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    'The Idol' is hot garbage. Will its stench cling to the Weeknd?

    Nine months ago, the Weeknd used a professional high point to herald what may end up the low-water mark of his career. Performing the first of two sold-out concerts in September at Inglewood's SoFi Stadium — part of a world tour behind 2020's blockbuster "After Hours" LP and its 2022 follow-up, "Dawn FM" — the pop-soul auteur brought Lily-Rose Depp to the stage to film a climactic scene for ...
    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Jul 03, 2023 5 minutes
    The Weekend in concert at The SSE Hydro Glasgow Scotland, in 2017..

    Nine months ago, the Weeknd used a professional high point to herald what may end up the low-water mark of his career.

    Performing the first of two sold-out concerts in September at Inglewood's SoFi Stadium — part of a world tour behind 2020's blockbuster "After Hours" LP and its 2022 follow-up, "Dawn FM" — the pop-soul auteur brought Lily-Rose Depp to the stage to film a climactic scene for "The Idol," the then-mysterious HBO series he had teamed with "Euphoria's" Sam Levinson to create.

    "The Idol" at that time had all the makings of a cultural sensation, and its buzz grew only louder over the next few months, even as Rolling Stone reported on the series' beleaguered production and its descent into "sexual torture porn."

    "When my wife read me the article," Levinson said of the Rolling Stone story after the show premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival, "I looked at her

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