences⁠ LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET  Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; ⁠jennyowenyoungs.com⁠ Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; ⁠kristinnoeline.com⁠ Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs. LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT? Head over to Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top! PATREON | ⁠patreon.com/bufferingcast⁠ MERCH |⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop⁠ +++ Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.  Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at ⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. It’s the FINALE of Season 2 of the X-Files and Mulder is taking LSD to celebrate. Scully cannot believe she didn’t get an autopsy *or* a bath, but she did get to sit at Mulder’s bedside and get yelled at by several different men!! We have conspiracies aplenty, a full adult size alien (just add water!) and Mulder in his teeeeny little undies. It’s S2E25 “Anasazi”! Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1.25/5 Trained Killers, School of the Americas Alumni See you next year for Season Three 👽  IN EPISODE LINKS Indian Pueblo Cultural Center: "What Does “Anasazi” Mean, and Why Is It Controversial?" Buffering the Vampire Slayer: "Pangs" ft. Coya White Hat-Artichoker Solidaire: Honoring the Life and Legacy of Coya White Hat-Artichoker SCOOP THE NEW MERCH!!! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop X-FILES ABACUS | bufferingcast.com/abacus PODCAST SCHEDULE | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! November 6, 2024 seems like a fitting day to say "Welcome to the Hellmouth," so let us get right to it. Darla is using her combination princess-voice and killer fangs to upend expectations, Cordelia is Cordelia-ing out, Giles has ALREADY CIRCLED A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN RED MARKER, Buffy takes her first trip to the Bronze after encountering a dark and brooding stranger in a nearby alley, Joyce's hair is so short, and Luke is BIG. OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop PODCAST SCHEDULE | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: Jenny Owen Youngs Logo: Kristine Thune We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Though we are discussing "Our Town" today, it is decidedly NOT the play by Thornton Wilder but rather an episode of The X-Files in which the townsfolk are dining on... other townsfolk! Cannibalism: the other red meat?? Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1/5 Outsiders We Have To Deal With IN EPISODE LINKS https://indianpueblo.org/what-does-anasazi-mean-and-why-is-it-controversial/ SCOOP THE NEW MERCH!!! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop X-FILES ABACUS | bufferingcast.com/abacus PODCAST SCHEDULE | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Halloween, we urge you to up the horror — forget ghosts, goblins, and demons and please reflect on that spoooooooky feeling where your shadow is NOT YOUR OWN!!!!! It's Season 2, Episode 23: "Soft Light" and the train station is your only safety... mwahahahahaha Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1/5 Shadows Cast SCOOP THE NEW MERCH!!! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop X-FILES ABACUS | bufferingcast.com/abacus PODCAST SCHEDULE | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 first television episode in history that Kristin refused to watch a second time!! We've got some bugs, we've got some escaped prisoners, we've got some pustules (which we nearly exclusively refer to as rainbows so that we could survive the conversation), and we've got Chris Carter saying that the "look of this episode is wonderful." Ahhh, yes, 'tis The X-Files S2E22: "F. Emasculata." Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.35/5 Chances the Men Who Escaped Are Infected -- and a bonus GROSS Ranking of 5 out of 5 I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE ITs SCOOP THE NEW MERCH!!! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST EVER HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY October 27th at The Miracle Theater in Washington, DC bufferingcast.com/live OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop X-FILES ABACUS | bufferingcast.com/abacus PODCAST SCHEDULE | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. WHY ARE TWINS ALWAYS EVIL!?!?! Did you learn about *wind* in kindergarten?? Why would you ever throw away three good ice cream cones?! Do old women have names???? We dig into these questions and more this week in our coverage of The X-Files S2E21: "The Calusari." Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.2/5 Problems with the Wiring SCOOP THE NEW MERCH!!! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST EVER HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY October 27th at The Miracle Theater in Washington, DC bufferingcast.com/live OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop X-FILES ABACUS | bufferingcast.com/abacus PODCAST SCHEDULE | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Darin! Morgan! Is! Here!! We are going to Florida! We are burying potatoes! We are inverting stereotypes! We are blasting Screamin' Jay Hawkins! WE ARE HAVING A GREAT TIME. It's Season 2, Episode 20 Humbug, and we are absolutely thrilled to be here. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 3/5 Tabernacles of Terror IN EPISODE LINKS Welcome to 'Gibtown,' the last 'freakshow' town in America Alvin Law: https://alvinlaw.com/ Screamin' Jay Hawkins "I Put A Spell On You" Performance Screamin' Jay Hawkins Unedited "I Put A Spell On You" SCOOP THE NEW MERCH!!! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST EVER HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY October 27th at The Miracle Theater in Washington, DC bufferingcast.com/live OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop X-FILES ABACUS | bufferingcast.com/abacus PODCAST SCHEDULE | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Time to go into the middle of the ocean where both a military ship and its inhabitants have aged so fast that they have literally turned to salt! Oh no, Mulder and Scully are getting older by the minute as they try to crack the case!! The only way to survive? DRINK THE TOILET WATER!!! It's Season 2, Episode 19: Dod Kalm. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1/5 Wrinkle in Times (Wrinkles in Time?) JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST EVER HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY October 27th at The Miracle Theater in Washington, DC bufferingcast.com/live OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop X-FILES ABACUS | bufferingcast.com/abacus PODCAST SCHEDULE | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 taken a turn out of the X-Files myth arc and traded a Mulder of Samanthas for invisible elephants and alien-abducted gorillas! It’s S2E18: Fearful Symmetry. Let’s GO.  Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1/5 Very Big, Very Willful Animals SCOOP THE NEW X-FILE TANK! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST EVER HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY October 27th at The Miracle Theater in Washington, DC bufferingcast.com/live OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop X-FILES ABACUS | bufferingcast.com/abacus PODCAST SCHEDULE | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 dear, it seems Samantha Mulder also bleeds Baja (read:green goo) and isn’t Samantha Mulder at all. We will have to wait on that game of Stratego. :(  In better news, Daddy Skinner and Daddy X trade head butts in the elevator — the closest you can *get* to smooching without using your lips! It’s S2E17: End Game, and we encourage you to bring your parka and your little mittens. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1.05/5 Orders From My Ophthamologist IN EPISODE LINKS Sex Workers Outreach Project: https://swopusa.org/ SCOOP THE NEW X-FILE TANK! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST EVER HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY October 27th at The Miracle Theater in Washington, DC bufferingcast.com/live OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop X-FILES ABACUS | bufferingcast.com/abacus PODCAST SCHEDULE | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices