Sup, you beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. Friendly reminder,

you get in a brand new video every single day this week, so make sure you come back. But I got a

great show for you today, so buckle up, hit that like button, and let's just jump into it. Sam Levinson,

the creator of Euphoria, is working on a new show for HBO that is apparently so risque that it makes

Euphoria look like Barney and Friends. So the new show is called The Idol, and it's already being described as torture porn.

And as far as details, a show, right, it's created by Sam Levinson, as well as The Weekend and Rizza, Fahim.

It stars Lily Rose Depp as a pop star who begins a turbulent relationship with a self-help guru and cult leader played by the weekend.

Also, other big names are attached to it, including Troy Savan and Blackpink's Jenny Kim. You know, The Idol, it's a highly anticipated show for HBO, but a Rolling Stone report,

speaking to 13 cast and crew members claims that the production was a mega shit show.

With Amy Simits, the original director for the series apparently leaving the show after around 80% of it had already finished filming.

Reports at that time saying the Idol would be moving in a different creative direction. But sources saying not only was there a massive creative term, but also she was set up to

fail given half-written scripts, inexperienced staff, and an impossible schedule.

And so once there's a filming break, Amy leaves with Levinson then taking over and apparently

scrapping the $54 to $75 million show that was nearly finished to rewrite and reshoot the whole thing.

With Rolling Stone saying he apparently took the show from a story about a starlet, fighting to have autonomy and a predatory industry and do quote a degrading

love story with a hollow message that some involved even found offensive. With one crew members saying

it went from satire to the thing, it was satirizing, and another adding it was like any rape fantasy

that any toxic man would have in the show, and then the woman comes back for more because it makes her music better. But it's also worth noting that in a 2022 deadline report, it was revealed that the weekend was also behind some changes as he was unhappy with the show's direction.

Apparently concerned that the show leaned too far into a female perspective by focusing on Depp's character rather than his.

With a source telling Rolling Stone that Levinson was on board with the weekend's plan to make the show more about him. But you had crew members saying that Levinson's rewrites turned into a show about a man who gets to abuse this woman and she loves it.

Rolling Stone also going on to share the premises of two scenes that were apparently never shot,

including one where the weekend beats Depp's face and she asked to be beaten more, giving the weekends an erection.

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