‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Season 4 Rewatch (Part 1)

House of R

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🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Mal and Jo have enrolled in UC Sunnydale and are ready to continue their ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ rewatch! This time they’re breaking down the first half of Season 4 (through to Episode 12, “New Man”). They talk about the new and returning characters, the college setting, and the lack of a “big bad.” Plus, they give out some superlatives!(00:00) Intro(04:38) Opening Snapshot(48:50) SuperlativesHosts: Mallory Rubin and Joanna RobinsonProducer: Carlos ChiribogaStudio Production: Jacob CornettSocial: Jomi AdeniranAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to House of Ar. I'm Joanna Robinson. That Bedectin Giles is the beautiful Mallory Rubin, and we're back in Sunnydale for college. Yeah. It's Buffy Season 4. It's the stay and gloat that gets us every time.
0:23.1	We're here to talk to you about the first part, the first half of season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
0:29.8	Did they cancel the reboot plans? Yes. Does that mean we're going to stop our rewatch plans?
0:34.7	Of course not. No. Mallory is a completionist, so we're going to do it all.
0:37.7	Yeah.
0:38.1	And we're going to get into it right after this.
0:40.2	All right.
0:40.3	All right.
0:40.3	All right, quick programming reminders.
0:53.9	Yes. So what we have coming up here on the feed is we're going to be engaging with one of my favorite Star Wars characters. My guy, Maul. That's right. It's getting it, not only his own show, season two, already greenlit. I know. It's exciting. It's all happening for me. Shadow Lord time. Let's go. So we'll be,
1:11.7	we'll be engaging with Mall next week. Thrilled. We'll also do the second half of this Buffy
1:15.9	watch next week. That's right. And then we do have, if I can't remember to forget you,
1:22.3	we have Memento plans. We're doing a Nolan, another Nolan dive into Memento. So that is all coming up on the feed. I don't know how can folks keep track of all of that. What do you think? I would just recommend following the pod. Why not? Yeah. Let's do that. Follow House of R on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. You can watch full video episodes of House of our on Spotify, Incredible Stuff. You can also, of course, watch full video episodes of HouseFar and the Midnight Boys
1:46.6	Pew Poo on the Ringiverse YouTube channel.
1:49.6	While you're at it, follow us on social media because we've got brand spanking new handles.
1:54.6	Hell yes.
1:55.4	At House of R Pod on Instagram and TikTok, and of course, continue to follow the Ringervorverse
2:00.6	on the social media
2:01.5	platform if you're choosing while you're at it, you've put your phone in your hand to follow
2:05.9	at house of our pod. And you're like, should I send them an email? Is the inbox open? Guess what
2:09.2	it is? It's always open. Hobbits and dragons at gmail.com. Send us your mall shadow lord thoughts. Your horny, horny mall thoughts. All of them.
2:23.9	All of them. Send us your Buffy Season 4 Part 2 thoughts. Send us your ongoing and Christopher
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