Beyond Buffering: The X-Files, Fallout, Yellowjackets, & more!

Welcome to The eX-Files , a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. We are back with not one but TWO episodes of X-Files coverage! In the first — S3E17 “Pusher” — our fearless agents investigate the science behind “the whammy.” In the second — S3E18 “Teso Dos Bichos” — we have a dog who ate a cat who ate a rat,...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. Buble is back, Mulder and Krycek go on a boys roadtrip, Scully is literally at everyone's bedside, and WE DON'T CARE IF YOU HAVE TO STAND OUT IN THE HALLWAY YOURSELVES, THIS MAN HAS TO BE PROTECTED. It's Season 3, Episode 16 "Apocrypha." Ask not...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. This week we've got men in black AND frenchmen in black, Mulder is sniffing an unidentified oily substance that he's picked up on his ungloved fingers, Scully IS A MEDICAL DOCTOR OKAY, Krycek has returned to be incredibly attractive actually, an...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. The French say GARGOOEY, okay?! Mulder's third (fourth?) daddy figure takes center stage while Scully and Skinner share concerned eyebrow raises, Patrick Swayze gently cradles Mulder as he makes his little pottery, and Scully gets the sh*t scare...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. Oh no, the devil is coming after blonde virgins?!?! WHAT ARE THE ODDS. In this episode of the X-Files we find out what happened to the Eve twins when they got to high school!! Just kidding, these are two entirely different smug bitches who just...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. We hate that you have to hear it from us, but there are roaches simply EVERYwhere in this episode! In the basement, in your buddy’s makeshift drug lab, in the bathroom, in the motel, even in the poop warehouse. Egads! At least there’s a cute lit...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. Since the beginning of the series, we’ve been wondering what the limit might be on what Fox Mulder is willing to believe (if the limit does indeed exist)… and in S3E11, “Revelations,” we have found it. Stigmata? Guardian angels?? A fiery-handed...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. We have returned to the filing cabinet labeled “X” to discuss a Season 3 two parter: Episode 9, “Nisei,” and Episode 10, “731”! Myth arcs return, Mulder’s hair is reaching peak form, Scully needs PROOF and also is ONE OF THEM, and Skinner’s head...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. An episode we didn’t like at all and episode we kinda liked, actually!! Together in one pod we’ve got thoughts on “death by boiling” (sorry), child kidnapping (WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS, X-FILES), and perhaps most importantly why Kristin has starte...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. Just another fat-sucking, misogynist vampire on the internet for your Thursday! It's Season 3, Episode 6, "2Shy" and all we really have to say is... f*ck off, Virgil! Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 5/5 LATOYA OFFI...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. Apart from Kristin learning more about flies and maggots, nearly everything else that we have to wade through in this episode is wildly problematic! In between racist wardens and horrible prison systems we find a tale of reincarnation (or, trans...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. A veritable smorgasbord of both psychics and Buffering jingles converge for one of The X-Files most beloved episodes, S3E4 "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose." We've got Peter Boyle, questions about the meaning of life, Jenny feeling all kinds of fe...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. Giovanni Ribisi and Jack Black love to play video games and one of them also likes to BE LIGHTENING AND MURDER PEOPLE?! We have incel vibes a-plenty, a sheriff who is the patriarchy jingle embodied, beer bottles all over the front lawn, and Scul...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. MULDER IS ALIVE! SKINNER IS F*CKING OVER CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN! BIRDMAN IS HIDING IN THE ORCHIDS! We have finally reached the end of the three part episode arc that we began covering one hundred and forty years ago! Thank you for your patience,...

Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free. At long last, we have returned to blow off the dust that has gathered atop our filing cabinet!! Once that’s done, we’re headed to a boxcar to dig up Mulder, to Martha's Vineyard to demand answers from Mrs. Mulder, to hypnotherapy with Scully, an...

Welcome to Okey Dokey, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Fallout one episode at a time, spoiler free. Join us in rewatching the first ten episodes of Fallout's first season leading up to Fallout's Season 2 premiere on December 17th! You want another autograph, young Henry? It's the season finale — Season 1, Episode 8: "The Beginning." This episode ori...

Welcome to Okey Dokey, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Fallout one episode at a time, spoiler free. Join us in rewatching the first ten episodes of Fallout's first season leading up to Fallout's Season 2 premiere on December 17th! Here we are with Season 1, Episode 7: "The Radio." More importantly: She knows your WIFE, Coop. This episode originally...

Welcome to Okey Dokey, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Fallout one episode at a time, spoiler free. Join us in rewatching the first ten episodes of Fallout's first season leading up to Fallout's Season 2 premiere on December 17th! Here we are with Season 1, Episode 6: "The Trap." Any vault that won't take Roosevelt is no vault of ours. This episode...

Welcome to Okey Dokey, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Fallout one episode at a time, spoiler free. Join us in rewatching the first ten episodes of Fallout's first season leading up to Fallout's Season 2 premiere on December 17th! It's Season 1, Episode 5: "The Past." We swear, we were just planting 'tatos!! This episode originally aired in our Patr...

Welcome to Okey Dokey, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Fallout one episode at a time, spoiler free. Join us in rewatching the first ten episodes of Fallout's first season leading up to Fallout's Season 2 premiere on December 17th! It's Season 1, Episode 4: "The Ghouls," and, hey, ass jerky don't make itself! This episode originally aired in our Patr...

Welcome to Okey Dokey, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Fallout one episode at a time, spoiler free. Join us in rewatching the first ten episodes of Fallout's first season leading up to Fallout's Season 2 premiere on December 17th! It's Season 1, Episode 3: "The Head"! DID YOU PACK YOUR GODDAMN DEVILED EGGS OR WHAT?! This episode originally aired in...

Welcome to Okey Dokey, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Fallout one episode at a time, spoiler free. Join us in rewatching the first ten episodes of Fallout's first season leading up to Fallout's Season 2 premiere on December 17th! It's Season 1, Episode 2: "The Target," and Barv is just trying to eat her beans, goddammit!!! IN EPISODE LINKS SNL's "S...

Welcome to Okey Dokey, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Fallout one episode at a time, spoiler free. Join us in rewatching the first ten episodes of Fallout's first season leading up to Fallout's Season 2 premiere on December 17th! If the apocalypse comes, please don't wipe your dick on the curtains! Okey Dokey! This episode originally aired in our P...

Welcome to Okey Dokey, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Fallout one episode at a time, spoiler free. Join us in rewatching the first ten episodes of Fallout's first season leading up to Fallout's Season 2 premiere on December 17th! If the apocalypse comes, please don't wipe your dick on the curtains! Okey Dokey! This episode originally aired in our P...

Welcome to Beyond Buffering, where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs & Kristin Russo rewatch all of their favorite television shows that exist outside of the Buffyverse! In this feed you will find conversation on 90s classics such as The X-Files & My So-Called Life plus current favorites like Yellowjackets & Fallout! Our Fallout Season 1 coverage will begin airing in this feed on November 20th so you can re...