Welcome to the book club you didn't know you needed. In this podcast, we break down our book choice of the month. What we love, what we hate, what we appreciate, and what we simply could have lived without. Each book is broken into 2 parts, and we post every first (part 1) and third (part 2) Wednesday of the month. In part 1, we read the first half of the book, and we make predictions. In part 2, we find out just how wrong we are. ..Join us every month as we pick a new book, and maybe tear it apart
Send us a textThe highly anticipated return with a HIGHLY anticipated horror movie!Adaeze and Taiwo are back again to talk all about the current box office hit Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler, starring Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku, Miles Caton, Hailee Steinfeld, Li Jun Li, Jayme Lawson, Yao, Delroy Lindo, and Jack O'Connell!We breakdown what WE think of the movie, what AUDIENCES think about the movie, and what the STUDIOS want us to think about the movie with a few laughs along the way!
Send us a textIf watching an odd little film is a crime, you're going to have to lock us up! This week watched Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson and Naomi Ackie. This film got us thinking, wondering, and questioning. Specific questions include:1) Damn! Why don't we try to fix earth first?2) Was Mark Ruffalo imitating a certain political official?3) Why were the Mard inhabitants so dang cute? AND do we think they could explode human heads with their musical wails?All this and more on this week's episode.
Send us a textAdaeze and Taiwo tackle ageism, misogyny and more in this week's episode The Substance starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
Send us a textWe're back and better than ever with this first full episode of 2025!Join us as we discuss the One Of Them Days starring (Lauren) Keke Palmer and Sza! Issa Rae has graced our screens once again with a buddy comedy we can't help but eat up!
Send us a textJust popping in with a quick announcement about what this next chapter of our podcast looks and sounds like. We cannot wait hang out and grow with you. Love, Adaeze and Taiwo
Send us a textSO IF YOU CARE TO FIND USLOOK TO wherever you find your podcasts!That's right! Adaeze and Taiwo are back with an extended episode to talk about the latest movie musical taking the world by storm, Wicked starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-Butera!Join us as we break down the movie, song by song (RIGHT!), character by character (Is this Nessa's villain origin story?), and allegory by allegory (It's a story about racism duh).
Send us a textTrick or Treat?Adaeze and Taiwo are treating you to both with this week's episode, Smile 2, starring Naomi Scott or Lemonade Mouth fame!Join them as they talk through every detail of the movie except, somehow, if Voss was a sponsor???
Send us a textTaiwo and Adaeze watched Uglies so you don't have to!
Send us a textAdaeze and Taiwo discuss Blink Twice, Zoe Kravitz directorial debut!
Send us a Text Message.We are back and better than ever!This week Adaeze and Taiwo watched It Ends With Us and discuss everything about it. And we mean EVERYTHING! From Reddit behind the scenes tea to BookTok book lore. Join us as we try and figure out what the hell happened during the filming of this movie and parse out our feelings about the book with only 27% read!
Send us a Text Message.This week, we dove into a classic romcom!
Send us a Text Message.Who's up for a Deviation? These two girls!This week Adaeze and Taiwo discuss the Real Housewives of Atlanta drama unfolding pre-season premiere and also the Karen Read case. Why?Because they feel like it!Join them on the journey of this deviation in this week's episode of The Deviants!
Send us a Text Message.This week, we dove into the wild world of Baby Reindeer.
Send us a Text Message.Deviation Time!This week Adaeze and Taiwo deviate from movies to discuss the Diddy and Butker situations that played out in the last few weeks!Sit with us we work our way through the misogyny inherent in the way these men and the public have discussed both these situations!
Adaeze and Taiwo watched The Idea of You starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine! Based on the book originally written by actress Robinne Lee, it was adapted and directed by Michael Showalter of Wet Hot American Summer fame.Listen to what The Deviants have to say about the newest in what is slowly becoming a new (strange) genre, age-inappropriate rom coms!
This week Taiwo and Adaeze discuss the recently released Zendaya sexy tennis thriller (?) Challengers!
We are holding you over this week with The Holdovers. Let us know what you would like to see next
Adaeze and Taiwo discuss Yorgos Lanthimos's latest Academy Award winning film, Poor Things!
Adaeze and Taiwo watch Tyler Perry's Mea Culpa to see what all the hype (or should we say hate?) is about!
Adaeze and Taiwo continue their discussion of this season of LIB with our two remaining couples, Clay & AD and Jimmy and Chelsea.
Taiwo and Adaeze get together and discuss the first 3 couples of Love is Blind!
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.
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.
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?
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 ins and outs of this film adaptation of the musical adaptation of Alice Walker's tragically triumphant tale.
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 freedom to watch and read whatever moves us. As always, we will be taking recommendations. So, feel free to send us your suggestions.
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 NewslettersThree precocious kidsClingy college exFreaky Deaky SexA barely discussed dead sonA solar powered hot air balloonand Last but not least Santa hijinks involving previously stated balloons
We are coming at you on this Christmas morning with Candy Cane Lane. This wacky and (family friendly?) Christmas movies has us asking questions likeWhy 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.
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 as we ask the question only you, our loyal listeners can answer; Does this count as a sequel?
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.
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 part of all.
In our official Spooky-Oooky Halloween kickoff episode we discuss LAna Harper's sapphic, magic novel Payback's a Witch!
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 had, you're gonna have to listen to us break down this book intrigue by intrigue. (Like you weren't already going to?)Check your local podcast listening app for our discussion of Legendborn in this week's episode of Textual Deviants (brought to you by the strike supporters of Disney Deviants)!
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 cups the champagne flutes of gym bros?All this and more
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 POST GRAD.We hope we can make it up to y'all by bringing some of the juiciest Booktok drama straight to your ears! *Best Desi Arnaz impression* Nate Lemcke you've got some 'splaining to do! on this week's episode of DD's Textual Deviants!
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 description is as follows: A mysterious disease claims the world's children before bringing them back. To continue surviving, however, they need to ingest human blood. As you may guess from this synopsis, this horror fiction left us with many many feelings. Join us as we discuss our first impressions, a.ka first anxiety, existential dread, how Mr. Craiggory DiLouis had us questioning whether or not we want to be parents nd much more! Mister Craiggory DiLouis, you have some 'splainin' to do!
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! Plus bonus content if you make it all the way to the end!Can't wait to hear from all of you once you listen to this weeks episode of Disney Deviants(?)!
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 likeWhose 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 WHY ARE SHARPAY AND RYAN AUDITIONING FOR THE LOVER LEADS OF THIS PLAY????We need answers Darby!!!! Perhaps we'll get them in this week's episode as long as we're All in This Together! (See what we did there?)
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 free to check these links out :.https://youtu.be/l96IgQmXmhM Vox video on Spider-Man animation.https://www.gamespot.com/amp-articles/sun-spider-a-rising-star-among-spider-verse-spidersonas/1100-6514952/ sunspider origin.https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8eN8DTL/ how Hobie was animated.https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8eNLBCJ/ "anyone can be spiderman" quote by Stan lee
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.
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 concerns we had about the final (?) movie in the franchise. And our chaotic selves of course said yes! So sit down, relax, and make sure you grab a cup of tea, because we spill of our ours in this week's episode of Disney Deviants!
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 shrimpy the mascot, and eel, potentially the most important love story in the franchise?5) How does. Addison's mom keep that wig so laid?These questions (maybe the answers as well?) and more, on this episode of Disney Deviants
Guess who's backBack againDD's backTell 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 National Soap Box derby!This is one for the books so join us as we laugh, cry, and analyze our way through this classic!
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!
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!
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