The Idol, Sky series plot. Who is Jocelyn, cast, Lily Rose-Depp

TAmong the inspirations for the character of pop star Jocelyn, Lily Rose-Depp quote Sharon Shone in basic instinct. Judging by first episode Of The Idol – already available on NOW and on air tonight at 11pm on Sky – the less sophisticated one makes you think more Rebecca Of Body of Evidence. And therefore a Madonna. Also present in the Sam Levinson series with Like a prayer and with Popularsoundtrack song recorded with Playboi Carti and The Weeknd (performer, producer and writer of The Idol). Sharon, however, is not just an interview habitindeed Jocelyn watches Catherine Tramel on TV. While another summit of this popstar recovering from a nervous breakdown, dazed by an asphyxiating entourage, smoker and drinker, the Britney Spears of Gimmie Moreanno horribilis 2007, is absent but nevertheless more than present.

Since this is a very distant era from the cinematic crossing of legs that showed the absence of panties (Stone). Even from the most famous pop star in the world who practiced oral sex on a bottle of water (Ciccone) and from the zero shaving on live TV of the goddaughter pop star to that of fellatio (Spears)who does Sam Levinson?, one who with Euphoria she combined the glitter on the eyes with the parents’ penises in full view. It starts The Idol with the viral scandal of a photo in which Jocelyn has sperm on her face. Not even Madonna in Sex it had come to that, but precisely what will it ever be, today, between influencer mothers in their underwear and the customs clearance of the male member.

The Idol: the plot

And above all that it will ever be for Jocelyn. Someone we don’t understand has cheated on her, collaborators talk about suing, how they’ll turn her from sinner to victim, even feminist icon, and she seems uninterested. The photographer yells at her «give me sex, vulnerability, laugh, cry» and she executes. She is distant, bored, but if the intimacy coordinator reminds her that, for contractual reasons she cannot show breasts and nipplesmakes it a question of «my body and I do with it what I want»: more out of an opposing force than a fight against patriarchy.

Or as the only true talent. After all, in this presentation of the character, Jocelyn is busy building a sort of comeback. We know of a nervous breakdown, a suspended tour, of tickets that are not sold for the new dates. In the choreography of the video, the same and transgressive as hundreds of others, she is weak, she doesn’t believe in it, she comes seen as a human case also by the entourage, if only he could dance Dyanne, the stunt double, he says to the girl with the perfect movements (actually Blackpink member Jennie Kim).

Some intuition, however, remained. The new relaunch single is weak, it is also convinced one Tedros (The Weeknd), owner of a nightclub that Jocelyn invites home after having almost had sex in his club. Tedros (with a dark past like someone knocking on a stormy night) tells her that there’s nothing like pop to say powerful things by making people dance, but she can’t sing about being wild if she really isn’t. in real life.

And is she? Instead of answering him: «I don’t know, if you type “bukkake” on Google, or guy with the rat tail (cit.), my photo comes out, what do you say»; Jocelyn remains silent. Indeed, she lets her voice be “freed” by having her head covered – and almost choked – with the red dressing gown with which she debuts in the series, basically a deleted scene from 50 shades of Grey. Obvious is the beginning of a collaboration with unpredictable results, all the star’s collaborators will bitterly notice.

Jocelyn’s build-rebuild

It is very possible that the next episodes of The Idol are better than the first, even better than the shot-balling that took place in Cannes. However, if we are to trust the tone of the opening, of presentation launches about «a transgressive look at the music industry», the patina, here, is the substance. The codes on which the events, the biographies, the characters rotate – circus masks of which they have nothing lurid and pimping – they drown the atmosphere in a vague sick turgidity. Not dangerous at all.

Not at all connected, as pop music always is, the divine ray and hell of repetition, with a sense of death. Instead, a style emerges from a fashion report, from an inquiry into «people of the night», with the novelty of the web that disgraces and doesn’t even ruin; perhaps Rossella O’Hara meant this with «tomorrow is another day», that tomorrow, in fact, nobody remembers yesterday’s controversy on the net.

It is very probable, too, that Jocelyn’s nature is perfected, that it goes beyond suspension between victim and awareness. After all, she demonstrates more than once that she possesses original reading skills, that lucidity that only happens to the bewildered to hit the point, to close conversations. Or perhaps this stalemate is one of Sam Levinson’s habits with regard to female characters. Zendaya’s Rue Bennett in Euphoria sail in the same statehelped by others who then rejects or ruined by others who continue to seek.

Small difference. With that role, of drug addict, Zendaya has won two Emmys and his career exploded; with the role of Jocelyn and 5 episodes still to come Lily Rose-Depp it’s closer to infamy than an acceptance speech. At least let her be given access to the pantheon of undressing in the name of art, even if in TV series calculated with the line and the team until the end credits on Darling Nikkisong by Prince about a sex worker who revolutionizes the singer’s life with her tricks, and at one point masturbates (as Jocelyn does after meeting Tedros).

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