Series · Netflix · 2020
Emily in Paris
A pretty commercial. A bad account of work, love, and a place.
Emily Cooper is not wicked. She is empty in a way the show has mistaken for fizz. A job that exists to inflame wanting, a city used as a backdrop, and a trail of half-attachments presented as a life. It is bright, short, and instructive only as a negative.
Do not give it to a daughter as a picture of going abroad. Going abroad is for learning a place. This is for being looked at in one.
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Industry
4/10
She works in advertising, which the show thinks is a charming talent.
Household
3/10
Romance is a rotation. No one is building a Wednesday.
Piety
2/10
The sacred objects are outfits.
Courage
3/10
Social boldness, spent on brand strategy.
Republic
3/10
Paris is a set. The French exist to be instructed or seduced.
Temperance
2/10
More is the only setting.
Truth
3/10
The job is to make people want things. The show finds this innocent.
Stewardship
2/10
Nothing left behind but posts.
Live historicallyThe next time you travel, even across town, learn one thing the people there already knew.