Few series have aroused more hatred than the one that was destined to turn Lily Rose Depp and The Weeknd into superstars. Theoretically both were already very popular, but the failure of The Idolhaving impacted them in such a brutal way indicates that maybe they were not so, Ahemidols. She carried the best possible genes in the show business (daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis); He was one of the most successful musicians in the world. The Idol It was the perfect vehicle for both to reach a zenith from which they would never descend: total stars. Spoiler: dirty evil.
Presented in style at the Cannes Film Festival, The Idol generated animosity from the first moment. The first reviews of him highlighted the charisma of Lily Rose Depp, but they also inaugurated the line of thought and commentary that would ultimately sink the series: Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd) was not only the worst actor ever seenbut His very clear interference in the development of the series had mortally wounded her.. It was clear that his control over the production had turned a series that could have shined into a grotesque grotesque. The suspicions were thus confirmed: the departure of Amy Seimetz (The Girlfriend Experience) of the project for wanting to give it An eminently feminine perspective revealed Tesfaye as a self-conscious and envious artist.eerily similar to the character he plays in the series, that Tedros Tedros about which so many jokes were made at the time. It was never clear what position Sam Levinson occupied in this whole soap opera. The creator of the extraordinary Euphoria it is also The Idolso it will have some responsibility for its collapse.
The worst of The Idol It’s not that it’s so bad, but that You get a glimpse on several occasions of how great it could have been.. Its first episodes start with bursts of energy and personality… only to collapse minutes later. And Lily Rose Depp, whose aura of superstardom is so supernatural that it would be impossible for the camera not to capture it, gives herself completely to the series. A series that also talks about that: of surrender, of the abyss, of the inability to fully describe (and therefore, to create from scratch) the magic of mass entertainment. Of The Idol we save her, Hank Azaria and Jane Adams (in characters that clearly belong in another, better series), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (potential Oscar winner in 2024 for Those who stay) and to that indescribable and magnetic presence that is Moses Sumney. Almost everything else is better forgotten. When the barrage of negative reviews was already uncontrollable, HBO began to pretend that The Idol did not exist. Lily Rose Depp, a very fair candidate for the Emmy and the Golden Globe, has not even been considered for any of those awards. That’s the level of disgust we got from his series. She, who doesn’t know what it’s like to fail in life (she was born successful), surely doesn’t care that much. But to The Weeknd the shipwreck of The Idol it fucks him up. And you can see it. And I get happy.