“It’s Lily Rose-Depp’s steely commitment that makes the unwatchable scenes in TheIdol even remotely watchable, and I think she deserves acclaim for that,” says Vogue writer Emma Specter on the divisive show.
-loving, bad-TV-obsessed peer group who managed to get past the first episode ofthat I don’t detest, though, and that’s the performance Lily-Rose Depp gives as the pop star Jocelyn , an outwardly perfect yet emotionally devastated young woman doing her best to revive her career after a public breakdown.
Do I love the trauma-porn-y presentation of Jocelyn’s abuse at the hands of her recently dead mother or the equally disturbing sex scenes between Jocelyn and her controlling new flame, Tedros ? Nope. But it’s Depp’s steely commitment that makes those scenes even remotely watchable, and I think she deserves acclaim for that.
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