The web loves to hate “The Idol,” however that doesn’t imply the present’s future has been set in stone. HBO has denied a report from Web page Six claiming that Sam Levinson and The Weeknd’s controversial drama collection won’t return for a second season.
“It’s being misreported {that a} choice on a second season of ‘The Idol’ has been decided,” HBO’s official PR Twitter account tweeted on Thursday, hours after Web page Six’s report. “It has not, and we stay up for sharing the following episode with you Sunday evening.”
Web page Six’s story quoted two nameless sources near the manufacturing. One supply claimed that The Weeknd, or Abel Tesfaye, was not planning a second season of the collection, and that the present was at all times “meant to be a restricted collection.” HBO has not explicitly marketed “The Idol” as a restricted collection, so it’s unclear if that account is correct. One other supply informed Web page Six that “The door is certainly nonetheless open,” and HBO was nonetheless ready for a call to be made on the present.
HBO and collection creators The Weeknd and Levinson, greatest identified for creating “Euphoria,” clearly had excessive hopes for “The Idol,” even scoring it a rare-for-a-TV-show premiere on the Cannes Film Festival. However the present has been the topic of widespread scrutiny because of a number of studies alleging behind the scenes points throughout manufacturing.
The Weeknd and Levinson, greatest identified for creating HBO’s hit “Euphoria,” allegedly fired the preliminary director Amy Seimetz over artistic disagreements and retooled the collection to focus much less on the angle of principal character Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), a pop star coping with a public scandal, and extra on The Weeknd’s character Tedros, a self-help guru and cult chief. The change prompted important delays in manufacturing, and a report from Rolling Stone in March claimed that a number of crew members on the present had been unhappy with the path the 2 took the present in, blasting it for misogynistic writing.
When the present premiered, evaluations had been largely negative, with criticisms towards its awkward intercourse scenes, shallow writing, and The Weeknd’s efficiency. The present debuted with solid but unspectacular rankings (913,000 throughout linear and streaming), and fell by 12 percent in its second episode.
Except for The Weeknd and Depp, “The Idol” additionally stars Suzanna Son, Troye Sivan, and Jane Adams, with Blackpink member Jennie, Rachel Sennott, Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph, Dan Levy, and Hank Azaria in recurring roles. The Weeknd and Levinson created the collection with Reza Fahim, and the three government produce with Kevin Turen, Ashley Levinson, Sara E. White, Joe Epstein, and Aaron Gilbert.
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