Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for The Idol Episode 4.If you were thinking to yourself through the first episodes, “This Tedros guy just isn’t doing it for me,” then you weren’t alone.
As Sam Levinson’s The Idol has progressed through its season on HBO, the character arc of Tedros (Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye) has been, well, interesting to say the least.
There was already a lot of controversy surrounding this character to begin with, from the content we knew heading into this show, Tedros’ on-screen behavior, and the fact that the inexperienced Tesfaye was playing a major character all made things dicey.
Over the past two episodes, however, there has been a development with this character, whether it is intentional or not.
Through the first two episodes, Tedros seemed pretty one-dimensional until we finally got to a new side of him.
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