That’s it, it’s finished. After five episodes, The Idol, Sam Levinson and Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye’s creation about the sordid workings of Hollywood, has come to an end. In a haze of cigarette smoke, the sordid story of Jocelyn and Tedros Tedros came to a depressing end, but not without one last big twist. The object at the center of this fifth act revelation? A brown hairbrush.
When The Idol was in its third episode, many viewers had been turned off by what appeared to be a vague storyline interrupted by lengthy, un___y ___ scenes. During a dinner with Tedros, his sidekicks and Xander, a former child star who became Jocelyn’s creative director, the latter reveals the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother. She details the bruises and welts caused by the blows with a hairbrush she received from her father.
After Tedros scolds a visibly uncomfortable Xander for not intervening to help Jocelyn, he asks her to bring him the hairbrush before spanking her repeatedly in front of his circle of friends. disciples. With meaningless statements such as “If you get through the pain, it will be beautiful,” we are led to believe that Jocelyn has found a way to turn her trauma into power, while ultimately being broken by the tested method of coercion and proven by Tedros.
When the series finale arrives two episodes later, things aren’t going so well at Camp Tedros. After Xander revealed Jocelyn’s villainy through torture, she discovered that her meeting with Tedros had been orchestrated by Dyanne (Jennie Ruby Jane). Jocelyn then turns against Tedros. Stealing his power and his disciples, she succeeds in ousting him from her life with the help of a tasty check for 500,000 dollars and a crackdown in the press. As she prepares to take the stage for her long-awaited world tour, Tedros is nothing more than a broken shell of a man with nothing left to his name and who is the target of Jocelyn’s label henchmen .
