The Weeknd and Sam Levinson’s show wraps up with a final test of patience
, a show about a huge, young pop star, that actual huge, young pop star Olivia Rodrigo released her new single, “Vampire”, the Friday before this weekend’s finale. That song, co-written by Rodrigo and frequent collaborator Dan Nigro, charts the lows and lows of falling in with a vampiric, blood-sucking tormentor.
The twist – and to call it a twist undermines the artistic venture we know as twists – is that Jocelyn has been controlling Tedros all along. We learn this with about ten minutes to go, just as everything seems to have been sorted out: thejournalist Talia has written an exposé of Tedros, Jocelyn’s tour is back on, harried assistant Leia has handed in her notice. And then, just as Jocelyn is about to take to the stage, she invites Tedros backstage.
It has also become increasingly hard to take Tesfaye or his co-creators in good faith. While many of the industry insights are surely accurate and startling, plot machinations have become tedious: a roving list of targets for the whatever is annoying the co-creators that week. First in line were intimacy co-ordinators, and in a deleted scene tweeted out by Tesfaye, took a hit. Whatever the show was attempting to say about sexual abuse allegations sounds impossibly dull and misplaced.
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