Sept. 21, 2026

Bonus: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3, Part 2 with Sophie Cadden & James Duffy

[BONUS] We resume our bonus coverage of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's third season... where an accidental wish plunges the town into a dystopian alternate reality, an ancient evil torments Angel on Christmas Eve, a betrayal by Giles leaves a powerless Buffy to face a psychotic vampire alone, and a sidelined Xander must quietly find his own inner strength to stop an explosive zombie plot...

And we have two guests to help us explore these four episodes: literary writer Sophie Cadden and Bite Club member and Buffy super-fan James Duffy...

🎯 The Agenda

~ [ 00:00:20 ] "The Wish" with Emma Cadden

A heartbroken Cordelia wishes that Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale. The vengeance demon Anya grants the wish, plunging the town into a dystopian alternate reality where The Master rules, the Hellmouth is wide open, and Willow and Xander are sadistic vampires.

~ [ 00:50:00 ] "Amends" with Emma Cadden

It's Christmas time in Sunnydale, but a tormented Angel is haunted by visions of his past victims—including Jenny Calendar—driven by the manipulative First Evil to kill Buffy. As he chooses to end his life via the upcoming sunrise, an unexpected miracle brings snow to California.

~ [ 01:30:30 ] "Helpless" with James Duffy

On the eve of her 18th birthday, Buffy suddenly loses her Slayer powers due to a secret, drug-induced test administered by Giles and the Watchers' Council. Deprived of her strength, she must rely entirely on her wits to save her mother from a psychotic, escaped vampire named Zachary Kralik.

~ [ 02:25:30 ] "The Zeppo" with James Duffy

Feeling excluded and dismissed as the useless "Zeppo" of the gang, Xander accidentally falls in with a group of dangerous, bomb-building zombies. While the rest of his friends fight off a literal apocalypse in the background, Xander must quietly find his own inner confidence to stop Sunnydale High from being blown to pieces.

🎙️ The Lineup

Hosts & Editors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dan Owen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠Hugh McStay⁠
Guests: Emma Cadden & James Murray

"Oh, please. 'Integral part' of the group? Xander, you're the-the useless part of the group. You're the Zeppo. 'Cool.' Look it up. It's something that a sub-literate that's repeated twelfth grade three times has and you don't."— Cordelia

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