On Sunday, The Idol will air its likely series finale capping HBO’s first Sunday Night Showcase miss in recent memory.

Think about it. Succession. White Lotus. The Last of Us. House of the Dragon. Winning Time. All programs that were either beautifully performed, demanded a next level kind of storytelling, or both.

The Idol wasn’t anywhere near that level. Instead, we had a show that to quote Benoit Blanc, wasn’t so dumb it was brilliant, but “Just dumb”.

We had Lily Rose-Depp, who seems like an absolute ball of sunlight in her post show interviews, playing Jocelyn, a character that doesn’t want to be saved from Tedros, a human trafficker/cult leader played by The Weekend, who’s headlined a Super Bowl with his music but is doing no favors for his acting career here. The story is junk.

But it is an HBO Sunday Night Showcase. We got to do the predictions. Let’s go.

I’m predicting zero deaths. For the show to start offing characters now would be a desperation move acknowledging that it needed to shock us into caring about something. And at this point I doubt it would inject any sympathy into the audience. There are zero likable characters on The Idol.

Jocelyn and Tedros will stay together, although the power dynamic will be flipped. We saw a little bit of that in the last episode during that dreadful shock collar scene.

The rest of her entourage will likely defect to Dyanne, who is already in place to take Jocelyn’s spot. Fans of Jennie Ruby Jane’s fans should probably take any victory’s they can find here and move on. I see the star power, but this was the wrong vehicle.

Because dramatically, The Idol never left the driveway and this finale will have to be a next level epic to shift how we’ll remember it after its over.

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