![]() Why am I ranting about Emily in Paris? Well if you can understand some important things about the show you will get postmodernism and hyperreality. ![]() She’s moralistic (but entirely immoral when it comes to her own desires), criticizes everything about France except the things you can consume (fashion, food, wine and sex) and nobody, not even Emily, seems to see how horrible she is because she’s pretty. The worst person in the entire show appears to be Emily herself. The only Asian person in Paris is supposed to be from Shanghai but is played by a Californian (Korean heritage) because, there can’t be any Asian people in Paris *cough* French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia) *cough*. Emily posts that “The vagina is not masculine” and the wife of the French President (Brigitte Macron) re-posts it going “wow, that’s so true” – and then Emily never works on that account ever again having “done” it! Emily discovers that in French vagina is a masculine word (le vagin). Emily is confused by masculine and feminine words. Example: Emily has to market a pharmaceutical product designed for older women’s sexual health. And you had to click on to it, it wasn’t just – on.Įmily’s entire “American perspective” contribution to each of the campaigns that she has to work on usually consists of making up one shite hot-take, and instead it being shot down in flames (as would happen in the real world) everyone reacts as though she is brilliant. You have to see either the Eiffel Tower or the Arc de Triomphe every five seconds or you wouldn’t know where you are even though the show is called. The bit where every French man hits on Emily, which makes them creepy, but the fact that she accidentally sleeps with a 17 year old (which would be statutory rape in many U.S. The bit where The American girl explains feminism to Parisians (even though the show admits the existence of Simone de Beauvoir) completely ignoring the #Balancetonporc (rat out your pig) movement. The between scenes location shots are all drone-filmed, high-def and sparkly, the French people are almost universally presented as being horrible, sleaze-bags or both, and the general effect of watching it is like being a bystander at a violent cultural mugging. It’s grade A, gold plated shit on a plate. She doesn’t speak French, is confused by hi-lair-ious cultural differences and generally treats the city like Disneyland’s Magic Kingdom ( of which more later). ![]() ![]() In it Lilly Collins (Phil’s daughter) plays a Chicago social-media strategist who, accidentally, gets moved to Paris to work in a marketing firm that her company has just bought. If you don’t know what the Charles Dickens I’m talking about, Emily in Paris is an American T.V. Which finally mutated into gleeful consumption! Which turned into my inventing a drinking game to go with watching it (the rules are simple – if you point out a French stereotype before anyone else they have to drink – it degenerated into drinking every time it was awful. It started as an oh-no-this-is-awful response to the trailer, Oh Mah Gawd! My Eyes! My Eyes! Can’t Look Away! It’s beret, beret bad! ![]()
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