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| HBO | Season Premiere Date: June 4, 2023 |
Summary:
Pop singer Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) attempts a comeback with the help of nightclub owner Tedros (Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye) in this drama series co-created by Sam Levinson, Tesfaye, and Reza Fahim.
Genre(s):
Drama, Music
Season 1 Episodes
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May 22, 2023
It is certainly trying hard to shock and titillate us. But there’s something oddly prosaic about what I’ve seen so far. There’s a slight awkwardness, too, as if Levinson and his actors are talking dirty for the very first time. Depp commits to all the lustiness, but she’s far more interesting when the show is focused on Jocelyn’s career.
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May 23, 2023
It wants to shock, yes, to relish in the spectacle and traumas of a perilous, punishing, but always bewitching industry. But it also wants desperately to be liked, to be considered current, cutting, and empathetic. It’s not that Episodes 1 and 2 are outright failures, but they are always transparent.
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May 22, 2023
You start to wonder if this is building to anything, and by episode two it seems likely that it’s probably not. .... The Idol shows glimmers of potential when it stops trying so hard to be shocking. There’s a strenuousness to the sex scenes between Depp and Tesfaye that kills any sense of eroticism.
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The Telegraph
May 23, 2023
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May 24, 2023
May 23, 2023
Seems calculated to fool audiences into thinking they’re observing how Hollywood operates, when so much of it amounts to tawdry clichés lifted from Sidney Sheldon novels and softcore porn. “Showgirls” at least was a thinly veiled “All About Eve” remake, whereas “The Idol” plays like a sordid male fantasy.
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May 23, 2023
While it’s tempting to say that everything you’ve heard about it is true, that may be soft-selling how skin-crawling the experience of actually watching this satire (?) on the seven circles of showbiz hell is. The double-dose the festival screened felt nasty, brutish, much longer than it is, and way, way worse than you’d have anticipated.
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