Emily in Paris (2020– )
1/10
Banality and Baguettes
3 February 2021
This show is a tiresome mash-up of over-used television show and movie platitudes masquerading as plot. The actress playing the main character of "Emily" (a young marketing executive from Chicago dispatched to Paris) clearly honed her skills watching those kiddie shows on the Disney Channel, where "acting" consists only of eye-rolls, head-tilts, raised eyebrows, and overwrought facial expressions.

The save-the-day pitch to the key client? Lifted from any random "Bewitched", with a dash if "Mad Men".

The handsome meet-cute neighbor? We all know that he will become the romantic interest (but, as we also all know, not before an awkward discovery on Emily's part that he already has a girlfriend).

The "cool" crazy-rich clearly out-of-place and contrived Chinese friend? See "Crazy Rich Asians".

Throw in some predictable stereo-types about French people, mix with casual sex, and you are left with essentially a well-photographed, but ultimately unwatchable waste of time.
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