Fans are worried about how the HBO series “The Idol” will affect BLACKPINK Jennie. The series was unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival in France and is currently widely criticized.
“The Idol” is set to be the next Euphoria that aims to show the music industry’s dark side, produced and starring The Weeknd, Troye Sivan, Lily-Rose Depp, and Jennie. However, despite being invited to the non-competitive section of the 76th Cannes Film Festival, most of the reactions were disappointment, so much so that it reached a dismal score of 9% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Most people agreed that “The Idol” was mainly overtly sexual, with explicit scenes that weren’t necessary for the story.
Author Kyle Buchanan wrote “The Idol, or 50 SHADES OF TESFAYE: A Pornhub-homepage odyssey starring Lily Rose Depp’s areolas and The Weeknd’s greasy rat tail. Love that this will help launch the HBO Max rebrand, should slot nicely next to House Hunters!”
Rolling Stone Magazine’s critic David Fear described “The Idol” as a “terrible story,” adding, “It’s filthy, brutal, and much worse than expected. It mistakes misery for profundity, and the satire is crude rather than sharp.”
Variety said it “plays like a sordid male fantasy” and that “the script (overhauled by Levinson, Reza Fahim and The Weeknd after an earlier, Amy Seimetz-helmed version was scrapped) seems calculated to fool audiences into thinking they’re observing how Hollywood operates, when so much of it amounts to tawdry clichés lifted from Sidney Sheldon novels and softcore porn.”
Now, fans are worried about how it’ll affect Jennie. From the start, she stated that she was a fan of Sam Levinson’s work, read the script, liked it, and couldn’t wait to be in it. People also discuss that the original female director of the show left when roughly 80% of the series was done. The Weeknd, a producer of the show, believed that the show had too much female perspective, and together with Sam Levinson, scrapped the works, rewrote, and reshot the show. Will it affect Jennie’s acting career in Hollywood?
Despite the negative review, “The Idol” will premiere through HBO on June 4, 2023.
