Embarrassing": Netflix's 'Emily in Paris' Blasted by French Critics

[ohmylol]

Parisians and French critics are up in arms over Netflix’s romantic comedy series ‘Emily in Paris,’ which stars Lily Collins as an American overcoming all manner of French stereotypes in her pursuit to become a social media guru. Details: https://t.co/x0UFPffpB4 pic.twitter.com/NbOvwnYwY2
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 5, 2020
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[saintclaire87]

I liked it, it definitely has some issues, like the ones mentioned. It was nice to detach this weekend and daydream.

But it was so messed up how Emily would expect everyone to cater to her or American ways and yet people did. lol

[chocolateamargo]

That is what I found the most ridiculous/funny about this whole thing. Parisian people are vicious about this sort of thing, this girl would never survive there irl (source: my bff that lived in Paris for years aka my friend with a bike)

[missjersey]

I mean I knew all that from the trailer alone but it's an American TV show about an American girl in Paris so IDK what they expected.

[frelling_tralk]

Haven’t watched more than the first two episodes so far, but yeah I definitely didn’t feel like the French characters were portrayed as ~all bad~ like the article suggests. I thought the show seemed pretty sympathetic to their POV actually when they were pointing out to Emily that work isn’t everything there the way that it is in US culture, or that no actually the customer isn’t always automatically right. And it was certainly pointed out plenty that people had a right to be annoyed that Emily had come over to work in their country without being able to speak any French

[zharia]

anyone annoyed by this should watch Call My Agent
but also pretty sure this show was designed to pretty much do that, lol. it's a silly little popcorn show.

also my french friends are very stereotypic lmao i this weekend i got to hear about about the OUTRAGEOUS cost of a baguette ($3) for such "low, american quality baking."

[anachan87]

tbf i think 3$ is too much for a baguette no matter the quality o_O

[pi_lady]

IKR? I think any European would find this price outrageous.

[anachan87]

Yup, a bread would have to be like... sourdough loaf with wholegrain rye, spelt and buckwheat flour and home made by a grandma to explain that price and would still be too high.

[emerald_soul]

But the French are sexist lol

[fernandocolunga]

so are americans

[nalaa1906]

so is the rest of the world