Emily in Paris
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Instead, she lets out a plaintive wail: Its gorgeous, youre living my life!
And again I wonder: WHY couldnt Madeline have this life?!
There is in fact no reason for this!
We are our own worst enemies in this nightmare world.
Anyway, Madeline encourages her underling-mentor to go out and get laid.
This is not the last time she will admonish her young charge for not having more sex.
I call this Gilmoring, and its … not cute.
I love her for saying my inner monologue aloud.
Why does she break everything?
Can you tell me why she breaks everything?
she asks Gabriel, whom Emily has enlisted as translator.
Shes getting on my nerves.
Nothing but problems since she got here.
Show me the lie!
In a positive and necessary development, Emily has enrolled in a French-language class.
If you keep smiling like that, she tells Emily, people will think youre stupid.
Antoine insists that this is a womans fantasy: to be admired and desired by men.
(It seems obvious that if this were a female-directed fantasy, those dudes wouldnt be fully dressed either?
Like, at the VERY least.)
Emily suggests that,in this climate, American women wont respond to this.
OF COURSE, Antoine is all: Doesntshereally have all the powerbecauseshes beautiful and naked?
(Can someone just send himEmily Ratajkowskis essay on this point?
He goes on: There is no bigger compliment than to be desired!
And it should shock no one that Sylvie is like, Im a woman, not a feminist.
Back at Emilys apartment, the plumber cannot fix the shower.
yet we still spend a whole scene getting to this inevitable conclusion.
Feels like a lot of setup here for basically no payoff.
Over lunch, Emily tells Mindy the least plausible thing in this wildly implausible series: People like me!
Luc pronounces it definitely sexy.
Thank you, Luc.
Emily suggests they put the commercial on Twitter with a poll: Sexy or sexist?
Let the world decide!
I will hand it to her: This is a decent idea.
You walk into my office.
You dont even bother to learn the language.
You treat the city like its your amusement park.
She bolts out of there to Gabriels restaurant, where he the chef!
Gabriel says theres just one problem with that:Helikes her.
At the office, there is a surprise little gift exchange.
Is this sexy or sexist?
A love triangle with the bossandthe client?
Sacre bleu!
Your life is croissants and sex.
Emily wears a beret to French class.
Emily says Cest la vie!
She also describes a view as magical, as if she is the first to deem it so.
Luc laments the arrival of the corporate commandments by shouting, YOU WOULD LIKE TO DESTROY OUR FRENCH SOUL.
Practically everything Mindy says to Emily You told French people this?
No wonder they hate you, Thats the French way, theyre very disagreeable belongs on this list.
Cliche rating:Slipping into lingerie to feel desired by men while you sip a glass of breakfast wine.
