Oct 30, 20213 min read

Emily in Paris: Merde Fraîche étalée sur D'autres Merdes

Updated: Feb 9, 2023

Reviews by:

@the_owlseyes

RATE THIS SERIES

C’est un gros tas de merde ambulant

Putain de bordel de merde !

C’est des conneries

Ça me fais chier

Merde

Je m’en fous

Tas de merde

C’est con Sale

Enculé Pauvre naze

C’est naze

And now ponder about your life

PLOT

"A young American woman from the Midwest is hired by a marketing firm in Paris to provide them with an American perspective on things" or "A dumb mockery of European and French costumes and people"

SCRIPT

The plot is thin as ice and the characters, all of them, are like cardboards. Emily doesn't have a personality. French people are represented as douchebags. French men are all sex addicts who crave sex and cheat on their partners. It tries to condemn the politically correct by being politically correct, just found out by yourself because it's clear since the first scene. Every dialogue is filled with sexual innuendo an sexual jokes. The women are all heavily sexualized and they seem more like sexual objects. The homosexual character is defined only by his sexual orientation. All the fashion's managers are self-centered, selfish and greedy sharks with no motivation. Just a few French people talk french and it's an insult to french people. Only the elitè is represented here and the series doesn't address paris's problems. It's ludicrous how this series is able to misrepresent the french population by putting only a character of african origins, when most of the french population is made of maghreb's immigrants.

This series is infuriating because it foster betrayal, assault, minor sexualization, women objectification, shallowness,...

It's also for the perpetuation of social immobility and youth unemployement. This series is all we hate about society and all we hate about Netflix. This isn't a simple trainwreck. This is a disaster. I can't give 0 but I feel like the producers should be fired from every job. This series doesn't deserve a continuation, it doesn't even deserve to exist. I'm done.

Script: 1/10

ACTING

Lily Collins is the only decent actor because the others aren't actors or they don't feel like ones. That's unfortunate, because it makes the experience even worse.

Acting: 4/10

PHOTOGRAPHY

Flat Light and colours whitout a meaning. There're just a few good shots but this series isn't able to show us the beautiful Parisian sceneries. Just that. I'm disappointed.

Photography: 5/10

EDITING

Uninspiring and basic. It works but it doesn't bring anything new and bore most of the time. It's a technical 6 but I would've given a lower rating sincerely.

Editing: 6/10

SPECIAL EFFECTS

There's just a few of them and they're imperceptible. Fortunately. This is supposed to be set in a realistic world after all.

Special Effects: 6/10

SOUNDTRACK

I hate it. It doesn't make any f***g sense. It's just made of a pop music's jumble. Most , or all of them, are obnoxious and boring. I don't understand what James Newton Howard has done to craft such an horrendous soundtrack. I wanted to kill myself after every f***g transition. I don't want to say more about it, because it's just shitty and dumb.

Soundtrack: 4/10

COSTUMES

This is the only aspect which is good. Considering that this is a show about fashion, it isn't impressive. The point is that most of the time it feels like a long ad for clothes, which is boring. I want to add that some clothes are laughably bad or funny to look at.

Costumes: 6/10

CONCLUSION