{"id":575716,"date":"2023-05-23T07:17:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T04:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-idol-review-the-weeknd-puts-lily-rose-depp-through-the-ringer\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T07:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T04:17:16","slug":"watch-the-idol-review-the-weeknd-puts-lily-rose-depp-through-the-ringer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-idol-review-the-weeknd-puts-lily-rose-depp-through-the-ringer\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The Idol&#8217; Review: The Weeknd Puts Lily-Rose Depp Through the Ringer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4eb2622b458\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4eb2622b458\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-idol-review-the-weeknd-puts-lily-rose-depp-through-the-ringer\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Idol_Review_The_Weeknd_Puts_Lily-Rose_Depp_Through_the_Ringer%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Idol&#8217; Review: The Weeknd Puts Lily-Rose Depp Through the Ringer&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-idol-review-the-weeknd-puts-lily-rose-depp-through-the-ringer\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Idol_Review_The_Weeknd_Puts_Lily-Rose_Depp_Through_the_Ringer%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Idol&#8217; Review: The Weeknd Puts Lily-Rose Depp Through the Ringer&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Idol_Review_The_Weeknd_Puts_Lily-Rose_Depp_Through_the_Ringer%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Idol&#8217; Review: The Weeknd Puts Lily-Rose Depp Through the Ringer&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Idol_Review_The_Weeknd_Puts_Lily-Rose_Depp_Through_the_Ringer%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Idol&#8217; Review: The Weeknd Puts Lily-Rose Depp Through the Ringer&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    What The Weeknd wants, The Weeknd gets in \u201cThe Idol,\u201d a skintastic, dark-side-of-showbiz fable that perpetuates the myth that pop stars are corporate puppets with no say in their own image-making, even as it allows hit-maker The Weeknd to call the shots (and reshoots, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently, since the five-part HBO <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> was overhauled late in production to suit him). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Picture \u201cBlonde\u201d as Joe Eszterhas might have written it, but with better music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    After making a toe-dip cameo as himself in A24\u2019s \u201cUncut Gems,\u201d the R&amp;B phenom-turned-TV producer plunges head-first into acting here, teaming with \u201cEuphoria\u201d creator Sam Levinson to imagine a shady super-predator just looking to corrupt an unsuspecting young pop singer. The edgy, high-gloss HBO series, which premiered the first two of its five episodes at the Cannes Film Festival, demands a lot of star Lily-Rose Depp. She plays \u201crags-to-riches, trailers-to-mansions\u201d Jocelyn, a mono-monikered Britney or Miley type who seems empowered one moment, impressionable the next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Embracing scandal from the outset, \u201cThe Idol\u201d opens with Jocelyn mid-photo shoot, trying to wriggle out of the nudity rider in her contract. \u201cIt\u2019s my body!\u201d she insists, convinced she should show more than just \u201cside boob\u201d on her next album cover. (Clearly, no such protections exist for Depp, whose costumes consist mostly of straps and strings and not much else.) A modern-day princess of sorts, Jocelyn is attended by an entourage of yes-people \u2014 from co-managers Chaim (Hank Azaria) and Destiny (Da\u2019Vine Joy Randolph) to her spin-doctor\/publicist (Dan Levy) and lifelong bestie Xander (Troye Sivan) \u2014 who are collectively more concerned with telling her what she wants to hear than giving her the honest truth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    To that end, no one wants to inform Jocelyn of the latest crisis: Someone has leaked a compromising photo of the singer, and no-nonsense label exec Nikki Katz (Jane Adams, hilariously inappropriate) and the Live Nation rep responsible for her upcoming tour (Eli Roth) are both losing their minds. \u201cHow are 14-year-old girls going to buy tickets to the concert when she\u2019s frosted like a Pop Tart?\u201d Chaim asks in one of the smarmy show\u2019s campier lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For all of 23 minutes \u2014 most of them eye-witnessed by a Vanity Fair writer (Hari Nef) \u2014 \u201cThe Idol\u201d feels like it might be offering real insights into how the music industry does damage control, the way \u201cIn the Loop\u201d and \u201cVeep\u201d showed their characters constantly putting out political fires. Then the photo scandal blows over, forgotten almost as quickly as it flared up. Jocelyn heads out to the Hollywood S<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>, wearing an ultra-short, ultra-sheer party dress that gets her instantly noticed by Tedros (The Weeknd), a mysterious music-industry fringe player \u2014 a manager who crosses the lines with his clients, treating them the way a pimp does his stable \u2014 who\u2019s been waiting for her to venture into his web.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Compare their first encounter to the masterfully crafted meet-cute in Bradley Cooper\u2019s \u201cA Star Is Born,\u201d and it\u2019s \u201cThe Idol\u201d that comes off looking shallow: Levinson gives us virtually no indication of why Jocelyn and Tedros\u2019 characters might click before sending them sneaking off into a stairwell to hook up. Interrupted by the singer\u2019s best friend\/assistant Leia (Rachel Sennott), Jocelyn heads home and proceeds to masturbate ferociously, choking herself till she climaxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    One could argue there\u2019s something revolutionary in the way Levinson depicts female sexuality \u2014 although the cast of \u201cShowgirls\u201d would probably beg to differ. Whereas that project all but ended Elizabeth Berkley\u2019s career, \u201cThe Idol\u201d positions Depp as a fearless performer. Her barely-there wardrobe and hyper-erotic choreography push back on the kind of celebrity sex shaming blasted by docs such as \u201cFraming Britney Spears\u201d and \u201cJanet Jackson.\u201d But Levinson takes things too far in the other direction, getting kinky anytime Jocelyn and Tedros are together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The script (overhauled by Levinson, Reza Fahim and The Weeknd after an earlier, Amy Seimetz-helmed version was scrapped) seems calculated to fool audiences into thinking they\u2019re observing how Hollywood operates, when so much of it amounts to tawdry clich\u00e9s lifted from Sidney Sheldon novels and softcore porn. \u201cShowgirls\u201d at least was a thinly veiled \u201cAll About Eve\u201d remake, whereas \u201cThe Idol\u201d plays like a sordid male fantasy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Levinson never convincingly establishes why Jocelyn deserves to be labeled an \u201cidol\u201d (one of those overused hype words that\u2019s all but lost its meaning) or what kind of role model she represents to her fans. We\u2019re told she\u2019s recovering from a psychotic break, which forced her to cancel a previous tour. The show catches up with her midway through a big makeover, which Jocelyn decides isn\u2019t nearly as passionate as feels inside. With Tedros\u2019 help, she remixes her \u201cWorld Class Sinner\u201d single to feature hot-and-heavy panting, which the label hastily rejects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But Tedros\u2019 scheme is just getting started: Seducing Jocelyn came way too easy, and the more he emerges as an influence on Jocelyn in the episodes ahead, the less room there is for \u201cThe Idol\u201d to pretend that it\u2019s celebrating this imperiled singer\u2019s autonomy \u2014 as an artist or as a woman. \u201cPop music\u2019s like the ultimate Trojan horse,\u201d Tedros tells her, and the same could be said for zeitgeist-shaking TV series: They can be a delivery device for subversive <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> critique. Trouble is, Levinson\u2019s worldview seems corrupt. It shouldn\u2019t take degradation and suffering to make Jocelyn stronger. \u201cEuphoria\u201d audiences won\u2019t be too surprised by the shameful way he treats Depp\u2019s character, as both she and the show appear trapped under The Weeknd\u2019s thumb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    <em>\u201cThe Idol\u201d will premiere on HBO on June<\/em> <em>4.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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