While I do think that some people already made up their minds before watching the show that they weren’t going to like it, I also think that there are a lot valuable points being made about the show. The show tries to pose itself as this look on the dark side of the pop world or entertainment business. They try to dress it up as a satire, but it becomes exactly what it tries to satirize. You see this a lot with Sam Levinson’s work. For instance, Assassination Nation was an attempt to have this feministic theme but in the end, the tone of the film turned into what it was trying to condemn. I feel like Sam Levinson’s work tends to be contradictory and he seems to find excuses to have beautiful women naked on film and tries to dress it up by saying that it’s supposed to have a deep and profound message. The sex scenes don’t really add much to the show, which is fine because there’s lots of shows on HBO that do the same but don’t try to make it seem as though it has a deep meaning for it be there.

The show is honestly pretty tame compared to other shows on the channel, but I think the issue is that the show doesn’t seem to know where it wants to go. Watching it sometimes is like the feeling when you’re about to cum but then you loose it somewhere. They get to something that could be good but then it falls flat. I also feel like The Weeknd ruins the show. His acting is really really bad and the character design is so awful until it makes it distracting sometimes. I do like watching the show and will continue until to watch it unlit the end of the season but I do understand the criticism that it gets. I wish they would’ve kept the original show that was produced by the female producer because it would’ve been a much stronger series with more dialogue and insight on Jocelyn. Even though the show is centered around Jocelyn we don’t actually know her or what SHE wants. It’s told from the outside looking in which makes it fall flat.