This week we're here to talk about Charisma Carpenter. We believe and stand with her and everyone who has spoken out. Later, we also talk about S06E02 "Bargaining, Part Two". Thanks for listening. Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  The myth of the pained auteur  Buffy's Inferno and her journey out of Hell Nicholas Brendon's paralysed penis "Already been looted! Sorry! Try the appliance store down the block! They've got great toasters!" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys 

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Buffy Boys 102 - Chaos - Part 2 (S06E02)

A summer without a Slayer leaves the Scoobies with an itch that only resurrection can scratch (its way out of the grave that is!). The Buffy Boys are innocently hanging out with baby deer in S06E01 "Bargaining, Part One". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  The Best of Frames, the Worst of Frames: sneaky censorship of mature content Demon Bikers from Mars: the paradoxic apocalypse of an absent Slayer Refurbished Buffy Bots - sisterly substitutes at a fraction of the existential angst "Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea." If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys   

Buffy Boys 101 - On the Border of Worlds (S06E01)

In every generation there is a Chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She was the Slayer. The Buffy Boys aren't crying, you're crying in S05E22 "The Gift". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  Protecting your inner Dawn: Self-love through sororal sacrifice The Annual Buffy Boys List of Numbers and Things  Deus Inferni Ex Machina - a defense of concise plot resolutions "The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys   

Buffy Boys 100 - The Price of Freedom (S05E22)

Glory's Big Day is dawning as the walls between worlds shiver. Willow and Buffy take a dream walk for old times sake and remember that the real friends are the deaths we gifted along the way. The Buffy Boys are reshelving their traumas in S05E21 "The Weight of the World" Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  Queer rage and the catharsis of staying alive Heisenberg's Protagonist - the indelibility of doing good Glory as, you guessed it, dark mirror of Buffy's emotional struggle "And this is why I killed my sister" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys   

Buffy Boys 099 - Hopeless (S05E21)

Buffy runs out of options when Glory closes in on Dawn and stuffs her nearest and dearest into an RV for a high octane swords-horses-and-priests desert chase. The Buffy Boys throw a truck at S05E20 "Spiral". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  Episodic content and the cliffhanger structure Stabbing the Fourth - Religious adjacent cult factions The Trolley Problem but it's a Winnebago  "'Bring it on', and then, wham! Hell-bitch in orbit."" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys 

Buffy Boys 098 - Odyssey (S05E20)

The Scooby luck runs out when Glory zones in on Dawn-as-The-Key but not before an amuse-bouche of Tara Brain Drain. Can Willow and Tara survive their first fight? The Buffy Boys get their Bag o'knives in S05E19 "Tough Love". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  Argumental alchemy and the necessity of relationship friction Dangerous Giles is a Tik-Tok and we're relevant again Dawn, the Slayer, and the paradox of caregiving on the Hellmouth "Well that came out a lot more lesbian than I intended" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys   

Buffy Boys 096 - Black Magic (S05E19)

The Buffy Bot comes to peppy life causing a string of events that appropriately end with Spike being thrashed to ribbons. Buffy goes on a vision quest, as you do. The Buffy Boys bundle up for the desert in S05E18 "Intervention". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  I'm seeing double - Four Buffys! Shadowselves in the midday sun, Buffy Bot and Other Buffy Relitigating quasi-sentient robotic sex slavery Adulthood, emotional chitin, and sororal substantiation  "The Slayer forges strength through pain" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys   

Buffy Boys 096 - The Wrath of the Goddess (S05E18)

What do you do the day after the worst day of your life? Buffy arranges Joyce's funeral while Dawn dabbles with the God of Death. The Buffy Boys are wearing black in S05E17 "Forever". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  The Great Lists of 2020 The magical commercialisation of grief Triptych Buffy - mother, daughter, saint The last episode of the year - Happy Holidays folks! "I have to do these things, 'cause... 'Cause when I stop, then she's really gone" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys   

Buffy Boys 095 - From Time into Eternity (S05E17)

It's time. We considered leaving out the opening music for this one - The Buffy Boys watch S05E16 "The Body". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  Negative space and the ineffable absence of trauma A gay kiss at the boundary of life and death "Where did she go?" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys 

Buffy Boys 094 - Corpse (S05E16)

Buffy has her first encounter with World's Greatest Monster, Warren Mears and his indescribably creepy 'girlfriend robot' April. The gang have a merry old time beating up the patriarchy. Then a bad thing happens. The Buffy Boys steel themselves in S05E15 "I Was Made to Love You". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  The Queasy Familiar and the mundane evil of Warren's misogyny Group dynamics and the character of setting in Season 5 Retroactive Dawn: the quasi-sister's memory of Ted and Ted-like things Next week, it's time "Maybe he's a gigolo? Was his shirt all shiny?" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys   

Buffy Boys 093 - Programmed to Love (S05E15)

Drusilla arrives back in town on Ye Olde Sunnydale Rail to celebrate the Bronze's grand re-opening. Just kidding, it's actually all about Spike's creepy obsession with the Slayer. The Buffy Boys are lounging in chalked outlines in S05E14 "Crush". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  Misreading the Quasimodo: The skewed interpretation of Spike's toxic behaviour in the shipping wars What's Past is Premonition - the exit of Drusilla  A drop of monstrosity and the shared otherness of Spike and Dawn  "Go hit on Giles." If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys 

Buffy Boys 092 - The Lovely Love (S05E14)

Dawn finds out she's the Key. The Scoobs learn they're fighting a Hell god. It's Buffy's 20th birthday - time for trauma. The Buffy Boys are collecting shells from the existential beach in S05E13 "Blood Ties". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  Little Miss Drama - the reality altering implications of the Key Glory/ Ben: Siblings, Mirrors and distorted humanity Sisters, Spies, and Strategy in the Slayer's suburbia "Glory is evil. And powerful. And in no way prettier than me." If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys 

Buffy Boys 091 - The Key (S05E13)

The Watchers Council of Great Britain descends on the Magic Box with a power play - Buffy passes their tests and she gets crucial info on Glory. But who watches the Watchers? Heh. The Buffy Boys stock up on tweed in S05E12 "Checkpoint". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  Spike: A Thesis, and the parodying of academic Buffy Studies in-universe The performative co-dependence of Slayer as instrument/Council as master Plot armour - the compliant pacing of Glory's scheme "We're in love. W-we're lovers. We're lesbian, gay-type lovers." If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys 

Buffy Boys 090 - The Review (S05E12)

Another classic caper from Willow/Anya as their bickering hits a bewitching boiling point and a threatening troll (Anya's hexxed ex) is released to rage through sleepy Sunnydale. The Buffy Boys bite down on that onion blossom in S05E11 "Triangle". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  Displaced despair - Buffy deals with heart break by breaking baddies Schrödinger's lesbian: Willow's sexuality and the trouble of over-identification with queer icons Manners maketh Humanity - Anya's selective civility and the demonic Overton window "You want credit for not feeding off bleeding disaster victims?" If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys   

Buffy Boys 089 - The Hammer of Destruction (S05E11)

We say goodbye to Riley Finn. Buffy discovers his secret shame as a recreational blood donor and he reacts as we all would, re-joining the army and taking a midnight helicopter to Belize. The Buffy Boys take the escape hatch in S05E10 "Into The Woods". Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:  Normal Boyfriend - the quandary of a quiet Slayer home life Unpacking messy and misaligned parallels between vampirism and sex work Sympathetic resonance and the return of Xander's quarantine mop of hair "I'm sorry, Willow. Thank you for making time in your busy life to come in here and get in the way of mine." If you enjoyed the episode you can subscribe to us on: http://buffyboys.libsyn.com/rss or by searching “Buffy Boys” in your favourite podcast app. Follow us and let us know what you think: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BuffyBoys/ Twitter https://twitter.com/buffyboys/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/buffy_boys/ Email at buffyboyscast@gmail.com And if you’re feeling extra kind, leave us a review on your podcast app, it helps a lot! Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder). Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin Yours in Slaying, The Buffy Boys   

Buffy Boys 088 - Das Ultimatum (S05E10)

Two 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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