A Bit of Buffy

Everyone's "jacked in" and Moloch only wants your love this week in Ashley's review of Season 1, Episode 8: I, Robot... You, Jane . There is online dating, the appearance of a techno-pagan, and demons bound in books...and the internet. If you're not jacked in, you're not alive.

Buffy learns about the dark secret of her mysterious crush this week in Ashley's review of Season 1, Episode 7: Angel . There are sparks of forbidden romance, a vampire curse in the name of vengeance, and Darla with guns. Can a vampire ever be a good person?

Xander finds himself craving Herbert the Razorback this week in Ashley's review of Season 1, Episode 6: The Pack. There are ruthless games of dodgeball, hyenas in quarantine, and the beginning of a rite of passage for Sunnydale principals - being eaten!

Buffy's date with cool guy Owen becomes dangerous this week in Ashley's review of Season 1, Episode 5: Never Kill a Boy on the First Date. There are iconic Buffy lines, a lot of talk of Emily Dickinson, and the start of Buffy's "bleeding tragic taste in men." If the apocalypse comes, beep her.

Xander's reputation as a demon magnet begins this week in Ashley's review of Season 1, Episode 4: Teacher's Pet . There are insects who teach about insects, highly inappropriate tutoring sessions, and Xander on the receiving end of a truly terrible game of eeny, meeny, miny, moe . Just another day on the Hellmouth.

Buffy's cheerleading tryouts become a little less peppy and a lot more witchy this week in Ashley's review of Season 1, Episode 3: Witch . There is disapproval over waving pompoms at people from a certain English librarian, the introduction of witchcraft in the Buffyverse, and a whole lot of bad parenting going around. The only solution is a big plate of brownies.

Buffy takes on Luke and thwarts the efforts of the Master this week in Ashley's review of Season 1, Episode 2: The Harvest . There are compelling stories of X-Acto knives for beheading, the demise of Jesse in his second and final episode, and excessive not studying in an effort to get kicked out of school. The Earth is doomed.

Ashley kicks off the podcast with a review of Welcome to the Hellmouth , the pilot episode of Season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ! We've got asbestos in the gym, a girl named 'Aphrodesia' being judgy about other people's names, and vampires on campus in the very first episode of this iconic show.