The first episode of The Idol, titled “Pop Tarts and Rat Tales,” is quite an eventful piece of television.
It is also an episode in which nothing seems to happen.
Over the course of its 54 minutes of runtime, the series lead, pop star Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), participates in a photoshoot, a Vanity Fair interview, and a rehearsal for her next music video, and also has an intimate photo leaked online.
She then goes out to a nightclub with one of her dancers and meets an odd-looking man that will potentially ruin her life.
This all happens, however, at an extremely slow pace that makes it feel as if nothing of consequence is actually going on.
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