Sex, music and cringe HBOs The Idol
There\u2019s been a lot of buzz about the latest show to fill HBO\u2019s prestigious Sunday night slot, The Idol.\n\nCo-created by a team including Euphoria\u2019s Sam Levinson and Canadian pop-icon the Weeknd, the series follows a pop star played by Lily Rose Depp who\u2019s working on her comeback after a mental health crisis.\n\nFor transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts\n\nBut what was initially sold as a sexy satire of the music industry\u2019s dark underbelly has been panned by critics and mocked on the internet.\n\nToday, Vox senior correspondent Alex Abad-Santos and Lucy Ford, a culture writer with British GQ, take us through the series so far and why it\u2019s garnering attention for all the wrong reasons.