The Re-Watcher's Council

Gunn's old crew is back. They've gone from protecting their neighborhood to hunting anything with a demon face. And Gunn has to decide which side he's on. 🪓 This week on Re-Watcher's Council, we're covering Angel Season 3, Episode 3: "That Old Gang of Mine" — the Gunn episode the show has been building toward since Season 1, and one of the most thematically rich standalone hours of the series. Gu...

Buffy survived death. She survived a resurrection. She survived clawing out of her own grave. She is not going to survive the plumbing bill. The basement is flooded, the pipes need full replacement, Joyce's medical and funeral bills are still outstanding, and the Summers girls are flat broke. Buffy heads to the bank to apply for a loan — gets attacked by a mercenary demon mid-meeting — kills said...

Wolfram & Hart found a new way to weaponize Cordelia's visions. Angel is not handling this calmly. Nobody is. 😤 This week on Re-Watcher's Council, we're covering Angel Season 3, Episode 2: "That Vision Thing" — the one where the show makes Cordelia's vision problem dramatically, viscerally worse, and uses it to force Angel into doing something deeply uncomfortable to save her. Cordelia's visi...

Buffy is back. Her hands are shredded from clawing out of her grave. Her friends are overjoyed. And she is telling absolutely none of them the truth. The Scoobies are already dealing with the fallout from the resurrection spell — something came back with Buffy, a formless demon stitched into existence by the magic that brought her home, and it's working its way through the gang one possession at a...

Welcome to Angel Season 3. Angel went to a monastery in Sri Lanka to grieve. There were demon monks. He should've gone to Vegas. 🧛‍♂️ This week on Re-Watcher's Council, we're kicking off Angel Season 3 with the premiere episode, Heartthrob — the one where Angel comes home from three months of grief-processing abroad, the team tries to figure out how he's doing without actually asking, and a vampi...

Five months after Buffy's sacrifice, the Scoobies are holding it together — barely. The Buffybot is patrolling, Willow is in charge, Giles is heading back to England, and nobody's talking about the thing they're all actually doing: trying to bring Buffy back from the dead. Snark and Fares dig into the two-part Season 6 premiere — the resurrection ritual, the Hellion demon bikers, Buffy clawing out...

This week on Re-Watcher's Council, we're covering the Angel Season 2 finale: "There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb" — the conclusion of the Pylea arc and one of the most gut-punch endings in the entire Buffyverse. Written and directed by David Greenwalt, this episode wraps up everything the Pylea arc set in motion: the rebellion, the Groosalugg, Lorne's family, Angel's demon form, Cordelia's reign as...

This is it. The 100th episode. The Season 5 finale. The one that changes everything. This week on Re-Watcher's Council we're covering "The Gift" — and we are not going to pretend we held it together. Glory has Dawn. The portal is opening. And the only solution anyone can think of is the one Buffy has already refused to accept. So instead she does something else entirely. Something that's been quie...

Princess Cordelia. The Groosalugg. Joss Whedon doing the Dance of Joy. Angel discovering he has a reflection and immediately lamenting his hair. This episode has everything. 👑 This week on Re-Watcher's Council, we're covering Angel Season 2, Episode 21: "Through the Looking Glass" — the Pylea arc's richest, most thematically dense episode and honestly one of the best of the entire season. Written...

Dawn is gone. Glory has won. And Buffy Summers — the Slayer, the one who always gets back up — is just... gone too. This week on Re-Watcher's Council we're covering "The Weight of the World," the penultimate episode of Season 5, and it is a quieter kind of devastating. With Buffy catatonic from the shock of losing Dawn, Willow takes it upon herself to dive into Buffy's mind and pull her back — and...

They went through a portal to a demon dimension to rescue Cordelia. Angel can walk in the sun. He is not handling this calmly. ☀️🧛 This week on Re-Watcher's Council, we're covering Angel Season 2, Episode 20 "Over the Rainbow" — the one where the gang actually jumps through a dimensional portal to Pylea and everything gets completely, gloriously unhinged. Cordelia finds herself in a new dimension...

Glory knows Dawn is the Key. The Slayer is outmatched. And Buffy Summers — who has never run from anything — decides to run. This week on Re-Watcher's Council we're covering "Spiral," and it is a full-throttle, no-brakes descent into the endgame of Season 5. The gang piles into Spike's sun-proofed Winnebago and gets out of Sunnydale, which sounds like it should be almost fun...

Snark rewatched Angel S2E19 "Belonging" and he's here to discuss it on The Re-Watcher's Council, joined by special guest Brennen Marr! Yup, "Belonging" — the one where a demon crashes through a portal at Caritas, Lorne's mysterious home dimension gets its first real spotlight, and Cordelia ends up somewhere she very much did not plan to be by the end of the episode....

Snark rewatched Buffy the Vampire Slayer S5E19 "Tough Love" and he's here to discuss it on The Re-Watcher's Council, joined by special guest Brennen Marr! This week on Re-Watcher's Council, we're covering "Tough Love" — the episode where Glory finally makes her move on the Scoobies and the fallout is absolutely devastating. Buffy is juggling full-time guardiansh...

Wolfram & Hart gave Lindsey McDonald a new hand. The hand has opinions of its own. This is fine. This week on Re-Watcher's Council, we're covering Angel Season 2, Episode 18: "Dead End" — the one where the world's most reluctant buddy cop duo finally hits the road together. Angel and Lindsey teaming up is everything you didn't know you needed, and the reason they have to work together is genui...

After two of the heaviest episodes in the entire series, Buffy Season 5 does something only this show can pull off — it gives us a robot and makes us cry anyway. This week on Re-Watcher's Council, we're covering "Intervention," and there is a lot happening. Buffy heads into the desert with Giles for a vision quest, wrestling with whether her Slayer instincts are slowly killing her capacity to love...

It's a Harmony reunion, and nobody asked for it — except maybe Cordelia. 🧛‍♀️ This week on Re-Watcher's Council, we're diving deep into Angel Season 2, Episode 17: "Disharmony" — the one where Cordelia's bubbly, not-so-reformed vampire bestie from Sunnydale shows up in Los Angeles at the worst possible time. Between Angel desperately trying to earn back his team's trust (spoiler: buying Cordy new...

Joyce is barely in the ground, and the Summers sisters are already falling apart in completely different ways — and we are not okay. This week on the Re-Watcher's Council, we're diving deep into "Forever," the gut-punch follow-up to "The Body" that somehow hits just as hard. Dawn, desperate and grieving, sets out to bring Joyce back from the dead using a resurrection spell — and honestly? We get i...

Angel hits the floor. He stops running. And something inside him finally clicks. In “Epiphany,” the emotional collapse of Reprise turns into a turning point. Angel is forced to stare straight at the abyss—at what he’s done, what he’s lost, and what it would mean to give up. But instead of surrendering, he finds a new kind of clarity: redemption isn’t a prize you earn at the end of the road. It’s a...

In “The Body,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer strips away the supernatural and leaves us with something far more terrifying: loss. When Buffy finds Joyce, the episode follows the immediate aftermath in real time—shock, denial, numbness, logistics, and the moments where your brain tries to protect you by making reality feel unreal. There are no sweeping speeches. No comforting music cues. Just silence, b...

Angel hits rock bottom. Wolfram & Hart tighten the leash. And someone finally asks the question out loud: what’s the point? In “Reprise,” Angel’s dark arc reaches its breaking point. The cost of his isolation, his deception, and his scorched-earth war catches up to him fast—leaving Angel battered, cornered, and staring directly into despair. It’s an episode about exhaustion. About failure. Abo...

A robot girlfriend. A pile of sparks and comedy. And then… the floor drops out. In “I Was Made to Love You,” Buffy gets pulled into a strange, surprisingly fun case involving April—a heartbroken, super-strong robot built to love a guy who no longer wants her. It’s weird, it’s campy, it’s classic Sunnydale “what is happening today?” energy… until the episode makes a hard turn into something devasta...

Bad cops. Undead vengeance. And a city that’s rotting from the inside out. In “The Thin Dead Line,” Angel Investigations takes on a case involving rogue police officers abusing their power—until things take a very Buffyverse turn. When the corrupt cops come back from the dead, the line between justice and vengeance blurs fast, and Angel is forced to confront what happens when institutions fail the...

Love gets ugly. Obsession gets louder. And Spike finally says the quiet part out loud. In “Crush,” Spike’s feelings for Buffy stop being playful tension and turn into something far more dangerous. As he confesses his love—and lashes out when it’s rejected—the episode pulls the curtain back on obsession, entitlement, and the darker side of longing. Meanwhile, Drusilla makes her chaotic return to Su...

A grand romantic gesture. A universe-ending mistake. And Angel… choosing to let it all happen. In “Happy Anniversary,” Lindsey finally decides to do something nice for Darla. Unfortunately, that “something nice” involves rewinding time, collapsing reality, and accidentally erasing the world. As the day resets again and again, Angel is forced to make an impossible call: intervene and save everyone—...