Show Review: Emily in Paris
December 1, 2020
Two words: don’t bother.
I have heard so many things about this show and have seen so many people raving about it online so I figured I would give it a go. I got half way through it and couldn’t do any more. It was entirely unrealistic and there was little to no backstory.
It starts out with Emily’s boss getting ready to go to Paris for a year to help out an ad agency that the company that she works for recently bought. The woman above Emily has a masters in French and understands the culture that she will be living in for the next year. She is through the mood excited and suddenly she becomes nauseated by the smell of a perfume and * poof * she finds out she’s pregnant and decides to not go on the trip, in stead, sending Emily. For starters, I don’t think that would stop this American business woman from going overseas for a year – if anything it would be like a last hoorah before the baby. Secondly, I am sure there were plenty of other, much more qualified, people that could have gone to Paris other than Emily. She does not speak French, she does not understand that there is a culture difference, and she has no fashion sense what-so-ever. I am not sure what the costume designers were thinking when putting a young, beautiful, woman in Paris in the wardrobe that they gave Emily. Also, she had to leave her boyfriend in Chicago when she left for Paris (where she would be living for one year) and within a week he was going to come visit her (this is not the stretch) but calls her and breaks up with her over the phone because he doesn’t want to leave Chicago. He would have been gone a week. He had given her an ultimatum that if she doesn’t come home that it was over. Again, she was going to be gone a year, not moving there forever, was excited for her almost fiancé to see Paris with her and he just doesn’t want to go. The worst part of all of this is that no one really even tried to make the relationship look believable. There was not chemistry and the audience was given very little context with their relationship other than the fact that they had one.
Emily is supposed to be a excellent social media asset to the company, and so they show her posting rather often, but all of her posts are very…dated. They feel as though they are being posted when Instagram first came out ten years ago. Each post has a hashtag or two and no caption alongside her, very close, selfie. Not very many young people that I know still post like this. She is out of date and out of touch.
All in all it was ( what I watched of it at least ) beautifully shot show with incredible views if the stunning city, but was a complete disaster otherwise. I would not suggest this unless you just want to watch it to see Lily Collins walk around Paris in terrible outfits.
