The HBO music drama series The Idol sets its premiere date for 9 P. M. EST Sunday, June 4. Sam Levinson, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, and Reza Fahimby created The Idol. Levinson created the HBO series Euphoria starring Zendaya, whose performance has earned her multiple awards. It follows Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp). She aspires to be the greatest and sexiest pop star in America, despite her last tour going sideways. She meets a nightclub impresario (The Weeknd) who may make or break her career. The HBO music drama series already has a lot of drama and controversy off-screen. The Idol shows quite a lot of drug use and sexual content in the trailer alone, and the plotline has quite a lot of graphic violence. When The Idol has its premiere date, it could make headlines for all the wrong reasons. This will definitely not be a wholesome series.
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This will not come as a surprise to fans of Levinson’s series Euphoria which has a lot of violence, sexual content, and drug use by teenagers. The actors that play the teenagers are all adults. Crew members have alleged that Levinson wants to make this series just as graphic and sexual as Euphoria. Due to disagreements on the “female perspective,” Amy Seimetz was pushed out as a director for the HBO music drama series. Ichi the Killer served as an inspiration for The Weeknd for The Idol. The Japanese cult classic film follows a psychotic murderer that can only get aroused when they kill. A scrapped scene involved The Weeknd’s character beating up Lily-Rose Depp’s character and getting noticeably aroused. To say the news around the making of this HBO music drama series is worrying is an understatement. This could spark people’s morbid curiosity when The Idol premieres.
Critics will have to wait for the premiere date of The Idol Sunday, June 4, at 9 P.M. EST to see which scenes actually made it on screen.