The Rewatcher: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Rewatchers!! We did it! We've made it to another season finale! Willow is on the warpath, and not even Zaddy Giles can stop her! What force out there is strong enough to prevent her from ending EVERYTHING to escape the pain of losing Tara? The answer is mystifying!

Rewatch, Listen & Laugh as Alaina sits down for Giles with a quickness, Mikie has a wish he'd like to make, and Ash isn't about flower sniffing with Buf...

Hell hath no fury like a Willow scorned, and unfortunately her bloodlust is FAR from sated by magically divorcing Warren from his skin! Determined to prevent willow from COMPLETELY losing the plot, Buffy, Xander and Anya work to keep the remaining members of the tiny dick trio alive!

Rewatch, Listen & Laugh as we wonder why Dawn didn't just go to Janices, we geek out on one of the best scene transitions in the enti...

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We start where we left off last week! Willow snaps out of her shock and tells Oh-sy-sye to get his ass here and bring Tara back, but gets bad news! It's a no for him, dawg... Buffy is still in grave peril and is swooped to HIPAA Violation Memorial Hospital. Armed with the knowledge of Warren's fakery, Willow decides to take an even lower road than we would (probably)! She calls upon the actual forces of darkness to avenge ...

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode touches on themes of Sexual assault and Domestic Abuse.

Welp! This is a tough one guys! We're here at arguably one of the most shockingly controversial and dreaded episodes of the entire series.

Buffy wants to move past the Spike drama and make amends with Xander, but both of these men are too bitch-made to move in a positive direction.

Meanwhile, The TDT have their sights on a proxy magical ball...

Buffy wants to move on and make amends after almost murdering everyone last week, and the scoobs and Dawn seem pretty ready to forgive. Xander is not well bitch, but is hopeful when Anya shows up that they can reconcile. 

Unfortunately for him, Anya has taken up Vengeance again, and is trying to find a loophole to make Xander pay for his fuckery.

Rewatch, Listen & Laugh as Ash draws a firm line for consequences...

With the season finale quickly approaching, we're clued into what is going on with the Incel Brigade! They are on the yam, and things are NOT so peachy-keen! Distrust and angst are definitely contributing to the pressure cooker that is their living situation

To avoid Buffy finding their hideout, Andrew unleashes a demon that stings Buffy, giving her INTENSE hallucinations of an alternate reality where Sunnydale doesn't exis...

Riley's visit MAY have renewed Buffy's hope in her happy ending, but it seems to have caused ripple effects in Xanya's Relationship!

It's the BIG DAY, and everyone is getting ready for Xanya to walk down the aisle and make it official! Well.. all except for some old dude that looks like Daddy from this season's "All the Way". When he pulls Xander aside and cautions him to NOT marry Anya- the day gets SUPER messy!

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REWATCHERS!!! We will be taking next week off, but will return with S6E16: Hells Bells on 2/26/25!

So we THOUGHT that last week was a new beginning, but within a few minutes Buffy is romping in the grass with Spike and continuing her downward trajectory. #SadTrombone! She can't seem to catch a break! Her job sucks. She got rejected by UC Sunnydale AND a certain cornfed failure is back in town, and she's wearing an ugly ...

Even after Dawn's call for help last week, the gang proves they STILL don't have their listening ears on. But luckily for Dawn, there is a new Guidance Counselor who is HERE to listen to her concerns, her troubles, her wishes. 

In other news, it's Buffy's 21st birthday, and it's a full house! They have conveniently invited Tara. Xanya has invited a dudebro that he works with. Buffy has invited someone with gas...

Warren and his incel brethren move onto another nefarious plot by creating a magical orb with the capability to force people into being their plaything. Warren seizes that fish- and uses it on his ex Katrina- forcing her into servitude. Meanwhile Buffy has some complex thoughts about fooking Spike and what that means about her. 

Rewatch & Listen as we talk about changing perceptions of the Trio, Ash relates to...

Grab your abomination hat and terrible uniform and get ready to clock into a TERRIBLY long shift at the Doublemeat Palace! This week Buffy joins the workforce again, and is faced with MORE than just the monotony of employment when she finds something under the meat grinder- A FUCKING FINGER! She behaves appropriately and has a menty-b (there Buffy.. have a menty-b!) but Buffy is determined to save her coworkers from MORE t...

Willow starts her first steps without magic as Buffy spirals after an awful visit from CPS. After having a manic hair moment, she gets zapped by the Tiny Dicked Trio's invisibility ray, and loses her damn mind becoming a bobbed haired bandit. Finally relieved of the pressure of being SEEN and expected to fix everything, Buffy goes off the deep end until she is faced with her own mortality.

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Fresh off separate nights of debauchery, Buffy and Willow realize they made a HUGE oopsie-daisy! They sort of have a minor that depends on them, but NEITHER made it home to care for her! Instead of taking it as a sign to rethink things, Willow continues her downward trajectory, fixating on magical thrills to escape painful realities. Buffy decides to fixate on how Willow's irresponsibility is mirrored by Willow's and makes...

Willow avoids accepting responsibility OR REALITY and leans hard into magic. Out of nowhere , she realizes that SHE KNOWS how to get Rat/Amy back into human form! With a new friend who is fully onboard with fucking with ALL the magic. Meanwhile, Buffy attempts to give Spike a gentle let down, but he is unwilling to take the freaking hint!!

Rewatch, Listen and laugh as Ash makes wooden stakes stabs to the sound of crickets, ...

Rewatchers! We're taking a short break to spend time with our loved ones for the holidays, but enjoy this Classic Episode where we had a chance to talk about one of the most iconic episodes of the entire series- HUSH! We had the pleasure of sitting down with Doug Jones and hearing about the filming process, as well as his incredible career!

We hope that you all have a safe and happy holiday week for all that celebrate, ...

Rewatchers!! We hit ANOTHER banger of an episode! 

Willow is feeling sad that she fucked up SO HARD and accidentally snatched Buffy out of Heaven- but you know what? she knows a spell to fix shit. Tara is FUCKING horrified, and challenges Willow to go cold turkey with magic for a single week! BUT! Willow decides that a dash of memory modification for Tara AND Buffy will untuck the situation. Unfortunately for every...

Rewatchers! We did it!! We made it to another milestone in the series- Once More with Feeling!

Still yearning for the calm of heaven, Buffy has some serious difficultly readjusting to the fuckshit called life, ESPECIALLY when she starts to randomly burst into choreographed song! But it's not just her- the entire population of Sunnydale has joined in creating one of the most iconic episodes of Buffy ever!

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Halloween has the Magic Box looking like Black Friday 2004! It's a big day for Anya, made even bigger when Xander FINALLY gets the nerve to spill the beans about their engagement! Reactions are mixed, but the gang throws a party to celebrate the news, as Dawn steps out for a bit of teenage rebellion.

Rewatch, Listen and laugh as Ash gets red faced about unintended euphemisms, Alaina makes a rewatcher comment Cannon in her h...