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February 5, 2022,
Comedy is no laughing matter.
Just ask an ex-comic. Or a current struggling one. They should know.
Especially if they just got their TV series cancelled and recently purchased an L.A. mortgage.
It may be easy to make people laugh once or twice but to do it on a regular basis has to be challenging.
Unless you are naturally funny.
Few of us are.
We find it difficult to watch a comedy series in the long-term. Some of the skits just get too crazy and the laugh track distracting.
So we tend to watch dramas.
Apparently we are not alone.
That’s why there are literally three FBI shows running concurrently. That’s not to mention the other procedural criminal investigation television series that are prolific on the airwaves.
Should we even talk about the hospital dramas?
Or the legal lawyer based ones?
Not today.
But we do watch them, almost to burnout.
Even in the movies. We have seen so many haggard looking, road weary, traumatized police detectives, chasing down extremely clever serial killers and trying to stay ahead of terrorists that it kind of made us road weary too.
There is so much bad news in the world already with an under lying feeling, the worst is yet to come.
So we decided to take a break and watch a dramedy.
Comedies are too hard to take but a dramedy is somewhere in the middle. At least for now, we can live with that.
That’s why we decided to binge watch Emily In Paris.
Life in balance.
Emily in Paris is an American comedy-drama streaming television series created by Darren Star for Netflix.
Set and filmed in Paris, the series stars Lily Collins (born in the United Kingdom) as the eponymous Emily, an American who moves to France to provide an American point of view to Savoir, a French marketing firm.
She truly sounds American, especially when she is trying to learn French or in the middle of having passionate sex.
In Paris, she struggles to succeed in the workplace while searching for love and experiencing a culture clash with her “boring” and mundane Midwestern U.S. upbringing as seen by many of her French contemporaries.
The storyline follows Emily, a driven 20-something American from Chicago who moves to Paris for an unexpected job opportunity.
Her boyfriend wants her to stay in Chicago and when she decides not to, he dumps her.
She is tasked with bringing an American point of view to a venerable French marketing firm. Cultures clash as she adjusts to the challenges of life in Paris while juggling her career, new friendships, and love life.
She smiles a lot.
She falls in love a lot. She has a lot of sex.
Sometimes with another girl’s boyfriend.
The girl just happens to be a very good friend.
Things get a little messy.
Don’t worry, Emily will smile her way through that situation too.
She’s Gidget, Marcia Brady, That Girl, Penny Robinson, Mary Stone, Holly Golightly, Dorothy, Audra Barkley, I Dream of Jeannie and Sister Bertrille styled in a $2,000 designer Habit, all rolled inside a delicious pink French Crepe with a yellow sugary chiffon bow.
Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and originally developed for Paramount Network, where it was given a straight-to-series order in September 2018, the series moved to Netflix on July 2020.
Filming takes place in Île-de-France, mainly in Paris and its suburbs, and began in August 2019.
Emily in Paris premiered on October 2, 2020, to positive reviews in the United States but was criticized in France with many French critics condemning the show for negatively stereotyping Parisians and the French.
Okay, that seems a little harsh.
At least the show didn’t have a French Canadian mouse swing through the air while Emily’s boss was adjusting her tight girdle and sing “Savoir-Faire eez everywhere!”
We have seen at least 100 French films, made in France, admittedly mostly dramas (many filled with serial killers) and we saw only a few stereotypes here.
Well, maybe more than a few but isn’t it called a dramedy, which means there is comedic moments and comedies exaggerate everyone.
Even Emily is somewhat of an American cliché.
Some people are always hard to please.
Not all though.
In November 2020, the series was renewed for a second season by Netflix, which started filming in May 2021 and premiered on December 22, 2021.
What we liked about Emily, after watching too many coffee gurgling (no sugar), cigarette chain smoking and baggy eyed road weary cops, was that this always sunny and positive girl was such a breath of fresh air.
Even though she is constantly insulted by her female boss, who dresses like she is a judge on Project Run way, Emily always sees the bright side of things.
She is one big smile machine who is always diplomatic, creative and horny.
Emily is a graduate of the “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all” Online Institute.
Watching the show we actually have learned a lot about what living the life of an influencer means.
Emily has a wonderful way of getting herself out of the jams she finds herself in and fortunately there are more people in high places who love her more than those that don’t
This is a refreshing tale about life as we would like it to be.
There is not a terrorist, extremist, conspiracy theorist, serial killer or riot in sight.
We know the real Paris is not like that.
The world is not like that.
America certainly isn’t like that.
That’s why sometimes we need a break.
Emily lives a life where she looks like she consults with the staff at Vogue, Seventeen, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan and the Kardashians on the latest fashion styles and trends.
How does she afford all of those clothes on an Influencer’s salary?
Life as we would like it to be.
It is the France where everyone is falling in love, having affairs, eating at great restaurants and meeting handsome French guys who are extremely good at flirting with and wooing women.
No wonder, they have more recreation time on their hands than Americans.
The team, nicely dressed, at today.com educates, “Looking to break free from the shackles of the world’s longest leash, a new French law makes it illegal for companies to send emails to employees outside of regular work hours.”
Not a workaholic in sight.
The French live for life, love and fashion. Not to work like crazy, get paid minimum wage, sleep in their cars because they have $200,000 in student loan debt and can’t afford California and New York home prices like so many Americans do.
No different wardrobe change every day like Emily. Especially not in your car.
As far as we can tell, Emily doesn’t drive. She changes in her Paris apartment with a handsome French Chef, living below her, ready to kiss her and have sex with her.
That is why, in part, she loves France and decided to stay.
For another season.
It is absolutely life as we would love it to be where your greatest concerns are what to stylishly wear and what café you are going to have lunch at.
And when and where you are going to have sex. Your apartment or Emily’s?
Inquiring minds would like to know.
It is a refreshing break from societal breakdown, angry politics, criminals running amok and the haggard looking cops who have to capture them.
If Emily In Paris was a portal that people could walk through to live a very different life, Emily would welcome you with open arms, a huge smile, birth control pills and free fashion subscription boxes.
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