The Weeknd and Sam Levinson’s ‘The Idol,’ Starring Lily-Rose Depp, Plays Like a Sordid Male Fantasy: TV Review

What The Weeknd wants, The Weeknd gets in “The Idol,” a skintastic, dark-side-of-showbiz fable that perpetuates the myth that pop stars are corporate puppets with no say in their own image-making, even as it allows hit-maker The Weeknd to call the shots (and reshoots, apparently, since the five-part HBO series was overhauled late in production […]
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