Wallowing in the Shallows The Both of Us

Rebecca and Tori chat about "Anne." In this episode, we confabulate about the new title sequence, the 'Jaws' franchise, and Tim Conway. We also debate what constitutes an exotic mushroom and we display our ignorance about medieval weapons.
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Field, Mark. 2017. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Myth, Metaphor & Morality. Independently published.
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Rebecca and Tori chat about The Acolyte episodes 1 and 2. Fair warning...this is a spoiler abundant episode. We try to get the timeline right in our heads. We propose some hypotheses about what is going to happen, and we disagree a little about the series itself.
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Rebecca and Tori review season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We bid Jenny Calendar adieu as we discuss the season of love and misogyny, character arcs, award some best of thingies, and Bridgerton. Yes, Bridgerton. We tangent. No surprise.
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Owens, A. Susan. 1999. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Vampires, Postmodernism, and Postfeminism. Journal of Popular Film and Television 27 (2): 24-31.
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Rebecca and Tori chat Becoming Parts 1 & 2. We discuss things about The Curse that confuse us. Rebecca goes on a diatribe about palm wounds, and we both go off on a tangent about "What We Do In the Shadows."
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Rebecca and Tori play, I mean chat Go Fish. We try to find some depth to the episode, but instead tangent on women who swam the English Channel and Russian DNA experiments, especially the Humanzee.
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Rebecca and Tori chat about "I Only Have Eyes for You." We leave the shallows to take a deep dive into what we think is an under-appreciated episode.
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