The Idol Episode 3: Review
There was no 20-minute sex sequence this week, so we already won. This time around on The Idol, we delve deeper into Tedros’ background and the hold he has on his minions Chloe and Isaak. Elsewhere, Leia lives through her personal nightmare, Xander pushes for a scandalous album cover, and we unpack Jocelyn’s dark past & the hairbrush from hell.
If I were Leia and a walking rattail were critiquing my driving (“you’re fucking up the vibe”) I would shoot him on sight.
Of course, Jocelyn doesn’t like flats. In a Weeknd-originated universe, women hate wearing any heel under six inches.
“Let me catch you lookin’ at her again” as the store assistant trembles in fear. WHY DOES THE WEEKND THINK HE IS SO HARD? In the real world, this threat would be met with raucous laughter.
The first two episodes of The Idol were so busy zooming in on Lily-Rose Depp’s ass that they forgot to have a plotline - a device, which some say is not very postmodern, but I say is very necessary.
Fucking FINALLY we get to understand a bit more about the characters and how they actually interact with each other. I say throw out the first two episodes and start with this one and we might actually have something watchable on our hands.
The Weeknd is doing a fine job acting when he is not being sexual or threatening. I’m thinking he might have been better off playing a worried music exec than silk-robe-wearing-macho.
Dee is just like me lmao, if you claim you’re from a major city you WILL be getting the third degree to verify.
Oh God here we go again with the deep tortured pop star. I’ve never sung about anything truthful…anything that really means anything to me. The world has enough faux-deep maudlin ballads, just keep slaying and make World Class Sinner pt. II
“When was the last truly fucking nasty bad pop girl?” So the key to Jocelyn finally making meaningful music is to make her sluttier…ok…
Like, I can accept that Jocelyn is not exactly making the most groundbreaking music here; but it’s so funny that the show’s idea of making ‘real’ music is just to be more sexual (for example, the creative directors’ ‘genius’ idea of making that picture of Jocelyn her album cover). Idk, maybe start by having her play the guitar at a live show or something.
Who is Tedros in this world to be giving Jocelyn’s creative director validation on his idea? Also, this heavy-handed commentary on how the suits of the music industry stifle true creativity is so banal.
I AM WEEPING AT THE WEEKND MISPRONOUNCING CARTE BLANCHE. Please tell me that this wasn’t some commentary on how Tedros is pretending to be smarter than he is, but rather a genuine mistake.
In a similar vein, I was going to say it’s a little presumptuous for Tedros’ minions to be giving Jocelyn advice about writing music, but tbh she could stand to learn something from piano girl….and Isaak’s vocals are eating her up a bit…
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