We survived. Not the battle. High school, er, the podcast! After recapping all seven seasons of this incredible show, Prophecy Girls is closing this chapter. We’ll be moving on to Los Angeles to check in with bae later this year. Before we go on our break, though, it’s time to look back at this entire show. Hear us discuss… We rank the seasons and …

Hear ye, hear ye, all rise for the Honourable Judges Chow and Babcock: court is now in session. The defendant: Spike, aka William the Bloody, once vampire menace and now vampire with a soul. The charges? Everything from aiding and abetting apocalypses to perversion and pooping. Hear us discuss… Does seeking out a soul change anything about Spike’s …

The Ultimate Evil. A vampire with a soul. A vampyre with a Y. A final season of Buffy that’s all about power. She has it, and she decides to share. Join Steph and Kara one last time as they discuss the last season of this amazing show. Hear us discuss… Best episodes of the season Does the First measure up as a Big Bad? How Kara would have ended it …

Reinvigorated by a VIP’s visit, Buffy elects to take the battle to the First. She concocts a plan to use the scythe and Willow’s magic to level the playing field for good. Scoobies, Potentials, and allies assemble one last time in this series finale. Hear us discuss… Angel’s versus Spike’s role in the finale The First, like so many Big Bads, just c…

Buffy rallies against Caleb and the First and rejoins the Scoobies and potentials. As Giles and Willow seek the origins of the scythe Buffy has acquired, everyone else prepares for the final battle. They know it’s coming, and they know not everyone will make it out alive. Hear us discuss… Rise of the flippity-dos part 2 & return of the research gir…

An exiled Buffy seeks solace from a surprised Spike. Back at the Summers residence, Faith rallies the army for an assault on an arsenal. Everyone is very horny. Hear us discuss… We enjoyed this glimpse of Faith as “the boss” and wish for more! OK, Spike, you get this one night, but don’t get any ideas Where are the Potentials during the 3 hookups, …

Still reeling from their losses at the vineyard, Buffy and the Scoobies try to find a moment to breathe. Yet the First and Caleb don’t want to give them that luxury. When Buffy resolves on another risky plan of attack, she encounters unexpected resistance. Andrew and Spike go on a road trip together. Hear us discuss… Giles is suddenly OK with Willo…

Move over, Spike: there’s a new King of Misogyny in town. His name is Caleb, and he has a message for the slayer. Buffy must decide whether or not to risk the Potentials while also dealing with the arrival of another “old friend” in town. Hear us discuss… Hopefully Faith and Willow didn’t compare notes about their redemption arcs. Awkward. Faith an…

Seeking revenge for his mother’s murder, Robin Wood cahoots with Giles to distract Buffy so he can take down Spike. He assembles a killer playlist and sets Spike off on a series of flashbacks to his earliest days as William the Bloody. Will Buffy choose to turn an ally into an enemy over an enemy turned ally? Special guest Ryan B Talks TV joins us …

Come with us, gentle listeners, as recount for you the deeds of Andrew, Teller of Storyes. Sooth, if ever there was a noble scribe of a Slayer of Vampyre, ‘twas he. Middling of stature and dirty blond of hair, Andrew, Teller of Storyes, courageously chronicled the Hellmouth’s endest of days. Real-life Teller of Storyes Kendare Blake joins us to hel…

Between all your hot (s)takes and all our hot guests this season, we can’t keep up! To give your opinions the time they deserve, we’ve saved up some to share in this bonus episode of Sunnymail. Hear us discuss… Slayer lore and the slayer line Buffy’s leadership style Dawnterelle has more talent in her little finger than Xander has in his whole body…

Now aware of Robin Wood’s literal slayer provenance, Buffy shows him the operation: secret hideout, army of potentials, and of course, the big board. In return, Robin gives her a bag. Inside the bag is a box. Inside the box are shadow puppets. Will these figures hold the answer? No, they’re just more men telling Buffy how to be the slayer. Sarah an…

S7E14: “First Date” (feat. Lily Anderson) Buffy and Xander each have a first date. Buffy goes to dinner with Principal Wood, who is finally prepared to reveal startling details about his past. Xander picks up Ashanti at a hardware store. Only one of these two dates ends up with someone suspended above the hellmouth. Meanwhile, the First tries to ma…

Giles takes the potentials out to the desert to meet Sineya and Cougar. Buffy stays behind because Spike is being a simp. Kennedy also stays behind, hoping to canoodle with Willow, but this leads to unintended side effects. Hear us discuss… Dawn, Anya, and Xander are the best part of this episode Buffy should have just emailed Sam Did Amy learn not…

Buffy’s School for Slayers is in session, and you either graduate or you die. So, like regular school in Sunnydale. After a spell reveals Dawn has a destiny, she wrestles with the implications. But when Amanda shows up with a problem and Buffy isn’t available, Dawn has to step into her sister’s shoes sooner than expected. Hear us discuss… What we t…

No, this is not the dinner theatre sequel to last season’s musical. Instead, Buffy concocts a plan to take on the Turok Han while also showing the potentials what it means to be the slayer. It remains to be seen whether she can do this before Spike expires at the hands of the First’s minions. Hear us discuss… Familiar faces among the new potentials…

What if Buffy had been produced on the CW instead of its predecessor, the WB? Someone decided to find out, and The Vampire Diaries is the result. Steph and Kara watched the first two episodes of the series together, followed by a 50-minute recap of the entire eight seasons, and they have THOUGHTS. Watch @joshdfloyd’s incredibly detailed recap over …

Buffy has put a name to the faces Spike has been seeing: the First Evil is behind everything. But what is it, and how can they stop it? Just in time, Daddy Giles arrives, bringing with him three new stepdaughters and a grave warning. The First won’t stop until the slayer and every girl who could be a slayer is dead. Hear us discuss… Accents are con…

With more questions than answers, the Scoobies turn to research and interrogation. Willow runs into Andrew and, after a brief showdown, he joins Spike in the blonde male bondage club at the Summers residence. Just when it feels like they might make progress, the forces of darkness launch their most daring attack yet. Hear us discuss… If the princip…

After the revelation of her vampire therapist, Buffy swaps her stake for a stake-out—of Spike. She tails him and confronts him about her suspicions that he is feeding off humans again. At first, Spike protests his innocence and reminds her of his new soul. Yet as the evidence mounts, no one, not even Aimee Mann, is prepared for the truth. The hosts…

Date: November 12, 2002. Time: 8:01 pm. Location: A cemetery. The Summers house. The UC Sunnydale library. Buffy thought vampires were bad enough when they wanted to kill her. Now she’s got one psychoanalyzing her. Dawn’s marshmallow microwave fun is interrupted when she starts to hear her mom’s voice. Willow’s late-night study session is derailed …

Razorbacks, Razorbacks, we’re gonna play! We got a secret weapon, and his name is RJ! He’s so dreamy; he’s so cool. He’s OURS, and you can’t have it. Neither can Buffy, or Willow, or Anya, or even Dawn. Hands off our RJ. Hear us discuss… Buffy, RJ would be a better roommate for Xander than Spike Who looks better in a letterman jacket (it’s RJ) Dawn…

Anya starts to question if she still wants to be evil. She experiences flashbacks showing how she got to this point. When Buffy learns about Anya’s latest trip across the line, she decides it’s time for the slayer to intervene. Xander is suddenly less interested in Buffy kicking someone’s ass when it’s his former-lover-turned-murderer doing the sla…

Cassie, a student at Sunnydale High, confides in Buffy that she has foreseen her own death. Everyone has a theory: Dawn blames Baby Mitch, Buffy and Xander shake down a deadbeat dad, and Anya would likely say it’s bunnies, but no one asked her. Hear us discuss… Missed opportunities to process Willow’s grief Nice to see the gang back together doing …

Willow returns to Sunnydale, unsure of what reception awaits. She finds … nothing. No one waits for her. The Scoobies are equally perplexed when Willow doesn’t arrive. When a flayed youth is found on Xander’s watch, Willow becomes the prime suspect before quickly becoming the prime prey. Hear us discus… Dawn’s sass levels are over 9000 Willow shoul…

A disturbing, subterranean monster besets a young woman. But enough about Spike. When Xander runs into a woman running for her life after something ate her dog, the trail leads the Scoobies to none other than his ex. Anya is firmly back in the vengeance demon camp, even if that puts her in the slayer’s sights. Hear us discuss… Principal Wood is a R…

Buffy, Dawn, and Xander are all attending the opening of Sunnydale High, and that’s not the only thing coming back from the dead. Has a summer of training by her slayer sister prepared Dawn for her greatest challenge yet? Is the new principal friend or foe? Will someone please take Spike to a hair salon? Hear us discuss… Daddy Giles IS ON A HORSIE …

Buffy the Vampire Slayer has rightfully garnered a sustained, international following of devoted fans. Within any such community, there can be a lot of love, as well as toxicity and harm. Is the Buffy fandom OK? It’s back-to-back trials as the Prophecy Girls weigh the evidence against the fandom itself. Ian Carlos Crawford of Slayerfest ’98 joins a…

Hear ye, hear ye, all rise for the Honourable Judges Chow and Babcock: court is now in session. The defendant: Willow Rosenberg, once a model student, friend, and Wicca, now Sunnydale’s most wanted. The charges? Everything from wanton destruction of a yellow crayon to near-destruction of the world. Hear us discuss… What is Willow’s worst crime and …

An unexpected resurrection. An unchecked addiction. An unhealthy obsession. An unwelcome advance. An unworthy death. Season 6: the hits just kept coming. We review the season in its entirety. Hear us discuss… The best episodes of this bad season Did the writers go too far? Missed opportunities with Xander and Anya Why we critique from a 21st-centur…

After Willow suckjobs the borrowed magicks out of Giles, her ambitions grow from ending Jonathan and Andrew to ending the entire world. With Buffy and Dawn otherwise distracted and Anya tending to Giles, it looks like it’s finally Xander’s time to shine. To quote Giles from Season 1, “The Earth is doomed.” Hear us discuss… We let out a breath we di…

Newly minted murderess Willow Rosenberg pursues the surviving two members of the Trio. When a pitstop to top-up her magicks at Rack’s inadvertently puts Dawn squarely in Willow’s sights, Buffy’s intervention becomes all the more urgent. But no amount of Sumerian spellwork or slayer smackdown seems capable of stopping Dark Willow. If only there were…

Willow decides her answer to the age-old question of “Am I the bad guy?” is yes as she embarks on a magicks-fuelled rampage of revenge for the death of Tara. No Warren is safe. Buffy, back on her feet, has to act fast to prevent Willow from doing something she might come to regret. Xander is also there. Hear us discuss… This episode is far too simi…

News of Willow and Tara’s glowy-O reunion spreads through the Summers residence to popular acclaim. This contentment is shattered, however, by misbehaving men: Xander’s petulant antics, Spike committing an unforgivable act, and Warren refusing to believe he can be defeated by a woman. It’s misogyny o’clock, and we all lose as a result of it. Bathro…

Buffy does her best to move on from Spike. Xander tries to make amends to Anya, who is having none of it. Instead, spurred on by Halfrek, she seeks solace in the messiest of places. Willow hacks a cameras only to accidentally get a camshow. Hear us discuss… Xander needs to learn that he can’t apologize his way out of this Stop trying to make the Tr…

While searching for the Trio’s new lair, Buffy receives a dose of demon venom that gives her visions of an alternate world where she’s a patient in a psychiatric facility. In this world, Joyce is alive, Hank actually cares about being a father, and Buffy has a chance at normal life. She just has to kill her friends. Hear us discuss… Arm needles are…

Xander and Anya’s special day is threatened on multiple fronts. A mysterious old man with a glowy orb. Family squabbles and anti-demon racism. Dereliction of duty by the best man. And just terrible, terrible bridesmaid dresses. It’s a wedding on the Hellmouth, and we are all invited! Hear us discuss… Worse ways to leave someone on their wedding day…

Buffy’s life has settled into a comfortable tedium of Doublemeat Medleys and nights with Spike. Then Riley, Buffy’s six-foot-two hunk of dried paint ex-boyfriend, returns to Sunnydale seeking her help. As they fight demons side-by-side like the good ol’ days, Buffy is forced to confront what has been in front of her all along. Special guest Ryan B …

Dawn, frustrated that no one wants to pay attention to her on the eve of Buffy’s birthday, makes a wish in front of the wrong person, trapping all the guests at Buffy’s party in the Summers residence. Tempers fray, accusations fly, sick burns unto Spike are delivered by Tara, and secrets are revealed. The party is just getting started. Hear us disc…

Buffy asks Tara to help her figure out why Spike can hurt her. The Trio’s test of a mind control device goes fatally awry, and Warren resolves to frame the slayer. Now under the impression that she has killed an innocent woman, Buffy rushes to submit to human justice when Spike would prefer she submit to him. Hear us discuss… The Trio were trash ev…

Buffy finally decides to pull herself up by her bootstraps via a minimum wage job at a fast-food restaurant. Feeling almost as soulless as the vampire she’s sleeping with, Buffy battles grease, her tyrannical manager, and the ongoing gaslighting of her Scooby pals. Something is wrong at the Doublemeat Palace, and she’s going to stop it. Hear us dis…

From child services to her platinum-haired loverboy, it seems like everyone wants a piece of ol’ Buffy right now. So she turns to a girl’s favourite outlet in times of crisis: new hair. But the Trio’s latest scheme unintentionally spills over to Buffy, giving her a unique opportunity to channel her inner Marcie and make with the mischief all around…

The rubble of a house. Burnt pancakes. A hidden den of magic. Missed movie trailers. The hits just keep coming. Last week, Buffy and Willow both fucked around. This week, they find out. Hear us discuss… We are so relieved to hear this was definitely a one-night stand! Will someone other than Tara please take care of Dawn? Xander, shut up and do som…

Tara’s abrupt departure leaves Willow looking for magical comfort from an unlikely source. Buffy looks for physical comfort from an uncouth source. Everyone forgets about Dawn. Hear us discuss… Is rat prison the punishment of the future? Dawn deserves even more milkshake Kara, a secret Spike apologist?? With Giles gone, Tara is the last adult stand…

Desperate to fix what she screwed up, Willow works her most audacious spell yet. When it backfires, all the Scoobies get a second chance at figuring out who they are. With a loan shark and vampires hunting Spike, however, their blank slate might just turn into a chopping block. Lily Anderson, author of Buffy tie-in novel Big Bad, returns to the pod…

Fellow Canadians Crissy and Jocelyn from the musical theatre podcast Breaking the Curtain join Steph and Kara to break down the musical episode of Buffy! We discuss the episode as a whole and then go through each song. Along the way, Crissy and Joce pull back the curtain on the secrets of musical theatre. Hear us discuss… How closely this episode h…

In this absolutely ordinary, totally mundane episode, everyone talks about their feelings. Hear us discuss… We’ve got a theory Giles and orgasms What songs happened that we didn’t get to see? One night only: Kara understands the Spike appeal So, no consequences for Xander YET AGAIN, we see 🤷‍♀️ 💬 SOCIAL MEDIA: @prophecygirlspodcast on Instagram, Fa…

Xander finally tells everyone about his and Anya’s engagement, and a party ensues. But Giles has to cut it short to rescue Dawn, who decided to spend this Halloween rolling with a white boy gang. Buffy helps with the rescue, not so much with the parenting. Willow and Tara have a huge fight, so naturally Willow’s only option is mind control. Hear us…

Buffy tries to figure out what to do with her new lease on life. Should she go back to school? Work construction? Or retail? The Trio’s shenanigans threaten to derail her new life plans before they’ve even started. Spike cheats at kitten poker. Author Kendare Blake joins us again to talk about why this episode is a light in a dark season. Hear us d…

Buffy’s basement becomes a metaphor for her sudden return to life. The slayer has faced snake demons, demonoids, and hell goddesses. But she isn’t prepared for her biggest challenge to date: bills. Fortunately, a new demon in town will offer up a welcome distraction in the form of trying to kill her. Hear us discuss… The correct pronunciation of th…