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Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily

PATREON PREVIEW: "False Idol" w/ Eric Schwartau

Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily

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Books, Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

TGIF! VIP alum and former Gawker columnist Eric Schwartau joins us to talk HBO's "The Idol." Exploitative or meta? Sexist or sexual? Is Lily Rose-Depp hot? Is "World Class Sinner" mid? From the controversy to the costuming to the role of "creative director"—we leave no face un-jizzed on. Subscribe at patreon.com/cbcthepod

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0:00.0

Hello Club Kids, here's a sneak preview of today's VIP lounge, where we have special

0:06.5

guest Eric Chortew on to talk about HBO's The Idol.

0:09.6

The new hot show everyone can't stop talking about.

0:11.8

We answer the questions, is it sexist, is it exploitative, is it brilliant, is it bad,

0:16.6

is it campy, is it weird, is it hot, is the acting good?

0:19.9

All that and more on today's VIP lounge, head to patreon.com, such as CBC ThePod to

0:24.4

subscribe.

0:25.4

I do feel like the weekend is probably acting the least, like he's just kind of the

0:32.7

weekend and it's just like his songs and he's there and he's been like, let's remix it.

0:37.6

And he's like kind of good at being like a little bit rapey but also like not that like

0:43.2

crazy.

0:44.2

Like they're trying to push this whole thing is like, he's so crazy because he puts

0:46.7

like an ice cube in her pussy and you're like, that's actually not like so crazy.

0:50.6

I as someone of only again watching two ups his experience, like maybe the sex scenes

0:55.0

get like way crazier, I mean, there's like a scene that there's a scene that evokes

1:03.8

like her abuse that she like had at the hands of her mother, okay, that he like tries

1:09.0

to like recreate the order to like get her to a mo and like become emotional and the

1:14.3

kind of thesis of the show is like, oh, like your pain is what creates good art, which

1:19.2

I, you know, I've always said, I think that's generally true.

1:22.0

I agree.

1:23.0

You know, I think that's why America has creates a lot of great art and culture because

1:27.4

we're such a chaotic, you know, society, whereas you look at a place like Denmark where

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