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It’s all quite effective, presenting viewers with something lush and problematic. What’s more confusing is Tesfaye’s Tedros. Is he supposed to be quite so chillingly unsexy? He stalks around like a...
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May 22, 2023 · Read a review of ‘The Idol’ from the Cannes Film Festival: Lily-Rose Depp is riveting as a pop star on the verge In Sam Levinson’s cryptic HBO series.
May 23, 2023 · The Idol is on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV from 5 June. The controversial new drama, starring Abel Tesfaye and Lily Rose Depp, arrives on our screens in June.
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May 23, 2023 · The Weeknd and Sam Levinson’s ‘The Idol,’ Starring Lily-Rose Depp, Plays Like a Sordid Male Fantasy: TV Review. Slick and expensive looking, but smarmy as anything HBO has ever produced, the...
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The new HBO series from Euphoria's Sam Levinson, Reza Fahim, and Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye follows Jocelyn, a pop phenom making her way back onto the scene — at the behest of her calculated and strategic team — after a year-long break. Her world was certifiably rocked when her mother died, and it’s taken everything within her to come out the other ...
There’s no denying that this production, along with creative leaders Levinson and Tesfaye, have beenmired in controversy. And let’s be real, the show delights in controversy. The central plight of the pilot comes in the form of a revenge porn scandal. The show seems excited to build up to a head, the point where we see the actual photograph in ques...
Ultimately, Depp is the natural heart and soul of the show, and her performance gracefully rises to the occasion. Jocelyn feels like an extension of herself in the best way, with Depp using her own personal quirks and impulses, like her deep voice and near-permanent natural sultry stare, to shape someone new in her own skin. Rather than resting on ...
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With The Weeknd, Lily-Rose Depp, Suzanna Son, Troye Sivan. Jocelyn is desperate to reclaim her rightful title as the greatest and sexiest pop diva in America after a nervous breakdown disrupted her most recent tour after Tedros, a notorious nightclub entrepreneur, reignites her passions.
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Jul 2, 2023 · According to a large sample of Rotten Tomatoes audience reviews for The Idol reviewed by Rolling Stone, the majority of positive reviews came from an influx of first-time reviewers in the first...
