#hbo the idol

[rubyjnee]

Jennie/Dyanne

[sheandmalibu]

The Idol (2023)

[drogonstone]

THE IDOL (2022) Why don't you just be yourself? Because there's nothing about me that's relatable.

[rabbitkim]

“because there’s nothing about that’s relatable” ; the idol, jocelyn

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[possession]

LILY-ROSE DEPP as JOCELYN THE IDOL (2022)

[wariofuller]

lily rose depp as jocelyn in the idol (S1.E1) | "pop tarts & rat tales" (2023) dir. sam levinson

[belle-keys]

i’ve really unironically become one of those people who makes the fact they watch hbo shows their whole personality

[beautflstranger]

The images are from HBO The Idol.

Much has been said about the sexual boundaries being shown in the series.

My takeaway is that it's showing the absolute open vulnerable place which a young pop star is firmly placed in, by her handlers, friends and new love interest.

This isn't a review about the show. ( I personally like it.)

What I want to speak about is vulnerability.

When one is vulnerable, one is endangered.

How many of you ( applicable for men and women) might be in a place where you desire albeit subconsciously a bit of attention?

In comes a "someone."

Someone who finds you attractive in a sexual way.

Someone who sees what no one else has.

Someone who obliterates your rational thought.

Someone whose presence alone has your world spinning.

You have convinced yourself that this is love.

No one else has ever made you feel as desired, wanted, sexual, or as alive.

This someone has awakened desires which you never had before.

Except for one very important part that is missing.

The "someone" isn't feeling what you are.

The "someone " is in supreme control and is not involved as you are. The "someone " merely is enjoying your surrender.

You see, life is about exploit.

We are all used and exploited at some point in life, some more than others.

Vulnerability brings those who are selfish.

Vulnerability brings those who manipulate for their own purpose and satisfaction.

Vulnerability blinds you emotionally.

Vulnerability leads you down a treacherous path.

Vulnerability rips you open.

Vulnerability leaves you with permanent unseen scars.

Vulnerability attracts abusers like the scent of blood to a shark.

- beautflstranger

[andreacelestemoreno]

The Idol spoiler

Alexa Demie how Maddie Pérez I just noticed it.

[scorpion-flower]

When shows that were wildly pushed to us as "this year's show" and you can see the creator's, not love for their art, but arrogance, get cancelled, it feels so gratifying. It's like saying to those creators "Your BS isn't welcomed here".

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

THE IDOL 1x02

First of all, again the performance of Lily-Rose is beyond what I could have expected. She is just amazing in this role. 

The show could have been so much better without this nonsense and free sex scenes. If Mr Sam Levinson is so interested by sex (and not the good kind), he should be able to create a real series based on the porn industry at this point. 

I will do this review chronologically.

I don’t see any point to show Jocelyn masturbating with a glass of ice while remembering her night with Tedros. Beside again the focus on her hands. 

Regarding the shoot of the video clip: I loved the way they portrayed the singer and dancers’ exhaustion; the performance, the break down. The genuine truth behind the scene of a video clip. But it was really psychologically challenging. Again Lily was fabulous in the role. It becomes crystal clear that the record label sees Jocelyn as a product and commodity, rather than an artist with autonomy and PTSD. At the end of the day, Jocelyn’s erratic behaviour is costing them millions of dollars that they want a return on, so there can’t be any mistakes in her comeback.   Even before the shoot has started, there is already a problem. Jocelyn arrives three hours late to her music video shoot due to the make-up artists having to cover up self-inflicted wounds on her inner thighs. This gives us insight into Jocelyn’s psychological and emotional state, which highlight her turning towards self-destructive coping mechanisms as a way to deal with her anxiety and unprocessed trauma. It’s terrible to notice that once the word begins to travel on set, we see a desperate struggle between Jocelyn’s declining mental state and quest for perfection, versus the record label’s disappointment with their product not performing as intended. We finally get the perfect take, when Jocelyn performs an inspired take of her dance number, but inevitably the camera loses focus mid-way through when she did this take, and you could tell that she finally reached the level of perfection she was desperate to achieve. However, none of the footage is usable, and my heart fell to my stomach the moment they delivered the news to her. It becomes even more painful to watch when Jocelyn experiences a break from reality and calls for her mother, who was always there on set with Jocelyn before she passed. I don’t even want to speak about her bleeding feet and thighs. During all this time, Nikki is the worse of the team’s member, she is just looking for her money and nothing else, certainly not for Jocelyn at all.

Why Tania, the journalist at “Vanity Fair” is still there, on the set of the video shoot? At least, we learned that Xander used to be a singer himself. 

This leaves us with an important question to consider: what happens to a pop idol that can’t perform as needed? You may think this was a human and empathetic move from the record label executive, but remember, Nikki has already been working behind the scenes to create a new Jocelyn with Dyanne.

Surprise, a few days after, it’s revealed that Dyanne has been working with Tedros to lure Jocelyn into his cult, but what are her true motives? And what about Chloe, who is listening to each important conversation and is watching each important scene unfolding before her. 

Tedros is definitively more than a club owner. He is a crazy bastard plotting to get revenge on something (his music career’s failure?), when we get an ominous statement from him, saying that he may finally get what’s he’s owed from Dyanne once she is signed with Jocelyn’s record label.

The song “double fantasy” created by The Weeknd was perfectly played. It suited the moment, even better when the door unfolds and the car appears. 

Come on! Izaak is totally guy! His relation/seduction toward Leia is just unbelievable and beyond stupid. It’s amateurish at this point.

Nevertheless, the “orgy party” (with sex, alcohol and drugs) is definitively true, and I’m wondering if they didn’t based the scene with what was happening in the living room of the heir of “La Maison du Caviar” in Paris, avenue Foch. Because there too, there was a naked girl playing the piano and asking for cocaïne. 

Again, the reference to Prince and Donna Summer (at the end of the episode). 

Not much is known about Tedros’ past, as no one can seem to get an answer after a background check, but we do learn a bit about his past through Isaac, when Leia inquires about him throughout the night. He seems to find people who are looking to change their life, and takes advantage of their desperation. In the same episode, we learned more about Jocelyn and how she started to sing.

Abel’s interior is very dark, even in the pool area. 

Let’s talk about this terrible and unnecessary sex scene. First, Abel as a sex dominator is beyond laughable. He is not convincing at all (example: “I want to grab you by the ass while I suffocate you with my cock. I want you to choke on it.”)! Then, he was watching like a pervert and nothing else, while Jocelyn was having sex with the air surrounding her? And I didn’t understand the correlation between Tedros and Jocelyn’s intimate moment and, then suddenly pass to Izaak and Leia’s fucking. Was it necessary? Come on!  What about Chloe, watching secretly Jocelyn and Tedros’s “make out session”? She seems very important for the story, as she is an important witness of everything that’s happening around her. She looks also a bit like Jocelyn, so will she take her place too? First, her cloths, then her life? That’s in interesting character to follow, something will unfold. 

Regarding the end, Leia’s white face is still haunts me and the refrain of the song which goes like this: “That’s my family/We don’t like each other much,”

Conclusion: 1. This leads to an even bigger point of interest: Dyanne represents how the music industry is constantly looking to fill the shoes of anyone who isn’t able to perform well. They don’t care about the human behind the brand. There is always going to be someone younger, more talented and willing to do the work another person isn’t willing to do, and it was made evidently clear that Nikki doesn’t see Jocelyn as anything more than a product of the industry.

2. It seems to be as though the music industry is portrayed in the series as not caring about the artistic craft, and that the public will listen to anything and everything that is promoted as popular or important by the record label. 

3. We will have a new song from The Weeknd in the next episode, as you may hear in the promo for episode 3.

4. Tedros is as bas the music industry surrounding Jocelyn.

ps: I have even read an review mentioning, “Britney Spear’s Blackout album: that era of Britney’s career is marked by darker subject matter that plays into her real-life controversies and status as a sex symbol, which sounds remarkably similar to where we meet Jocelyn in the series.”

[rubyjnee]

★ ·　 Dyanne

[sheandmalibu]

The Idol (2023)

[drogonstone]

THE IDOL (2022) with Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd) and Lily-Rose Depp

[lostbbygorl]

HOW TO MAKE THE IDOL A GOOD SHOW

Listen to the fans and make Jennie a villain. Trust me the reviews are gonna change OVERNIGHT who doesn't like a pretty, talented, chic villain who's snakey and a backstabber and totally power hungry and ur bestie to ur face but really just playing mind games with you?

Improve the soundtrack like ngl it's so underwhelming for a show focusing on the music industry like idk give us edgy sex music give us synth beats give us smth jay park would beg on his knees for give us 2013 emo era BTS give us a blackpink song reminiscent of sour candy give us another the weeknd and ldr collab

Give some more substance to Troye Sivan's character. Okay so he's one of Jocelyn's besties and helps her out. He's clearly more headstrong than her assistant so why don't we make him a super perceptive guy who is actively tryna hunt tedros down and like idk openly has beef with him? why dont we make him reign hell over his bestie?

Keep it risque but keep but sex scenes moderate and if not, make them uhhmmmm... not literal torture porn

STICK TO ONE DAMN THING DAMMIT or tackle each part of the plot smartly like how abt we have tedros manipulate, groom and brainwash jocelyn and isolate her from everyone else but wrap it up with a pretty, sexy, "i understand you and im just tryna help u and i really care abt u" bow and be her shoulder to cry on while she actively tries to deal with her leaked photo situation and show us flashbacks to the start of her career and her mom's death and how she deals with her mental health (other than dependency on cigs) and like have her serve the c word with some BANGING music as we do all that and like wheres the cult parts that was mentioned in the trailer? give us smth spooky and culty

Have Jocelyn's assistant WOMAN UP like i want her to be a good girl gone bad i want her to be tired of getting pushed around and i want her to lose it and cut her hair and wear an ungodly amount of eyeliner and buy a gun and drop as many f bombs as possible and go thru a rough patch with jocelyn

It would be so interesting to see Tedros try and win over Jocelyn's team like play them as well as hes playing Jocelyn but not entirely

Give us Tedros' backstory

Have Jocelyn do smth DIABOLICAL like have her leak someone's nudes or drive over a pedestrian while drunk idk let's see her heart turn COLD

more alexa demie cameos pls

[maesvtro]

LILY-ROSE DEPP and JENNIE RUBY JANE as JOCELYN and ANYS in THE IDOL (2022) dir. Sam Levinson, The Weeknd, Reza Fahim