If you only watch 4 seconds of The Idol, make it this 4 seconds
You might not have watched The Idol but chances are that you’ve definitely heard of it.
HBO had high hopes for the try hard series, which stars Lily-Rose Depp and Abel ‘the Weeknd’ Tesfaye.
Its mixture of ‘light bondage and heavy sleaze’ (The Guardian) including a ‘dog collar torture scene’, apparently, generated no end of column inches.
But the moment people really should have been writing about was surely this, a 4-second clip which has just gone wildly viral on Twitter for reasons which will become obvious.
Forever haunted by The Weeknd’s pronunciation of “carte blanche” on THE IDOL pic.twitter.com/N05pGyDUgY
— Rafa Sales Ross (@rafiews) June 28, 2023
I’m sorry what?
These are the only seconds of this show I’ve watched and…sometimes you can judge a book by its cover I’m sorry https://t.co/y6vVLZfj4N
— yc (@yc) June 28, 2023
The directors gave him carte blanche on how to say it.
— small worlds (@smllwrlds) June 28, 2023
do you think anyone tried to correct him https://t.co/F0m6ENhia7
— ashley ray🍦stream ice cream money (@theashleyray) June 28, 2023
Twice the syllables, so it’s twice as good
— James Kimbell (@realmrkimbell) June 28, 2023
i am losing my mind. nothing could have prepared me for this. https://t.co/Y5m99A6YH3
— the inquilābi hot dam historian (@hotdamhistorian) June 28, 2023
This is show made entirely from first takes
— Paul Klein 👾 (@paulkleinyoo) June 28, 2023
saying “cate blanchett” but like this https://t.co/jPeNLFiGth
— Jared Gilman (@realJaredGilman) June 28, 2023
Lmao literally tweeted about this last night.
Who said the golden age of television is dead!
— Rudi (@SpallacciRudi) June 28, 2023
if The Idol did nothing else at least it thoroughly embarrassed The Weeknd every week more than humanly possible https://t.co/wQbz0Mk97v
— Paul Tassi (@PaulTassi) June 28, 2023
Except …
Strange that everyone is treating this as the actor making a mistake and not something that a writer put in a script. https://t.co/ygwn8cjCCF
— Nate Jones (@kn8) June 28, 2023
Well, maybe. And yet …
This being intentional doesn’t make it any less haunting pic.twitter.com/Mg0V19RWzZ
— Rafa Sales Ross (@rafiews) June 28, 2023
Source Twitter @rafiews