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The Idol: Why HBO's Scandalous Show was Shockingly... Boring

The Idol: Why HBO's Scandalous Show was Shockingly... Boring

The Idol was initially hyped up as a scandalous, dark, and erotic new must-see from director Sam Levinson and musician The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) but it turned out to mostly just be… a boring mess. So what went wrong? (And did anything go right?)

The Take

July 6, 202318m 7s

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Show Notes

The Idol was initially hyped up as a scandalous, dark, and erotic new must-see from director Sam Levinson and musician The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) but it turned out to mostly just be… a boring mess. So what went wrong? (And did anything go right?)

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