The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp's sex scene in 'The Idol' is giving viewers the ick: 'I will never see The Weeknd the same'

• Episode two of "The Idol" features an explicit sex scene between The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp.
• Viewers blasted the scene as porny and cringe, comparing its dirty talk to "smut on Wattpad"

If there's one thing "Euphoria" creator Sam Levinson knows how to do, it's stoke controversy — or at least fan the flames of Twitter discourse. And his embattled new HBO series "The Idol" is already following suit in delivering some cringe-y, wince-inducing scenes.

In episode two of the series, which aired Sunday night on HBO, Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye's character Tedros seduces Lily-Rose Depp's emotionally vulnerable pop star Jocelyn. So begins a scene of some pretty NSFW dirty talk — this isn't TV, it's HBO (or Max), after all —all of which is delivered by Tesfaye with a dead-eyed stare.

While commanding Jocelyn to do different poses and perform various sex acts, Tedros says things like, "You look like a treat," "Imagine my tongue on your pussy — my fat tongue," and "Put your finger down your throat, make that throat wet for me."

I could go on, but I won't.

Eventually, Depp's character performs a sex act that is more heard than seen, but trust me, you won't be able to unhear the noises.

Viewers took to Twitter to blast the scene's porny dialogue and The Weeknd's poor acting.

"I will never see The Weeknd the same after this," user @melissaxperez_ wrote.

One user pointed out that while The Weeknd's entire musical persona is centered around drugs and sleazy sex, coldly delivering lines about it instead of singing it in a song hits different.

A.V. Club writer Saloni Gajjar criticized the scene's dialogue, saying it sounded like it was "written by a teenager who's read a lot of smut on Wattpad and counts it as 'sexual experience.'"

Others preferred to leave their reactions in GIF form.

The lurid scene is hardly the first controversy surrounding "The Idol." A bombshell Rolling Stone report from March alleged that the show wasted millions to turn the show into a "rape fantasy" after original director Amy Seimetz left the project and Levinson reshot and rewrote much of the series.

Not everybody was scarred or outraged by the scene, however.

"I LOVE that people are freaking out over this. Prudes," reporter Jeff Sneider wrote, in part.

"It's funny watching The Idol and being like, 'This? This is what the fuss was about?' It's some mild bdsm and some dirty talk, not The Rite of Spring," wrote journalist Sean T. Collins.

Others had less of a problem with the sex acts, and more of an issue with the point of the scene itself.

"I don't understand how people don't see #TheIdol as just a man putting all of his weird ass sexual fantasies into television. The only good part about the show was when Lily-Rose Depp was as far away from The Weeknd as possible," wrote @_carsmb.

"The Idol is back today. It's maybe the worst HBO pilot I've ever seen," actor and writer Luke Barnett tweeted. "It's like if Entourage took itself completely serious and was also written by a 17 year old boy going through a weird phase and also starred a rapper who'd never acted."

If you're into that sort of thing — no judgment here – "The Idol" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO.