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The Idol
GenreDrama
Created by
Directed bySam Levinson
Starring
Music by
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes5
Production
Executive producers
  • Joe Epstein
  • Sam Levinson
  • Abel Tesfaye
  • Reza Fahim
  • Kevin Turen
  • Ashley Levinson
  • Sara E. White
  • Aaron Gilbert
ProducerHarrison Kreiss
Production locationsLos Angeles, California
Cinematography
  • Marcell Rév
  • Arseni Khachaturan
  • Drew Daniels
Editors
Running time45–65 minutes
Production companies
  • The Reasonable Bunch
  • Manic Phase
  • Tiny Goat
  • People Pleaser
  • Bron
  • A24
  • HBO Entertainment
Original release
NetworkHBO
ReleaseJune 4, 2023 (2023-06-04) –
present
Related
Euphoria

The Idol is an American drama television series created by Sam Levinson, Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye, and Reza Fahim. The series focuses on an aspiring pop idol (Lily-Rose Depp) and her complex relationship with Tedros (Tesfaye), a self-help guru and cult leader. Appearing in supporting roles are Suzanna Son, Troye Sivan, Moses Sumney, Jane Adams, Jennie Ruby Jane, Eli Roth, Rachel Sennott, Hari Nef, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Ramsey, and Hank Azaria.

History

Development on the series began in June 2021, when Tesfaye announced that he would be creating, executive producing and co-writing a drama series for HBO alongside Fahim and Levinson. Joseph Epstein and Amy Seimetz were attached to serve as writer-showrunner and director, respectively. Seimetz's initial approach on the project was that of a troubled starlet falling victim to a predatory industry figure and fighting to reclaim her own agency. Depp was cast to play the female lead opposite Tesfaye in September 2021, with the remaining cast announced between November 2021 and July 2022. Much of the series was already filmed when Levinson took over directing duties after Seimetz exited the project amid its production delay and creative overhaul in April 2022. Levinson scrapped Seimetz's work, and production resumed in May 2022 in a different direction. Principal photography occurred in Los Angeles and Bel Air.

The Idol premiered its first two episodes at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in May 2023, with the series later airing on HBO and Max starting June 4, 2023. It received negative reviews from critics for its script, direction, and sexual content,[1][2][3][4] though the cinematography, production design, and Depp's performance were generally praised.[5][6][7]

Synopsis

The Idol focuses on Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), an aspiring pop idol who, after having a nervous breakdown that causes her last tour to be canceled, resolves to reclaim her title as the sexiest pop star in America and begins a complex relationship with Tedros (Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye), a self-help guru and the head of a contemporary cult.

Cast and characters

Main

  • Lily-Rose Depp as Jocelyn, an up-and-coming young pop star reeling from the death of her mother
  • Abel Tesfaye as Tedros (born Mauricio Costello Jackson), a sinister nightclub owner and talent scout leading a cult-like group of aspiring musicians[8]
  • Suzanna Son as Chloe, a young aspiring musician loyal to Tedros
  • Troye Sivan as Xander, Jocelyn's creative director and childhood friend
  • Jane Adams as Nikki Katz, a cynical record label executive

Recurring

Guests

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
1"Pop Tarts & Rat Tales"Sam LevinsonTeleplay by : Sam Levinson
Story by : Abel Tesfaye & Reza Fahim & Sam Levinson		June 4, 2023 (2023-06-04)0.232[13]
After her last tour was canceled due to a nervous breakdown, pop music singer Jocelyn prepares for the release of her comeback single—shooting the cover art, practicing the choreography, and being profiled by Vanity Fair writer Talia. Unbeknownst to her, a lewd selfie of Jocelyn is leaked onto the Internet and her team—including managers Chaim and Destiny, record label executive Nikki, Live Nation representative Andrew, and publicist Benjamin—coordinates a response to maintain her reputation. Later, Jocelyn attends a nightclub with her best friend and assistant Leia, creative director Xander, and backup dancer Dyanne, where she meets the owner Tedros, with whom she instantly connects. To Leia's chagrin, Jocelyn invites Tedros to her house. Playing her new song "World Class Sinner", Jocelyn and Tedros question its authenticity, in which Tedros initiates BDSM foreplay.
2"Double Fantasy"Sam LevinsonTeleplay by : Sam Levinson
Story by : Abel Tesfaye & Sam Levinson		June 11, 2023 (2023-06-11)0.135[14]
After reworking the song with Tedros, Jocelyn plays a remixed version of "World Class Sinner" to her team, which receives mixed responses. Nikki adamantly opposes it and berates Jocelyn. At the music video shoot, Jocelyn overexerts herself to perfect the choreography, angering the director. Meanwhile, Leia builds a closer relationship with Izaak—a musician linked to Tedros—while Chaim and Destiny look into Tedros' past, and Nikki sees potential in Dyanne, who is revealed to be one of Tedros' followers. The video is scrapped after Jocelyn breaks down and calls out for her deceased mother. Later, Tedros is invited to Jocelyn's home, bringing with him Izaak and Chloe, a singer and a young pianist. Leia is wary of Jocelyn's relationship with Tedros.
3"Daybreak"Sam LevinsonTeleplay by : Sam Levinson
Story by : Abel Tesfaye & Sam Levinson		June 18, 2023 (2023-06-18)0.133[15]
Tedros begins asserting more control over Jocelyn's life, moving into her mansion alongside the rest of his entourage. His erratic, domineering behavior worries Leia. Jocelyn's managers are alarmed to learn she is scrapping her album and starting anew in a different creative direction, but Tedros allays their concerns when he announces that he has enlisted Mike Dean to produce Jocelyn's new music. Jocelyn grows closer to Tedros' group, which is increasingly shown to be a cult. At Tedros' urging, Jocelyn reveals to the group during dinner that her mother emotionally and physically abused her, with Xander, her childhood friend, doing little to intervene. Tedros encourages Jocelyn to channel her trauma into her art, and performs a bondage session on her using the same hairbrush with which her mother would beat her.
4"Stars Belong to the World"Sam LevinsonTeleplay by : Sam Levinson
Story by : Abel Tesfaye & Sam Levinson		June 25, 2023 (2023-06-25)0.133[16]
Destiny runs a background check on Tedros and learns that his real name is Mauricio Costello Jackson, and is trailing a string of domestic abuse charges. Concerned for Jocelyn's wellbeing, Destiny visits the house to learn more about Tedros' group and Chloe slips up revealing that she is possibly only 17; while she is put off by his dynamic with Jocelyn, she is eventually impressed by the results in her new music. Xander reveals to Tedros that Jocelyn's mother outed him as a teenager and made him sign a contract forbidding him from pursuing a music career. In response, Tedros tortures Xander with a shock collar in front of Jocelyn until Xander recants his accusations. Izaak later tends to Xander's injuries. Jocelyn learns Dyanne recruited her into Tedros' group and has since been offered a record deal with her label; to get back at Tedros, Jocelyn invites her ex-boyfriend Rob to the house and has sex with him within Tedros' earshot. Xander, now loyal to Tedros, tricks Rob into posing for suggestive photos with Sophie, one of Tedros' followers.
5"Jocelyn Forever"Sam LevinsonTeleplay by : Sam Levinson
Story by : Abel Tesfaye & Sam Levinson		July 2, 2023 (2023-07-02)N/A
Jocelyn accuses Tedros of being a con man and a fraud, claiming that he had been obsessed with her even before they met. Despite this, Tedros remains at Jocelyn's estate and accompanies her to a meeting with her record label. During the meeting, it is revealed that Rob has allegedly raped a woman. Frustrated with Tedros' behavior, Jocelyn convinces Chaim to remove him from their lives by offering him $500,000, which Tedros refuses. Chaim arranges for Talia to expose Tedros as a serial pimp, leading to his reputation being ruined and facing investigations by the IRS. However, Tedros attends Jocelyn's opening night of her tour, where she unexpectedly expresses her longing for him and confesses that fame and success mean less without him. Backstage, Tedros notices a new hairbrush despite Jocelyn previously telling him about her late mother's abusive actions. Jocelyn then brings Tedros on stage during her concert, declaring him the love of her life and they share a kiss.

Production

Development

On June 29, 2021, Tesfaye announced that he would be creating, executive producing and co-writing a drama series for HBO alongside Reza Fahim and Sam Levinson.[17] On the same day, Ashley Levinson and Joseph Epstein were announced as executive producers for the series, with Epstein also serving as a writer and the series' showrunner. Mary Laws was also announced as a writer and a co-executive producer, alongside Tesfaye's co-manager Wassim Slaiby and his creative director La Mar Taylor.[18] Amy Seimetz was signed on as the director and as an executive producer.[19]

On November 22, 2021, HBO gave the production a series order for a first season consisting of six episodes.[20] Following the creative overhaul, the season was later condensed to five episodes.[21] On January 14, 2022, Deadline Hollywood reported that Nick Hall had joined the production as an executive producer, following his move to A24 to oversee creative for the company's television slate.[22]

Casting

In the initial announcement, Tesfaye revealed that he would be starring in the series.[23] On September 29, 2021, it was reported that Lily-Rose Depp had signed on to play the female lead opposite Tesfaye.[24][25] On November 22, Suzanna Son, Steve Zissis, and Troye Sivan joined the main cast, while Melanie Liburd, Tunde Adebimpe, Elizabeth Berkley, Nico Hiraga and Anne Heche were announced as recurring characters.[26] On December 2, Juliebeth Gonzalez joined the cast as a series regular, while Maya Eshet, Tyson Ritter, Kate Lyn Sheil, Liz Caribel Sierra and Finley Rose Slater were cast in recurring roles.[27]

On April 25, 2022, Variety reported that the show was set to undergo a major overhaul, with "drastic" changes in the cast and creative directions. On April 27, Deadline Hollywood reported that Son, Zissis and Gonzalez were not expected to return.[28] In July, actors Rachel Sennott and Hari Nef, along with Jennie Ruby Jane joined the cast;[29][30][31] Moses Sumney, Jane Adams, Dan Levy, Eli Roth, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Mike Dean, Ramsey, and Hank Azaria were confirmed as cast members on August 21 in the second teaser trailer. On March 1, 2023, Rolling Stone reported that Son and Sivan remained in the cast despite the overhaul.[32] It was later announced that Heche (in what would've been her final television role) and Berkley were no longer in the cast as HBO took the series in "a new creative direction".[33]

Filming

Principal photography began in November 2021 in and around Los Angeles, California.[34] Production was temporarily paused in April 2022 due to Tesfaye co-headlining the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with Swedish House Mafia on short notice.[35] On April 25, Variety reported that Seimetz had left the project amid its creative overhaul, with roughly 80% of the series already filmed.[32][36] HBO released a statement following Seimetz's exit, saying: "The Idol's creative team continues to build, refine, and evolve their vision for the show and they have aligned on a new creative direction. The production will be adjusting its cast and crew accordingly to best serve this new approach to the series."[37]

Levinson reportedly took over Seimetz's directing duties sometime in April 2022.[32] According to IndieWire and other sources, Tesfaye wanted to tone down the "cult" aspect of the story,[32][38] and felt concerned that Seimetz's initial work on the show "lean[ed] too much into a female perspective."[39] Reporting by Rolling Stone noted the marked differences between Seimetz's initial work and Levinson's reshooting and rewriting of the series, which scrapped Seimetz's initial approach—a troubled starlet falling victim to a predatory industry figure and fighting to reclaim her own agency.[32] Crew members described the Levinson rework's focus on a "degrading" love story, with a heavier emphasis on sexual content and nudity, as amounting to "sexual torture porn" and "like [a] rape fantasy".[32]

Production resumed in late May 2022 and was paused again in early July, just as Tesfaye began embarking on his After Hours til Dawn Tour.[40] Scenes from The Idol were filmed in September at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, during Tesfaye's tour. Audience members were notified of the filming before the concert commenced.[41][42]

The series was shot using two to three cameras, with the cast improvising, leaving the editors with long first cuts.[43] The series used Tesfaye's Bel Air mansion as Jocelyn's home.[44]

Music

Main article: Music from The Idol

The series' soundtrack, The Idol, Vol. 1, was originally set to be released on June 30. The soundtrack was set to include songs created by the Weeknd himself and supporting cast member Mike Dean, among others. "Double Fantasy" (featuring Future) was released as the lead single from the soundtrack on April 21, 2023.[45] "Popular", a collaboration with Playboi Carti and Madonna, was released as the second single from the soundtrack on June 2, 2023. On June 8, 2023, it was announced that new music was set to be released following or preceding the premiere of each episode in an EP format, abandoning the soundtrack format all together.

Release

The Idol premiered out-of-competition at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2023, where the series received a five-minute standing ovation following the screening of its first two episodes.[46] This is also where Sam Levinson announced that the show was taking place in the same universe as his other HBO series, Euphoria.[47][48][49][50] It marks the fifth television series to be screened at the festival after Carlos, Too Old to Die Young, Twin Peaks, and Irma Vep.[51] The series began airing on HBO and Max on June 4, 2023.[52]

Reception

Critical response

The Idol received negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds a rating of 20% based on 92 critic reviews, with an average rating of 4.45/10. The site's consensus reads: "Every bit as florid and sleazy as the industry it seeks to satirize, The Idol places itself on a pedestal with unbridled style but wilts under the spotlight."[53] On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average, the series holds a score of 27 out of 100, based on 23 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[54]

In his review for Vanity Fair, following its premiere of the first two episodes at Cannes, Richard Lawson described The Idol as "a tawdry tale of sex gone scary, dressed up in the visual vernacular of TV's wunderkind du jour".[55] Lawson admired the performances of Depp and the supporting cast, and ultimately concluded: "The Idol offers up enough regular old entertainment to balance out his aggressive flourish and the bluster of [Levinson's] thematic ambitions. Just don't approach the first two episodes with any notion that you are about to see something startling and transgressive. Maybe that stuff is coming in later episodes, but thus far, The Idol is way too Top 40 to rattle the squares".[56]

Remarking that "in trying so hard to be transgressive, the show ultimately becomes regressive", Lovia Gyarke of The Hollywood Reporter observed: "The Idol shows glimmers of potential when it stops trying so hard to be shocking. There's a strenuousness to the sex scenes between Depp and Tesfaye that kills any sense of eroticism. It's a relief when the show moves away from them and focuses on Joceyln's struggle to stage a comeback […] When we see the young star trying to recommit to music — through conversation with Tedros or physically taxing music video rehearsals — the show feels like it's working toward a more interesting thesis instead of just being one long advertisement for a cursed experience".[57]

A particularly unfavorable review for Rolling Stone described the first two episodes as "nasty, brutish, much longer than it is, and way, way worse than you'd have anticipated", lamenting that the show "has mistaken misery for profundity, stock perversity for envelope-pushing, crude caricatures for sharp satire, toxicity for complexity, nipple shots for screen presence".[58]

Writing for Vogue, Douglas Greenwood called the series a "a gorgeous-looking horror show", commending the visual style and cast performances, and concluded: "Whether The Idol will go down in history as a misfire of high-budget misogyny or a telling depiction of the terrifying trappings of fame will likely depend on who you talk to. The same audiences that fell hard for Euphoria […] will likely do the same for this one. It is buzzy, brazen television that will do exactly what it set out to do: get people talking".[59] A review from Alex Barasch in the New Yorker reiterated similar sentiments, describing the show's content as "wince-inducing, but hardly scandalizing in the way that the show intends [it] to be".[60]

In a review upon the broadcast of the second episode of the series, Variety's William Earl recalled Tesfaye's reported on-set complaint that the series was focusing on the "female perspective". Earl added, "It's entirely believable that [Tesfaye] got his way on set, even if it was a choice that cost the show critical acclaim."[61] Levinson's screenwriting was further criticized by The Daily Beast as "cliché."[62]

Tesfaye's performance particularly attracted criticism; Jason Gorber of RogerEbert.com panned Tesfaye's acting as "turgid," "terrible," "flat," and "aimless," and Stephen Rodrick of Variety considered him lacking in the charisma described by the series's publicity materials, "trying to play louche but just [coming] off, as one character describes him, 'rapey.'"[63][64][65] Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times criticized his "painful line readings and his laughable facial expressions."[66][67] The New York Times's James Poniewozik expressed confusion over Tesfaye's performance, describing it as "flat, except when he overcorrects into outbursts." He described Depp as "a watchable screen presence," but criticized her singing ability.[68]

Ratings

Viewership and ratings per episode of The Idol
No. Title Air date Rating
(18–49)		 Viewers
(millions)
1 "Pop Tarts & Rat Tales" June 4, 2023 0.05 0.232[13]
2 "Double Fantasy" June 11, 2023 0.02 0.135[14]
3 "Daybreak" June 18, 2023 0.03 0.133[15]
4 "Stars Belong to the World" June 25, 2023 0.03 0.133[16]

Accolades

Award / Film Festival Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref(s)
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards March 5, 2023 Best Music Supervision in a Trailer – Series Scenery Sumandra, Gregory Sweeney – Official Teaser #3 Nominated [69]
Cannes Film Festival May 27, 2023 Queer Palm Sam Levinson Nominated [70]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c 4K, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos are only available through Max and some international partner services. The originating HBO TV channel does not have a 4K feed and is limited to 1080p HDTV and Dolby Digital 5.1.

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