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 and Lea, hosts of Investigating Angel, join us to help recap this episode!   Hear us discuss… Dawn is holding this house together Why does Kennedy...

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 manipulate Andrew into taking care of a potential problem.   Author Lily Anderson joins us again to help recap this episode!   Hear us discuss… More...

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 nothing in rat prison? For shame Potentials can leap tall buildings in a single bound How long has Kennedy known Willow now? WHAT TIME IS...

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 think of Buffy’s counselling style What we think of Buffy’s teaching style CLEM! We missed you, how ya been? New school forgot to spray for white...

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! So are Anya and Giles going to tell anyone what they learned from Botox Eye? The weekly rampage through yet another construction site...

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 at Recap & Chill on YouTube: THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Full Series Recap | Season 1-8 Ending Explained   Hear us discuss… Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

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 confusing, ok? Don’t @ Steph The logistics of feeding a (slayer) army Construction company insurance rates in Sunnydale must be sky high So is Joyce...

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 principal is evil again, at least he’s hot evil this time? The butcher shop battle of the dorks Anya discovering a whole new calling:...

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 of Left of Skeptic, Kala Moria and Brittany Lind, join us for this recap. Check out their paranormal podcast.   Hear us discuss… How Buffy...

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 by a dead teenager bearing a message from Tara. No one knows or cares where Xander is.   Hear us discuss… We’re so hyped we know what time it...

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’s obsession with RJ is cringey but understandable, have you seen him? Xander is back to being …  good? (But not as good as RJ) This episode is...

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 slaughtering.   Special guest Rickey Z joins us for this recap!   Hear us discuss… This episode reveals so much about Anya’s backstory and...

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 research Cassie is genuinely so kind, RIP Kara misses the Geocities era of the web Don’t these demon-worshipping white boys even know who Buffy...

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 should practise giving a f**k about Anya for once Gnarl and this episode are the absolute ick! Xander is back to being useless, all is right in the...

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 REALLY good principal Dawnifer, please follow through on your threat to Spike Quesadillas? At the BRONZE? How has Ronny not single-handedly...

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 Steph’s thirst for Robin Wood might be unquenchable Xander is actually ok in this episode The hero of this episode might surprise you Is this a...

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 as a guest judge.   Hear us discuss… Origins of fandom Podcasts and participatory culture Conventions, screenings, and stalkers Internalized...

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 why is it the pink, fluffy sweater? Is Willow’s addiction to magic a mitigating factor? Selfishness is the real problem Who has jurisdiction over...

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-century POV What we’re looking forward to from the final season 💬 SOCIAL MEDIA: @prophecygirlspodcast on Instagram, Facebook, and...

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 didn’t realize we’ve been holding since Giles left Is is too much to ask for Buffy to be the hero? We would have taken Dawn Or Anya Anyone other...

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 a librarian in the house.   Hear us discuss… Where do we draw the line with Willow’s vengeance? Jonathan’s fairweather sense of morality Dawn...

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 similar to “The Body,” especially for Dawn How did Spike get to “Africa” so fast? Warren’s lack of remorse makes him difficult to defeat Anya gets a...

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.   Bathroom scene discussion: 42:45–1:16:30 The Tara discussion: 1:54:55–2:00:50 Please practise self-care while listening to these intense...

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 Trio a thing, Gretchen Anya needs her own friends, like us Kara has more questions about vampire physiology, sigh Willow and Tara!! Need we say...