There’s already plenty of thematic writing on the wall in TheIdol, thanks to the 1992 thriller ‘Basic Instinct.’
serves as inspiration for the series’ more risqué business—from an opening sequence in which an intimacy coordinator gets locked in a closet for doing his job to a scene where Jocelyn chokes herself while she masturbates. But is Levinson also using the film to hide his show’s ending in plain sight?
As the Jocelyn discusses her attraction to Tedros, despite his “rapey” vibe, a potentially telling clip ofin the 1992 erotic thriller plays. “What happens?” his character asks hers, to which she replies: “She kills him.” Thus far, Jocelyn has been positioned as a fallen star finding her footing after both the death of her mother and a hospital stay for unidentified mental health issues. Jocelyn’s assumed victimization is furthered by her constant state of undress and the leaking of a photo of her with cum on her face.
Then again, Jocelyn holds all of the cards at the beginning of their late-night tryst. She wears towering stilettos in order to be “taller than him” and lounges with a cigarette as Tedros paces her living room, cleaning his teeth and perfecting his “Hello, angel” greeting. The show itself opens by establishing Jocelyn’s ability to play a part—she both laughs and cries on cue, directly into the camera’s gaze.
“You see how good this character is at manipulating us emotionally,” Levinson says in a post-show closer look on HBO. “What’s so brilliant about Lily’s performance is that despite the fact she tells you that up front, you forget how she’s able to deceive the audience.” Supervising producerBut just as Sharon Stone’s Catherine Tramell isn’t unmasked as the murderer until after she frames’s Dr.
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