#sam levinson

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The Idol (2023)

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An appropriate Tweet.

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Jack Stauber Just Take My Wallet // Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig // Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert // Hannah Green Night Terrors // Veruca Salt All Hail Me // Fleabag (2016-2019) cr. Phoebe Waller-Bridge // Laurie Anderson O Superman (live) // Kyung-sook Shin Please Look After Mom // Ocean Vuong Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong // Euphoria (2019-) cr. Sam Levinson // Ernest Hemingway The Garden of Eden

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The Idol (2023)

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Nate and Jules

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😑

That was... interesting. Sounds like Sam Levinson's team is trying to put the blame on Zendaya. 👎🏻

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What angel wakes me from my flow’ry bed?

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EUPHORIA (2019 —)

S01, E00 (second special episode): F— Anyone Who's Not a Sea Blob — dir. Sam Levinson

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Ok, so, I watched the pilot for The Idol against my better judgment after reading the Rolling Stone article about it and reading the poor critic reviews.

It's just as gross and exploitative as people say. I felt physically grossed out by the leering, objectifying gaze of the camera. The Weeknd's alleged behind-the-scenes contributions to the "male perspective" of the show make the scenes between him and Lily Rose-Depp that much more nauseating.

The dialogue between Jocelyn's team the whole first thirty minutes felt like the thinly veiled airing out of Sam Levinson's grievances we got in Malcolm and Marie but put through a "cancel culture/anti-woke" meat grinder. "Mental illness is sexy" and locking an intimacy coordinator in a bathroom came off like Euphoria meta-commentary from Levinson.

I don’t care about nudity in movies/TV if it's done in a way that feels respectful of the actors. But the descriptions of the nudity in this show as "fetishistic" are spot-on. The sex scene at the end of the episode where Jocelyn is being suffocated and he sticks a knife through the silk made me feel weird and uncomfortable. The constant shots up Lily's skirt and in increasingly skimpy outfits for no reason in random scenes felt so on-the-nose for the reaction they're trying to get.

It's not revelatory or exciting. It's just repulsive and relying on shock and outrage for clicks.

Don't waste your time. Don't hate watch. I'm not interested in encouraging a deluded edgelord on a power trip with HBO dollars behind him.

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The Idol (2023)

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The Idol (2023) "Pop Tarts & Rat Tales" Sam Levinson

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I SWEAR I'D LOVE YOU IF I COULD

Mada Hayyas Parts of Me Never Left That House // Mitski A Pearl // Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright // Morrissey in an interview with David Thomas for SPIN // Renee Ahdieh The Wrath and the Dawn // pinterest // Bernhard Schlink The Reader (tr. Carol Brown Janeway) // The Front Bottoms Be Nice To Me // Miranda July It Chooses You // Euphoria (2019-) from And Salt the Earth Behind You dir. Sam Levinson // pinterest // pinterest // Silas Denver Melvin Grit // Fiona Apple Left Alone

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The Idol (2023)

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Euphoria - Cal & Jules and Nate & Cassie