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Season 4 of Emily in Paris is out and as a French person, I have a lot of thoughts about it! Here we’ll explore why this show is so controversial and unpack all the stereotypes about French people to see what’s real and what’s fake!
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❤ I absolutely love Emily in Paris. I love the storyline. I love the clothes and I love the scenery. It is so beautiful and it makes me want to visit France more than ever.
As an American i find Emily to be really obnoxious and annoying, haha. Still love the show.
My very favourite of your videos. As a long term left bank resident, I don't always agree with you…
But credit where credit is due. Great well researched video.
PS: the first episode of season 1 reminds me of myself in 1986 when I moved to Paris from London. Awestruck!
It's pure escapism but it's lovely to see Paris captured so well as a city. It's like the city has a starring role.
I have not seen that show as yet, but appreciate your thoughts on it. I'm looking forward to visiting Paris and appreciate your videos in preparation for that day.
Were you in Giverny this week following Emily’s footsteps? Am visiting France with my wife and we thought we saw you! Fun vid btw
Yeah your accent is pretty cute. LOL
Yeah, Americans are so naive that they believe that none-sense. May the "force" be with them 🙂
I think you hit the nail on the head when you stated that this tv show is made for an American audience. I watch it as mindless fun when I have nothing better to do although Emily is an unlikeable character imo.
And that harmful sterotype that French girls are “easy”…well, try having an East European accent, almost everyone thinks you’re a “Natasha” and you’re a mail order bride🙄
Don’t take it too personally, unfortunately people are stupid sometimes.
Thank you for introducing the concept of love POLYGONE
Amelie was a cute movie but you are actually much more beautiful and sexy
I ❤ your vlogs. Please take a lot of sleep 💤 and good diet ❤️🙏🏽😇
Can you do a review of Borat?! 😅😂
One of the things I like about Emily in Paris is how older women (Sylvie et al.) are portrayed as attractive. This is something you don’t see in American films and TV shows. Sylvie’s fashion is stunning in the show; and she seems to be rubbing off on Emily, whose outfits are more sophisticated now.
Emily In Paris is an extremely accurate show about the daily lives and struggles of everyday Parisians–just like how Friends accurately depicts life in 1990's NYC for semi-employed people in their 20's who mostly sit around all day and do nothing, or how Mission Impossible is based on the daily lives of CIA, MI5 and DGSE agents and completely realistic and based on actual events.
And if you believe that, I've got an old Parisian tower to sell you…😂 But yeah, as pure campy escapism entertainment of the high production value sort, it's quite fun.
One thing about movies and TV series that take place in a certain location is that, if the majority of their on location scenes (i.e. not shot on sound stage sets) are actually shot in that location and not in some other location that's meant to be a stand-in for it (the way that Vancouver is also a stand-in for Seattle and Toronto the same for NYC, which I can spot instantly having lived in two and visited the other two), is that no matter how unrealistic and even awful the movie or series is, at least we get to see those locations, which is a saving grace if it's an attractive and interesting one.
So, whatever one thinks of Emily In Paris, Amelie or Lupin (I've never seen the latter), you still get to see gorgeous shots of famous and/or typical Parisian locations, however cliche they may be. Because cliches aren't always bad, and in fact are what most tourists want to see. So they can redeem even the most awful movie or series that way. They're also important historically, because as time moves on you get to see what that location was like 10, 30, 50 years ago or more. Try watching Godard's A Bout de Souffle (i.e. Breathless) and comparing it to the Paris of today. Fascinating.
But seriously, who do they think they're fooling when they try to pass off Vancouver as Seattle or Toronto as NYC, by throwing in some b-roll of the latter? I wonder if anyone's ever try to pass off Lyon or Marseille as Paris. J'Accuse!
Unrelated to Emily in Paris….I know in other videos you've shared you don't wear much makeup, but I'm curious what kind of product you have on your lips? It doesn't look like it's much color, and just a soft balm finish (though the sponsorship section looked a little glossy). Would love to know if you're willing to share. Merci!
France is my favorite country to visit, but I’ve never watched Emily in Paris. 😆
The way you open, pointing out the conceptual parallels between Emily in Paris and Sex in The City is so brilliant!! Having lived in both Paris and different major cities in the US, I think it's quite accurate. No one (at least in the states) ever assumes that Sex in The City is a realistic depiction of NYC. I think anyone who takes the show at face value is shallow and not well educated in general/has literally never traveled outside of a small town. Just like no one should judge Paris as a whole by this show, I hope you don't judge all Americans by the few who stick out like a(n embarrassingly) sore thumb and say rude things like the quote from Moulin Rouge! ❤ Love watching your channel!!
Also, as an American, my parents did the same thing when I was younger. They would give me very small sips of wine to teach me flavor and regional knowledge. 🙂
Very Nice LG. Impressive. Thx Lucile. Clearly your younger tourist. That show is a rip off of the Devil Wears Prada and stuff w/silly stereotypes. Kinda the same sentiment when people try to pretend they are from New Orleans. Never get our accent right. They Just can't.🤭🤭🤭💝💝💝 We grew up w/alcohol too…just a little in coffee or just to teach us. NOLA, very similar. Didn't know this show was still running honestly.
I always wonder where she keeps all her couture clothes(no repeat outfits), living with a roommate in a small what seems like a one bedroom apartment with her friend perpetually crashing 😅 … with one bed
Ohhhh the French are so lucky, all North American movies seem to hire non Eastern Europeans for those roles, with their atrocious accents I can’t understand what in the world they are saying in ‘Russian’ because they are sooooo so soooo sooo terrible at it. I usually have to use subtitles and even then what they say often doesn’t make sense grammatically 😮 I mean it is a hard language, but that is exactly why you hire a native person for the role, even many long term Eastern European immigrants can’t keep the language accent for more than 15 years, yet they continue to hire ‘American’ actors… the fact that they have gotten away with it for so long is completely insane
I really enjoy this show
Gr8 video and amazing content , especially spreading awareness about what French culture and real life in Paris , I had come for my exchange tri mester to study there …. really liked just the normal things of life , n how French people just enjoy daily activities and live life … having local friends really helped
Good looking French girl
As a Scot who's lived in Paris for 15 years I can attest that the only remotely 'real' characterisation in the show is Philippine Leroy. I know and see on a daily basis women of the same age who absolutely rock her look and attitude. The actress nailed it. Lucky me eh?
But Borat was filmed in Romania 😂
It would be amazing if you made a video about the French actors in Emily in Paris 💛
The show is accurate in many points for non French speaker living in Paris but I don’t want to include romance part of show. Anyway Paris is fun and good place to visit and live leaving crime aside 😅😅😅
brilliant, thanks. I love Paris (from a distance , in Romania)