Lord, give me strength. From the first minute of “The Idol,” the already controversial music-based television series from HBO Max (sorry, Max), it’s clear that creators Abel Tesfaye (formerly known as The Weeknd), Sam Levinson, and Reza Fahim want to incite a reaction.
They hope to shock, subvert, strain, poke, and prod and subjugate the viewer to a torrent of explicit images they hope will push the boundaries of the sanitized television paradigm.
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