Buffy Boys

In every generation, there are podcasters. They together will review Buffy the Vampire Slayer from a queer, literary, and feminist perspective. This was the Buffy Boys.

In this finale episode we talk…

The Rankings are complete and we have determined the totally objective best episode of Buffy. Now, our souls may rest. Don't resurrect us.

In our S08E11 the Buffy Boys experience go through all the s…

We crack open the ancient Ranking crypt and disgorge the dusty, inhuman mummies inside. We're so close now.

In our S08E10, the Buffy Boys avoid their feelings in the classic ways - musicals, silence,…

The good ship Ranking arrives after its long voyage to the alien warmth of a new star: we're in the top 20 episodes now.

In our S08E09, the Buffy Boys celebrate all the major milestones, graduation, …

The Ranking Expedition crests to the plateau, the summit is in sight. Are the people who made these original ratings still, existentially, us? Who can tell.

In our S08E08, the Buffy Boys breathe the …

Our Ranking Drill has cracked the succulent core of Buffyworld to extract the ambrosia of the Top 40 Episodes, objectively decided by us.

In our S08E07, the Buffy Boys spelunk from misogynists (skinl…

It's 150 episodes of queer, literary, and feminist perspectives! Wow. Remember when we used to drink a lot more wine?

In our S08E06, the Buffy Boys go from guzzling milk to feeling conflicted about l…

The Dread Ranking assumes its superlative form as we climb from demon transformation hangovers to deputy mayors (slightly punctured). 

In our S08E05, the Buffy Boys start with homoerotic subtext (gay…

The Rank-a-thon ranks on from straight love triangles to supernatural-quasi-platonic, queer-coded soul quadrangles.

In our S08E04, the Buffy Boys express no strong feelings about crayons of any size …

The Ranking juggernaut digs deep to unearth body swaps in flooded basements and secretly vegan burgers brush up with nightmare clowns. 

In our S08E03, the Buffy Boys discover if you can really have a…

The Great Ranking continues as we travel from pervy posessed puppets to stilted summoned snakes. It's the worst, weirdest and bleh-est of the Buffy hinterlands. 

In our S08E02, the Buffy Boys ask "ho…

The now definitive review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer returns triumphantly to don the sacrificial amulet of Ranking Every Episode from Worst to Best. Play along at home!

In our S08E01, the Buffy Boys…

Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. Until Buffy Summers changed that, forever.

The Buffy Boys want to see how it ends in S07E22 "Chosen". Key Buffy Bits…

Buffy finds mʔ, an ancient Slayer weapon, hewn from precious chrome. Caleb falters, the Scoobies rally - What's one more Apocalypse between friends? The Buffy Boys get ready for the end in S07E21 "En…

Buffy wanders an evil-ruined Sunnydale kicking down doors despondently as Faith has her first big day out as Head Slayer, and it's going to be a blast. The Buffy Boys butcher their glottal stops in S…

Desertion and dissolution comes to Sunnydale - the High School is abandoned, the Bronze is closing down, and Buffy is unceremoniously kicked out of her own damn house. The end begins. The Buffy Boys …

An ex-preacher, a veteran Slayer, a reformed Bostonian, a soft-eyed construction worker, and a gaggle of Potentials walk into a Vineyard - tell us if you've heard this one before? The Buffy Boys lame…

Hark the tale of William the Bloody (Awful), overflowing in maternal affection and lately deceased. And Robin, orphaned vampire hunter with a Slayer Mom and a Watcher Dad. Let's see these two good bo…

Welcome weary travellers and let us tell you a tale - the rousing, genre breaking adventures of Buffy, Slayer of the Vampyrs and the most nebbish of her entourage, Andrew (you know, Tucker's brother?…

Tragedy at 1630 Revello Drive leads Buffy through time and space to the source of the Slayer's power - which unsurprisingly involves dealing with some men who just reckon they're in the right. The Bu…