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The controversial series finally wrapped up, but with its most misogynistic, ugly, and offensive episode yet. Here’s what you missed.

Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/HBONear the beginning of The Idol’s fifth and final episode, “Jocelyn Forever,” a bunch of music executives smushed together on a couch to watch a 20-minute-long, glorified middle school talent show. They were all confused. And as they stared in bewilderment at the naked, dancing 20-somethings, I, too, wondered what in the world I was watching. But I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, as the last four episodes of this series have been almost equa

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/HBO“I’m only watching,” Destiny (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) says in the first few minutes of the most recent Idol episode. “Observing his moves.”Jocelyn’s (Lily-Rose Depp) co-manager Destiny infiltrates the “cult” in the penultimate episode of The Idol, “Stars Belong to the World.” Yes, although it’s been reported that this is a six-episode season, and this most recent installment, this flaming hot mess, hardly feels like it’s leading to a finale.

This is the worst episode of “The Idol” yet.

HBOThis week’s chapter of The Idol begins with one of the best eyerolls in recent memory, partially because it comes from the wildly talented Rachel Sennott (who plays personal assistant Leia), but because it echoes my exact sentiment towards this dreadful new episode. With lazy parallels to the cult-like Manson Family, torture scenes, and jokes about Jeffrey Epstein, “Daybreak,” which marks the halfway point of Season 1, The Idol has become completely unsalvageable.The eyeroll comes as Leia dri