Television: A creepy male gaze-athon from Euphoria creator Sam Levinson and Abel Tesfaye. Let’s never speak of it again
TV Review: A creepy male gaze-athon from Euphoria creator Sam Levinson and Abel Tesfaye. Let’s never speak of it againThe Idol: Abel Tesfaye as nightclub owner Tedros and Lily-Rose Depp as pop superstar Jocelyn. Photograph: HBOSlammed at Cannes, Lily-Rose Depp’s The Idol arrives on Sky Atlantic with a lot to live up to. Is it really the sleaziest television ever made? The short answer is yes. The longer answer is yes, and let’s never speak of it again.
Slithering out of the imagination of Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, this music industry drama is so ludicrous there is surely a strong possibility it’s a meta-prank by Levinson and his co-creator Abel Tesfaye. Nobody makes something this dreadful by accident. Tesfaye is better known as pop star The Weeknd, which is also the length of time he spent taking acting lessons for The Idol. His biggest hit is called Blinding Lights, but here it’s the cardboard performance as a DJ turned pop Svengali that makes you want to cover your eyes.
He plays “Tedros” – not Tetris, as I initially thought – an “enigmatic” hustler who befriends a Britney-esque pop star, Jocelyn. She is portrayed without a whiff of self-awareness by Lily-Rose Depp, daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis. Jocelyn is introduced pouting at the camera in the photo shoot at which she insists on whipping her top off.
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