Critics deliver their verdicts on the hyped show, which one calls 'a potential turkey for the ages'.
It was "a painfully tedious TV non-event" that had "the dampest squib of a finale", the Guardian's Leila Latif wrote.Sam Levinson launched the show with Depp and Tesfaye at the Cannes film festival in May
Latif was even more scathing about Depp's co-star, stating that "a performance from Abel 'The Weeknd' Tesfaye should be tried at The Hague", referring to the Dutch location of the International Criminal Court. As well as being boring, The Idol "feels the need to make the occasional point about how feminism and #MeToo get in the way of a good time", Latif continued.
The Telegraph's Ed Power agreed the series was "toe-curlingly naff and sexist", and "maintained a consistent awfulness throughout".
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