There's one thing preventing HBO's controversial drama from being a weird, fascinating, and dare we say good series: Abel 'The Weeknd' Tesfaye.
quickly establishes it’s more interested in the tediousness of a character named Tedros instead.devolving into torture porn didn’t exist, the show has no qualitative legs to stand on. And that’s mostly thanks to The Weeknd’s laborious, cringeworthy output as Tedros. Four episodes in—season one wraps with episode five on July 2—is only superficially provocative and incendiary while depicting Tedros’ influence over Jocelyn.
bad on purpose, what’s the intent? The show can’t seem to understand how to use kink for character-driven arcs; it’s for shock value and nothing more.and The Weeknd. Tedros’ big bad wolf persona doesn’t register. It’s vacuous, whether he’s jolting Sivan’s Xander with a shock collar or beating Jocelyn with a hairbrush like her mother did to “inspire her.” What a load of toxic bullshit.
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