Emily In Paris Is A Beautiful Disaster
The Netflix show is easy on the eyes, yet still painful to watch.
Emily In Paris is the #1 show on Netflix at the moment, but for all the wrong reasons. One-star reviews have savagely ripped the show apart, exposing a hollow heart under the pretty exterior. The show is a nonstop display of cultural ignorance and French clichés. Emily arrives in Paris like a tactless tyrant, refusing to speak the language whilst obnoxiously critiquing the French approach to work, relationships, and life in general.
The show fails to hold her accountable for her ignorance. Though Emily’s colleagues call her out on her imperialist approach, ‘you treat this city like an amusement park’, eventually they come around to her American way. The cringe reaches new heights when Emily becomes a popular influencer, with captions such as ‘a little ‘bonjour’ goes a long way’ somehow speaking to stream of adoring followers. Like its leading lady, Emily In Paris fetishizes French culture. The line ‘you live in Paris! your life is croissants and sex’ reads like one of her Instagram captions.
The show only succeeds on an extremely superficial level. The impeccable setting and style throughout is the one thing that keeps you from gauging your eyes out. French beauty and style are at least honoured in Emily In Paris. Emily strains throughout the show to achieve the ‘slouchy, sexy jen ne sais quoi thing’ that her colleagues effortlessly emit. The result is more Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face than Brigitte Bardot. Emily In Paris creates a fantasy version of Paris which simply serves to massage the American ego.
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