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The show was doing just fine until Weeknd showed up. He's fukking abysmal.

And Levinson's doing the thing again of teenagers in the 2020s exclusively listening to music from the 90s. For fukks sake, hire a music director.
 
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This shyt is trashy as hell...I'll be back for the next episode :mjgrin:

Jocelyn is a brat :shaq:

Wtf is Weeknd supposed to be :pachaha:

That mansion actually belongs to the Weeknd :whoo:

That freak song is wack as hell :childplease:
 
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Finally got around to watching this after all the hype and controversy.

It's not good, but it's not as bad as people on the internet are trying to make it so far. Typical Sam Levinson project. Highly stylized, cool cinematography, mediocre writing, sleazy, and all that, (The Weeknd's acting is ass tho) but still mildly entertaining. It's like Entourage mixed with the intros to Blacked.com scenes :pachaha:
 

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what's my takeaway supposed to be from this? "Oh man, i hope this vampire who can't act doesn't further corrupt this skank popstar!" only 6 episodes, but not sure it's worth seeing Kate Moss Jr's perky titties a couple times
 
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The Weeknd character thinks he gonna take lily depp down his sinister underbelly of LA rabbit hole but I think she’s just as psychotic as he is and they both fitting to go toe to toe in demonic fukkery. And I’m gonna tune in every week for this shyt. This is just toxic summer fun enjoy the popcorn and sex turn off ya cinema brain for this one fella. :demonic:
 

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The Weeknd character thinks he gonna take lily depp down his sinister underbelly of LA rabbit hole but I think she’s just as psychotic as he is and they both fitting to go toe to toe in demonic fukkery. And I’m gonna tune in every week for this shyt. This is just toxic summer fun enjoy the popcorn and sex turn off ya cinema brain for this one fella. :demonic:
To me this is like those softcore series shows that we're on Showtime and Cinemax but with a bigger budget.
 

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To me this is like those softcore series shows that we're on Showtime and Cinemax but with a bigger budget.
which doesn't really work in 2023, imo. when every decent looking young chick has an onlyfans and there's porn to last a millenia, what's even the point? seeing 2 randos have passionate dirty R rated sex just doesn't have the same punch it used to, and this show feels like it's basically centered around that.
 

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which doesn't really work in 2023, imo. when every decent looking young chick has an onlyfans and there's porn to last a millenia, what's even the point? seeing 2 randos have passionate dirty R rated sex just doesn't have the same punch it used to, and this show feels like it's basically centered around that.
I don't see it the way you see it but okay
 

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:dahell:Coli nikkas, I'm finna fire up this demonry in a bit. Couple questions; 1. This shyt mid? 2. Are there stannable characters?

fukk it, might just wait for The Righteous Gemstones. Can't go wrong with car pranks with the fellas:blessed:
Fam, the disappointment I had this past Sunday night when I realized Gemstones wasn’t premiering until the 18th. :beli:

But the show feels hella empty so far. The pilot overall wasn’t bad, but it didn’t wow me either. Felt like it was stuck somewhere in the middle in limbo to me. Hopefully it picks up soon as there’s only five more eps left.

The critics of course over-exaggerated the pilot’s raunchiness for some clicks but so far this wasn’t anything as crazy compared to Euphoria’s demonic fukkery.
 
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