• Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 4, 2023
User Score
2.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 267 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 267
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Metascore
27

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 24
  2. Negative: 16 out of 24
  1. Reviewed by: Barbara Ellen
    Sep 10, 2024
    20
    On one level, The Idol is yet another risible, cliche-riddled take on the music biz in which no cast member (Hank Azaria, Jane Adams) is permitted to speak normally. On another, it’s a post-#MeToo melodrama with a lead character whose heavily semaphored empowerment puts viewers squarely at fault if they dare to question the sleaze and cynicism on display.
  2. Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    Jun 9, 2023
    0
    The only thing shocking about this vanity production from The Weeknd, whose acting runs the gamut from A to B, is how shockingly bad it is. From its leering male gaze to its juvenile eroticism and cringy dialogue, the premiere episode hits a new low in creative ineptitude.
  3. Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Jun 7, 2023
    40
    Here is a show purporting to satirise sexual exploitation while relishing it.