On television, as well as in the kitchen, it is known that not all donuts come out with a hole, and even then Idol, one of the most hyped series of recent years, backed by a multi-million dollar budget and two well-known names as main characters, is no exception. Despite the HBO brand, which many consider synonymous with quality regardless of content, and despite Sam Levinson’s directing and writing, it’s saying something. Euphoria? – the series, broadcast in Italy on the Sky channel, practically did not convince anyone. Not fans of Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd, not journalists who turned their noses up at the screening of the first two episodes at Cannes so much that they booked comments and reviews up to the date of the series’ airing. However, all the premises were in place, given that Idol this made it possible to spy on the world of the star system from the inside, revealing the weaknesses of a very young pop star who is a bit of Britney Spears and a bit of Miley Cyrus, and her influence from the environment and all those who followed her. Jocelyn from Lily Rose Depp she had all the cards to be attractive: young, beautiful, very thin, like all the main characters of Levinson – so much so that someone talks about her fetish for sunken stomachs – and with such painful trauma as the death of her mother manager. deal with.
IdolHowever, she comes to life when Jocelyn’s turbulent life enters Tedros, a kind of holy man played by Weekend, in his acting debut – and it shows – who we all thought was an alternate version of Charles Manson. The comparison made here is not accidental, since we were really convinced that Levinson wanted reenact the drama of the Charles Manson cult todaycomplete with a victim in the style of Sharon Tate, an actress linked to Polanski who was murdered by an assassin and his gang when she was eight months pregnant – it was 1969 and we would have to wait fifty years before Quentin Tarantino laughed at justice during that massacre in Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood -. However, the Manson road was immediately diverted to make room for history deliberately exaggeratedwhere the most lustful and cruel sex is demonstrated with a certain satisfaction and where the mechanisms psychological manipulation they are developed to such an extent that they stifle the story, preventing it from using the few interesting points that it could develop.
The result is a highly ambitious series. which, however, interrupts any starting point and shimmers, crushed by a structure that seems to prioritize aesthetics over plot. Saves, of course, a wonderful soundtrack. the only noteworthy score in the series in which too much iron was set on fire, and which, by abandoning too many quirks, could have produced something interesting. Instead, nada, kaput: Idol canceled by HBO after one season noted, among other things, by the elimination of the episode in relation to previously ordered ones. Not if we miss it too much, even if we’d like to pet Lily-Rose Depp who really gave her everything, and The Weeknd, who for his Tedros agreed to show off a shaggy pigtail similar to Panthegan’s hair is credible as a viscidon .