Imagine if your favorite 4 star restaurant started serving frozen fast food.
HBO is the home of fine dining like Succession and Hacks. Even Euphoria has its moments.
But The Idol is grim, gross, and vulgar. It’s full of preposterous recycled ideas that would be at home on Cinemax, not the HBO we know loves Emmy awards.
Jocelyn is the one name pop tart here. She, like all the characters, is vile. She’s also the victim of vile people like a nightclub owner named Chaim played by The Weeknd with the vigor of a park bench.
Jocelyn is supposed to be a combo of Madonna and Britney Spears.the show uses music and references to those singers to delineate this. But Jocelyn is like warmed over left overs. There’s nothing unique or likeable about her. It’s not Lily Rose Depp’s fault that her characters main traits are pleasuring herself, and also pleasuring men so that sexual fluids are photographed on grr face.
Yuck.
The Idol is pretty much what tabloids think the music biz is, buying into gossip instead of reality. The show feels like soft core porn version of Valley of the Dolls without the wit.
more to come…
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