The Weeknd Made a TV Show. It's a Complete Disaster.
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The Idol directed by Euphoria's Sam Levinson starring pop phenom Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye and Lily-Rose Depp is now available on HBO and Max. I kind of wish it wasn't!
0:00 - intro
3:07 - over before it started
8:36 - the idle
32:17 - ♫ reviews are bleak, yeah ♫
35:22 - conclusion - Komedie
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Hell yes, king 😊
I miss D’Angelo 😢
Love you D'angelo! I hope you're break has you feeling better ❤
Please do a video on The Adam McIntyre Drama!!! 👍
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“Too much of a female perspective” only to write a female character and have the audacity to say she likes “rapey men”. absolutely insane
Yes girl, it's digusting. That being the reason why you replayce your female director with a male one is super stupid. Also the Rolling Stones shaming is just... omg, so bad.
Sadly that's usually what happens when you have a female character written by a male.
this is a movie about toxic people from show business, what did you expect fairy tales for children?
@@Asmax120 no but the fact that they had a woman say she likes rapey men after the producers said there was too much of a female perspective in the show is disgusting. Portraying toxic show businesses doesn’t mean u need to write a female character like this. Did u even watch the video?
@@Asmax120Bro, it wasn't supposed to be a fairy tale, it's 18+ and not for children for sure, it was supposed to portray the toxic side of music industry.
You on drugs l0ser?
No woman in earth likes rapey men. Doesn't matter how lame that woman is.
That fact that there was a woman director originally and she was “let go” for fucking SAM LEVINSON tells me everything I need to know about this show
Oh noo, that's a massive red flag
Hmmmm did know that
fr
i would remove the "fucking" because it makes it seem like the women director had sex with sam levinson
That was proven to be a lie.... stop regurgitating false truths
I can’t get past the fact that Sam, who literally got grilled because of all the nudity in euphoria, thought it would be OK to have a whole scene and narrative in the show about how intimacy coordinators are bad or negative. Especially when Sydney Sweeney literally praised her intimacy coordinator in order defend Sam. He is showing us exactly who he is. Let’s believe him please. All of us.
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THIS
Seriously. It's possibly the loudest red flag EVER to be against something that aims to prevent sexual exploitation.
i wish i could like this twice
Sydney is the type who wants to keep her job, lol. Of course she won’t talk publicly about Sam being a little weirdo, she wants to keep her job
Hot take: Euphoria was never good. It was just so salacious and scandalous that nobody could stop watching.
I think Rue’s addiction is pretty good especially episode 5 of s2 probably because SL is drawing from his own experience but pretty much everything else is exploitive and bs
Facts, the only episode I liked was when Zendaya was running through the streets trying to get the money to pay back that drug dealer.
@@kakacoco5 it was so iconic 💀🤭
Ngl, I thought season 1 was so damn promising. Then season 2 just threw everything away but Rue😑
I liked the characters actually. If it was about college kids of high graduates I would maybe be more into it but still alot better than this since Cassie had her clothes on more in season 2
For me, the fact that Sam, who is a man, thought he was better suited for telling a woman’s story about rape culture, than a woman, tells me everything I need to know about him as a person.
With all due respect, can you define what a woman is?
@@liampatrick3110 oh brother, this guy STINKS
@@liampatrick3110 🍅🍅🍅
@@eg4374 😭💀
@@liampatrick3110 a human adult female
The fact that they were worried about there being “too much of a female perspective” when the main character is a woman is rather concerning
I watched the second episode and when the sex scene came in, all I could think about is "too much of a female perspective" while the weeknd was grabbing tits.
I feel like if they wanted this show to work, they needed to get more of a female perspective.
@@crystalnova4897 i'm just laughing at ppl who are acting shooketh that the weeknd is a creepy misogynist. like have yall listened to his ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY ?? XD
Fr. Not to mention his fetishization of wlw relationships
@@juliahock5549 whose?
The intimacy coordinator isn't just there for the model/actor/person being intimate, they're also there for EVERYONE ELSE who did not necessarily consent to seeing a woman fully nude at the shoot. It's not all about her!!
Intimacy coordinator trying to their job to make sure everyone is comfortable while doing their job.
The show: how dare you control how women should show their body
Oh my, god people like you are everything that is wrong about culture. How is it possible that leftists have become more prudish than conservatives?
“Now, Sam; is the intimacy co-ordination in the room with us now?”
literally!! when she was like “so i’m NOT allowed to show my body” it was like… no? not until everyone involved consents to it??
That child actress story line for Jocelyn is 100% based on Jennette McCurdy’s memoir. It’s honestly so disgusting that they gave Jocelyn if not based a lot of her background on Jennette’s actual growing up (having an incredibly troubled co-dependent relationship with her mom, her mom essentially giving her an eating disorder, losing her mom to cancer) I MEAN WHAT THE HELL SAM LEVINSON
While it's incredibly similar, I wouldn't say it's entirely based upon it, because, sadly.
It's more common than you'd think, just
she's one of the few to come out about it/the biggest case (Though, I'm not much of a social media person, so there could be bigger ones, correct me if I'm wrong.)
cringe tf idiotic -_-
Completely agree, learning more and more about the storyline, it's honestly disgusting how they're romanticizing and glorifying what Jenette's been through - glad this flopped and people still have some sort of moral compass
What was it that happened?
Jennette needs to sue ASAP
the fact that, by the second episode, we've seen nearly every part of Lily Rose Depp's body, but have barely seen a chest hair from the weeknd, or any other man says everything you need to know about the show.
Exactly! I noticed that on episode 2! It almost as if Abel has some sort of body insecurity. Like how do you have sex scenes where you are have a full blown outfit on, where everyone else has boobs out…
i always got the vibe that Abel is insecure about his body, he wears coats and long sleeves even in summer. That wouldn't been a problem if Lily wasn't wearing skimpy outfits all the time in the show, even at leisure!! so unrealistic.
Thanks for pointing that out. I cut out of Game of Thrones earlier than most because I got so sick of full nudity for female actors while their characters were having sex with male characters who somehow had sex through their pants. The double standard was extreme and you could just imagine how those casting sessions exploited the women.
Don't read my name!!
@@Cat_Woods I was thinking the same. I think this is something happening throughout almost all HBO showsin general. Even shows I adore like Big little lies had so much female nudity in it and almost nothing from the men
'He's so rapey'
'Yeah, I kinda like that about him'
Absolutely insane, I actually felt physically ill when you played that clip.
so then why was Euphoria so popular? Literally has the same lines and dialogue
@@engeltjie_engelbrecht Most the same people who dislike this show didn't like what sam levinson was doing over there either fyi
the comment section here is a very different audience from his usual supporters, but even then it seems like the general tone around the idol is it's far more blatantly misogynistic with less excuses for why and less quality to make up for it
@@engeltjie_engelbrecht because zendaya and cinematography. Everyone agreed the weird scenes like the intro, the carousel scene and the Maddy beach scene were unnecessary
@@KrissyBlues Euphoria depicted teenagers and minors getting sa'd
@@engeltjie_engelbrecht well fuck euphoria too,it has more substance(not enough,specially not in s2)than this shit but honestly I hope another season of it doesn't happen,its boring and stupid
SHOCKING: Guy who thinks he can write Perfect Blue cannot, in fact, write Perfect Blue
omg it's literally dollar store Perfect Blue you're so right
@@thechumbucket8986 nawwww it doesn't even deserve to be called "dollar store perfect blue"... it's just straight up garbage.
omg did he say that
👏 👏 👏
i mean it doesn’t really touch on the same themes as perfect blue at all… but i get what you’re saying lol
Sam Levinson is a creepy weirdo and I'm glad more people are realizing this. And the Weeknd seems to not be as much of a facade as its just who Abel is. Also, the two main actors being the most vocal about how great Sam is to work with gives me the same vibes of celebrities defending Ellen. Like of course it was nice for YOU.
Are there celebrities whose private selves are completely different than their public personas?
The Rammstein scandal has kind of taught me a lesson ...
Except Ellen has never gotten the chance to defend herself. You've all just judged her as guilty by default and she hasn't gotten the ball yet. You can't prove she knew about or openly participated in the workplace problems, rather than someone pretending to act on her behalf, like in the MLP episode about Countess Coloratura. Furthermore, Telepictures is an aol boys' network with a history of making workplaces like this: they did so with Rosie O'Donnell's show. The problem lies with executives there, not Ellen herself.
@@luv4hutch Ellen literally defended herself on her own show, calm down.
@@FortuitousOwl She didn't get that. She didn't have a forum to express everything point by point, and make things clear, like, say, an interview, either in print or on broadcast media. No one ever bothered to do so, and the clickbait-hungry corporate media and short-attention-span Internet public have judged her guilty. It's as simple as that.
You all use the the Maya Angelou quote, "When someone shows you who they are the first time, believe them." Well, Ellen has shown us who she is since she came out in 1997, since she spoke so movingly at the vigil for Matthew Shepard in 1998. I believe her. But you don't apply that saying to Ellen. It's exactly like how Martha Stewart was convicted in that sham trial in a kangaroo court, chosen to be the first scalp for the government over Wall Street's sins, instead of more deserving targets like Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling and Bernie Ebbers.
You want to find a fraud and a hypocrite in talk show circles? Go look at Oprah. You wanna find someone who is emblematic of toxicity. Go look at Tyra Banks. Ellen is nothing like them.
@@luv4hutch she defended herself on her show. She didn’t go point by point because she chose not to. ITS HER SHOW. She has put out multiple statements, if she hasn’t gone point by point enough for you, it’s because SHE CHOSE NOT TO. Probably because it would make her look bad to do so. Jesus you’re stupid. Ellen had every opportunity to defend herself on her own talk show she hosts and has control over. She has done dozens of interviews where SHE CHOSE not to go point by point. I don’t know what would satisfy you honestly. “She didn’t have a forum” SHE HAD HER OWN SHOW. FOR TWO YEARS AFTER THE ALLEGATIONS CAME OUT.
so far i think the idol is one of the best examples of how the male gaze is not only culturally damaging but can also actually ruin art. there was an interesting concept and story here, but it was ruined by the men who can’t seem to see women and our pain as anything other than sexual objects. i’d kill to see the original idea with amy directing.
Definitely. Especially with Sam Levinson’s track record of constantly belittling and sexualising the female stars in his shows. That, and The Weeknd’s blatant use of misogynistic language in his lyrics. What a concoction of absolute BS.
It’s just disgusting that they could even green light this disaster💀
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well said.
Don't read my name!!
and maybe could be interesting to watch a narrative that depicts a woman discovering consent-non-consent kinks, but it's a complex question very much within women's experience. not having a woman guiding the script is not only wrong, but also just makes it extremely superficial and objectively bad (as we can see in this series lol)
I knew it was bad when I learnt that Sam Levinson and the weeknd fired the female director because the original script focused ‘too much’ on the female perspective…
to be fair i dont think they personally fired her, but same vibe seeing she left
@@sora1498 naw they fired her
@@sora1498 they quite literally did fire her
@@BlasianLynn As a white woman, it weirds me out too. BW deserve SO MUCH better.
We don’t know if that’s actually true though.
the minute they decided to villainize the intimacy coordinator I knew this show was a red flag. Something about sam Levinson villinaizing an intimacy coordinator after euphoria raises several questions
The worst part is the ending where she accepts being strangled and lets him do whatever to her. This is clearly the rapey fantasy that men have and instead of showing how wrong it is they just make it seem acceptable by her not fighting back. It's quite sick how some men will see this and think it's okay
cringe tf idiotic -_-
Im scrolling through comments while watching the video and I’m so glad I saw this because I can brace myself for that discussion when it comes, as it’s a very uncomfortable topic for me. So thank you.
I also appreciate this perspective entirely and agree.
Don't worry. Those of us with any sense see this for how repulsive, unacceptable, and vile it truly is.
You would be surprised how many girls like that, they like choking, they like that spectrum of sexual activity... Of course actual rape is something absolutely different especially around CONSENT but yah. That be rough with me, take advantage of me (again with consent) is a major turn on for girls.... Ask any single man having random sex lol
That said. It's possible those girls have had a rough past... But in the end. It's simply exciting... It's like why some like having sex in public or in places they could be caught
I said it once and I’ll say it again - this show feels like a sad excuse to see Lily Rose Depp as naked as possible for as long as possible
Agreed, it made me so uncomfortable. the fantasies of the men in control of the script & direction was so transparent and honestly quite sad. It’s unfortunate that Sam Levinson got so much attention out of Euphoria; I hope he sees all of this backlash and really looks inward because watching it is uncomfortable enough - thinking of these scenes, writing them, and bringing them life is twisted
Literally 🤦♀️
Naked and masturbating. Naked and being used for someone else’s gratification.
Its p0rn with a $70million budget
@@nkc410I totally agree in fact I hope this show tanks so bad that it costs Sam his position at hbo... he's getting too bold & how the characters seem just designed to fulfill is unconscious desires is so gross & abusive as well as makes a mockery of potentially good actors & what they're actually capable of
@@nkc410 spoiler: he won't.
hearing “rape-y” and “I like that” in the same two sentences made my fucking jaw drop
like what was he thinking?! that is such a harmful thing to say! it makes it seem like rape can be enjoyable??????
These type of shows LOVEE romanticizing toxic and creepy behaviors 😍
This was intentional… it’s about girls being brainwashed by the patriarchy into thinking they like this sort of behavious. Everything is intentional here people
honestly i wouldn't have put it past him after hearing his lyrics about queer women.
@@ana7icia It could be, but I think in this case it’s too in ur face and disturbing to not be intentional in order to portray how fucked up the society is. In my opinion at least
Honestly it just seems like a series of a weeknd video.
The bdsm, the sex addiction, the cult like feel. All I’ve gotten from Jocelyn is that she’s broken, she’s getting persuaded into a cult and she’s constantly having sex with dude.
Right??? I told my partner this show felt like a huge promo for The Weeknd. Instead of putting out music videos, dude put out a whole ass show 😂
Funny you say this, because when I watched episode 1 I literally said out loud, “ This just seems like a really long music video for The Weeknd” 😂 I kept watching waiting for it to get good and it never did.
the show literally has his music too im pretty sure
true. this makes his statement that he played completely against character all the more laughable. he's always presented himself in this DArK tWisTEd way
"bdsm"
The normalization of sexualization & objectification of women in shows (media in general) is honestly so distasteful and damaging
Literally
the weeknd’s acting is basically just him trying to sound and look “hot and mysterious” but all it does is just make him look silly and cringey as fuck 😭😭😭 the forced deep voice has me dying in laughter like 💀💀💀
He definitely over estimated his acting skills 😬 ...the critics so far are spot on
fr he acts like he’s waiting for someone on tiktok to make a thirst edit of him and honestly it’s excruciating
@@allief3110 LITERALLY 😭😭😭 have u seen the videos of him at the cannes festival 💀💀 he was so obviously trying soooo hard to look hot for the cameras to go viral on tiktok it’s soo funny 😭😭😭😭
@@allief3110lmaoooo bruh this comment is sending me, it’s so accurate 💀
The Weeknd kinda misunderstood what made him attractive to start with. It could be just me but he was never the hot and mysterious type
As a crew member who's worked on The Idol I am SO happy this show is getting the back lash it deserves. Not only was it 17+ hour days, no lunch, toxic producers, director, talent, etc. It's just a BAD gig to work on. We wasted soooo much fucking time waiting on talent, no finish script a lot of the time, so we are just fucking shooting nonsense. Levinson has NOOOO fucking idea how to shoot on film, we rolled out constantly because he never called cut sooo fucking stupid. The AD would almost ALWAYS have to baby Levinson because he's an idiot who honestly just leans on sex to tell a story. I'm not a director but I've been lucky to work with AMAZING director and he does not give his talent the direction they NEED in order to become a character. Ugh. I hope this show gives him less opportunities to make shows/movies because he TRULY makes a toxic environment on set.
Oh wow, thank you for sharing your perspective. I'm glad you are no longer in that space anymore, sounds so terribly abusive.
Interesting
@@SleepingDreamer16 Working toxic gigs is nothing new in film. HBO is kinda known to have productions that are peels. I'm happy too, that show was not fun to work on similar to West World, Also a terrible show to work on, I just hope people just stop giving support or attention to these productions because the more talk the more likely they are to still do work if no one puts them in check.
@@SSM654 I loved Season 1 of Westworld, I think became trash after that.
oh my god that makes me wonder how much film he wasted on euphoria s2
I really wish that this show was more like Bojack Horseman. If they went through the story of Sarah Lynn and her exploitation, it would be so much more impactful and eye opening
Under-rated
True
Facts!
I could not help but feel like Lilly Rose was being exploited the whole time I was watching - so uncomfortable
Same, and then I felt bad when she was defending them and made the jab at intimacy coordinators. The question this show and lily give me "is it sexual liberation (of women) or the exploitation of a woman's sexuality?"
I've realized the difference and it's the latter
Jocelyn liking "rapey vibes" is so obviously pure wish fulfillment from the male writers
Not a single woman has ever said that, not even in a cringy p0rn video.
no exactly. that’s how you know a man wrote the script(he did in fact, write it.). women don’t fantasize about r*pe!! gee i wonder why 🙃
@@RandomSwiftie13 “not even that cringy porn video” 😭 no you’re right
@@RandomSwiftie13 1d fanfics would
Fricking THANK YOU. And people comparing this to cnc makes my want to barf.
Someone on tiktok pointed out that Sam Levinson always heavily sexualizes the female characters that look similar to his mother and I could never unsee it. We can't keep letting Freud winning like this.
its odd cause his wife is a brunette loll
Omg Ive never seen his mom before, bro that's 🤢 also in googling his mom learned he's a nepo baby, which makes all the sense
Wut?????😂😂😂😂😂
wtfff that’s so upsetting 😭😭 i honestly just feel bad for his wife at this point
@@munchiekins she’s just a beard
Love that this show is just an excuse to degrade women and the chance for The Weeknd to straight up play himself. It would almost be better for there to be no veil of "self awareness" at all and it just owned how disgusting it is
Uhm no, The Weeknd is actually a character!! Abel isn't anything like that. Its just like Marilyn Manson...oh wait 😮
@@getschwifty5271 Joke's on you. Manson IS nothing like that. Evan's story is coming apart.
@@luv4hutch more than a dozen women have come out w allegations against Manson. Stfu.
d'angelo absolutely ROASTING the weekend's appearance added back the time i lost from my lifespan watching this show
The fact that this show was supposed to be about the misogyny of show business and sadly turned into exactly that behind the scenes
edit: what i meant was the show itself turned into what it was originally trying to make a commentary about. the first comment was confusingly worded
Behind the scenes?
It's in the scenes, blatantly and unjustifiably proudly. Just finished ep2 and ugh.
The potential to tell the tragic story of a tortured superstar is completely trashed. What even is this show and why should we care?
@@LisaLee__just finished ep2 and i honestly agree. i wish i could take back my view…
@@hobibruja thought you meant view as in view that the show was bad i was like why??? and then i realized it was the fact that you viewed it that you want to take it back lmfaooooo
Fr
@@LisaLee__ Fr
How much do you want to bet that Sam Levinson has some sort of weird beef with an intimacy coordinator from euphoria or something. And included the character in the idol, just so he could live through his revenge fantasy of locking the coordinator in a bathroom. I’m willing to put real money on that.
That sounds very accurate.
A user called SHANLIE a few comments under yours said actress Sydney Sweeney had to change her contract on the second season to stop her exposed body being shown so much. You are totally right on the money.
Malcolm & Marie included a random rant about a critic who Sam felt personally slighted by, so I'm convinced he just likes using his characters as mouthpieces for certain industry topics so I wouldn't be surprised
not true. just a plot. if it’s real then he would not film it and show it to people
I'd put a good 50 on it at least
Sam Levisons artistic vision seems to start and stop at “pretty girl crying a single tear in the middle of a party”.
That’s deep shit, dawg.
Watching it feels like I’m watching Sam and Abel’s grapey whattpad drafts. Lily also (allegedly, although I don’t doubt it) asked them to cut some of the of the naked scenes and sex scenes. Imagine that.
Dude you don't know the half of it. There was a scene where Lily's character was supposed to carry an egg in her vagina on the behest of Abel's character and he would like rape her if she were to break it. Shit was fucking out there.
sam levinson is the cinematic equivalent of “i am 14 and this is so deep”
LMFAOOOOO REALL
NO BUT YOU'RE SO RIGHT, he give me tumblr edgy vibes.
Lmaoooo
@@katet8639 it’s even worse than Tumblr edgy, it’s more like Twitter dark humor 💀💀💀
@Kate T like he is one of those adult child who cried when Tumblr forbid nudity on their site.
Anyone else find it weird that they didn’t want the show seen from too much of a female perspective yet it’s supposed to be a show about tackling corrupt ideals in Hollywood… you know.. like how in Hollywood women aren’t taken seriously and ostracized/sexualized and not given room for their own ideas. The irony and lack of self awareness is insane.
these men are actually so unbearable it’s insane
Also, that they chose a white woman for this because if you think Hollywood doesn't care about white women then imagine how little they care about women of color.
They’ll capitalize even on their villainy.
God shut tf up. None of this shit just happens to women. God just don't watch the show. Everyone is so soft nowadays.
I saw a tiktok that said selma hayek did a mivie with a guy from friends and there's a scene selma wanted to artistically look in the distance with the friends guy to symbolize their future and maturing love in the movie. But the guy from friends just said no to her creative idea and they did the scene regular. I would say this is an example of women being not taken seriously
People need to really get it together. This isn’t “art” to these people, it’s them living out their messed up fantasies. These are the things they believe. This is the way they want things to be. I think sometimes people see things like this and assume it’s someone having creative license and being free. But nah freedom doesn’t come with the objectification of another.
Bars.
Sam Levinson is this generation’s Bryan Singer. Me too did nothing compared to mainstream porn culture normalising unnecessary graphic sex scenes and exploiting young actors the showmakers could never, ever get during high school. There’s a contempt for these girls you can feel through the screen and I won’t be surprised when all of the stuff that happens behind the scenes comes out in another decade.
That got me to look up what happened with Bryan Singer and damn. That's a disappointing milkshake duck.
Exactly
Contempt is the perfect word for this kind of work. And it begs the question, who fucking asked them how they feel about teenage girls and young women being preyed on in Hollywood.
Well, HBO are to blame here. They were happy to sack the woman making a real show about the subject matter, but Weekend and Sam had a mantrum about it “not being about the men” enough. Take a look at the mock-up concepts and fun this show was having with their interpretation before the female creator was sacked. It’s a Britney Spears/Montana dreamboat and Depp looks like she has life in her eyes. It’s HBO enabling misogyny for their viewers and it’s insulting to everyone for various reasons - but I think it’s traumatising at this point to pretend this is “art” or “entertainment” worth watching.
The fact that the show, which is directed by someone known for putting lots of nudity and sexual stuff into his productions, starts out with a scene kind of mocking and putting down nudity contracts and intimacy coordinators, a VERY vital part of this industry that is full of exploitation, is concerning. Like, is the take away supposed to be that it's more empowering to dismiss the literal safety measures put in place to lessen the amount of sexual exploitation?????
And those contractor's are SO IMPORTANT especially when it comes to Hollywood otherwise it would get so dark so fast for many of the young girls who want to be actors.
Sam told on himself
Unpopular opinion but I took from that scene that the point was to show that no matter how many steps the Industry takes to be legit, the people working there (joss's team) are such grifters and hustler that its never gonna make a difference
Exactly, they are literally filming in the MC’s house. They can bring a photographer back in 2 days. Instead the answer is to assault and traumatise the intimacy coordinator?
@@bees.857👉🏽👃🏽
Not really that surprising that this show, which was supposed to be about misogyny in the industry, would also be a breeding ground for the exact thing they’re criticising. Especially with the blatantly sexualised and terribly written female characters. The fact they fired the female director for shoving too much of a ‘female perspective’ cements this.
Plus... getting Sam Levinson of all people to critique misogyny is rich💀
Don't read my name!!
Not as rich as his daddy :)
@@ahhh4117 Lmao ain’t that the truth 😂
Agreed. I didn’t like euphoria at all
Yes! On top of all that they hire Nusi Quero for their costume design for this past episode. The same man being accused of sexual assault by MULTIPLE women.
Props for "one is 365 days and the other is just the Weekend...." I laughed way too loudly at that.
The idea of The Weekend playing a character that’s acting tougher than he really is, was exactly what Justin Timberlake was able to pull off in The Social Network
y'all the second episode came out after i made this and it's BADDD 😭 should i talk about it? (i'm gonna heart this comment so y'all see it)
edit: omg thanks for the heart
yes d’angelo i need to hear you rip things apart
Yeww
yessss you should
omg i can’t believe you got a heart 😱😱
Yessss I would love to watch a this
OMG! You got a heart! So happy for u!! (YES)
Criticizing intimacy coordinators, lawyers, and consent is really interesting when it seems the show promotes r*pe fantasies and breath play, which require extremely clear consent, trust, and planning to not be dangerous. Like the fact they took a good premise and it seems they are boiling it down to a girls gone wild type thing is so embarrassing.
This. I was quite shocked by the entire scenario of this stranger coming into a woman's home for the first time and engaging in potentially dangerous acts with her with zero conversation, not before, not during and not after. Really? Bombastic Side-eye, as the cat says.
so well said!!
@@meacelestin it's almost as if that's the point people 😂 Jocelyn is portrayed as reckless, it's on point with her character.
We don't see much of her own sexuality, it's all the male gaze :/ all we know is she likes pain, we don't see what she even likes in the Weeknd's character, she's the sexual object and he's fully clothed at all times
tf is breath play
sounds like the target audience of this show is people like my old film professor who, despite it being a sci-fi unit, took pains to include gratuitous female nudity in 99% of the films we watched in class-to the point where when he posted a clip from The Shining on a discussion board for us to watch, I knew it would be the bathtub scene before I even saw the thumbnail. maybe he taught Sam Levinson, too. they’re certainly kindred spirits in that regard
Old Hollywood pervs
One of these days, Sam is gonna be on the news for some creepy and illegal shit he’s done.
The fact that the weeknd cant pull off sexy/smarmy creep is hysterical to me because thats his whole brand
let's be fair. that was 8 to 10 years ago though.
@@brookendale3611 the sobriety nerfed the sex
@@80s_graffiti isnt he like not fully sober tho?
Hello angel 🥸 hello angel 🥸😊
Like 2023 The Weeknd cant act well enough to portray 2011 The Weeknd. thats pretty funny.
D’Angelo saying this whole episode felt like an extended version of one of The Weeknd’s music videos was the most accurate representation of what I just watched💀
Don't read my name!!.
not the debby ryan pfp lmao
Cannot emphasize this enough lol
exactly 💀💀💀😭
It's the song Shameless from an old album too 😅 ngl I realize alot of his music is about exploited women in the world of fame....he put a nice melody over it and we missed all the red flags
I think Jacob Elordi played Nate exceptionally well as a creepy unnerving character that’s harder than what he actually is , it seems that’s what Tedros was trying to be but he needed more time to perfect his craft clearly
I mean, with the kind of ego he has shown behind the scenes, I don't know if he has the humility to really dedicate himself to mastering the craft of acting.
Okay can we also talk about how confusing it is that they marketed this show around having a famous popstar in it and also created a lot of buzz around having a famous kpop star in it and the show is called the idol. And yet neither of those people are titular idol. The weekend being there just makes it confusing because it's like ... Wait he isn't the idol
I saw an ad with Jennie on tiktok and assumed it was about her playing an idol because of the name
the naming really felt lazy. considering the definitions and connotations of "idol", they could have woven it into a commentary about celebrity culture (like the show was apparently supposed to). its impressive how much potential was wasted in this entire fiasco.
I keep seeing people judge this show as “a guided map-quest through Sam Levinson’s perverted kinks.” and it’s just super fitting it’s uncomfortable 😭
i have a feeling sam levinson always introduces himself with "i'm sam levinson have s3x with me now the countries with the lowest age of c0ns3nt are......"
Euphoria showed this side too 🤢
bro be proving frued right by sexualizing women who bear a good resemblance to his mom 💀💀
sam is going through his wattpad phase that he missed by making this crap
Lmao
Sam Levinson has a ... growing reputation. Particularly around how he sexualizes the torment of female characters, how he treats actresses in the background, etc. And not just in this show, but in Euphoria, too.
100%
Wait, wasn't the euphoria cast mostly minors at the time of airing? I'm not sure it is still airing, but correct me if I'm wrong.
@@ShaniaT. The actors were in their college/post-college age. The characters are minors though
@@ShaniaT.not sure but it's definitely about minors 😬
@@ShaniaT. No? The characters were though, which is a whole thing within itself
Lily’s acting reads like any other pretty LA socialite. They think it’s like posing for a photo- no ugly or emotive faces. She seems decent enough but she won’t get too far if she’s afraid to look ‘ugly’ on camera.
one of the many downsides of the insane levels of nepotism Hollywood has going on
How dare you?! She is an esteemed actor. Don’t you realize that her career path was similar to that of a doctor’s??
@@nataliafan14uh oh
@@nataliafan14 lmaoo that wild ass quote what was she thinking
@@clenelynwait is this a real quote? Can someone explain the background to this story?
“Not the thousand yard, light-skinned stare” 😂😂 TOOK ME OUT, D’Angelo!!
The whole “it’s suppose to feel corny/uneasy” excuse doesn’t even work because the show obviously takes itself too serious for this to even come across as such.
This!! Also smth I hate in horror movies is the ridiculous shock factor. Oh no how horrible the animal died for no reason at all! Let's zoom in on the corpse bc that's totally needed. Let's show a girl getting, almost getting, or implied to be getting SA'd bc that's totally needed! And then it does nothing for the rest of the story?? Learn how to make a good movie goddamn. That shock factor shit just immediately depletes the quality in my opinion
@@Bunny-ft9dys! Too focused on getting the wrong type of reactions. Anyone can shoot a jumpscare, real writing builds the terror and makes the audience uneasy even when the monster isn’t onscreen. The cheap shots and gore are all just overcompensation for shitty, soulless writing. I love a great horror movie but can’t stand the torture porn that some really are. Except for maybe Saw because Jigsaw’s storyline was a bit intriguing
@@Bunny-ft9dy Exactly.
@@Bunny-ft9dyliterally stephen king books in a nutshell ☠️☠️☠️
This fr. Like you cant have corny and serious. Not without making each abundantly clear in those moments. And they could have uneasy, but they go about it so horribly. Theres a way to make the viewers uneasy and tackle serious issues without making it seem like the weekend is just playing out some kind of fantasy of his which is what this feels like. Is just him and sam playing out some kind of fantasy. Maybe if they played it like his character was good at manipulating people, i could believe that and understand that and the message, but instead they just brought DOWN depp’s character. I dont know a single woman in my life that would like “rapey” vibes or even say “yeah i kinda like that about him” and then proceed to invite said person over when their friend explicitly said they thought that about that person and clearly are uncomfortable with said person. It all just feels so fucking gross.
I feel like Sam Levinsons ONLY GOAL in creating the intimacy coordinator character was a dig at the actresses from EUPHORIA who called him out for being gratuitous with their nudity.
That is... quite a leap you make there, but whatever. Especially considering these actresses also gushed about how collaborative he was and how safe/protected they felt on set. But hey, narratives can't push themselves.
I don't know, this show sucks but this is like a crazy reach lol
@@grasstoucher2564 looks like we found levinson on his burner account
@@grasstoucher2564 I don't have background info on the euphoria case specifically, but I do know that sometimes people will defend the predatory people when they're locked into a contract (like some of the GoT cast). So publicly, they might say "yeah it's fine, I feel great!" but keep in mind, they're trying to pay their bills with these shows
such a good point
i used this show as a chance to finally say how i don't like the weekend without getting slandered
This is a gross ass show 😭 like it makes me so uncomfortable the way she said she was comfy with his pervy actions. I didnt like Euphoria either I think the self destruction glorifying is wack. Of course something like this would get approved 😒👊🏼💥 Hope it doesn’t get a second season. Sam is a creep.
i used to pray for dangelo wallace video essays like these …
god is real fr🙏🏽
Praise God, She heard you 🙏
and god heard 🙏
times like these
your prayers have been answered. now if the powers would just listen to Jenny Nicholson requests life would be sublime
As an SA survivor, I literally cannot watch it without triggers. It’s disgusting how women are continually put through trauma porn in media, just like “Blonde.” It’s hard to explain the slimy feeling you get watching something like The Idol if you haven’t been through abuse, but it’s very real and it’s very gross. Personally I’m asking my friends not to support the show. Success for something of this nature leads to further exploitation of women, our bodies, and men treating us how they see in media.
Edit: A lot of people have taken this to mean I don’t think triggers should be put in media. That wasn’t my point. There is really good media I don’t watch because of SA content, like Outlander, which does a good job of approaching trauma empathetically and showing it’s effects. But it’s how you execute it. You can approach subject matter like this with ethical intentions, like the show’s original direction when it had a female director. But unfortunately that’s not what ended up happening.
I totally empathize with this, I wanted to take a shower after watching the first ep. It was awful.
Yes, this feels icky. I always thought Euphoria also felt very icky and couldn't get through it.
it's been a long time since my last time being S3xually Harrased and luckyly i could go through the 2nd episode, but that doesn't change the fact that i feel grossed out. I had to detach my mind from what i was watching and intencionally laugh about it. It's a totally exploitative show.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
THIS even as a satire whats so funny about a guy being a predator like what was that this comment trying to achieve I cannot wrap my head around how was this funny in any universe. The last scene of the first ep was vile, the Weekend seemed WAY too into it for my own comfort, like is this even him acting anymore? Does he want to hurt and degrade women? Do they have any self awareness at all this is the opposite of being edgy or cool or different or anything they think this is
all of this is extremely unsurprising considering the weeknd’s lyrics and the contents of euphoria
I actually JUST realized that this show is basically the premise of a majority of his music.....like his old music and new is giving the vibe that it's about exploited or "lost" women seeking fame or something like that. Bit shamed I didn't see it sooner but I don't really listen to him anymore since Starboy 😅
"Wanna fuck a skinny model right before her runway show"
"Did an album just to do it, droppin' albums like a pill
Percocets, Adderall, ecstasy, pussy, money, weed"
"Dick made out of magic, my tongue got superpowers
I woke up in the mornin', models passed out in the shower"
All of these are from the same song lol The Idol is just Drunk in Love the show
PLEASE continue reviewing each episode. Your commentary has me ☠️
FR I LOVE THIS GUY 😂😂😂😂
I hate it when celebrities make shows with no education in film because it almost always turns out bad 😭
ikr like just leave the film and writing to the ACTUAL writers pleeeeeaaassee 😭😭
he really thought just because he directed his music videos it would translate into a whole show or film 💀
so true riddlussy
As they said the “college educated internet people” are kinda their rivals sooo 💀💀
Lmao true
I feel so bad for all the girls and guys who were actually taken advantage of and have suffered in silence to then have a show glorifying their trauma it’s really sad
This show had potential to make a really strong commentary and dignify the irl victims ... things went south with the production I guess
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote:
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light"
~ Plato
as a sa child survivor I agree, but does every show have to be a meaningful portrayal or strength? Surely the main character is allowed to have a voice and we don't have a reason to believe she had her consent violated do we? I understand that misogyny in media is terrible but isn't one bad or problematic sexually charged show just that? maybe I am missing something.
@Puerto Rican VEGAN Musician Socialist thank u some people just want entertainment, not everything needs a message behind it.
@@angelg8445 interesting perspective but I was just staying mine and i understand where your coming from
It's funny because for me as a french person, Lily-Rose Depp is not Johnny Depp's daughter she's Vanessa Paradis' daughter. We've seen her grow from a tiny little girl in some people magazines and then some pictures of her came out at the beginning of her modeling career. Now she's a grown adultes and I feel old, in my head Lily-Rose is the sweet little french girl of her sweet famous mother (everyone loves Vanessa Paradis here, she always does right).
Saying "she's not Johnny's daughter, she's Vanessa's daughter" is quite narrowminded and despicable. She's just as much Johnny's daughter, and of course most people in France have supported Johnny, as they rightfully should. And you know that.
@@luv4hutch ???
@@luv4hutch idk if I'm misreading this but I think op was trying to say that everyone in the US sees Lily-Rose Depp as Johnny Depp's daughter, but in France Lily is Vanessa Paradis' daughter and they think it's funny. no one was saying anything about Lily not being Johnny's kid, just that in France she's recognised as Vanessa's child instead 😋👍
@@saltedfishoyeah I’ve seen someone else say this too
@@luv4hutch aw sorry my english is not very good I did not mean it in that way, I meant when I think about Lily-Rose I think about her as Vanessa Paradis' daughter. Because I've always known Vanessa Paradis, even before knowing who Johnny Depp was. So it's king of weird to think about Lily-Rose as Johnny Depp's daughter, but of course she is I'm not saying otherwise. It's just a cultural thing I suppose 😅
As someone who works in film and TV, most shows you watch have behind the scenes controversies. We just don't talk about it in the open and a lot of them just don't make the news. A lot of the times it's stuff that happens to people like PAs and others with smaller roles. Sometimes it's people who are extremely toxic but because the industry normalises it nobody says anything.
“Not the thousand yard light skin stare just cause you saw a pretty girl at the club” the way I SQUAWKED
Don't read my name!!..
I was on the bus and literally laughed audibly when he showed the clip 💀
@@oDM0othat happens to me all the time. Bursting out in laughter at something I'm watching or listening to on the bus. Often the bus is packed.
I watched this one in bed but guaranteed if I'd been on a bus I'd have burst out laughing.
I don’t think you can claim the nudity in your show is artistic when the only people shown naked are traditionally hot, thin, white girls
THANK YOU!!!! I got in an argument with my friends when I said the same thing.
🙄 exactly
AT-LEAST show me a cock!
Granted, no-one should be objectified, but if you're going to do it, just go whole-hog with it and objectify everybody.
Omg THIS
UP!!
She-ra and the Princesses of Power is a kids show but it makes me so freaking happy. All the characters are effortlessly queer and there are diverse body shapes, neurodivergent people, etc. It is so refreshing to see that level of diversity represented in media as normal and wholesome, not just in special diversity episodes. I put it on in the background whenever I tackle stressful shit like applying for jobs or budgeting
A marvelous idea ❤
I'm just confused as to why they chose Lily for this. Maybe she was the one of the few willing to go near it. Could possible still help her career instead. What else did she have to lose?
"he's so rapey."
"Yeah I kind of like that about him"
Is something that was never said by any person, ever.
Good grief wtf is this show
I swear these were my thoughts exactly. I actually sat & thought about how this scenario would play out irl & most definitely not with "I kinda like that".
tell me the script was written by a man without telling me the script was written by a man..
Incredddddibly wild that after a bunch of articles accusing Sam Levinson of exploiting young actresses body’s in a gratuitous way in Euphoria his take in the show is ‘actually women love to be nude all the time soooo much that gross intimacy coordinators are evil actually’
I’m gonna follow Sam levinson path.
@Hkamerica273 um??
@@onemillionpercent I want to make something like euphoria and the idol in the future. my dream project
@@onemillionpercent issa really bad troll, don’t worry
For him, intimacy coordinators are in the way, so he projects that onto others as well
The only way I'm "watching" this show is through your reviews.
"I'm just a freak - yeahh
You know, I want it baaad
(Violin playing)
& We can meet - yeaah
But I don't need to know your name
(Violin playing--...."
Release the coverrrrr!!!!! 😭😭😭😭
Did anyone hear that they wanted to film Lilly Rose putting an egg up herself. The only reason why it was cut is bc they couldn’t figure out how to do the stunt with special effects. This show is unhinged
unhinged is a soft way to put absolutely misogynistic. thats just disgusting
I'm sorry but what the fuck ain't no way!
Wtf what’s wrong with them!! And lily for complying with it🤦🏽♀️
This is literally just corn misogynistic gross nasty corn for dudes who like seeing women get hurt and lily is so gross for still wanting to act in it
yeah, I think it was scripted but like you said, they realized it would be wayyyyy too unethical to actually shoot, so it was cut
I can't even use the "the writer's barely disguised fetish" joke, because it's not even disguised in this show.
Right in my face..
Don't read my name!!
@@Dont_Read_My_Picture Holy shit, I've never gotten a spam bot on one of my comments before. Somehow, I feel honored.
@@undyingUmbrage413 Congrats, dude!
@@undyingUmbrage413 You should get a cake to commemorate it or something
Hi D’Angelo!! I started watching you in about mid 2020 and loved your content. I loved your humor but also your serious opinion on different subjects or topics, i sadly stopped watching you after you took a long break. Seeing your back now made me so happy so i decided to watch this video, i’m so glad your still putting so much work into your videos and still making videos people love. I just want to say i appreciate what you do, glad to see you back :)
Could you please watch another episode and do this because this was everything I wanted and more from you, omfg. Your commentary was perfect
Show literally felt like a group project where everyone has different ideas, but they only have a week left to do it and so they just combine all of their thoughts into one 40 minute sequence.
Oh yes!!!
They just managed to kludge together all of their ideas during a cocaine-fueled Weeknd lol
only had a week left? more like they only had a Weekend
😂😂
@@pvic6959kkkkk
I saw a tweet that said this show is basically " pleaseee show me your boobs pleasee im an artistt" and i completely agree
Don't read my name!!.
HBO has been recommending this to me so aggressively, keeping it at the top of the landing page with a 'critically acclaimed' label. What?
My favorite part in this show is when Jocelyn says "it's freaking time!" and starts freaking everyone out
I saw a tweet saying: "When y'all buy badly written white books to see how bad it is, all you're doing is telling the publisher it doesn't matter if the book is well written or badly written, they're gonna make money regardless. Therefore, they'll continue to publish badly written white books..." could the same thing apply to bad shows??
absolutely, i never watched euphoria or any sam levinson works for this reason. realistically im only one viewer, but i sleep better knowing i dont (at least directly) contribute to encouraging genuinely bad media production
Yeah hate watchers are definitely pushing this show forward. The same thing happened with that Thelma show that got a second season due to all of the press attention and hate watching. Hopefully this show doesn’t get the same treatment but only time will tell.
absolutely this is why i hate hate watchers. the producers don't care its hated as long as its making them money. one of the best ways to Make it these days is to make people mad.
@@hattarapilviI want to watch this show so I can have my own opinion. I don't think that's bad
Except this was made by a black man. Nice try being racist though
“One of them is 365 days and the other is only the weekend” the way D’Angelo manages to be so effortlessly funny will never cease to amaze me
The LAUGH this got out of me.
I had to play that part back because he was so smooth with the delivery
Don't read my name!!.
I ran it back to hear it again it was that good hahah
I died at this line aghaghaghagh 😂😂😂😂
I would definitely watch you cover another 5 episodes because your commentary on the scenes is so funny and entertaining. I would much rather watch you cover the series than actually watch the series cause at least watching your video I will not be bored :D
They villainized the intimacy coordinator… *insert Lego Star Wars “Big red flags!” Clip here*
What sucks even more is that when people from the kpop community criticizes the show for oversexualizing the woman characters, the awful script, and how problematic Sam Levinson is, blackpink fans would come to the defense and tell you that "it's Hollywood, what do you expect?!" as if that excuses the problems with this show. I observe this as them immediately thinking that people are attacking Ms. Jennie, instead of pausing and thinking that maybe people are criticizing the show for more sane reasons, like treating the women characters as sex objects.
No you’re definitely right, however it’s funny seeing some of the kpoppies talking about the show being bad for sexualizing women and treating them like shit (WHICH IT IS) but these are the same ones I see slutshame women on a daily. It’s just a little bit hypocritical and ironic. This show is absolute ass though and creepy like who tf keeps letting this nasty ass man make shit?
Your right but most people were not such intellectuals, they weren't really criticizing they were legit talking jabs at jennie under the guise of criticism
Unfortunately, some of the fandom might see it as "This is one of Jennie's chances to shine as an actress, and you're attacking that chance by calling it bad," which will get them defensive.
The rate at which mob opinion spreads and narratives become "truths" only weakens any chance of combating that.
It's not even Hollywood... It's a HBO show🤦🏻♀
There's a massive difference. HBO shows are supposed to be top tear stuff. Not this garbage.
jennie got casted after sam levinson became the director she said herself that she loves his works she's not innocent lol 💀
there’s something so painfully ironic about getting Sam Levinson of all people to produce a show critiquing the exploitation in the very industry that he benefits from💀
if anything the show glorifies everything it claims to critique, not surprised, it's Hollywood.
Proof that wealth isn’t synonymous with talent.
it's been three weeks since this video dropped and I still cannot get over 21:51. perfect commentary on the scene, perfect setup for the joke, perfect execution. if I remember anything non-jennie kim related about this cursed show I guarantee you it's gonna be this
The funniest thing about the second episode was Jocelyn remastering her song that was 80% done into an oversexualized self-involved mess in a show that was scrapped and reshot when it was 80% done and made into an oversexualized self-involved mess. Poetic cinema.
This irony is quite delicious
Don't read my name!!
Well I'm not watching this trash so I'll take your word for it
The show has so many crazy scenes, yet it's so boring. It's so weird to have so many shocking scenes and so little impact on your audience.
fr i literally fell asleep 10 minutes into the first episode
This
It also says sthg about how desensitized today's society is getting..
Such scenes aren't even that shocking anymore.. it's all meh now
Shock value isn’t as shocking anymore ig
I've read books like this. Its like the writer has the basics of the story down, but never learned to write the stuff in between those scenes. Very choppy, to say the least. 😂
I can't stop feeling the ick every time I see the men's lace front Abel is wearing. Like, WHO made that creative choice and could they NOT find one that cost more than $20? No budget? What is HAPPENING here.
This whole show it’s like “im bored i wanna make money, first let’s put a well known singer um the weekend yeah, another one even more international, this girl from blackpink yeah, now let’s throw someone that has been in the low for some time but still famous and let’s make it kind of controversial, uh yes I know who, this girl.. Johnny depp’s daughter yeah, and let’s have her naked on almost every seen, oh and also let’s make it really slow, like really long scenes for no reason at all, so we don’t have to do a lot of background for the characters and so people keep watching as if they are ever gonna get something deeper but will just keep getting sex scenes and random shit cool, great source of money, amazing job everybody we manage to make the least meaningful show ever, pr pr pr pr yesss”
It's unfortunate to see a show with a very interesting premise and with a lot of potential be turned into garbage
all for the sake of some fucked up male power fantasy....
Completely agree
@SaltyAndGreasy Hollywood doing Hollywood things
@SaltyAndGreasybecause it could have been a good way to showcase how misogynistic Hollywood is. Instead it’s turned into whatever this is
Before all the issues with the show I heard that it would be kinda inspired by Keith raniere and the nxivm cult. I thought it would be interesting to see a show explore how a charismatic leader pursues vulnerable people to create their cult and how it could even happen to celebrities in the public eye. It’s a shame that the show’s production became an environment for the abuse of power when that’s what the show’s narrative could have discussed.
Can we all just take a minute to appreciate how good D’Angelo looks in spring colors? Like the subtle pink glasses and the pink accents in the sweater???? Icon.
truth!
Don't read my name!!
and his singing voice apparently? wasn't expecting that ending lmaooooo
@@LunaMoon70 Why are we not talking about this?! Lmaooo!
yesss, i was admiring his fit the whole video!!
I’m so happy you’re making videos again! Love your channel
Episode two pls! Great video as always!
It's never a good sign when the director/producer of a show starts bragging about how provacative or boundary pushing it is, because all that tells me is they're snorting their own ego
I thought that too. It gave me the biggest ick. Like he didnt even defend it besides saying it was meant to be provocative. He could've said "it is provocative, but it's also about the self destructive of egos and the importance of very needed conversation of the exploitation of artists, musicians, models, actors, etc., especially the young ones, who need to be used for their contribution to the arts, and not just used for their attractiveness." But, honestly, he would just be lying because he knows damn well the steaming pile of poop they made, and that it's just shock value with no substance, boring and overexaggerted characters that exist within a gross fantasy landscape.
ikr!? remember Olivia Wilde?
i think its provocative and boundary pushing in the worst interpretation of the phrase. like, zero consent.
Ikr it’s like the equivalent of teachers bragging about how their class average has never been more than 50%
I get the feeling The Idol is the Weekends attempt to live out his inner fantasies and when the previous female director wasn't having it (and probably turned down some of his ideas) she got sacked... meanwhile everyone else is contractually locked in.. You gotta put yourself in the mind of a guy writing a show at which one of the main stars is himself... he wrote this role for himself.
He also maybe wanted to fuck Joselyne...
And this gave hime the leeway to do it
Glad he’s revealing what a terrible messed up person he is I guess
The original director had the far better idea, in my opinion. In order for you to care about characters like this (vapid, filthy rich, dubiously talented), there needs to be some exposition on character background. Ok, we know her mom died and she likes to wear skimpy clothes. But that's it. We know nothing else about her. There's no character development. The original director sounded like she wanted to tell more of the story from Joslyn's point of view and really dig into the motivations of the character, rather than focus on long, lingering shots of Jos's naked/near naked body.
@JKyall yes that's what it sounds like. That's probably why Jennie signed on. I heard it was basically a story of one of these kpop stars(or any new female stars) up and coming struggles without doing a reality show. It just sounds like The Weekend wanted a show for a character he probably has always wanted to play, maybe a inner dark person of himself, and didn't want anyone to get in the way of that priority
@@kstar1489listen to his music, he’s been telling you for years
please make another for episode 2! I really loved your breakdown, helped me put into words my own feelings about this show