It’s funny how some stories feel like they’ve been waiting in a box somewhere, still warm from the day you packed them away. Weird Kids is doing that kind of resurrection—only with jokes, nostalgia, and a lot of “how did we even get here?” energy.
A strange scrapbook, finally reopened
Critical Role today announced the continuation of Weird Kids, the original video podcast series starring Ashley Johnson (The Last of Us, The Avengers, Recess) and Taliesin Jaffe (Hellsing, The Legend of Vox Machina).
Following the debut of the new trailer, the new season premieres May 5 on Beacon.tv, with 24 new hour-long episodes out every Tuesday.
In Weird Kids, Johnson and Jaffe continue their deep dive into the “strange, nostalgic, and deeply personal” stories that come with growing up as former child actors in Hollywood.
And, honestly, that phrasing—strange, nostalgic, deeply personal—sounds like a marketing summary, but it also lands like a lived-in description.
It’s the kind of premise that can go tender without becoming too precious.
It helps that the show doesn’t treat their childhood as a tidy origin story.
They’re not just reminiscing; they’re sorting through the oddities, the obsessions, the places, the memories—like someone looking for a specific photo and stumbling over four others instead.
Johnson frames it as something close to ritual: “Coming back for more episodes of Weird Kids feels a little like reopening the strangest scrapbook imaginable,” she said.
“We get to talk about the people, places, and moments that shaped us, and somehow it’s equal parts hilarious, surreal, and weirdly healing.
I’m so excited to invite people back into our little world.”
There’s a detail that lingers for me, weirdly: the idea of “scrapbook” comes with smell in my head—paper and old glue, that faint dry dust. Maybe it’s just the brain filling in the gaps, but it fits. You can almost hear the page turning before the next story drops.
Growing up weird, surviving anyway
Across the new season, the pair explore even more of the oddities, obsessions, places, and memories that shaped them, inviting fellow misfits, outcasts, and weirdos along for the ride.
That invitation matters, because it’s not just for fans of their screen work; it’s for anyone who’s ever felt slightly misfiled by adulthood.
Jaffe puts it in a different register—less scrapbook, more alchemy.
“There is something deeply satisfying about taking all the wonderfully strange debris left behind by childhood and turning it into conversation,” said Jaffe.
“This lets us dig even deeper into the beautiful absurdity of growing up weird, growing up in Hollywood, and somehow surviving with our sense of humor intact.”
And that word “absurdity” is doing a lot.
It suggests the show understands how surreal child stardom can be, not only in the obvious ways, but in the small everyday distortions—where the audience you’re trying to please isn’t even the audience you’ll grow up to recognize.
Then again, I’m maybe reading too much into it, but the pattern feels clear: they’re turning messy leftovers into something conversational, something you can watch without feeling like you’re intruding.
New episodes of Weird Kids begin streaming May 5, exclusively on Beacon.tv.
For anyone tracking cultural shifts in how celebrity is metabolized now—less worship, more processing—that exclusivity might even be part of the point.
The season is arriving with 24 new hour-long episodes out every Tuesday, which is a schedule that basically dares you to binge your way through the weirdness… and then sit with it after the credits.
Or maybe you won’t.
Maybe you’ll just catch one episode and suddenly be the person texting a friend, saying “wait, you have to hear this bit,” and then—somehow—your week changes shape.
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