THE IDOL is Awful (But it Had Potential) | Video Essay 

what potential? the cast are all overrated A holes

Only Henry Cavill's

Director/Writer goals

yes

I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be the case

I mean he did fire the original director and got Sam Levinson to rewrite 80% of the show and is defending this show and his acting like his life depends on it...

Bro he literally tells us he's heartless in that one song, why are any of us surprised lol

I'd be surprised if this wasn't the case, honestly

You mean that the top pop star Wknd have no girls to penetrate, bdsm and film it? Well then he is not such a star. Every minion has a groupie

The cinematography is pretty good! It's nothing too flashy but the aesthetic (film grain included) fits the show perfectly.

Tough to say anything as I haven't seen the original

You can me that a pile of crap looks like gourmet chocolate ice cream but at the end of the day the substance is crap.

Yeah the Levinson-Tesfaye copium strategies have been very tiring. At first they went with the "it's a comedy, people have totally misunderstood our point entirely" route. Even if you take into account that Tedros isn't supposed to be likeable, he is still a boring character and a terrible antagonist for the series.

1) Abel was explaining that UNTIL it got revealed that Tedros is getting manipulated by Jocelyn he is the bad guy. He was written to be the bad one, and then we get revealed that he is not the only bad guy. Good idea, bad execution, because I didn’t feel like Tedros was bad, I felt Abel’s acting was just horrific and felt digusted by his poor acting skills. So at the end of the day it worked out ig lololol. 2) She almost had the song, there was no written deal, that was made, so it was just legally alright to take the song away from Jennie. Maybe that was a critique from the show. That often times Artists get fucked by the legal permissions of companies to execute their power without the consideration of the artist. If that was a critique, then it was executed horribly. 3) Manipulation. It’s a typical push and pull manipulation tactic. She likes to manipulate her little dogs. Its a power play, her mother manipulated her whole life, which manifested itself in Jocelyn’s relationships. It was also kind of teased that she didn’t do it the first time. She didn’t heal herself mentally in any way, so this is her coping mechanism. There was so much potential, it’s really disappointing.

@@limlimxo 1. That's what I'm trying to say. The finale portrayed Tedro only as a victim. The finale showed as if Jocelyn is THE BAD guy, as if previous episodes never happened. 2. It's not possible for Jocelyn to sabotage Jennie's career. Jennie didn't have a career to begin with. She stole Jocelyn song which means Jocelyn got back what's her. Jennie isn't a Jocelyn victim 3. The push and pull thing you've mentioned isn't what they've shown

@@pratyushpavansaikia8161 1)Yeah but he was arguing about the scenes BEFORE it got revealed that Jocelyn is the bad person. All of his tweets were responses to reactions of episode 2-3, therefore he was arguing against the portrayal of Tedros of ep 2-3. Also, a victim can be a bad guy too, just because you are a victim in one circumstance doesn’t mean you are not a bad guy in another. You can be both, which Tedros is. Both the bad guy and the Victim 2) She got promised that the song was going to be hers. Yes she didn’t have a career, I wan’t arguing against that. Jocelyn “stole” the START of Jennie’s career, even after J told Jennie it would be fine for her to take it. It was not J’s song to begin with, she did not write it, in fact almost all of the songs were not written by her. That’s basic information of pop stars. Hired ghostwriters of the company did, so the song is from the company. J could’ve easily refused, she literally has a whole album, but she didn’t. Even if that was nasty from Jennie, it is also quite nasty from J, both nasty actions taken. 3) Push: She got herself out of his sight, released tons of information about him in order to make his life harder, she told him indirectly never to contact her again. Therefore he became more obsessed, as we can see he saw that he is powerless, and the dynamic changes, it’s not Jocelyn anymore who is the lost puppy, but Tedros as we can see how he acts after J introduced him to the public Pull: She gave the guys permission to let him enter her space, she is flirty/friendly again as if nothing happened, she let the whole world know they are dating It’s not the typical Push and Pull dynamic, its much more exaggerated, yet it can be seen as a symbol on how the push and pull can be used. Every art we see is a much exaggerated piece of reality, so don’t expect art to be realistic, usually it is not. There’s a reason why it isn’t called Reality. No way I’m defending this trash, I’m just defending the truth lol

lol somebody should start the #releasetheseimetzcut or something

Why should a show “say anything”? Are you craving the old days of the Hayes Code where a story HAD to have some moral lesson? Idk what’s happening to audiences that this has become a worthwhile critique. We need shows that refuse to moralise and instead just tell unexpected stories just as much as we need “shows that say something”

​@@jakestroll6518 The show is trying to say something about Hollywood exploitation that's the point of this show. The problem is that it ends saying nothing about the topic as Tedros whose presented as the Weinstein of the show is all of a sudden seen as a victim when he's been anything but.

she wanted him gone and asked for him to be gone cause it was ruining the vibe ...she wanted to show her breasts

I think it’s worthwhile to consider the absurdity of imposing “protections” on a woman who doesn’t want them. I the show should have stuck with this theme because it ties with expectations of “respectability” with mainstream female celebrities. The return of puritan culture and paternalistic ideas of what people can and can’t do with their own bodies in the name of “protecting them”. I also wish they’d lampooned this crazy idea that because many women like this accommodation that ALL women should be forcefully subject to it. If the actress wants to improv on the day, she should be allowed to reserve that right.

@@jakestroll6518 Museluver got one thing wrong: intimacy coordinators are not just for the actors/actresses, it's also for the dozen other people crammed in the room with them! Doesn't matter if the actress wants to show her boobs if no one else consented to seeing them! and that's where the pressure comes in again, if you make the decision to get naked IN THE ROOM, then the camera people and everyone else are going to feel pressured to say 'yeah it's fine' bc they're on the spot. that's why all of that has to be negotiated and written down beforehand. So no, it's not just about protecting the women. it's about literally everyone else in the room as well. A rare case where the standard is the same regardless of gender: if a guy can't suddenly drop his pants and whip his dick out in a room full of people, a girl can't suddenly get naked either

​@@jakestroll6518 The point of Intimacy Coordinators is that they make sure that the talent isn't being exploited. The reason why there is a need for such a job is because of the culture that has surrounded Hollywood for years with degenerates masquerading as directors and producers.

​@@jakestroll6518the intimacy coordinator explains that she can show whatever she wants but it needs to be included in the contract which would take 48 hrs and cant be spontaneous on set when the terms of nudity have already been agreed upon by her. So its not telling her what she can or cannot do just making sure she isnt pressured into doing more than what she has agreed to. Because that's exactly how it would he If someone were being exploited. They would agree for one thing and would be asked to do something different on the actual set. That's why its important to put the exact nature of the nudity into a legal format before hand and then stick to it. Makes complete sense.

oh damnit :D I meant off the handle. Thank you for the correction

@criticalcoffee I figured, no worries! Really great video. You're pretty polished, watch that subscriber count go up!

Honestly Michael Mando might eventually fit

Kelvin Harrison Jr. should’ve been casted

The tedros character was written to be a loser so how would a different actor portray that any differently. You're just a hater who is denying what is actually happening

thank you for the kind words! 🙏

Thank you so much for the kind words!!

Yeah, he's really good!

@@SilverScale. Thanks to you both :)

You are the best critic I have watched on the Idol. I have watched a lot ! Some are awful 😊

The character was written to be that tho. So coming across as creepy and cringe would be by definition... Good acting ..

​@@thatguy1488 The problem is that he's not a good actor. His character comes off as weak and pathetic even when he's threatening people. Like in the "I will curbstomp you" scene, his mousy voice ends up making the scene into a meme.

I'll admit upfront that I do also delve into that kind of content at times. In this case I did it find it truly disappointing that this is the end product of a Levinson-Tesfaye collaboration. Thank you for the kind words!

hey, thank YOU for taking the time to watch. I just try my best :)

@@criticalcoffee thank you for making such good content 👏, keep going my dude, you can make it big 🥳

Thanks for the kind words (to me it feels like it's held together by duct-tape, there were many late stage additions that I had to jam into the video :D ) But thank you so much for watching

Thank you for watching!

Thank you for watching!

Thank you for watching!

I did say that I've liked his *recent* output. I never said that I had a) listened to his older stuff, b) watched those music videos. Shame if there's some evidence in the older ones, but I really wanted to discuss False Alarm and How Do I Make You Love Me so those were the ones that I picked for this video

I'm glad you liked it!

I don't agree with this take to be honest. The original concept (based on which the Amy Seimetz did her work) was from Levinson-Tesfaye-Fahim. So either the potential was there from the start (and was expanded upon by Seimetz) or the show never had potential (meaning Seimetz couldn't have fixed it).

11:21 but hey time is precious, no judgment here

😂