The five-episode series had an opportunity to atone for some of its 'World Class' sins. To no one's surprise, it didn't take it.
“There will be a turning [of] the table, and I think a really exciting set-up entering into Season 2…It will be very interesting to see how people respond to this last episode and see how things turn,” Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who portrays Jocelyn’s manager, Destiny, promised
in anticipation of the finale. “It’s going to show you something different that we haven’t seen in a while.” Did it? Not really, but it definitely could’ve.In the end, Jocelyn, the vulnerable pop star fresh off a stay in a psychiatric facility, is revealed to be a master manipulator capable of ruthlessly robbing longtime friends of their livelihoods, exaggerating childhood abuse, and very publicly dating a violent man who went to prison for human trafficking.
Early in the episode, tensions between Jocelyn and Tedros have escalated, and she effectively shuts him out of the creative process of herThis, after four insufferable episodes that see Tedros inflicting physical and psychological abuse upon Jocelyn and anyone that gets close to her, feels like something of a victory. Then, she holds a stiff—bordering on embarrassing—showcase for the harem of talented people Tedros moved into her basement for her management team.
in an HBO commentary about the episode. “What we realize at the end is that Tedros was her muse and that she got what she needed out of him.”“I think a lot of the audience will watch maybe the first few episodes and think that this guy is taking advantage of her,” Depp continued. “By the end he realizes that she knows exactly what he’s doing and she knows exactly what she’s doing.
“She needs to devour those around her to feel like she has something to say,” Levinson said in the episode’s commentary. “We also see how desperate Tedros has become...this pimp from the midwest who shows up in Beverly Hills ends up being the victim.” Once again, only in Levinson’s world can a “pimp from the midwest” capable of putting a shock collar on one of Jocelyn’s oldest friends and frying him like his damaged split ends could be identified as a “victim.
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