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

Welcome to The Boiler Room, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson cover My So-Called Life one episode at a time, spoiler free. Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. In celebration of the show's 30th Anniversary we have added The Boiler Room to our Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure family...

Welcome to The Boiler Room, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson cover My So-Called Life one episode at a time, spoiler free. Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson rewatch all 19 glorious episode of My So-Called Life, one at a time, spoiler free. In celebration of the show's 30th Anniversary we have added The Boiler Room to our Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure family...

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. It’s the FINALE of Season 2 of the X-Files and Mulder is taking LSD to celebrate. Scully cannot believe she didn’t get an autopsy *or* a bath, but she did get to sit at Mulder’s bedside and get yelled at by several different men!! We have conspi...

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! November 6, 2024 seems like a fitting day to say "Welcome to the Hellmouth," so let us get right to it. Darla is using her combination princess-voice and killer fangs to upend expectat...

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. Though we are discussing "Our Town" today, it is decidedly NOT the play by Thornton Wilder but rather an episode of The X-Files in which the townsfolk are dining on... other townsfolk! Cannibalism: the other red meat?? Producer LaToya Ferguson g...

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 Halloween, we urge you to up the horror — forget ghosts, goblins, and demons and please reflect on that spoooooooky feeling where your shadow is NOT YOUR OWN!!!!! It's Season 2, Episode 23: "Soft Light" and the train station is your only sa...

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 first television episode in history that Kristin refused to watch a second time!! We've got some bugs, we've got some escaped prisoners, we've got some pustules (which we nearly exclusively refer to as rainbows so that we could survive the c...

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. WHY ARE TWINS ALWAYS EVIL!?!?! Did you learn about *wind* in kindergarten?? Why would you ever throw away three good ice cream cones?! Do old women have names???? We dig into these questions and more this week in our coverage of The X-Files S2E2...

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. Darin! Morgan! Is! Here!! We are going to Florida! We are burying potatoes! We are inverting stereotypes! We are blasting Screamin' Jay Hawkins! WE ARE HAVING A GREAT TIME. It's Season 2, Episode 20 Humbug, and we are absolutely thrilled to be h...

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. Time to go into the middle of the ocean where both a military ship and its inhabitants have aged so fast that they have literally turned to salt! Oh no, Mulder and Scully are getting older by the minute as they try to crack the case!! The only w...

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 taken a turn out of the X-Files myth arc and traded a Mulder of Samanthas for invisible elephants and alien-abducted gorillas! It’s S2E18: Fearful Symmetry. Let’s GO.  Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1/5 Ve...

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 dear, it seems Samantha Mulder also bleeds Baja (read:green goo) and isn’t Samantha Mulder at all. We will have to wait on that game of Stratego. :(  In better news, Daddy Skinner and Daddy X trade head butts in the elevator — the closest you...

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 and Skinner have their butts in a sling and… is that SAMANTHA MULDER they see from their perch?! We are back with the first in a two-part X-Files arc and the green goo is a-flowing!! Join us for S2E16: “Colony”. Producer LaToya Ferguson g...

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 episode has a cat named Chester Bonaparte that Mulder says hello to on the end of a pier, which is something — if perhaps the only thing? — to celebrate. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.3/5 Trace Levels of T...

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. Teenagers in the woods! Dark magic in the classrooms! If not witches, then WHAT?!?! We are talking about S2E14 "Die Hand Die Verletzt," and we'd ask you to speak neither German nor Latin in front of the books, thank you very much. Producer LaToy...

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. Is it our favorite episode? No. Does it inspire us to compare Dana Scully to Tony Soprano? Yes. Please also join us for Jenny's telling of a scary story about a woman with no face (not to be confused with a woman with two pennies), and Kristin's...

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 on The X-Files, Aubrey is a town not a person, John Locke is using the pseudonym “Brian” to be a real dickbag around town, Mulder debates nurture vs nature using the hard-to-argue-with cronch of a sunflower seed, we learn that even wom...

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 would prefer to take this week's episode — S2E11 "Excelcis Dei" — and stuff it down a volcano with Bradley Whitford, so that it would either combust from the heat of the lava or the heat of Volcano Bradley's sexiness...but alas, it is our JOB...

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 have a special appearance by special guest LaToya Ferguson who is here to help us discuss one of the most wild(ly bad) episodes of The X-Files to date: S2E10 "Red Museum"! Luckily, this episode was ALSO intended as a crossover with...

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. It's not a space bug frozen in ice or an LED bug that only comes out at night, but it IS a fungus that looks like a stalk of asparagus and it WILL use you as its host!!!!!! We are in our casual clothes on remote location in the Pacific Northwest...

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. Mrs Scully and Papa Scully and Sister Scully are all here this week because DANA HATH BEEN RETURNED! Mulder spends the entire episode sprinting and screaming in search of the truth, Nurse Owens is actually perhaps AN ANGEL, Cigarette Smoking Man...

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. VAMPIRES?! Scully is gone ONE WEEK and we have VAMPIRES!?!?! With veterinary needles!??! Join us as we discuss how normal the name Kristen is when spelled with an "E," our outrage at John The Son's inability to wipe his mouth off after feeding o...

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 X-FILES ARE RE-OPENED, SMUG BITCHES! Daddy Skinner said let's goooooooo!! Also: Scully is somewhere in the sky, Mulder's hair has one fleeting non-duckling moment while drenched in rain, and Duane Barry answers the question on all of our min...

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 FBI needs someone who can act like aliens are all a bunch of hooey to help get some hostages freed, so they call in the best candidate for the job: Famous Non-Believer Fox Mulder! Also, Scully writes a check for $11.14, the perfect dog from...

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! Mr. X has a scandalous meeting with Mulder and an envelope, Scully is BURNING with jealousy over Mulder's new partner, The Smoking Man smokes, and the incredible Tony Todd is here to grace us with his talents. Producer LaToya Fergus...