the idol is the worst show of the year 😀
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2023
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I’m sorry but you CANNOT convince me that the intimacy coordinator scene wasn’t a direct response to Sydney Sweeney not wanting to be nude all the time. He
bro when they revealed chloe being underage RIGHT AFTER they had her fully unclothed made me genuinely sick
And we all thought Riverdale was the bottom of the barrel 💀
The ending where they tried to twist the narrative and paint Jocelyn as this master manipulator who was in control the whole time is so damaging and belittling. They treated her worse than an animal the entire time and tried to pass it off as her being in control and wanting it. It's disgusting and gross. Almost like they are trying to gaslight abuse victims into thinking that they are in control and empowered
Insane how the behind-the-scenes drama is more interesting than the show itself.
They said it was supposed to be a critique on the exploitation of women in the entertainment industry but it's filled with the male gaze that it ends up being atrocious and going against what they intended to portray. And the ending of lily's character being the bad guy just shows how the plot had no clear direction at all
am i the only one who is now terrified of the Weeknd 😔🖐️ (chill, i know its acting but i just can't shake off the bad vibes yk)
I think the biggest criticism directed against The Weeknd is because he actually participated in the writing process so he did put a finger in every single gross thing we saw on screen, things that could be MUCH better handled but felt like a fetichized view when it didn't need to be
The false assault claims, Jocelyn allegedly lying about experiencing abuse, acting as if intimacy coordinators are a nuisance, saying rapey men are appealing and more is just exhausting and gross. It makes me feel grossed out by Sam and the Weekend.
The fact that The Weeknd got the female directior fired when her version of the show looked SOOO much better and wasn't just a gross make gaze parade makes me look at him in a much different light
I can’t imagine how devastated the original director must’ve been when she saw what the show turned into :(
It went from a show about misogyny in the music industry, to a show of misogyny and the music industry.
This show is just an excuse for Sam Levinson to create his own fetishes and I can't believe HBO let him.
some pictures were leaked when amy was still the director and it's safe to say it would've been a completely different show. jocelyn's bed room was pink and girly, life sized standees showed her in cute and colorful outfits very reminiscent of britney's baby one more time era. it's sad we'll never get to see what the show was actually supposed to be and instead got sam levinson's wet dreams come to life
this show is proof we need writers, honestly writers guild should use this as an argument lmao
Considering that Amy Seimetz’s version of The Idol was roughly 80% done before HBO shitcanned it, I think they should just give her the money to finish the damn thing. It’s the only good result that could possibly come out of this abhorrent mess.
This show is a mockery of sexual violence victims, sexism within industry, and generally the most disgusting thing I've seen so far. It has really lost my hope for modern cinema. And the fact they scrapped the initial female director due to "too much of a female perspective" is so far the biggest step backwards for women in media this generation would've seen in contemporary pop culture.
“Hurt people hurt people” is
No, people are not saying 'gross, that's actually what The Weeknd is like' because he's so 'private and mysterious'. We're saying that because he's a producer of the show and he literally fired the former female director because he said her version of the story was ''too feminist''. So he literally went on his way to write that disgusting character and make him a kinda love interest even tho that wasn't the original idea. And people want to say that's not reflective of his personal views? that's like saying it's just a coincidence that Sam Levinson usually writes horrible scenes about young women being explicitly (sexually) abused.
The whole "plot twist" about Jocelyn being the true villain all along, and her manipulating everything, really just made me think, "Oh, this is how abusive men view the women they get involved with." If any of the writers beyond episode one had had two brain cells to rub together, they might have been able to do some kind of contrast between the reality of their relationship and Tedros's cognitively dissonant POV. It might've been a very unique take, too, showing how what Tedros perceives as some 4D chess-type moves on Jocelyn's part are actually just the unfortunately common back and forth of an abusive relationship. What a waste of Lily-Rose Depp's potential.