The Deviants Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Taiwo and Adaeze read bell hooks. ever popular All About Love and discuss the things they love, the things they disliked, and how this book just may change their lives.

Send us Fan Mail This week, we took on the biblical...satire? Parody? Recreation? Reflection? We were so committed to the bit that we decided to bring it to you on a Sunday.  

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Send us Fan Mail Come with me and you'll be in a world of Pure Imagination! Or at least a world of Timothee Chalamet and a host of other stars! Join us as we walk the streets of *insert generic city* in .....Europe and discuss Wonka and all its whimsy...or perhaps lack there of?

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Send us Fan Mail It's the first full episode of The Deviants and this time we're bringing you the first installment in the Battle of the Movie Musicals! This week we watched The Color Purple starring Fantasia, Halle Bailey, Taraji P. Henson and *checks notes* Ciara???? Join us and special guest/ resident The Color Purple Historian (and conspiracy theorist) Jess Money as we discuss the in...

Send us Fan Mail NEW EPISODES OUT OF FRIDAYS!!! It's the new year, that means it's time for a rebrand. Right? That's what that means...RIGHT? Welcome to the beginning of the next chapter of the podcast. Hopefully it's our best one yet. We continue to be a work in progress, and we hope you stick with us as we continue to grow. In this new era, we are allowing ourselves the freed...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Fan Mail 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 Fan Mail 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 a...

Send us Fan Mail 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 o...

Send us Fan Mail 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 makin...

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Send us Fan Mail In our official Spooky-Oooky Halloween kickoff episode we discuss LAna Harper's sapphic, magic novel Payback's a Witch!

Send us Fan Mail 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 th...

Send us Fan Mail 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 ev...

Send us Fan Mail 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 lia...

Send us Fan Mail 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 h...

Send us Fan Mail 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 f...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 ba...

Send us Fan Mail 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 th...

Send us Fan Mail 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...