Review of The Idol

The Idol (2023)
1/10
I expected the pop music life treatment, but different. So far, no.
12 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I expected the pop music crazy life treatment with the crazy people in the 'biz' surrounding the latest young female money maker type thing - but my issue so far with the first one is getting it all together.

However, the second episode in the beginning is more of what I would have expected to start this than the first. You see her handlers going after a pop Idol after you find out she's grieving the death of her mom. Do they care? Is it just about the money? Them losing power over her? Yeah, the second episode would have been a better debut in that context.

And now about 'Mr. Club Mysterious Tedros' (lol), I could do without him so far as -- they could take all this in another direction to make it more about her decent into madness - what seems to be her unraveling with all the vipers around her. From the second episode, I could also see this being a more 'surreal' outing of a pop idol life; than all the unnecessary shock crap, and then this mysterioso club guy boring character thrown in. This coulda started out and been...or might still be promising.
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