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 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 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...

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. It's the FINALE of Season 2 of Yellowjackets!!! We are making Hot PhenobarbiCocoa at Camp Lottie, burning down cabins in the wilderness, and surviving on a dinner of Roast Javi. Jeff is in cohoots with Walter. Coach Ben is moving into a tree. Sa...

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Uh-oh — Queen of Hearts ACTIVATE — we've officially decided to craft a ritual for eating our friends in the wilderness!!! It's not because we want to though it is is because the wilderness wants us to. Make sure you remember that! Triangle Buddy...

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. We are burying many things this week, and perhaps most dangerous of all: OUR FEELINGS! In the past, the search begins for Crystal (where the f*ck is Crystal, y'all), Ben shaves, and Shauna's most authentic self kicks the ever living shit out of...

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Reunited and it feels so good: BFF of the pod Joanna Robinson joins Jenny to discuss an episode that is absolutely none of Kristin’s business at the moment! Shauna completely forgets about the most important cookies she ever read, Misty endures...

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Walter and Misty find Natalie at Camp Lottie (shout out to the phrase "woo woo bullshit" appearing in this very episode), Shauna pretends to sleep with Randy, Callie leans into her new life of crime, Shadow Tai plants one on Van, and in the 1997...

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Let's have a hunting competition! The winner gets a trip to the mall, where you can try to eat Chinese food as it snows behind you?!?!?! You just have to follow me right down this hatch to retrieve your award, and don't mind Leonard the Bear on...

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Everyone knows that after a five course meal of your best friend/good friend, the best way to unwind is with a large goblet of TRAUMA! Let's pour our glasses full! Shauna can tell us about how to roll back skin, Van can be incredibly helpful by...

Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. In the past we are eating Jackie and in the present we are making hamburger patties as a way to process being investigated for murder!! In the past we are having astral-plane threesomes and in the present we are flirting at the bar with an unde...