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Narrative Deviants episodes

  • Knife + Heart

    This week the Deviants visit a 1970s Paris adult film set with Knife + Heart. Join them as they discuss giallo tropes, the superb melodrama of Anne and Lois, and discuss who the real villain is in this film. 

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    Music by Joey Koneko

    1 hr 37 min
  • Leviticus

    This week the Deviants are headed to rural Australia to cover Leviticus. Join them as they discuss growing up queer in rural America, the job description of a deliverance healer, and praise the confidence and media literacy of the writer/director. 

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    Music by Joey Koneko

    1 hr 44 min
  • Stranger By The Lake

    This week the Deviants throw on a speedo and head to the French woods with Stranger By The Lake. Join them as they discuss gay men prioritizing sex over community, compare US lakes to French lakes, and try to figure out in what year this film set. 

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    Music by Joey Koneko 

    1 hr 39 min
  • Female Trouble

    This week the Deviants head to Dreamland to talk our first John Waters’ film, Female Trouble. Join them as they discuss Divine’s brilliance as our antihero Dawn Davenport, gush over Cookie Mueller as an icon, and 

    Also, has John Waters’ fame-hungry influencer-culture prophesy been fulfilled? 

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    Music by Joey Koneko 

    1 hr 39 min
  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

    This week the Deviants head down under and hop on a bus named Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Join them as they discuss wanting the film to focus more on Bernadette, wishing for more comeuppance for the deadnaming Felicia, and Mitzi’s journey from closeted queen to embracing fatherhood. 

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    Music by Joey Koneko 

    2 hr 5 min
  • CAMP

    This week the Deviants head to drama camp to watch the 2003 cult classic CAMP. Join them as they discuss that breath-taking opening musical number, relating to the queer coming-of-age journey of Robin DeJesus’ Michael, and losing all patience with the white straight-boy banality of Vlad.

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    Music by Joey Koneko 

     

     

    1 hr 28 min
  • Sordid Lives

    This week the Deviants head down to Texas to attend a funeral and get caught up in the Ingram family melodrama with Sordid Lives. Join them as they discuss the brilliance of Beth Grant’s Sissy, Juanita’s genius cigarette acting, and whether or not Latrelle learns anything by the end of the film.

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    Music by Joey Koneko 

    1 hr 50 min
  • Teen Apocalypse Trilogy Wrap Up

    This week the Deviants are wrapping up their cinematic journey through Gregg Araki’s LA by discussing the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy as a whole. Join them as they discuss the shift of 90s pop culture, adolescence as a linear narrative, and mishearing Shoegaze as “Shoe gays.”

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    Music by Joey Koneko 

    1 hr 6 min
  • Nowhere

    This week the Deviants are heading back to LA to talk the final installment of Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy with Nowhere. Join them as they discuss an enormous ensemble cast, cockroaches and aliens, and an undeniable LA setting.

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    Music by Joey Koneko

    1 hr 10 min
  • Bound

    This week the Deviants slip on a little black dress and plan a double crossing heist as they cover the 1996 classic, Bound. Join them as they discuss subverted femme fatale tropes, terrible fake tattoos, and the hottest sex scenes in all of cinema history.

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    2 hr 8 min

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Join the Deviants as they explore essential indie queer films, sharing unfiltered takes on the moments that gag, wreck, inspire, and beautifully bewilder.