RIP Angus Cloud :(
Euphoria S02E01 ‘Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door’
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The Idol premieres tonight and I’m going to encourage everyone to avoid at all costs. Don’t hate watch it. Don’t watch it to make fun of it. Don’t watch it to see just how horrible it is. Viewership totals don’t subtract those views and it will help it succeed.
Read the twitter reactions, the reviews, etc. but for the love of feminism and human decency, do not watch it.
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Ok, so, I watched the pilot for The Idol against my better judgment after reading the Rolling Stone article about it and reading the poor critic reviews.
It's just as gross and exploitative as people say. I felt physically grossed out by the leering, objectifying gaze of the camera. The Weeknd's alleged behind-the-scenes contributions to the "male perspective" of the show make the scenes between him and Lily Rose-Depp that much more nauseating.
The dialogue between Jocelyn's team the whole first thirty minutes felt like the thinly veiled airing out of Sam Levinson's grievances we got in Malcolm and Marie but put through a "cancel culture/anti-woke" meat grinder. "Mental illness is sexy" and locking an intimacy coordinator in a bathroom came off like Euphoria meta-commentary from Levinson.
I don’t care about nudity in movies/TV if it's done in a way that feels respectful of the actors. But the descriptions of the nudity in this show as "fetishistic" are spot-on. The sex scene at the end of the episode where Jocelyn is being suffocated and he sticks a knife through the silk made me feel weird and uncomfortable. The constant shots up Lily's skirt and in increasingly skimpy outfits for no reason in random scenes felt so on-the-nose for the reaction they're trying to get.
It's not revelatory or exciting. It's just repulsive and relying on shock and outrage for clicks.
Don't waste your time. Don't hate watch. I'm not interested in encouraging a deluded edgelord on a power trip with HBO dollars behind him.
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We're really arguing about the morality of made-up erotic stories that girls write for each other for fun while men like the Weeknd and Sam Levinson who have actual power over people in their respective industries get to create a whole TV show about how cool and edgy it is to shit on women's humanity and agency and how naked underage girls are actually always desperately attracted to their ridiculous midget asses and also intimacy coordinators are lame and actresses hate them oh and the bodies of children who were abused by Weinstein are legitimate joke fodder
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The Idol (2023)
"Pop Tarts & Rat Tales"
Sam Levinson
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