“The Idol” from Euphoria’s Sam Levinson and The Weeknd

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What does Rolling Stone think?

Variety compared it to a Sidney Sheldon novel. 💀

Joe Le Taxi!

Dan Levy

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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.

Trailer.

Out June 4th.

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.

Will Levy be nude too?

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.

Look at the two tard stars how could it be any good.?

Never got the appeal and I don't find his music sexy, just sleazy.

Yeah I find him repulsive. He has terrorist face.

I find his music boring and derivative. He’s so mediocre. His best songs are the ones he did with Ariana Grande.

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.

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.

[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?!

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.

Dreadful.

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.

I don’t know about that. He’s happy to use the n word in songs to sound edgy.

[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.

R19, No, I meant she walked the Red Carpet for the new distribution.

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.

[quote] I have no proof of this, by the by.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

R24 sounds like you wanna watch porn. Then watch porn. Regular TV doesn’t need to be porn.

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.

Oh dear. The Weeknd looks like a record producer not a sex symbol.

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.

Dan Levy used to have a very nice body. Does he no longer?

We sadly wouldn't know R32 because he's usually wearing 3 sweaters and an overcoat.