I’m watching series 5 but finding it hard going. I want escapist fun but I can’t stand feeling constantly sold to. It’s not relaxing or fun just like an advertising billboard and it constantly takes me out of the drama.
I love Sylvie as the best (because she’s the only remotely complex) character. but even she is being forced to choose her partners when the point is she should be able to have it all in this carefree unrealistic world. Mindy is a great character too. I love her singing and dancing she’s a really watchable fun actress and I hope she does get together with the guy Emily that is being so unnecessarily wierd about. I find all the men characters pretty wooden and underwritten. Nobody male or female has any real complexity or inner life at all. That could be OK iin a frothy drama in the right hands but these writers are not that.
it’s just so badly written. Emily saying to a random new bloke ‘sometimes it’s hard to be an American in Paris’ ‘I really needed this’ yet when have we ever seen her having less than an instant crew of workmates who include her in everything and a amazing set of BFFs and love interests that she meets once and is forever pals or smitten with. And an apartment in a swish area on some junior marketers’ salary? Never an even tiny hint of lonliness or sadness. And the solution involves placing multiple brands directly in shot at the same time with Emily sat around them. Gross.
The actress who pays Emily is also so underweight it’s very concerning for her health which is very suggestive of programme makers who don’t give a shit about anything or anyone except making money out of their star.
The endless overt product placement is absolutely exhausting and a massive turnoff. Emily in Paris is unfortunately not made to make a fun, pretty-looking frothy romantic TV series that we’d all enjoy watching.
Emily in Paris is a marketing vehicle for endless brand hookups with a plot cobbled together around that. The Minnie driver character with her laughable product placement is just to stuff in smaller more affordable advertising slots. It’s grim.
Emily in Paris is series-long advert for lots of different products. So it’s a shame the writing is so terrible because Darren Starr could have absolutely afforded to employ someone good to do it, as the company are clearly coining it in being sponsored by these hundreds of different brands.. ugh.