“The Idol” on HBO follows a young pop star who is sad and in trouble.
so far is the story of a young woman who has a tough day at work and wants to blow off some steam, then invites a rando over for gross sex reasons. Relatable!, if you take its first episode at face value, is about young people trapped in a wasteland in which their parents have abandoned them. Here’s Jocelyn , an extremely famous pop star, all alone and motherless, working full frontal in the ruins and cast-offs of Gen X culture.
The old people around this star, currently prepping her for her next hit, are disgusting and wrecked. They’ve stopped caring about anyone, and their opinion on the world is that they had to get fucked in the stairwell at work when they were coming up, and so everyone else should too. “Who among us has not had come on their face?” asks Nikki , her record label manager.
That’s the prime Gen X belief. Sooner or later, someone will use you in a gross way and how will you manage the situation? You’ll laugh and tell the story at parties. As a temporary coping mechanism, it works, and it does make the parties more lively, but it’s not exactly interrupting the cycle of trauma, is it?!
So these young people — Jocelyn, her best friend/assistant Leia , Xander and Dyanne , her employees/friends, if these people areher friends? — are living by these bad rules and kicking around Gen X culture for sport.
The show that the young people are in is about wanting to feel something, about wanting to make something meaningful. The show that the older people are in is a caustic ironic comedy in the classic HBO vein (you’re not imagining the shades of
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