Jocelyn’s relationship with Tedros (Tesfaye, a bit stiff), a nightclub manager and self-help guru with dubious motivations, develops in a similar manner. You start to wonder if this is building to anything, and by episode two it seems likely that it’s probably not. Rarely does a scene go by without the camera showing flashes of her breasts or ass. Jocelyn asserts her agency in the first ten minutes, only to relinquish it at every conceivable moment. It makes you wonder if in trying so hard to be transgressive, the show ultimately becomes regressive. Some of them have momentum, others are contradictory and most of them are confusing. Levinson applies his efficient and stylish direction to every scene. The Idol, like that second season of Euphoria, runs almost exclusively on vibes. ![]() She tells him to “stop cockblocking America.” That brief moment announces the show’s intention and puts a metaphorical hand up at incoming haters: Sex sells, and The Idol revels in that. In the background of the shoot, Jocelyn’s label executive Nikki (an excellent Jane Adams) argues with the star’s creative director (Troye Sivan), who’s against Jocelyn baring her breast for the album cover shoot. Stars, the show tells us, are corporations. The photographer hovers, her assistant texts in a corner, her managers confer outside and the intimacy coordinator makes a desperate attempt to make sure the pop star’s nudity rider is followed. He asks her to give “sexy,” “studious,” “vulnerable” and “emotional.” As Jocelyn complies, the camera zooms out to reveal an entire operation buzzing around her. In the first of two episodes of The Idol shown at Cannes, we see Jocelyn taking commands from a photographer. Jocelyn (a persuasive Lily-Rose Depp) spent the last year recovering from heartbreak and her mother’s death from cancer. Instead of a high-schooler navigating her addictions, it’s a grieving pop star trying to stage a comeback. This is an older, even more stylized version of Euphoria’s second season. ![]() Levinson’s The Idol unfortunately confirms that account. Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Out of Competition)Ĭast: Lily-Rose Depp, Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye, Rachel Sennott, Suzanna Son, Ramsey, Hank Azaria, Troye Sivan, Dan Levy, Da'vine Joy Randolph, Eli Roth, Hari Nef, Jane Adams, Jennie Ruby Jane, Mike Dean, Moses SumneyĬreators: Reza Fahim, Sam Levinson, Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye Instead of subtly skewering the misogynistic and predatory nature of the business, The Idol became a forbidden love story - the stuff of a toxic man’s fantasy. Sources alleged that after director Amy Seimetz was replaced with Sam Levinson, the drama’s perspective changed. Interviews with roughly a dozen people from the cast and crew revealed that the show, initially billed as an exploration of the seedy underbelly of Hollywood and the music industry, became what it tried to satirize. ![]() What are they trying to prove? This obvious effort to make The Idol appear controversial took an ironic turn when the series became the subject of an explosive Rolling Stone report. It’s always a bit suspicious when shows try to market themselves as edgy. ![]() The second one hinted at an origin story: From “the gutters of Hollywood,” it read. In the first teaser for the highly anticipated HBO series The Idol, a title card announced the show as a product of the “sick & twisted minds” of Euphoriadirector Sam Levinson and international pop star Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye. The trailers set us up for a memorable and haunted time.
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