Emily in Paris

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 2, 2020
Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
5.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 42 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 42
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 42
  3. Negative: 14 out of 42
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  1. Mattyice
    Oct 8, 2020
    1
    Vain, obnoxious, and just annoying to watch, this show is a total departure from Darren Star's usual creations. Horribly written, truly poor acting from the lead, and just aggravating plots that are not entertaining in the slightest. It's a shallow and embarrassingly stereotypical view of Paris and not an honest look at the city. Not a good show at all and just stupid in all respects.
  2. JohannaDark
    Oct 7, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Yes, most of the clichés are true. I live in France so... There is dog poo everywhere, you can expect not to be liked because you are a foreigner, your way is never the good one, you are pretty much ignored, and so on. Other than that, after the third episode, the show became a piece of carp. She gets away with everything, she's the best, she's the most beautiful one, the smartest, she's perfect. All men she encounters instantly fall in love with her, and except Gabriel and Antoine, all of them are single, wel, well, what do you know what a coincidence. And even Gabriel and Antoine are just mesmerized by miss America, even though she's much more ordinary than Gabriel's girlfriend. But hey that's where a big mouth, thick'n'dark eyebrows and really kitchy clothes, can take you, aparently. Everything is sooo exaggerated, from the stupid idea that you'll get by without speaking french, and even receive smiles while doing it (one of the biggest bsht ever), when even people that speak a good French have problems finding a job, to the "ohhh wow what do you know ntz ntz ntz, I need to sit in his lap while his girlfriend is happily driving", not to mention Macron's wife sharing her post... So, so cheap and forced. At the influencer party she has THE idea and what do you know, it's thaaa best. Making an excentric designer yell at you, oow no problem, just stalk him and go tell him about the crap you were watching as a kid on TV and baaam contract landed, and you even become best friends.. Usually I don't take TV shows this serious, but this one really annoyed me big time. Every episode I hoped at least one thing will go wrong to counterbalance the rest of the perfect story, but no. I didn't expect to see reality, that's way too nasty, (I've been unemployed for almost two years, and I do speak French) but not this either, landing into Paris with just a bonjour, and in a few weeks kissing with designers and landing luxury contracts every single minute, that's when she's not sleeping with all the hypnotized men that fall at her skinny feet in seconds from saying hello... Truth is that yes, most of the french women I've met are stuckups and even I know two men that have divorced at least two times till now, and having met one of the ex wives, I'm not surprised, and I don't live in Paris, but I really think this character is way too overpumped with perfection, and that is why I really don't expect the second season. Unless Emily starts being thrown a bit into the reality pot, it's just not worthed.… Expand
  3. hankplee
    Oct 11, 2020
    0
    The clichés, jokes, and perspective on Paris is about as accurate as any Disney Channel original—and that's a kind way of putting it. As an American who lived in Paris on and off growing up, the show is miserable to watch. Painful, inaccurate, and self-important.
  4. liziveta97
    Jan 4, 2022
    0
    It's insulting of France and French people. Just garbage that impossible to watch. And it's insulting of American people.
  5. KingintheO
    Oct 4, 2020
    0
    Abysmal. Just downright awful. Her biggest problems are boys and her boss not liking her. Shut up. There is little to no plot and the acting is comparable to a bad Hallmark movie. This show has ruined Paris for me.

    It is as vain and empty as the influencers it depicts. I am usually against censorship, but this unavailing snoozefest is unfit for human consumption.
  6. polliann
    Jan 5, 2022
    0
    We should cancel this hateful cheesy tv show. It's too insulting for everyone.

Awards & Rankings

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#26 Most Discussed TV Season of 2020

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Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 18
  3. Negative: 5 out of 18
  1. The Detroit News
    Reviewed by: Tom Long
    Nov 30, 2020
    25
    The warm and goofy and topical camaraderie of that show [“Sex and the City”] is nowhere apparent here. Nor are any laughs. There are no actual laugh lines here, just lines that let you know they were supposed to be funny. It is, in essence, a romantic picture postcard comedy show without any comedy (or much romance for that matter).
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  2. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Kristen Lopez
    Oct 23, 2020
    25
    “Emily in Paris” is like scrolling through Instagram. It’s a great way to waste time looking at pretty pictures with no depth, taken by beautiful people with the ability to do and call it a job. If that’s what you’re looking for, it’ll be for you. If you’re thinking this is the second coming of “Sex and the City,” sorry, no dice.
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  3. Slate
    Reviewed by: Willa Paskin
    Oct 15, 2020
    50
    It’s TV chick lit, a rom-com in a foreign location where nothing bad ever happens and the cute protagonist gets laid a lot on her way to having it all. But the complicating thing about Emily in Paris—the best thing about it really, the thing that turns it from a trifle people enjoy into a curiosity they enjoy insulting—is how brittle its protagonist is.
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