It had so much potential to make a real point about Hollywood manipulation, but it fell at the finale hurdle.
I hate to admit it because apparently it’s painfully uncool, but if I were a teenager watchingI would’ve been hooked on it. Presumably that’s the intended audience given director Sam Levinson’s remarks that the show is set in the same universe as teen-smash Euphoria, it had all of the sex, style and sumptuous interiors that would’ve kept a 16-year-old me on tenterhooks.
The plot has the potential to make so many powerful points about the way women are manipulated, groomed, and exploited in Hollywood in order to make old and powerful people money. But alas, the gratuitous nudity and graphic sex scenes thatonly serve to prove the same point The Idol was apparently meant to expose.
Frankly, the ending felt rushed and inconsistent with the plot. Are we meant to believe that Jocelyn’s naïve best friend Leia was in on it all along? That Xander accepted literal torture from Tedros in order to maintain Jocelyn’s lie? It’s perhaps making the point that Jocelyn was the cult leader all along, and viewers have pointed out that the opening scene of the pilot when Jocelyn is feigning different emotions for a photoshoot points to her being the actual villain of the tale.
With that one decision – to take Tedros back – any emotion you attached to Jocelyn finally regaining her life back, not letting this vile man control her any longer and stealing his friends for herself, is lost. Even if we’re meant to believe she’s in control of Tedros, he’s not a worthy enough prize to make this feel like a power move, more a depressing return toward a man who emotionally and physically abuses her.
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