Between “Euphoria” and voyeurism: Sam Levinson and pop star The Weeknd take us on a journey into the exploitative depths of modern pop culture between sex sells and provocation.
The heated discussions of the past months make one thing clear: The line between show business and abuse of power is quite obviously fluid.Not only "Euphoria"-maker Sam Levinson had to experience this, but now also pop superstar The Weeknd, with whom Levinson is now staging Lily Rose Depp as "Idol" and Zendaya successor. The daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis slips here into the role of a Britney Spears epigone, who had to cancel her entire last tour as a result of a nervous breakdown. But because the show must somehow go on and the throne of America's "sexiest" pop star is vacant, she puts herself in the hands of a dubious self-help guru with whom Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye takes up and fictionalizes his own image in an almost frightening way. Formally certainly the series future, content to divide minds.