The Deviants Podcast
by Adaeze Nwoko and Taiwo Sokan
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!
Episodes
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You Can See Everything
Send us Fan Mail Long time, no see! We return to the podcast to discuss Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything (that we want you to anyway...) And we were SAT for all 3 HOURS of it! Nothing could get in the way of our viewing, not even a full bladder an hour and a half into…
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Obsession
Send us Fan Mail Adaeze and Taiwo are back and not discussing You, Me, and Tuscany. They decided to shake things up and discuss the new horror darling on the block Obsession! This shake up on the wish genre has us wanting to shake up the podcast format too! So give it a listen, and if you promise...
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The Drama
Send us Fan Mail We're are coming back with the most talked about film of April 2026...The Drama. This episode will leave you asking important questions like Is Adaeze physically incapable of completing a thought? Is it possible for us to reclaim the word manifesto? Could Taiwo love this movie…
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Weapons
Send us Fan Mail We know it looks like we're a month late to the party, but we would like you all to know that we did record this a month ago!
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Sinners
Send us Fan Mail The 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,...
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Mickey 17
Send us Fan Mail If 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?…
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Wicked
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The Substance
Send us Fan Mail Adaeze and Taiwo tackle ageism, misogyny and more in this week's episode The Substance starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
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One Of Them Days
Send us Fan Mail We'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!
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We're Back!!
Send us Fan Mail Just 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
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Halloween Special: Smile 2
Send us Fan Mail Trick 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???
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Uglies
Send us Fan Mail Taiwo and Adaeze watched Uglies so you don't have to!
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Blink Twice
Send us Fan Mail Adaeze and Taiwo discuss Blink Twice, Zoe Kravitz directorial debut!
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It Ends With Us
Send us Fan Mail 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...
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When Harry Met Sally
Send us Fan Mail This week, we dove into a classic romcom!
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A Quiet Place: Day One
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Kenya Moore (Hair Care!) & the Karen Read Case
Send us Fan Mail 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...
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Baby Reindeer
Send us Fan Mail This week, we dove into the wild world of Baby Reindeer.
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Diddy And Butker
Send us Fan Mail 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!
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The Idea of You
Send us Fan Mail 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...
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Challengers
Send us Fan Mail This week Taiwo and Adaeze discuss the recently released Zendaya sexy tennis thriller (?) Challengers!
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The Holdovers
Send us Fan Mail We are holding you over this week with The Holdovers. Let us know what you would like to see next
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Poor Things
Send us Fan Mail Adaeze and Taiwo discuss Yorgos Lanthimos's latest Academy Award winning film, Poor Things!
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Mea Culpa
Send us Fan Mail Adaeze and Taiwo watch Tyler Perry's Mea Culpa to see what all the hype (or should we say hate?) is about!
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Love is Blind Part 2
Send us Fan Mail Adaeze and Taiwo continue their discussion of this season of LIB with our two remaining couples, Clay & AD and Jimmy and Chelsea.
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Love is Blind Pt1
Send us Fan Mail Taiwo and Adaeze get together and discuss the first 3 couples of Love is Blind!
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All About Love
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.
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The Book Of Clarence
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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Rye Lane
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American Fiction
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Wonka
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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Mean Girls *(The Musical)* 2024
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The Color Purple
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/...
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The Deviants Podcast - New Year, New Us!!!
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...
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Best. Christmas. Ever!
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...
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Candy Cane Lane
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…
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A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: The Movie!
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…
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Against the Loveless World
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…
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The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
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...
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Love is Blind....er
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Payback's A Witch
Send us Fan Mail In our official Spooky-Oooky Halloween kickoff episode we discuss LAna Harper's sapphic, magic novel Payback's a Witch!
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Legendborn!
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…
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Love Is Blind: A Pyramid Of Toxicity BONUS EPISODE!!
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…
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Textual Deviants October Reads & We Read the Worst Book Ever!
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...
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Suffer the Children - Craig DiLouie
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...
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SAG's on Strike and So Are We?
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...
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High School Musical
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....
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Across the Spiderverse
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…
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The Little Mermaid 2023
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...
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Director Deviation: Q & A with Paul Hoen Disney Director!
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…
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About this show
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!
Hosted by
Adaeze Nwoko and Taiwo Sokan