So on Tuesday, Fienberg and I announced that this summer’s podcast rewind would be season 1 of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and on Thursday, I added that the blog rewind would be season 2 of “Deadwood.”
What we failed to do a good job of in either instance was to clarify exactly how much you all should be watching before the first discussion begins.
With “Buffy,” it’s the two-hour series premiere as it aired on the WB 15 years ago, but which has been separated into two episodes for syndication, on DVD and now on Netflix and Amazon streaming. So watch both “Welcome to the Hellmouth” and “The Harvest” before the next podcast, which may be this coming week or may be the following, given Dan’s travels.
With “Deadwood,” I decided after watching the first two episodes – “A Lie Agreed Upon, Part I” and “A Lie Agreed Upon, Part II” – that even though they didn’t air on the same night the way the “Buffy” premiere did, the titles and the structure suggests that David Milch wanted them to be viewed as one big premiere story, so that’s what we’re going to do. I’ll be discussing both at once with the review going up on Friday morning, and the plan is to do one episode per week after that, give or take my own summer travels.
Sorry for the added wrinkle, but I wanted to make sure everyone knew what the homework assignment was before the next class.