The season finale of this banal series wrapped up a story that never seemed to have much on its mind or even the faintest idea of how to say it.
Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for The Idol finale.Near the end of May, when the Cannes Film Festival was in full swing, Sam Levinson’s The Idol made its premiere. After his previous show, Euphoria, had come to a scattered close with many baffling creative decisions dragging it down, there was a general sense of trepidation that this might be more of the same. However, there was also a tentative curiosity about whether this new work could be an interesting mess of some kind.
Tellingly, it felt more conservative in how The Idol deployed these elements as if they would be sufficiently shocking or subversive on their own. Nudity? Gasp. Sex? My goodness. From the jump, it required constructing bizarre premises like turning intimacy coordinators into stuck-up objectors so that the show could somehow seem bold for showing some skin. This strained strawman of a scenario only ended up laying bare just how empty this season was from start to finish.
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