Reviews are not kind
“The Idol” from Euphoria’s Sam Levinson and The Weeknd
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 7, 2023 8:42 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 23, 2023 12:53 PM |
What does Rolling Stone think?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 23, 2023 4:35 PM |
Variety compared it to a Sidney Sheldon novel. 💀
by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 23, 2023 5:41 PM |
Joe Le Taxi!
by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 23, 2023 7:39 PM |
Dan Levy
SKIP
by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 24, 2023 7:58 AM |
It is the debut of Jennie Kim from Blackpink. I don’t know how big her part is tho. Nonetheless, I am already sick of her.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 24, 2023 8:06 AM |
I feel like the show was built on the premise that people find The Weeknd sexy. I personally do not at all, but I am not the target audience.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 30, 2023 4:06 PM |
Will Levy be nude too?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 30, 2023 4:11 PM |
The Weeknd suffers from bobble head syndrome. Big ass head on a skinny neck with no shoulders. Like he lost a lot of weight and never did any strength training. His music may be sexy, but he sure as hell ain’t.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 30, 2023 4:12 PM |
Look at the two tard stars how could it be any good.?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 30, 2023 4:13 PM |
Never got the appeal and I don't find his music sexy, just sleazy.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 30, 2023 4:15 PM |
Yeah I find him repulsive. He has terrorist face.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 30, 2023 4:22 PM |
I find his music boring and derivative. He’s so mediocre. His best songs are the ones he did with Ariana Grande.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 30, 2023 4:25 PM |
It's beyond obvious that nudity and sex scenes comprise the raison d'etre for many shows (and movies, duh), with half-arsed storylines written around them: "GoT"; "Euphoria"; "The Idol"; etc. And now Helen Mirren lowers herself to re-visit her turn in the execrable "Caligula."
LilyRose probably thinks she's above the Yachting Class, but she isn't.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 30, 2023 4:53 PM |
I could spot this a mile away from Euphoria. Levinson offers nothing but expensive, pretty cinematography which masks a half-baked storywriting. And he writes female characters like a teenage boy looking to get off. I'm glad he's finally being called out for it.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 30, 2023 5:09 PM |
[quote] And now Helen Mirren lowers herself to re-visit her turn in the execrable "Caligula."
Helen Mirren is going full titties out for the 2023 remake?!
by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 30, 2023 5:13 PM |
I also hate how the Weeknd was a pettly little bitch about the Rolling Stone when all they did was report on stories from THEIR OWN CREW being upset about Levinson ruining the project. (His "@RollingStone Did we do something to offend you??" tweet.)
Why don't you give a shit about your writers and staff instead of play-acting an "auteur," Abel. You're clearly not cut out for it.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 30, 2023 5:18 PM |
Dreadful.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 6, 2023 7:25 AM |
The Weeknd strikes me as one of the offspring of recently-arrived African migrants who considers himself superior to the typical African-American slave-descended community.
I have no proof of this, by the by.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 6, 2023 8:53 AM |
I don’t know about that. He’s happy to use the n word in songs to sound edgy.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 6, 2023 8:55 AM |
[quote]Variety compared it to a Sidney Sheldon novel.
So it's lots of trashy, sexy fun, like The Other Side of Midnight, R5?
I'm all for more nudity and gratuitous sex scenes, but the men have to be hot. Or at least hottish. It helps aesthetically if the women are hot, too, and neither the male nor the female leads in The Idol look hot to me. But, like R10, I'm not the target audience.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 6, 2023 9:17 AM |
R19, No, I meant she walked the Red Carpet for the new distribution.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 6, 2023 5:13 PM |
It does look like a throwback to the Judith Krantz/Harold Robbins/Jacqueline Susann era, when thinly disguised portraits of superstars showed them furiously fucking (Krantz's novels were called "bonkbusters").
It looks dreadful, but it might be a hit. People are desperate for naughtiness and escape.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 6, 2023 11:32 PM |
[quote] I have no proof of this, by the by.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 6, 2023 11:33 PM |
R24 sounds like you wanna watch porn. Then watch porn. Regular TV doesn’t need to be porn.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 7, 2023 12:35 AM |
I thought the Weeknd was supposed to be playing some kind of self help guru. He seemed like some sketchy transient who she met at the club.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 7, 2023 3:30 AM |
Oh dear. The Weeknd looks like a record producer not a sex symbol.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 7, 2023 6:16 AM |
In case anyone is wondering, Dan Levy was not nude in the first episode.
He was playing himself in the form of a publicist for Lily Rose Depp. Heavily clothed, as usual.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 7, 2023 8:37 PM |
Dan Levy used to have a very nice body. Does he no longer?
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 7, 2023 8:40 PM |
We sadly wouldn't know R32 because he's usually wearing 3 sweaters and an overcoat.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 7, 2023 8:42 PM |