New Year, new us! This year, every day is a deviation. We are releasing ourselves from all constraints. Welcome to our journey of watching and reading the things that call to us. Thank you for your continued support, and we hope you will stick with us in this new chapter of our journey. New episodes come out on Friday's!
Send us a text This. Was. Unhinged! Listen to us try to muddle through the plot of this Brandy (and Heather Graham) Christmas vehicle. This movie has everything! Christmas Newsletters Three precocious kids Clingy college ex Freaky Deaky Sex A barely discussed dead son A solar powered hot air balloon and Last but not least Santa hijinks involving previously stated balloons...
Send us a text We are coming at you on this Christmas morning with Candy Cane Lane. This wacky and (family friendly?) Christmas movies has us asking questions like Why is Nick Offerman British? Is counting calculus? Whose fetish did this movie satisfy? Listen to this episode to find out if any of these questions get answered.
Send us a text And now we're back! From outer space! Woops I meant from our regularly scheduled break! (Plus a day or so). The second book we ever read and discussed for the podcast was A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins when it was released in 2020. So of course, we had to watch the movie now that it's out in theaters! Thank goodness the strike is over huh? Join us as we discuss the similarities and differences between the book and movie and the merit of the movie itself. And a...
Send us a text Happy Thanksgiving Deviants! And this Thanksgiving we are grateful to be back and for authors highlighting the plight of Palestinians in Gaza. This week we read and discuss Susan Abulhawa's 2019 Novel Against the Loveless World . A poignant story about a Palestinian woman held as a prisoner in an Israeli prison and how she got to be there. Join us as we discuss the beauty of the novel and share our thoughts on the current conflict. Palestine will be free....
Send us a text The week we are once again taking up the mantle as the C-Presidents of the Tiffany D. Jackson Fan Club! And as Co-Presidents, this October we are bringing you Tiffany's (yes we are on a first name basis!) spookiest read to date, The Weight of Blood. Join us as we read this Carrie retelling and discuss all things Maddy, Kendrick, Wendy, Jules and the rest of the headline making events in the small town of Springville, Georgia. And find out why Racism (tm) might just be the scariest...
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Send us a text In our official Spooky-Oooky Halloween kickoff episode we discuss LAna Harper's sapphic, magic novel Payback's a Witch!
Send us a text The one where the gang finally talks about Legendborn by Tracy Deonn! It took a couple of weeks (and a surprise episode!) but we finally got to discuss all of our thoughts about Legendborn! Did we hate this book? Did we love this book? Was this book a warm hug? Who did we want Bree to end up with? Did those within The Order like to live? Did we make the crazy choice to record this AFTER a bonus Jonas episode (yes!)? For all other answers, and for questions you didn't even know we ...
Send us a text Love is patient, love is blind, love is toxic, and unkind...that's how that goes right? This we bring you a bonus episode so long, it MUST be the director's cut. This week, we bring you 2 episodes for the price of one. We are deep diving into the first episodes of Netflix's Love Is Blind. And we have important questions like... 1) You know it's still yelling even though you're keeping your voice down right? 2) What exactly is the current state of heterosexual love? 3) Are solo cup...
Send us a text We're back with a special announcement episode of Textual Deviants! Join us as we discuss our spooky-ooky and spooky-lovely(?) October reads, Payback's A Witch by Lana Harper and Weight of Blood by podcast Author fave Tiffany D. Jackson! Oh. You thought we were going to be discussing Legendborn? If there's one thing we've told yall, it's that we are a liars and frauds. And also, WE ARE SO SORRY BUT LIFE IS SO DIFFICULT AS ACTORS TRYING TO NAVIGATE THE STRIKE AND FIND A NEW JOB POS...
Send us a text It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the Return of Them Bitches That Read a.k.a Textual Deviants! Now let me tell you a little about two girls who are in solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA strike. Yes, the industry is still on strike and so are we. So we are back with our first read in a long time and we're not sure if we remember how we used to do this, but we sure as hell are gonna have fun trying to figure it out! For today's episode we read Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie and the d...
Send us a text Hello again everyone! We're back from an unannounced hiatus that was necessary for many reasons! Travel, family, and the havoc that general late-stage capitalism is wreaking on our chosen industry! As the title has probably made you aware, SAG and the WGA is on strike! Now what does that mean for us? You'll have to listen to find out! Join us as we talk through reasons for the strike, where we stand (hint hint: we ain't no scabs), and a pivot or maybe rather a return to our roots!...
Send us a text We're back on our DCOM shit with the iconic HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL! Who says we have to let it go? And let it go, we did not. Raise your hand if this movie change the course of your life and is the whole reason that you became an actor.......Oh.....Just Taiwo? Cool. Cool cool cool. AnYwAy join us as we discuss some very important questions like Whose vocals are we listen to? Zac Efron or Drew Seeley? Who is/are the real villain(s) of this movie? How is every single song a bop? And WH...
Send us a text We hope you are enjoying our lengthy episodes. What can we say? We have a lot to say. This week, we are joined by an extra special guest, Hannah Wolff, as we dissected the newest installment in the Spider-verse. In this episode, we ask important questions like "who loved this movie the most?" "Which Spidey would you be, and why is it Hobie?" "Why are these animations so damn good at acting?". Along with (Courtesy of) our extra special guest this week, we have RESOURCES!!!! Feel fr...
Send us a text WE'RE BACK!!! And longer than ever! Did you miss us? Of course you did. And we missed you too. This week, we are returning from our unplanned haitus with the newest and most highly anticipated Disney release of the year. In this episode, we learn some animal facts, we discuss the societal issues, and we flex and sprain our long resting podcast muscles. We are excited to be back with this one, and we cannot wait to hear your thoughts....
Send us a text Welcome back to another NOT regularly scheduled episode of Disney Deviants! We know we promised Stepsister From Planet Weird , but hopefully you can forgive us for this deviation, because we got to sit down and talk with the director of the ENTIRE Z-O-M-B-I-E-S franchise! After a DM to our Disney Deviants Instagram, we saw that Paul had not only listen to our last episode, but that he had was totally game from coming on the podcast to discuss all of the questions, comments, and co...
Send us a text This week we watched the finale of the Disney Channel Original Series Z-O-M-B-I-E-S. This iteration of Disney's new "classic" takes on Aliens, and boooooyyyy, do we have questions. 1) How does one REALLY apply for college? 2) If you replace a whole teenage girl with a pile of junk metal and a screen, and no one is there see it, will it go unnoticed? 3) Who has been led to believe that Zombies, werewolves, and Aliens are real based on this Movie? 4) Is the love story between shrimp...
Send us a text Guess who's back Back again DD's back Tell a friend! Yes, we are finally back to regularly scheduled programming (give or take a couple of hours) and coming at you with the first DCOM of the year. We have finally reached DCO(BOATS)M. And the we don't mean the kind of boat that helps you float (although our hearts may have taken flight. This week we watched Miracle in Lane 2 which is based on the true story of Justin Yoder, the first child with a disability to race in and win the N...
Send us a text We close out our holiday deviations with an oldie (kinda) but a goodie! We watched The Santa Clauses starring Tim Allen on Disney+. Tune in to find out what we think!
Send us a text Taiwo and Adaeze are back at it again with a familiar face. That's right, we watched Hallmark's FIRST EVER gay Christmas movie, The Holiday Sitter starring Jonathan Bennett! And ALLEGEDLY the reason for Candace Cameron Bure leaving her Hallmark home for a certain network that shall NEVER be named. Happy Homo-Hallmark holiday season to you all, and to all, enjoy this very joyful episode!...
Send us a text Taiwo and Adaeze continue their Christmas deviations with a fan request from Esther Sandoval, A Christmas Kiss 2 ! Or is it Another Christmas Kiss ? Clearly the producers didn't know, and neither do we! We couldn't bring you the second movie in what is clearly the ACKU (A Christmas Kiss Universe) without catching all of you up on the first movie, so we make sure to give you a run down on that too. Tune in as we discuss this 2014 classic and give away the award for Worst actor in t...
Send us a text This week, Adaeze and Taiwo begin their holiday deviations with Falling For Christmas. Lindsay Lohan is back on our screens, but is her appearance taking us back to simpler times? In this Christmas movie, Netflix attempts to come for Hallmark's neck. Bringing about some very important questions like... How many tropes is too many tropes? Is it possible to hold yourself hostage? What do you get when you cross a big city girl and an heiress? And most importantly, are outtakes finall...
Send us a text ***This episode contains our upcoming Christmas lineup. Thank you so much for all the wonderful suggestions*** This week, we took a deep dive into a newer DCOM that somehow still feels nostalgic? In How To Build A Better Boy, Gabby and Mae take on a challenge that is almost Pixel Perfect. However, as this experiment comes crumpling around them, we find ourselves asking important questions like 1. When will The Iconic China Anne McClain grace our screens again? 2. How many military...
Send us a text This week, we watched Rip Girls. In this classic(?) Disney takes a deep dive into grief...or surfing...or land ownership...or romance...or betrayal...or all of the above?
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Send us a text Welcome Back to Halloweentown...or the human world? or Canada? This week, we took a journey back to the Halloweentown Cinematic Universe with our guest Tori Potenza. Tori is a staff writer on Movie Jawn, as well as a host of the Killer Bs Podcast. This movie brought us some incredibly important questions like... 1. What does an inter portal permission slip look like? 2. Why do the Cromwell girlies have such bad taste in men? 3. Who will take charge of the iconification (re-iconifi...
Send us a text The gang is back, and so are we! This week, we took on the sequel of Disney's Under Wraps remake
Send us a text Adaeze and Taiwo take on the newest Hocus Pocus installment with extra special guest Emaley Rose.
Send us a text How do you say Deja Vu in mummy? actually This week, Adaeze and Taiwo take on Disney ambitious remount of the first ever Disney Channel Original Movie "Under Wraps". This version updates the original, but maintains it's heart. This movie asks important questions like 1. What's a step Dave? 2. How DID that movie end? 3. Where can we find our very own Mummy friend to have and to hold? 4. Is Disney extolling the virtues of Latch Key Childhoods? All that and more in this episode...
Send us a text It's a cat eat cat world in the competitive world of Middle School (High School?) basketball...I mean bowling. West Appleton has just won the face off against East Appleton tying up the years long bid competition for the mighty Apple. And now, the deciding contest must take place in a bowling alley. While watching this semi forgotten Disney Channel Original Movie, Adaeze and Taiwo find themselves faced with these nail biting questions: 1. When did bowling fall out of favor with th...
