The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp's intercourse scene in 'The Idol' is giving viewers the ick: 'I’ll by no means see The Weeknd the identical'

• Episode two of “The Idol” options an specific intercourse scene between The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp.
• Viewers blasted the scene as porny and cringe, evaluating its soiled discuss to “smut on Wattpad“
• The collection has been the topic of scrutiny since a Rolling Stone exposé described it as “torture porn.”

If there’s one factor “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson is aware of the best way to do, it is stoke controversy — or not less than stir up Twitter discourse. And his embattled new HBO collection “The Idol” is already following go well with in delivering some cringe-y, wince-inducing scenes.

In episode two of the collection, which aired Sunday evening on HBO, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye’s character Tedros seduces Lily-Rose Depp’s emotionally susceptible pop star Jocelyn. So begins a scene of some fairly NSFW soiled discuss — this is not TV, it is HBO (or Max), in any case —all of which is delivered by Tesfaye with a dead-eyed stare.

Whereas commanding Jocelyn to do completely different poses and carry out varied intercourse acts, Tedros says issues like, “You appear to be a deal with,” “Think about my tongue in your pussy — my fats tongue,” and “Put your finger down your throat, make that throat moist for me.”

I may go on, however I will not.

Ultimately, Depp’s character performs a intercourse act that’s extra heard than seen, however belief me, you will not be capable of unhear the noises.

Viewers took to Twitter to blast the scene’s porny dialogue and The Weeknd’s poor appearing.

“I’ll by no means see The Weeknd the identical after this,” user @melissaxperez_ wrote.

—Melissa 🥀 (@melissaxperez_) June 12, 2023

One consumer identified that whereas The Weeknd’s total musical persona is centered round medication and sleazy intercourse, coldly delivering traces about it as a substitute of singing it in a tune hits completely different.

—Leon Dante (@itboyleon) June 12, 2023

A.V. Club writer Saloni Gajjar criticized the scene’s dialogue, saying it sounded prefer it was “written by a youngster who’s learn numerous smut on Wattpad and counts it as ‘sexual expertise.'”

Others most popular to go away their reactions in GIF type.

—Duff (@lukedanielduff) June 12, 2023

The lurid scene is hardly the primary controversy surrounding “The Idol.” A bombshell Rolling Stone report from March alleged that the present wasted hundreds of thousands to show the present right into a “rape fantasy” after authentic director Amy Seimetz left the undertaking and Levinson reshot and rewrote a lot of the collection.

Not everyone was scarred or outraged by the scene, nonetheless. 

“I LOVE that individuals are freaking out over this. Prudes,” reporter Jeff Sneider wrote, in part.

“It is humorous watching The Idol and being like, ‘This? That is what the fuss was about?’ It is some delicate bdsm and a few soiled discuss, not The Ceremony of Spring,” wrote journalist Sean T. Collins.

—Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) June 12, 2023

Others had much less of an issue with the intercourse acts, and extra of a problem with the purpose of the scene itself.

“I do not perceive how folks do not see #TheIdol as only a man placing all of his bizarre ass sexual fantasies into tv. The one good half concerning the present was when Lily-Rose Depp was as far-off from The Weeknd as potential,” wrote @_carsmb.

“The Idol is again as we speak. It is perhaps the worst HBO pilot I’ve ever seen,” actor and writer Luke Barnett tweeted. “It is like if Entourage took itself utterly severe and was additionally written by a 17 12 months outdated boy going by a bizarre part and likewise starred a rapper who’d by no means acted.”

In the event you’re into that kind of factor — no judgment right here – “The Idol” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO.