The Idol

 So, a series which had quite some controversy when it came out, so we just have to check that out!

 

The fact it is the first mainstream thing in years that is produced that actually has an erotic feel to it, made it all the more intresting. 

 

Now, first things first, The Weeken'd was a seriously annoying factor.  While great in the first two episodes, he quickly became a "superhero syndrome" type of figure, no matter what crap he pulled, or how much drugs he used, it was all cool and awesome.  It shows he produced the whole series... 

 

 Jocelyn is a popular pop music artist, who is preparing for her come back after that her last tour had to be cancelled due to a mental breakdown.  After rehearsals, she meet Tedros in a nightclub, with whom she immediatly connects and asks to come to her house to help her with her new song.  During a BDSM style rehearsal, she rewrites the song totally from what it was intended to be.  Her manager and the tour and label representatives aren't over the world of it though, and during the shoot of the videoclip Jocelyn overdoes herself, breaking down again.  

 

Tedros comes back to her house together with Chloe and Izaak, two of the people from his nightclub.  He begins asserting control over Jocelyn's life and moves into the house with all his followers, and he makes her scrap her planned album to start anew with a new creative direction.  Tedros forces her to reveal her past to his group, which is nothing less then a cult.

 

When her manager has a background run on Tedros, it turns out he is nothing then a fraud and a petty criminal with a string of domestic abuse trials.  Xander, the creative assistant of Jocelyn, is also tortured until he submits into his cult, yet the cult harbours very talented and gifted, unsigned artists.  When she learns how she was tricked into his grasp by her background dancer, she decides to get back at him by having sex with her ex in earshot of Tedros.

 

When her team comes to judge if the tour can go on, she accuses Tedros of being a fraud and has him paid off to get out of her life.  He refuses, but her manager enlists his connections at Vanity Fair to totally ruin him and his reputation.  Yet during the opening night of her tour, she had him brought to her and calls him on stage, naming him the love of her life before everyone, including her flabbergasted management...

 

See, that is exactly what I mean, instead of the reasonable thing that her manager buries him somewhere under a rock (literally as one of her team suggests), he is brought forward as the bigger then life figure in the world... 

 

I liked the first two episodes, and 3/4ths of the finale, but the middle part and the last quarter just where to over the top of self-glorification of The Weeken'd, and that ruined a good series for me into something barely above stomachable.