Despite everyone being warned against hate-watching The Idol, its getting watched and hated
Having been riding a wave of buzz and controversy for months, The Idol has finally premiered on HBO to great fanfare, at least on the part of the people who’ve been promoting it so heavily.
Recommended VideosFor everyone else, they’ve been conditioned to expect one of the worst TV shows of the year, with Euphoria creator Sam Levinson’s latest at one point plummeting as low as nine percent on Rotten Tomatoes. It did manage to secure a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival following its premiere, but the majority had their knives out ready to trash the tale of debauchery from the second they laid their eyes on it.
The questionable content led to many people across the internet urging others not to check out The Idol driven by nothing but morbid curiosity, but the campaign to ensure it doesn’t get hate-watched appears to have failed when a lot of folks have watched it, and a great deal of them seem to hate it.
Lily Rose Depp is hot as hell and that’s the only reason I’m watching The Idol. The writing sucked, plot felt empty and The Weeknd’s AliExpress wig got me fucked up
— Elle (@aminadrex) June 5, 2023I wanted badly to enjoy #THEIDOL but this was a disaster,my takeaways are
A. Lily Rose Depp is bad asf
B. Sam Levinson can’t write & The Weeknd can’t act
C. This shit was forcibly sexual in a weird way.. no way a major plot line was ab a photo of her having nut on her face😭
what happened to not watching the idol..pic.twitter.com/uoLLMuWAMC
— luke (@ot4shvt) June 5, 2023‘the idol’ has to be money laundering scheme cuz who tf confident enough to make this story with a bunch of ppl that have no acting skills and zero plot line lmao https://t.co/zB30RbFXLv pic.twitter.com/GcooXl5tSU
— Elin (@cuntyleos) June 5, 2023The Idol is simultaneously awful self-parody, a pretentious art project, and grotesquely exploitative of its subject matter. Sam Levinson's dialogue is about as natural as a chicken nugget. The Weekend's performance is awful. It feels like a show made by CIS men cause it is. pic.twitter.com/7gEid4lxLB
— Lord Edge (@cgd0911) June 5, 2023Trying to be controversial isn’t big or clever, but that looks to have been Levinson’s number one driving force when cobbling together the wretched rampage of excess. There isn’t much to recommend at all, while even the series’ more headline-grabbing and attention-seizing moments come off as forced and cringeworthy rather than being artistically justified.
Each to their own, though, but HBO audiences will have nobody to blame but themselves should a project that’s in danger of drowning in hate immediately after its premiere prove popular enough to secure a second season renewal.
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