We're not laughing with you, we're laughing at you, Tedros.
Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Idol Episode 4.If you were thinking to yourself through the first episodes, “This Tedros guy just isn’t doing it for me,” then you weren’t alone. As Sam Levinson's The Idol has progressed through its season on HBO, the character arc of Tedros has been, well, interesting to say the least.
Tedros Is Funny in ‘The Idol’ It’s been established that Tedros is a bad dude on this show. In showing us this, there have been a few moments that were likely meant to portray him as a monster but instead came across rather comically. Again, who's to say if this was intentional or not, but Tesfaye is bringing something to Tedros that makes him memorable. This goes back to the third episode, “Daybreak,” where we get to see his insecurity.
Tedros likely isn’t being written to be a funny character but these supposed-serious moments are hard not to grin at, which is an improvement from the first two episodes in which the character wasn’t eliciting any emotional response from viewers. Having Tedros also be able to play off characters like Chaim and Destiny is also bringing out this side to him. The Destiny-Tedros interaction in Episode 4 was especially gripping as she sought to find out everything there is to know about this guy.
It’s uncomfortable to watch, namely seeing him abuse Xander with a shock collar and publicly assault Jocelyn in front of everyone just to get her to “realistically” enunciate a word in a song. That’s also the point of Tedros. He doesn’t have this larger-than-life plan that’s fueling these heinous acts. He’s simply torturing and abusing just because he can and because he feeds off the power.
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