Starring a bizarrely blank Lily-Rose Depp, this big, dumb drama from the maker of Euphoria is desperate to be edgy – but ends up feeling boring and, well, unsexy
ittingly, for a show so concerned with its own ideas about artifice and superficiality, the first 20 minutes of The Idol give the impression of a drama that is much better, more robust and more interesting than it goes on to become.writes and directs this cartoonishly sleazy tale of a pop star’s gilded life and the guru who sweeps in to shake it and her up.
That’s one way of spinning the more negative reports that have emerged about the show’s production, but it also provides a heads-up that the programme is going to try hard to be shocking. For its more successful opening scenes, it does this with humour.
Initially, The Idol is chaotic and brash, an over-the-top satire of fame. Jocelyn’s team of managers, assistants, PRs and label executives quip away as they work out how to handle the scandal before she finds out about it. “What Britney and Jocelyn have been through is unique … but universal,” decides publicist Benjamin . Jocelyn has previously had a breakdown, so the Britney Spears parallel is obvious, but it is highlighted anyway, with a tribute in the choreography, too.
The opening also reveals The Idol’s deeply irritating tic of responding to imagined criticism and disguising this as dialogue. Label boss Nikki gloats that Jocelyn is “young, beautiful and damaged”, while creative director Xander worries that they are “romanticising mental illness”. She snaps back at “you college-educated internet people” who are ruining everyone’s fun. “Stop trying to cock-block America,” she says.
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