HBO’s The Idol is not going to be getting a second season

They are saying all good issues should come to an finish, and apparently that’s additionally true for HBO’s The Idol. In accordance with Deadline, the premium cable community has chosen to not renew the divisive (is even that too beneficiant?) collection for a second season. An unnamed HBO spokeswoman stated in an announcement that The Idol “was certainly one of HBO’s most provocative unique applications” and that the community was “happy by the sturdy viewers response,” however that the community (“in addition to the creators and producers”) have determined to not make one other season.

There’s plenty of spin taking place there, however what it means is that everybody who labored on the present was at the least completely happy that folks had been speaking about it and completely happy that it generated a powerful response from individuals, however all of them mutually determined to not go forward with a second season anyway. We will’t think about why. There’s simply no purpose.

Deadline factors out that HBO solely ever launched viewing information for the primary two episodes, with the premiere drawing an even bigger viewers than the premieres of each The White Lotus and Euophoria, however the assumption is that the numbers trailed off rapidly for The Idol slightly than rising like they did for these reveals individuals really like (or at the least appreciated at one time).

However regardless of the purpose, The Idol is useless. For individuals who missed the entire saga, the collection starred Abel Tesfaye, a.ok.a. The Weeknd, as an abusive nightclub proprietor who takes a struggling pop star performed by Lily-Rose Depp underneath his wing, pushing her towards a brand new aggressively sexual persona that he makes use of to regulate her—however, spoiler alert, it later turned out that she was rather more in management than she led different individuals to consider.