Netflix romantic comedy Emily in Paris starring Lily Collins is going to run and run since it’s been aired for the first time.
Created by Darren Star and produced by MTV Studios, Emily in Paris was first aired on 2 October on Netflix. The TV shows that tells the story of Emily from Chicago who is hired to increase social media existence of a firm in Paris tries to reflect the American perspective in her job in Paris.
The first season of the TV show is aired and the effects are still visible on social media. How? The TV show tags are used on Instagram, TikTok has videos with Emily’s style and even caricatures related to the TV show are created. On the other hand, Emily in Paris divides the audience into two: those who love the TV show and those who criticize it harshly. The French clichés in the TV shows are accepted but the audience frequently mentions the persuasiveness of these clichés.
Americans Loved the TV Show
The American and French culture conflict in the TV shows continues in the comments. While French people criticized the TV show, American people praise the show.
French fans and critics seem to be disappointed with the TV show, but the TV show is liked in the US so far. While the American critics liked the TV show, other American audiences describe the TV show as easy to watch and stress reliever.
An American editor said: “Emily in Paris is the proof that young people who work in the media and wants to go out must start writing for the TV because there is clearly an audience.
Compared With “Sex and The City”
Emily in Paris screenplay writer team spend time in Paris as a part of their research in this sense, the TV show evaluates Paris from an American perspective. The TV shows that talks about the clichés and Parisians who are not influenced by the clichés with a lovely narrative take the audience to the world of love, croissant and fashion with Paris views. In this sense, Emily in Paris is frequently compared with The Sex and the City and Beverly Hills, 90210 which were also produced by Darren Star. Moreover, Emily’s fashion show fiasco similar to, Sex and the City’s Carrie are among the similarities discussed between these TV shows.
Emily in Paris has the fashion and attraction of Sex and the City but the city is Paris, not New York. Sex and the City TV show made the audience to want to go to New York while Parisians do not think that Paris is reflected right.
“An American Perspective” to Paris
The TV shows tell the French clichés from an American perspective. Emily who arrives from Chicago to Paris starts wearing a beret immediately and she is eating a bagel with cheese in her lunch break. In the TV show, Emily is frequently eating baguette and croissant. On the other hand, there is another cliché that is not always true: Parisians always wear chic clothes, all the women are beautiful and all the men are handsome… In all episodes, her friend Camille, her boss Sylvie and all other women prefer chic and glamorous clothes. Although it is nice to watch these clothes by the audience, this is among the criticized clichés that do not reflect reality. Other clichés in the TV show are Parisians smoking too much, being obsessed with thinness, do not speak English.
Outdated Stereotyped Thoughts
Parisians are extremely happy to describe the city as the center of romanticism. But they also argue that there are outdated stereotypical representations in the TV show. From the first day Emily arrives in the city, she meets handsome French men. The TV show is based on the fact that French men are known as “lovers and romantic”. But overemphasize on this stereotypical thought makes it a bit absurd. Therefore, the TV show loses persuasiveness due to overemphasizing of these stereotypical thoughts.
French Did Not Like the TV Show
French people called the TV show “ridiculous”. Emily’s constantly wearing different heals in every scene and having a budget to change her clothes this frequently, Emily being belittled by her French boss Sylvie Grateau are found “ridiculous” and “absurd”. What is more absurd to the audience is that Emily did not know how to speak French and she relied on a translation app on her smartphone.
French #MeToo Movement: #BalanceTonPorc
There are a lot of scenes in the TV show that made you think about whether they are true. French people say that they are careful about sexist discourse as much as Americans and they react to the scenes that show French as sexists. One of those is as follows: The ad shooting of a thin blond Serbian model across the Alexandre III bridge for a perfume campaign. In the TV show, the model is naked other than the fragrance. Emily who is aware of the #MeToo movement is against the sexism of the campaign. But French perfume brans states that this ad is not sexist but “sexy”.
29-years old Léo Bigiaoui who works in the video sector tells the following for a scene: “This is the parody of nakedness that was used in the ads 20 or 30 years ago.” And he expressed that today such ad style is not trendy and French advertisers will never support such ad video idea.
With French #MeToo movement #BalanceTonPorc, it is known that ad companies work hard to avoid sexist discourse. Florence Coupry, a manager in French strategic communication firms says, “I do not try to sell a perfume by using a video that shows a naked woman who tries to excite men.” She adds, “This is not about being French. Such a campaign will backfire.”
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