The Deviants Podcast

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Kristi...

Send us Fan Mail 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 i...

Send us Fan Mail 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 t...

Send us Fan Mail 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 protagon...

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Send us Fan Mail 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 leav...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 delightf...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail  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, Aunt...

Send us Fan Mail 🎶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?, undercov...

Send us Fan Mail 🎶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 (Jan...

Send us Fan Mail 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 bo...

Send us Fan Mail 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 m...

Send us Fan Mail 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 g...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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) i...

Send us Fan Mail 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!

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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&apos...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail We are closing out #YAMonth with a throwback to 2005 Taiwo's bookshelf. This week we read Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson. Yes, that James Patterson. We've read five books over five weeks and we've truly grown as "young adults". I mean, we FINALLY completed our first ever #TightTwo! But we also return to our old ways of horrible memor...

Send us Fan Mail We're just two Naija gyals, standing in front of the world, asking you to forgive us for changing up our format / putting out a late announcement yet again! (We've been very bad  😉) As the year drifts quickly to an end, we find our lives drifting as well to opposite ends of the earth (read: country). So that means a new format is in order!  Find out how we're switc...