Is The Idol only a sick, twisted ex-girlfriend revenge fantasy for one in every of its stars?!
The worst rated present in HBO historical past lastly ended its ignominious five-episode run, and now that viewers have the complete collection to contemplate, in toto, there are some THEORIES flying round. The ickiest? This is all The Weeknd’s disgusting Selena Gomez fan fiction!
OK, so we all know the present was meant to be run by indie director Amy Seimetz, however she was changed by Euphoria’s Sam Levinson. In a bombshell exposé, Rolling Stone heard from a number of manufacturing sources that Amy left the venture with like 80% of the deliberate six episodes already filmed. Word was the difficulty was artistic variations with The Weeknd, actual title Abel Tesfaye, who reportedly thought the present had an excessive amount of “female perspective.” Everything that they had received thrown away, at a price to HBO of an estimated $54-75 MILLION. Levinson was introduced in to redo it, and the remaining is TV historical past. HBO ended its run of extremely acclaimed Sunday evening fare with one of many worst reviewed exhibits on ANY community.
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But was The Weeknd driving at one thing extra than simply silencing the female voice on the present? When he put the present again along with Levinson, was he attempting to say one thing a couple of explicit girl as an alternative??
Some followers assume that is Abel attempting to get again at his ex, and so they have some fairly compelling proof for why Lily-Rose Depp’s character is meant to signify her.
Here are all of the issues Jocelyn has in frequent with Selena Gomez. First, they’re each pop stars who began out as actors on youngsters’ TV exhibits. Obvi Selena was a baby star on Wizards of Waverly Place, so it matches. Then once more, that’s true of a whole lot of pop stars over the previous few years: Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears, simply off the highest of our heads. Both Joss and Selly have rocky relationships with their moms. Again, not distinctive in youngster stardom. But it will get extra particular. Selena dropped jaws together with her Revival album cowl — going topless was a giant deal for the previous Disney child. Jocelyn did the identical factor on The Idol.
REVIVAL pic.twitter.com/i3Wgpr8VMp
— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) September 8, 2015
Then when doing her comeback after canceling her tour in 2016, Selly returned the following 12 months with a music video during which she wore horny underwear paired with a definite accent — her hospital bracelet. Jocelyn did the identical factor.
That music, Bad Liar, which was launched throughout her relationship with Abel, additionally controversially featured horny moans. In The Idol, Abel’s character, Tedros, coerces Joss into together with actual moans from their precise intercourse on her music.
Jocelyn’s BFF Leia is her private assistant. And Tedros drives a wedge in between them by convincing her Leia is exploiting the friendship with a facet enterprise they’re moving into collectively.
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Selena stans will acknowledge the dynamic between the Wolves singer and BFF Theresa Mingus. Selly usually helps out Theresa’s swimwear model La Mariette with promos on her peerlessly widespread IG account.
And then Lily-Rose mainly recreates Selena’s 2017 Instagram breakdown. Hey, isn’t 2017 when The Weeknd and Selena dated? Hmm…
Yeah this man is definitely evil towards Selena Gomez. Regardless of how cringey The Idol is, that is simply an excessive amount of to put in writing off.. https://t.co/dUc7hTUPlN pic.twitter.com/NkiinWTxen
— antagonistic nightmare ♀ (@toxicexgf) June 28, 2023
If Tedros actually is extra than simply an invention, if he’s The Weeknd’s self-insert character in a fictionalized model of ex Selena Gomez’s life, that is abruptly a lot extra gross.
Don’t get us mistaken, novelists and filmmakers usually inform semi-autobiographical tales — however this can be a present that’s been referred to as “torture porn” during which The Weeknd performs a personality who continuously sexually abuses the woman everybody thinks is supposed to signify his ex. This is like Justin Timberlake‘s Cry Me A River video on cocaine. Truly, really icky.
[Image via HBO/YouTube/Selena Gomez/Instagram.]
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