I'm editing a bit after episode 2 because I thought that episode 2 was far superior to episode 1. It really showed how troubled the main character is, and how much the record industry just capitalizes on them as a money machine, and nothing more, and how lonely it is. Had I started with this episode, I would have given a kinder review. The director directs this very much like a movie. The cinematography is interesting to watch.
Depp, like her father, is interesting to watch. Excitement ends there. Sexual shock value of 1995 does not hold well in 2023. No plot, no storyline, and a terrible cliche of what being a star in Hollywood is. Many women in hollywood, even very young women, have their own production companies, I know I did when I was there, and that was a long time ago. These women are taking control of their own careers and they don't want to be over sexualized, they want to be respected as the artist that they are. So to put a show together where somebody is mentally ill and open lines about exploiting the mentally ill and making it all about essentially raping this woman both by the industry and in reality, is unsettling.