In the last 10 minutes of The Idol's second episode, we watch Lily-Rose Depp's Jocelyn and Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye's Tedros fuck. Well, more specifically, we watch Jocelyn masturbate with a red scarf tied around her head while Tedros, fully clothed, crouches behind a chair and narrates the kind of gratuitously sexual dirty talk anyone who had access to an incognito window at age 14 will be familiar with.
“I want to grab you by the ass while I suffocate you with my cock” he says with all the enthusiasm of someone who just found out they have to work a double shift. While he stares, dead-eyed (although it's not clear if that's a specific acting choice) the camera lingers on Jocelyn performing his commands. She writhes on the bed almost nude, spreading her heeled legs and choking on her own fingers. We'd hesitate to say she pleasures herself throughout the experience, though she moans to a hastening rhythm that tells you she's supposed to be feeling something. Tedros emerges from his crouched perch, with all the energy and sexual enticement of Gollum scurrying for a fish, to unzip his trousers. The camera then pans away from the real mano a mano action in a moment of surprising demureness, asking us to leave the rest to the imagination. But if Tedros' verbalised fantasies are anything to go by, we're not missing out on much.
That's not what the show wants us to feel, though. We're supposed to believe Jocelyn, someone who was happily called the ‘human cum sock’ in the last episode, is about to have the most mind-altering sex of her entire life – the kind of sex that's going to make her throw her whole career away (dun dun dun!). Tedros is such a once-in-a-lifetime sexual behemoth that he's literally lust-blinding Jocelyn with brilliant lines like *checks notes* “make that throat wet for me”.