Send us a text Zabradabroo! Oh sorry. That's Zombie for This week we watched the highly(questionable) anticipated sequel to Zombies, Zombies 2 (And nothing else)! And honestly it was all about the Werewolves and we're only slightly mad about it. In this installment, we add indigenous peoples and the misappropriation of their tribal lands to our thinly veiled race allegory. And boy is it in the right*wrong* hands! Find out exactly what we took issue with from A(ddy) to Zed in this weeks episode o...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Send us a text We've reached the pinnacle of 90s technology in this week's episode. That's right! We watched everyone's favorite 1999 DCOM, Smart House. And the Disney Deviants house is jumpin' jumpin' because we are joined by self proclaimed Smart House expert, Brennen Malone! Smart House has EVERYTHING: Ryan Merriman pre Luck of the Irish A bully that gets his just desserts Wicked 90's dance moves Dial up Internet A sexy Scientist with a spotty dating record And of course everyone's favorite v...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 29 min
Send us a text It seems every generation has their own version of Freaky Friday so how did Disney try and make this one stand out from the crowd? Why make it a musical of course! Yes, you read that right! This week we watched the 2018 DCOMM(usical) Freaky Friday! And all we can say is 🎶biology what have you done to meeee🎶 (us)?! How does this stack up to the similarly titled, 2003 seminal classic of our childhood? Find out all of that and more in this week's episode of Disney Deviants!...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Send us a text We did it, Joe! We finally reached the DCOM seminal classic The Thirteenth Year! This week we dove fin first into first into maybe the best DCOM we've watched so far(?), The Thirteenth Year! Why the best you may ask? Well this movie had everything! A cherubic Jonathan Taylor Thomas-esque lead with a name built for the stage The quintessential 90s NERD The development of a friendship that actually makes sense! A PROFESSIONAL MERMAID for sure! Parents who are....actually helpful??? ...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Send us a text Dud duh dih duh! What's the sitch? This week we delve into the all too familiar world of Kim Possible and her (supposed to to be) bumbling sidekick Ron Stoppable as we watch 2019's Kim Possible DCOM! Did this DCOM live up to our Disney Channel Original fantasies? Shall we count the ways? Shego = Hot Drakken = certainly evil (but more Doofenschmirtz than Drakken) Shego pressons on black gloves = ICONIC Christy Carlson |Romano cameo of MEH proportions A seriously obvious STALKER Wad...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Send us a text This week we discuss a movie that's been lost to the DCOM vault....until now! And we may have inadvertently discovered why! Can of Worms is the 6th Disney Channel Original Movie, and if you've never seen this DCOM but the name sounds familiar, that's because it was based on a 1999 book of the same name by Kathy Mackel, who also wrote the screenplay! #GirlPower We ponder the facts of this movie like: How did Disney get such a quick turnaround on this? Was there a rule in the puppet...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Send us a text In this week's episode, we watched probably (?) the shortest Disney Channel Original Movie to date, Tangled: Before Ever After! Clocking in at a neat 58 minutes, Tangled: Before Ever After brings new life to the original underappreciated classic. The voices we know and love are back! Certified hotties Mandy Moore and Zach Levi(!) We are introduced to some voices we now freaking love (Eden Espinosa <3). And we are forced to grapple with none of the budget of the original. This e...
May 12, 2021•50 min
Send us a text It's here. The one we've all been waiting for! This week we watched the first ever DCOM MUSICAL (and possibly the best one to date?) The Cheetah Girls ! This piece of Disney Channel feminist history exudes growl power and came to us in 2003 by way of Deborah Gregory (author extraordinaire!!!), Alison Taylor (screenplay writer and fellow woman), and Oz Scott (director and...man...well you win some you lose some). Starring early 00s faves Raven Symone (in the same year that That's S...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Send us a text In this week's episode, we finally made it to the Disney Channel Original Behemoth, Descendants! (Not to be confused with the 2011 George Clooney dramedy.) Descendants is part of Disney's desire to rewrite the history of their numerous villains starring Dove Cameron, Cameron Boyce, Sofia Carson, BooBoo Stewart and character queens Kathy Najimy as Evil Queen and Kristin Chenoweth as Elphaba! Wait...*checks notes*...I mean Maleficent! It might be interesting, but we are not interest...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Send us a text Cetus lupeedus!!! In this week's episode, Adaeze and Taiwo flashback to the future and arrive in the year 1999 with Zenon:Girl of the 21st Century! The year is 2049 and there are flying cars, regular space travel, out of this world fashions (slinkies in hair? I WANT), clip/word art has made a STRONG comeback and computers somehow still use disk drives to transmit data. This is a 90s fever dream of halfway through the century (holy shit that's only 28 years away???) And we wouldn't...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Send us a text In our next installment of Disney Deviants we discuss the musical (?) race allegory Z-O-M-B-I-E-S! This movie has everything: A horrible title A double wig reveal Race disguised with purple/gray painted skin Craze amaze dancers BUCKY Body positive representation (Go Bri!) And Taiwo's personal fave: 4 of your fave 90s/00s movies rolled into one. Join us as we unravel this thinly veiled story about segregation in this week's episode Z-O-M-B-I-E-S!...
Mar 17, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Send us a text Welcome back to another installment of Disney Deviants! This week, we finally made it to the other side of the DCOM universe. Yes you've got that right! We finally got to discuss the first DCOM throwback that we grew up with, Brink! Can we say grew up with if we dont remember a single thing about the plot? This movie has everything, actual teens acting as teens, hot protagonists😉, hot antagonists😉, and extreme sports! And no it's not hockey! Join us we relive our 1998 (but reall...
Mar 03, 2021•59 min
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Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Send us a text Raise your hand if the DCOM classic You Lucky Dog! was a part of your childhood growing up. Us neither! Kirk Cameron and friends (RIP James Avery & Taylor Negron) and wife (!?!?!) round out this goofball comedy about a supposedly grown man(?) who comes into extreme wealth by way of a dog who is immune to the dangers of chocolate. Was this the movie that made Kirk Cameron leave heathen Hollywood? And who brings a gun to a law fight? Find out the answer to this and many more in ...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Send us a text On this episode of Disney Deviants, it's Adaeze and Taiwo against the Phineas and Ferb Universe. The absence of cable in our lives has created a nostalgia shaped crater in our hearts that only Phineas and Ferb can fill, or Candace and Candace in this case. Which one of the Disney Deviants hosts donned a green wig to embody Ferb for the day? Who is the Phineas and Ferb super fan that knows all the lyrics by heart? Who will spend the next few weeks binge watching this Disney Classic...
Jan 21, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Send us a text We promised, and we delivered. New Year, New Season, New us! We are officially Disney Deviants and for our first episode we watched Under Wraps, the 1st ever DCOM!This movie (not film) gave us horror, comedy, action, romance, a true quadruple threat! We came here for garbage, and Disney said NOT TODAY! And for that we are eternally grateful.Join us as we talk through the delightfully fun, and somewhat Grown, Under Wraps!...
Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Send us a text It's the end of a season and an era. In our final episode of 2020 we discuss Holidate the Emma Robert's vehicle written by Tiffany Paulsen and directed by John Whitesell! It's our final Christmas Edition movie, and what an infuriating note to end on! So many questions, so little time. Like who invented the term Holidate, Netflix or Twitter? Was Paulsen getting paid per time anyone said holidate?why does this movie feel longer than The Goldfinch? And how could Tiffany slip so low a...
Dec 30, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Send us a text In our penultimate Christmas Edition episode we bring in New Light Theatre's Elsa Kegelman (https://www.elsakegelman.com, instagram & Twitter: @kegelwoman) to help us tackle the crazy mess that is Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square! We will not blaspheme the name of our love & Queen Dolly Parton, but we just may roast her movie! (I mean, how many plots do we need?) Thank goodness she cast her only begotten daughter, Christine Baranski, to save us all from this Christma...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 27 min
Send us a text The highly anticipated, most requested episode is here. This week we finally watched the star-studded Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey directed by David E. Talbert! And of course we had to bring in our resident musical theatre expert to help discuss, Jessica Money (instagram: @money226156)! This episode has everything: Blackity black lead cast! (Come through Uncle Forest, Auntie Phylicia & cousin Anika!) VOCALS Uncle Forest tryna catch an afrobeat Camp Rock 2 (ONLY) Slander ...
Dec 16, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Send us a text 🎶Jingle bells, Netflix sells Christmas sequels we MUST watch🎶 This week we are giving you sequels, just not the sequels you asked for. We watched The Princes Switch: Switched Again starring Vanessa Hudgens! We have not one, not two, but THREE different Vanessas! And those aren't the only surprises this episode brings! (Convoluted plots, a love....square? Pentagon?, undercover Brits?!?) This episode may shake you to your core. We know we were! Find out why as we discuss The Princ...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Send us a text 🎶It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!🎶 In our hearts anyway...(#GlobalWarming) and on our tv screens! This week we kick off Textual Deviants: Christmas Edition by watching Happiest Season by Clea DuVall, Hulu's newest, barrier breaking, Queer Christmas movie starring Kristin Stewart, MacKenzie Davis, Dan Levy, & Alison Brie! There was so much to love (Jane/Riley😍) And so much to hate (Harper/Sloan🤬) in this movie that Clea DuVall originally intended for theatrical ...
Dec 02, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Send us a text Welcome back to another episode of Textual Deviants: Moving Edition This week we watched The Goldfinch directed by John Crowley (director of the best romantic film Brooklyn!) and said an East Coast goodbye to Taiwo as she moves to Cali! Adaeze bets her firstborn child that this was a Lean Cusine version of The Goldfinch. What else are we willing to bet her (non-existent) first born child on? 1. Auntie Donna (Tartt) doing THAT! 2. Finn Wolfhard's accent ain't IT. 3. HBO will attemp...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Send us a text The highly anticipated sequel episode that everyone has been begging for is finally here! And by sequel we mean we read an unrelated book by the same author....Oops That's right, we read Tiffany D. Jackson's latest release, Grown, and we've got the ca-yute merch to prove it! The book is short, but the material is heavy. And we talk about all of it (or at least as much we can fit in under 1.5hrs) Listen to this episode to hear amazing TD podcast hits such as: "Allegedly" (not to be...
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Send us a text One week ago, we discussed Where'd You Go Bernadette on election day, and it was a wonderful distraction. Today we are discussing it's movie companion, by the same name, directed by Richard Linklater! We made a deal with a god we dont believe about our candidate winning (yay striking down fascism!), so unfortunately that means no more witty questions like: What do you get when you cross a filmmaker with a distinctly realistic aesthetic (almost to the point of absurdity) with a sat...
Nov 11, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Send us a text It's election day and we need a really big distraction from the anxiety of it all. So why not dive into the anxiety of the titular character in this weeks read Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple! In this absurdist (our word) satire (their word) we are thrown into the life of Bernadette Peters world renowned actress, Broadway belter, and all around believable lady and ‐‐ *checks notes* -- sorry Bernadette Fox, LA transplant, renowned architect, no waste queen and all around...
Nov 04, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Send us a text After much delay, (we forgive you USPS, getting the #Vote out is def more important) we have returned to our regularly-ish scheduled content. To close out our month of #SpooksMcGooks we read 2002 psychological spook, The Night I Disappeared by Julie Reece Deaver and break down all the levels of Jamie's psyche. And some of our own as well! Tangents abound (sorry not sorry) in this week's episode, The Night I Disappeared by Julie Reece Deaver!...
Oct 28, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Send us a text In this regularly deviant episode, we breakdown the schedule for November! Are we late? Yes. Are we sorry? ....Ok yeah...but really...No. are we predictably unpredictable? Always. 2020 has been a trip y'all! Let's take it easy on each other! And if you would like to take it easy with us, join us for our continution of the Book & Movie format for November!
Oct 27, 2020•16 min
Send us a text Welcome back for another chaotic episode of a differently scheduled ♫Textual Deviants, uh , uh , uh —♫ THEME SONG UNDER CONSTRUCTION This week we are joined by long time friend of the podcast, first EVER guest, and host of her own podcast, Depp Impact , Jenna Kuerzi! (http://www.jennakuerzi.com/) as we discuss Coraline Directed by Henry Selick (NOT TIM BURTON) of Nightmare Before Christmas fame! We learned a lot while watching Coraline and we'd love to share a little bit of it wit...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Send us a text Today is the first of our book to movie reviews and we could not be more excited to be starting it off with I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Charlie Kaufman! No we do not have that wrong. This movie is credited as having been WRITTEN by Charlie Kaufman and not Iain Reid. If you thought Iain Reid's ITOET was weird, than you better tighten your bootstraps because you're in for a real ride. Join us as we discuss this Netflix "arthouse fil-um", its strengths (*cough*dance*cough), its ...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Send us a text It's October which means we are starting our month of #Spooks🎃 and let us tell you, we are starting it off RIGHT, but our sound is all WRONG. (Forgive us listeners for one of us *cough"taiwo*cough* has sinned.) For our first episode of October, we read the truly #SpooksMcGooks I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid. Find out which one of us had to sleep in her sister's bed after reading this and which one of us is an ITOET savant. Listen to us work through all the details of ...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 8 min
