The Idol: 10x More Dangerous Than Euphoria
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2023
- Breaking down what makes The Idol a worse and more sinister show than Euphoria. If you're looking for cringey dialogue, cults and the male gaze then this is the show for you! 🤣 This is yet another delightful product from Sam Levinson who wrote Euphoria, and is basically everything bad about Euphoria but x1000. Also, the Weeknd is literally the ick in human form, and his character's whole sunglasses and attitude is just... wow 🤣
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Cassie Howard analysis:
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Also I’ve said it like three times but I still can’t get over how Jocelyn is basically wearing a piece of dental floss the entire show ☠️😂
My thoughts exactly!
Like even in her own dammn hous😂 she's wearing a coorset
It was so raunchy seeing the awkward sex scenes. They really went for shock value but it backfired.😂
I agree but everything seemed like a caricature honestly, like so exaggerated, even when that music producer comes out of his car when a cloud of smoke, it looked so funny to me
@@greenrangeralex hahhahahaha i love that
"the decision making behind the wardrobe"??? She's in full glam and wearing stage/club fits when she's literally just chilling at home. 95% of the show takes place in her house. I am confused by these decisions. Honestly might even be the least realistic part of the show.
The least realistic thing is definitely Jocelyn being attracted to Tedros like…? Literally how
@@astronomer444for real 😂 he looked so cringe at the beginning and then just straight up sweaty and nasty at the end. No idea how she would enjoy his smelly ass touching her.
@@astronomer444 True tho...
Idk if it’s that weird Ariana is pretty much like that even her paparazzi photos of her chilling at home she’s always glamorous looking.
@@astronomer444 many traumatized people are attracted to pathetic ugly cruel people, and many of them need pain because of their past problems and because they got used to it. The show is cringe, but it’s not that far from reality.
Serena, I totally agree about Euphoria and the sexualization of teenagers. Sam Levinson is a creep and no doubt in my mind is he was attracted to Sydney and the others.
Edit: I just talked to someone about it and they said the show made them extremely uncomfortable knowing how young the characters were. This show should’ve been set in college and they should’ve been at least 20.
Yep yep yep
@@SerenaSkybourne I’m just waiting for the day they come and expose him
@@itscherylplayz8925I honestly feel like in a few years once the ndas expire there’s gonna be so many actors speaking out against him.
@@SocialExperiment232 oh definitely
Saw a vid saying he casts women who resemble his mother as characters that are basically humiliated. Don’t know if it’s true, since both shows seemed like 🌽 with too much filler so I’ve never seen them, but I wouldn’t be surprised
i'm convinced sam levinson's target audience is literally just himself. i don't know a single other person that would genuinely enjoy watching his awful shows
You might be right
this took me out 💀🤣🤣🤣
You couldn't be more wrong lol. It's the top rated show right now, it's overall viewership beat out Euphoria which already blew every other show out of the water. Instead of just coming up with wrong opinions, you can literally look up official metrics that several sites collect for that very purpose.
The issue is you guys contain yourselves in echo chambers that confirm your opinion unchallenged and based on no actual data, just delusions born out of emotional tantrums. I'm actually not sure which comes first, the delusions or the instability of emotional regulation.
@@maxxmarino6500 stop it sam we know it's u lol 😂
@@greenrangeralex stopppp you guys have NO RIGHT to be this funny
Yeah turns out that girl who went skinny dipping is actually seventeen, she slips up while answering her age in ep 4, so 😬
😳
OH.
Damn
Yes! I can’t believe she didn’t notice this. I was crying! They infantilize her so much and then it’s just straight up revealed she’s a 17 year old girl and they proceed to have her practically naked dancing for the record label people. The dude just cannot control himself and has to insert teenagers anywhere he can.
It's so odd how she acts so child-like too, literally the way she speaks and moves and then they potray her like..that💀
im pretty sure the creators of the show said something similar to the vain of the female director was showing too much of the female POV in the show and thats why they took her off. i also hated the intimacy coordinator hate in the show
They literally took that scene as a way to call us all prudes. Cause apparently if the audience isn’t interested in watching hardcore porn with some random abandoned attempts at plot then we’re all just prudes.
When you mentioned the matter of men writing women characters - I think it comes down to Levinson (male directors, male writers) is the presumption that he knows “women” better than women and because of that what he writes is “true”
exactly, he seems quite arrogant to assume that... like i would be very cautious
@@SerenaSkybourne Didn't you just praise a barbie movie in which a female director and writer made the presumption she knew what was best for men and knew men?
@@poocrayon4588 she never made that presumption. she just talked about how the patriarchy hurts men
@@SerenaSkybourne From her point of view. Which is making the presumption she knows whats best for men. Would it be presumptious of a man to talk about how your feminism is hurting you and assume he knew about it well enought to comment?
The Weeknd should stick with singing, his attempts at being dramatic were laughably Cringy!
He was meant to be cringy. That was his part to play
I Agree. Did you ever see him in that horrible Adam Sandler movie? Uncut Gems? He sucked bigtime.
@@susanreid1873the problem is its not portrayal of the character it's directly him that's cringey. If he was a decent actor than it would have worked out. There are a lot of magnificent performances from actors who portray villains who play unlovable characters that are well acted, the weekend isn't a good actor he fucking sucks at it, it's not tedros who is gross it's the weekend that's the fucking problem. There is no separate character in the series
Either he is so bad at acting or the script is just bad in general. Or you know both of it.
I remember the hype for the series because it was supposed to be about the exploitation of the music/entertainment industry and I was interested in watching it but that took a weird turn so soon that I was uncomfortable trying to finish an episode and then by the last two episodes, the storyline until that moment changes completely out of the blue which felt disconnected so yeah, it was bad.
Yes!! It's hilarious what they advertised versus what they delivered. This is so embarrassing for anyone who appeared in this crappy show. It's just so hilarious that the weekend really thought he was a genius and a great actor!😂
The previous director filmed 80% of the show the weekend didn’t like it because it had too much of a female perspective. That was so dumb of course we want to know more about Jocelyn not his crappy scumbag character. Kinda like Nate from euphoria I don’t care about his past.
Was it just me who died a bit on the inside every time Tedros spoke
Hi Serena! 🥰
@@maddoxstephens5335heyyyy 😍❤️
Yep, the Weeknd should really stick with singing, and work on his acting.
Same haha
We all did😂😭
17:59 Here’s the kicker (spoiler alert for episode 4): it’s revealed that that girl who was running around Jocelyn’s house fully naked-who just casually stripped down to go swimming, who stayed completely naked while playing the piano for a bunch of people, and who masturbated while watching Jocelyn and Tedros hookup-is actually 17! The actress is an adult, but the character is a minor, not a grown woman! Sam Levinson managed to slip his preference for naked minors into this show as well!
Also, in one episode of Euphoria, Maddie, one of the main protagonists, met a guy on his 40's in the beach and apparently they hooked up when she was 14! What the hell?
@@margarethmichelina5146Especially the voice over: "Maddy was in control" excuse me wtf
I completely agree. I know more about the guy's kinks than I ever wanted to.
HAHAHAHA omg sameee, like i didn't need this much information about Sam's fantasies
Blonde came out last year I had to stop watching it halfway through because it was so triggering for me
Yeah this is everything bad about euphoria x10
I never watched euphoria
Euphoria is genius in comparison
Hahaha. Glad to know you've found the thumbnail subtitle to be accurate!
@@SpyJay lol just realised I literally just wrote her caption 😅 😂
I would love to hear your opinion on "Pose". This has to be the most respectful series I ever saw on the queer experience. It takes place in New York during the AIDS epidemic in the 80s and 90s and it could have easily been a trauma porn serie, but it isn't. It does delve into many important and serious topics, but it also focuses on many good things. They also had multiple consultants from the ballroom scene who were alive during the times depicted and the cast is mainly composed of queer artists.
i would love to see your review on the finale haha
the smoking controversy is always so funny to me. i didn’t watch the idol, but from what i’ve seen i agree it makes sense for jocelyn’s character. like when i notice smoking it’s almost always in a TV-MA shows like the bear, sons of anarchy, shameless, mad men, queens gambit, etc. sometimes it’s meant to partially just be a part of the setting like in mad men, but usually it does display something about the character, it’s how they soothe themselves in chaos. i just don’t understand who these adult people are that in the year of 2023 are seeing characters smoking and being influenced despite all we know about it. i don’t feel like it’s ever displayed as cool, just a crutch yk?
Yeah I don't get it. It's like some weird puritan censorship that wants us to just pretend people don't smoke anymore
I would love to see you review the last two episodes ESPECIALLY the finale whew chile a literal dumpster fire
After watching this show I can confirm what I was thinking all along, and that's that sam is not the big genius everyone says he is, they talk about his work being so real, or his writing being so deep, when this proofs that he think too much of himself, they really believed that the ending was smart or a plot twist, when In reality I was confused, I thought she just got a new hairbrush. Also, they made it seemed like xander or jennie's character were going to have a bigger part on the plot, but at the end there was a lot going on and they did nothing about it.
Yes! Also the whole thing with the cult! Once they got to the torturing Xander scene I really thought that the cult was gonna go full psycho with the punishments and people not being allowed to leave the house and tedros was just gonna go around beating people but no. He suddenly turned into a full on pussy whipped bitch who got told to “go stand over there”. Like really? She fucked him that good that she made him forget he’s a manipulate sociopath who literally tortured his ex gf? Give me a break please 😂 he thinks he is so deep but he cannot flesh out a plot for shit. Literally just comes up with a deep sounding premise so he can get the show green lit and then abandon the plot and go full hardcore porn.
She did get a new hairbrush, people read I to that the wrong way. She got rid of the old hairbrush to signify moving on from her relationship with her mother and got a new one for Tedros to symbolize the birth and bond of their relationship and him replacing her mother's role.
@@maxxmarino6500 I actually thought it was bc of that. But then people were saying that actually that means she lied all the time about the abuse (which for me it didn't make sense bc then how did he realise it was new? Also why when he asked her if that was the same hairbrush she said yes? It was confusing for everyone)
This! Even with Euphoria he screwed up Season 2…….he could’ve literally created a great storyline with Cassie’s abortion since that’s a super relevant topic in this country right now but instead he chose to have her hook up with Nate, and I think the abortion only came up for 5 seconds in Season 2 episode 2.
@@tiamarrow6366 right, also on the second season from euphoria they throw that whole thing with laurie and rue, but didn't do anything, instead they just focus on lexis play (I wouldn't be surprise if they don't address it on the 3rd season, honestly with the idol he just proved that writing is not for him) there were so many plots added and for what??? cassie's story was already good and I was so here for it, why can't he just focus on that instead of adding some unnecessary drama??
You cannot under any circumstances get me to believe that anyone named Joslin would be the latest big pop star today 💀
STOPPP why are you guys so funny in the comments section today
its killing me
I love to see what was the original plan for this series
It's not even so bad it's good it's just bad bad bad bad bad. Really really really bad. It's like the TV version of the film showgirls. Honestly, Johnny and Vanessa must be livid that their daughter will always be associated with this garbage. And the finale really lives down to the previous episodes. It's just plain awful. If you could erase your own memory, I would happily delete this show from mine forever
I've heard quite a few reviewers actually say her performance has moments of shining through despot the show which is pretty impressive
@@mchjsosdeshe did pretty good with the script she was given ngl there was not many ways you could have made those lines sound any less cringe not Meryl Streep not Kate Winslet not Katherine Hepburn. No one could have made that sound less cringe.
Thank you for watching as I didn't want to haha love your reviews!
don't put yourself through it, seriously it's not worth the pain
12:18 Well that’s the thing, she had her manager lock the intimacy coordinator in the bathroom, and her manager paid someone $5k to guard the door until the shoot was done.
no the ending doesn't pull it all together I'm so sorry to say
Oof, I can’t wait for you to see the last 2 episodes, you’re going to absolutely lose your mind! Especially the finale, I was so confused and actually kinda fuming 😂
Now I'm so glad I haven't watched this show 😬😳
Sam Levinson is a creep. Point, blank, period. Love this review/agree 100%
your earrings look stunning!! they were the first thing i noticed about ur outfit
omg babeeeee thankyou
As soon as I saw this show, I NEEDED your opinion on it. In all seriousness, I had to stop watching after the first episode bc I was too uncomfortable, and I'm glad you could sum it up in an easier way. You are a trooper for watching the full show
I ❤️ you
That sounds like a fair and honest review, I was kinda wondering how the show is but never got myself to watch it because I let the behind the scenes drama affect my opinion on it. From what I heard the finale will have a twist that shows that Joselyn will topple Tedros, get her success and become the leader of the cult. For me that sounds like they wanted to do a "feminist ending" that shows that Jocelyn was the dominat part all along but it doesn't come across as believable considering how dependent she seemed before. Anyway, I'm always happy to see a new Serena Video so thanks for that 😊
Ps: I love your hair and your style! The earnings are looking great on their own but in my opinion they don't really match as an asymmetrical pack, I'm more used in seeing asymmetrical packs where both of them are hanging earrings and one is shorter than the other or one is a hanging, the other is an earring plug. But it's your choice, as I said you look great eather way ❤
My goodness I feel really bad for you having to watch the rest ( it gets way worse ) if that’s even a possibility for this show
it was excruciating haha
Thanks for your review, now I know to stay away from this show.
25:27 I need your take on the twist ending
Barbie Ferreira is so gorgeous and smart. Fools for letting her go
When She Was Talking About “Blonde” Tho,I Will Say I Feel As Though Lifetime’s Version Of Telling Marilyn Monroe’s Story Was Just Little Better,They Didn’t Degrade The Actress And I Felt They Really Try To Tell Her Story As If She Was Telling It Through Her Eyes And Susan Sarandon Did A Wonderful Job As Her Mother
I've been following this show with moist critical's review and it just sounds terrible. If all you want is nudity, there's a place for that. Instead this just feels like people (Levinson/weeknd) getting off from the humiliation of the actress. Everyone knew this was going to be trash when the female director got replaced, and gave complete creative control to Levinson/Weeknd.
Good alternatives for fame gone wrong would be the animes Perfect Blue who talks about stalkers and loss of identity and the more recent Oshi No Ko that shows the reality of famous people and how tough can be, in the idol it looked like they wanted to make just a trauma porn show, instead of actually telling a story, and using names of famous people that suffered with toxic fame like Britney Spears, it looked just exploitative cuz, guys be real 🙄.
Oh, the finale episode will have you seething
It's a toss up between this and VELMA as the worst show of 2023.
I don't like Euphoria either. The characters are so unlikable. And to me wasn't realistic. I didn't understand why everyone was so obsessed with it. But I'm so glad people are finally sick of Sam Levinson over sexualizing teen characters. To me Euphoria should have been based off college students. That would nage more sense. The Idol proved again how disgusting and raunchy the over sexualized scenes in both The Idol and Euphoria. The weekend really thought it was a role of a life time. The whole cult thing went nowhere and didn't need to be in the storyline. The ending was so dumb too. It was just a terrible show that no one asked for.
I'll open with a serious question - what is Jocelyn's last name? Because I don't believe she has one. The supposed main character, and I don't think she has a last name. Great.
I say this because, how many contemporary pop artists can one name that only have one name? I can only think of Cher and Madonna, and sorry, but if they wanted Jocelyn to be on the same level... I can't even say it, it's so evident she's just a run of the mill artist.
I kept thinking - why do all these people love and care about her? Genuinely, why? She has zero personality, and except for her best friend, they all have so much more of a spark than her (I'm partial to Xander, actually). Furthermore, what kind of artist is she? I have no clue; what kind of music did she used to do? Beats me. Is she turning a new leaf? Is she doing a 180? I do not know.
So I couldn't get behind her as a person or an artist, so I'm left with nothing. Even her wardrobe, her hair, her makeup, nothing about her caught my eye, which perhaps explains why after watching 3/5 eps, I came out thinking that this show has no main character. It claims to have one, but it does not - whatever "story" it wanted to tell, does not feature a main character. Not Jocelyn, not Tedros, not even them as a couple qualifies.
Oh, and Serena, you're such a sweetheart, you didn't even mention how fucking BORING this show is, it drags because it has no plot - and how the hell is that POSSIBLE with the amount of episodes it has??
I know what happened in the last two episodes, and I'm good lol.
I wish that, if the show wasn't going to be from Jocelyn's POV, then that it HAD a POV. Jesus, it's not that hard, Sam! I'm not a writer and even I know that. Just someone, anyone, who observe what's up, that we could empathize with and root for (because, you know, sorry, but I can't root for a cardboard of a character like Jocelyn). Should've been Xander, this failed "idol" who's stuck by a rising star nonetheless, and can speak to the ugliness of the industry, if it wasn't going to hit hard with an unflinching look at what being a star looks like these days.
And, SPOILERS.
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If Jocelyn was going to be some manipulative mastermind, I wish there had been hints of that, of her "people" having quiet talks that Tedros and the "cult" only catching snippets that we, as the audience, would at the time misunderstand as them being worried for her when in reality it would be them kind of being skeptical about whether her game of manipulation of Tedros would actually yield good results, but still being well aware that Jocelyn is an absolute shark.
Give the people a wide eyed, doe-like pop star who just pretends to be fragile, and behind the scenes can be as ruthless as that record label woman, but she only let's those she trusts or can discard see that side of her.
I absolutely hate this show and Sam levinson with my core but Joselyn was the only remotely fleshed out character. It’s said at the beginning that she was a child star and trying to shed her child image with this new record. It’s why she was so nervous and so dead set on being hyper sexual she wanted to break out of the kid image which is why is implied that she leaked her own “donut glaze” photo to get people talking about her sexuality then sell her whole abuse story to get sympathy, then come back with her break through album which shows her as a “mature” artist that makes gritty “real” music. I feel like this is the one part that they probably kept from the female writer that was fired and then Sam came on and added the weekends stupid plot and the naked teenagers and ruined what could have been an actually interesting show. It’s ridiculous that they just try to imply that she is able to just manipulate this cult leader with her body and that he won’t be able to abuse her and he will work in her favor even tho he literally tortured his ex. Basically saying that women have control of the abuse they receive and it’s so repulsive.
@nitely2345 I fully disagree that she was fleshed out (although... maybe it's relative considering the horrendous writing as a whole).
As for the whole she's actually in control of her own abuse... does Sam... think that since she was "in control"... that she wasn't, in fact, abused? Even the whole thing with her mom ends up on such a weird tone. Sam, buddy, we're not stupid, Jocelyn isn't manipulating jack shit with Tedros just because you pull a twist out of your ass, she's being sucked into his world (God knows why - maybe an interest point to explore in another timeline) until you decided that oh no, she's a "strong" woman, of course she's pulling the strings all along.
Ok Sam, whatever you say.
@@OffKiraDeux I mean in relativity to the other characters at least he tried to give her a “purpose” most characters were barely there. I guess he only gives screen time to actresses that agree to full nudity. I had no idea Jennie’s character had a name like til the last episode lol. I know they said it before but it was so utterly unimportant the information wasn’t retained. She was just there to give a last second “see? Joselyn is in control!” It’s so dumb cause regardless of whether Joselyn wants to get beaten with a hairbrush and consented to it it doesn’t make it any less fucked up that she’s with someone who not only tortured other women and is traveling with a naked 17 year old but he is purposely dating her because he thinks he can exploit her mental health issues and then the shows magnificent way to “victimize” tedros is by saying “oh but he’s so afraid that she will leave him and fuck another dude that he won’t actually beat and torture her, I know he threatened to kill her but nope… she’s in control guys I promise.” Basically she was able to get him to drop his entire cult and give it to her just cause she slept with her ex…. Legitimately the show could not be more ridiculous.
@nitely2345 This entire show should've been a movie... then no one would've had to suffer thru it for 5hrs.
I don't know why I remembered that Jennie was called Dyanne (maybe because... fuck is this spelling), but truly, it was just another boring as shit "plot line", I use quotation marks because it's all so underwritten and uninteresting that it's insulting to refer to anything in this show seriously as plot.
Calling his little groupies has cult is also insulting, it implies he has the charisma of a cult leader, which lol. It's funny how the show seems purposely unwilling to fully commit to him being a dud when WHO would think this man has even a single brain cell to control anyone but a vulnerable teenage girl, let alone the charm to keep all those people plus a woman we should see as a force of nature (Jocelyn) under his control? LOL
Whatever we have to say about Euphoria, at least there's always shit happening, and there is some legit acting in it, writing aside. Like. They couldn't have found a guy like Jacob Elordi, who can smile pretty and keep up this facade of innocence to those unaware of Nate's true nature? Even the guy who played Nate's dad would make more sense as a cult leader.
Then again, they gave him a rat tail and kept commenting on it, but the self awareness still flew right over their heads so, what am I talking about lol
@@OffKiraDeux yeah I agree the weekend just does not portray the character believably at all. Honestly jacobs dad would have been pretty perfect but you know… they weren’t exactly thinking here lol all his shows are the “sounds good but the execution was terrible” and honestly I feel like he just writes a decent premise so he can get the show green lit then slowly turn it into his wet dream.
They don't pull it back together
What's more hillarious is, The Weeknd thinks he is a good actor and he will get Emmy this year but he's in fact has the worst acting ever even saying cringe lines. Apparently, he wants to retire as singer and even changed his name to his original name, Abel and he's even forgetting how to sing again. Come on, dude.
“Maybe somehow they pull it together at the end and it ends up being really amazing” Giirl this is the exact same way I felt when finishing the first season of euphoria, I just hoped hours I put into watching the show wouldn’t go to waste. But no, it’s just drama for the sake of drama. And nothing really interesting underneath. I will never watch this show and second season of euphoria. It’s just a waist of time.
Also about euphoria being about teenagers, that also makes me sad, why not at least make them college students. Why is that so hard?
many traumatized people are attracted to ugly cruel people, and many of them need pain because of their past problems and because they got used to it. The show is cringe, but it’s not far from reality. He exposes routine of traumatized people. The problem with his shows is that he glamorizes it instead of showing how destructive and dangerous it is and how to overcome it and get help.
Please explain why you think the weakend is a weirdo
This show is going to sweep the Razzies!
Please, comment on the entire show! It's such a disjointed mess and the final reveal is 1. illogical beyond words 2. toxic... But I'd really like to hear your take on it.
This show was just so so dark,like very very boring very very emotional,sad,bad.
I would like to point out that the bdsm was awful. It was a disgusting represantation
i'm surprised they didn't kill each other by accident
Right?! I was shocked that she didn't give consent not once on the show.
the rating is going down on imdb :D so that's good! I could've felt bad for Lily-Rose but she's literally just been living the best nepo life of anyone's dreams (anyone who's into fashion and parties, that is) until now, like she did absolutely have time to choose a better project. though, on the other hand, if she signed up for a totally different project and signed a contract for that and it changed when they fired the female director, that must've been rough. she seems pleased with the project though, but maybe she has to. edit: oops you talked about exactly that! I shouldn't comment until the video is done.
also! your nose is so perfect! I've never liked my nose very much because of my nostrils. by the end of this video I've fancasted you as Elisabeth in Pride & Prejudice 🥺
omgg thankyou this is too sweet, but I'm sure you're nose is gorgeous and unique too 💖💖
Love ur work and hells yeah plz watch the last ep id really like to see ur take and putting it all together see if any part of ur opinion changed gods no not on the fundamental points u made those i agree with. As 4 wether im watching it ive been reading all the reviews i just wanted to wait till it was all out there fuck yes ill be watching & not just cos lili rose wearing little more then her bday suit is 🤤🤤🤤🤤 damn sorry i always did lean more into my masculine aspects 🤷♂️🤷🏼♀️wot ima binary misfit… godsdamnit im watching it if i have to bloody hate watch it😝
I love your review and I don’t like this two shows at all seriously very very wrong and I just very very so very much like really hate.
I think this is the worst show in history am sorry it is oh and the fact that this show that focus on adults but sam still managed to sneak in a teenage character to sexualize wtf?
But yet it gained the most viewers and did even better than Euphoria lmao
There is nothing wrong with nudity and sex in shows, the problem is that the shows are often written either by misogynistic men, or women who have no idea what a healthy relationship looks like and they stick to gender roles (Fifty Shades).
Id kinda noticed that Jocelyn seems to be kinda conditioned to be so egocentric and so selfish especially when she’s doing a sexy photo shoot and she’s not being considerate with her no nudity contracts that she signed and was arguing with the intimacy coordinator about her boobs popping off too much and she’s say some things like “it’s my body I can do whatever I want with it its also my house as well”, plus while she and Tedros were shopping at a clothing store and she’s trying on some of the outfits and have her provoking Tedros by calling him “Gay” as if it’s something to be degrading and that triggers me as a Bisexual person which I get it she’s only saying it because he’s was being toxic and he’s has a fragile ego but I don’t like it that she’s trying to be toxic back at him thinking it’s funny and it’s not and I don’t know how people find this kind of humor amusing but I don’t because I don’t like people like her and I wouldn’t trust her to be around me or any of my gay besties but hey I’d guess that’s just me
The show is a complete dumpster fire (I haven't seen it lol) and it's for the very fact that it fails completely on a conceptual level. Much like how Euphoria fails to be a criticism of youth anguish when all it does it show it in its purest form and has nothing else to offer. You can't tell me that teenagers having sex and doing drugs is bad when that's all they do during the show.
I mean yeah, we all know Sam Levinson is a creep and a joke of a writer (pick a struggle lmao) but what really surprised me about all this is The Weeknd. I understand why people don't like his music, but he's actually my favorite artist and this has been a pretty sad turn of events for him I must say. See, the thing about The Weeknd is that I always operated under the assumption that his music was written with a character in mind. It does get very dangerous and manipulative, but I always interpreted it as a man who revels in his own self-destructive tendencies because he can't feel alive otherwise. The Weeknd (the character in the music) is a cautionary tale about a man who pushes all of his loved ones away because he's afraid of connection. He drowns himself in drugs and sex in order to feel alive, even knowing that his pleasures are only temporary he uses that as an excuse to keep doing it. I understand that the music comes off as very visceral and creepy, but I always felt like it was supposed to. And if you're willing to get past that, you'll find some of the most creative use of music as a medium within his songs about depression and loneliness.
So imagine my surprise when I heard that there's going to be a show where Abel plays a character that's basically the on-screen version of The Weeknd. I was somewhat interested, but once I saw that Sam Levinson was involved, I immediately wrote it off. And everyone on the internet has confirmed my suspicions. What upsets me about this is that it doesn't give me confidence that "The Weeknd" is much of a character anymore. In past interviews, he's pretty earnest and genuine. Now, he's talking about how Tedros is this "superego that all men need to stay away from" (paraphrasing) but that's like actually insane how hard he just told on himself for saying that lmao. Now it just feels like this is his self-insert character and, like you said, is an excuse to act out absolutely horrific fucked up sexual fantasies. Yes, his music was kinda like that too, but for one, the music was actually good (to me), and two, I always felt like I could separate The Weeknd from Abel based on interviews throughout the years, and now I don't think I can. So if anyone wants to come to me describing The Weeknd, as you say, "the ick in human form," I cannot refute that lol
Amazing observation! Thanks for sharing!
This show is basically “I can’t feel my face”: the series. The relationship in that song is basically tedros and joselyn.
spoiler alert but that "woman" jumping in the pool is actually 17 year old teenager... they consciously made decision to include that part in for no reason at all except highlight even further how young this character is supposed to be perceived as, why is this a real show???
When is the next crazy ex girlfriend video
I was just thinking about that omg, we’re in sync
I’m planning the next few videos about it, should be filming two vids this Thursday 😍
One of my friends is a diehard The Weeknd fan and is obsessed with any music he puts out, and has been obsessed with this show……I told her that she’s lowkey a psycho if she actually likes the show, and I 100% meant that to. Like in my personal opinion, only someone who’s that fucked up and crazy would have to truly like the show and not understand how creepy and problematic it truly is.
I don't think you're wrong about female sexualization, especially when it comes to teenager, but not only. I'm kinda sick of those type of series...I can't watch them. It makes me sick and I think they are extremely unnecessary. Tv series are too rough in our days, with a lot of s*x, r*pe, drugs, m*rder and so on. I kinda miss those series like Gilmore girls when there are episodes with no such situations and nothing happens, it's just a normal boring day:))) but in nowadays they tent to include 3 m*rders, 2 r*pes, smoking like crap and fights in one episode:)) its so annoying. Plus, lets be serious! Those are the most watched series... especially by teenagers.
They romanticize those fked up things and some teens are like "omg, how cool is that he beats her up but he still loves her and he's so romantic". Like wtf. Or how cool it is yo smoke shits all day and be a fked up teenage. Its wrong.
And again, there tv series are too rough, so violent. Those images will be in our mind maybe forever, they really had an impact and I wish they will stop making those craps.
And ofc, I'm tired of seeing females treated like shit and being abused. It's a bad message. They literally romanticize and normalize abuse, like it's cool to do such things to female 😑
The most basic BDSM rule is Safe, Sane, Consensual. Neither character meets those basic requirements. I hate this poor representation of bdsm/kink, it's worse than 50 shades
The idol is about Selena Gomez life
You could've worded this so much better, the bit about you not understanding the intricacies of male friendship is so dumb. You don't need to be a man to write a good male character.
I'm not saying that it's a good show because I don't think it has a consistent message and the symbolism doesn't make sense, it's just there to add to the visuals and it's not strong.
But if you're gonna criticize the writting, put a bit more effort into it and don't say sexist shit?
of course you don't need to be a man to write a good male character, I'm sorry if it sounded like I was saying it.. For me personally I feel more comfortable writing from the female perspective, and I don't have many guy friends. But in general, when writing about a different gender you need to be extra careful and conscious because there's all these intricacies at play... like gendered dynamics, how the patriarchal society affects everyone differently etc.
In Sam's case it felt like he was just winging it, and was so arrogant to assume that he understood Jocelyn's experience.. and he obviously didn't. But yep obviously I could have explained this in more detail in the video if it confused anyone, hopefully this clears it up
I personally did disagree here and there with Serena's verbiage, as I tend to whenever people basically say anything along the lines of "men trying to write women" (which falls in the same box of "white men trying to write about diversity" or "heterosexuals trying to write LGBTQ+"), but I wasn't bothered by it because with this particular show it sounds like her concerns were coming from a genuine place & didn't serve as a social justice PSA about what needs to happen on set/in the writer's room & who needs to be there. Her observations were correct in this case, judging by many other's experience with watching this show.
On top of that, not only was this show apparently executed by men in it's head divisions, but they pigeonholed themselves into having it be that & that way only. They initially had a female in creative control and she was taken off the project, leaving them with Sam (product of Euphoria..) & Weeknd (who has how much experience with creative control over over a show..?). And then we got what we got, and the message is clear as to why.
Have men failed to represent women accurately & respectively? Yes. Have many succeeded? Of course! The same can be said with the roles reversed in both scenarios, and I could even tell you that women have failed to represent their own kind accurately. However, the people who complain about the failures of being able to understand each other & our differences play the blame game even when there shouldn't be any fault. They blame men for being "misogynist" and women for being reductionist, when in reality that's not always the case and it could be anything, even a simple misfire.
But in the case of The Idol, we have enough information to pinpoint where the responsibility lies and I believe that's what Serena was getting at, so I wasn't phased by it.