The Idol

[Vertimus 9,555]

I liked Episode 2 more than the first, and I felt sympathy for Jocelyn when she had to perform with bleeding feet and was clearly having an anxiety attack or worse.   

 

It's hard to buy the Weeknd in that specific role due to his height---especially when Jocelyn is taller than him in almost every scene, as she's wearing platform shoes. His height sort of undercuts his credibility as a suave, dangerous, Svengali figure. 

[shady 3,752]

8 minutes ago, DCooper said:

The music video section of episode 2 was actually quite good but the last section was genuinely atrocious. The Weeknd is really ruining the show yikes lol

 

I wish the show was a Britney Spears kind of show, the cult part is pretty excessive considering it's supposed to have less than 10 episodes. Just like in Euphoria, Sam Levinson has way too many ideas and characters.

[Paris Hilton 9,845]

I skipped most of the sex scenes on the last part. The Weeknd's dialogue really made me cringe kjfsdhsdn. The whole "I want you to s*** my ****", "stretch your tiny pushita" was so weird.  It's not me trying to be a prude or anything but the scenes were not working for me. 

 

I enjoyed this episode more than the last one because it feels like finally something else is happening. Can't wait for Dyanne's single.

[caitlyn valliulina 4,425]

9 minutes ago, Paris Hilton said:

I skipped most of the sex scenes on the last part. The Weeknd's dialogue really made me cringe kjfsdhsdn. The whole "I want you to s*** my ****", "stretch your tiny pushita" was so weird.  It's not me trying to be a prude or anything but the scenes were not working for me. 

 

I enjoyed this episode more than the last one because it feels like finally something else is happening. Can't wait for Dyanne's single.

 

the fact that he said "tiny" was so weird like... ugh. so porn sick. 

[Veinsineon 76,785]

This show is like…. Really bad.

 

sam Levinson is a Hollywood MENACE. Who wastes everyone’s time with overdramatized vapid and surface level screencap worthy media.

 

euphoria was just the beginning. This man tries entirely too hard. A24 don’t even want him 

 

 

watched solely because Dan Levy carried every scene he was in  he acts more with a simple smirk on his face than Lily rose depp fake crying and pouting rolling around 

[breakingupslowly 706]

ughh its so sad bc the first half of ep 2 lily rose depps talent was really showing and the show was actually good but then sam levinson and abel came in and turned it into a literal porno like they wasted half of the episode on fifty shades

[MrFameKills 11,093]

havent watched but wait that Jocelyn track is kind of 

 

 

 

[venicebitch 14,339]

5 minutes ago, MrFameKills said:

havent watched but wait that Jocelyn track is kind of 

 

horrible? generic? boring?

[MrFameKills 11,093]

7 minutes ago, venicebitch said:

horrible? generic? boring?

something cute to overplay for a day and then forget!

[venicebitch 14,339]

4 minutes ago, MrFameKills said:

something cute to overplay for a day and then forget!

idk maybe if someone else sang it, i think lily's singing vocals are kinda unbearable and it's funny that this film tries to convince you that it'd be a smash hit

[AlexVirtuell 236]

Has anyone seen the last episode? Do you think Lana's life story and her troubled relationship with her mother might have inspired the show? She might have told Abel in private how her mother has abused her. What do you think?

[genghis khan 5,107]

2 minutes ago, AlexVirtuell said:

Has anyone seen the last episode? Do you think Lana's life story and her troubled relationship with her mother might have inspired the show? She might have told Abel in private how her mother has abused her. What do you think?

that's a little delusional methinks

[Lanaparadiserey 23,537]

59 minutes ago, AlexVirtuell said:

Has anyone seen the last episode? Do you think Lana's life story and her troubled relationship with her mother might have inspired the show? She might have told Abel in private how her mother has abused her. What do you think?

I mean I definitely get some Lana vibes from Jocelyn but I don’t think her life inspired the whole abusive mother storyline. But I definitely think Lana may have been on the mood board 

[Veinsineon 76,785]

51 minutes ago, AlexVirtuell said:

Has anyone seen the last episode? Do you think Lana's life story and her troubled relationship with her mother might have inspired the show? She might have told Abel in private how her mother has abused her. What do you think?

That would be very James Franco of him if she really did tell him those things and he wrote it into his show

[Vertimus 9,555]

It's still not really working for me; does anyone really like it? It seems like a caricature of itself, like when Tedros slaps the much taller doctor and the doctor backs down. I thought it was hilarious how Tedros had to reach up to slap the doctor. The Weeknd is clearly a good actor but he's not right for that role. At least, I'm not buying it.

 

It's also odd how the producers would pair Tedros with that very tall actor, whose height only underscores the Weeknd's 5'8 (at best) size. 

[DCooper 36,914]

Episode 3 was terrible  I am genuinely surprised at this point that it made it to air. There's an interesting show lurking deep beneath the surface but this is just not it at all, the worst kind of cringe. 

[Vertimus 9,555]

18 minutes ago, DCooper said:

Episode 3 was terrible  I am genuinely surprised at this point that it made it to air. There's an interesting show lurking deep beneath the surface but this is just not it at all, the worst kind of cringe. 

The sad thing is that the producers seem to think that, in 2023, this is revelatory or 'shocking' or 'insightful,' like they're pulling a curtain back and showing us 'the truth.' But this is 2023, not 1970.

With internet porn and 'erotica' being an overwhelming fact for the last 25 years, after the excesses of the 1980s, after the Punk and New Wave scenes, after everything that Madonna brought to the table, after Grunge and Jane's Addiction, after the success of books like Camille Paglia's 'Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily,' etc., 'The Idol,' so far, isn't showing most people anything they're not already aware of. 

 

That's why it seems like a parody to me, with the shorter Tedros slapping the taller doctor and the doctor backing down instead of punching Tedros's lights out. To me, the Weeknd just doesn't have that smoldering, sensual, hypnotic quality they're apparently going for, and the 'deep' conversations are absurd. 

[Lanaparadiserey 23,537]

This whole show gives a 13 year old listening to Born To Die and then writing a Wattpad story 

[Lanaparadiserey 23,537]

Is he bisexual or did he say f*g for fun?

[lanalover99 111]

I lowkey think Lana would be a great addition to the soundtrack. Lana wrote another song Watercolor Eyes fro Euphoria which has the same creator and same network of The Idol. Maybe if the show gets renewed we will get a new Lana song in the soundtrack.