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“Emily in Paris”? More like \u201cEmily in a Coma.\u201d<\/p>\n
Season 3 of Netflix’s poisson<\/em>-out-of-water comedy series \u2014 about a Chicago simpleton who moves to France and causes a fracas \u2014 is a total, crashing bore. The 10 episodes are so dull, you can’t even hate-watch them, for hate requires passion. <\/p>\nThe time has come for exhausting Emily to pack up and leave La France for good.<\/p>\n
When \u201cEmily in Paris,\u201d by \u201cSex and the City\u201d and \u201cYounger\u201d creator Darren Star, premiered in October 2020, viewers were bitterly divided. Some \u2014 including me \u2014 found it to be an effervescent, sexy escape during persistent lockdowns, while an angry mob of dissenters decried the show as a campy insult to the French. (What’s wrong with that?)<\/p>\n
Lily Collins’ Emily strutted around town in couture, proved herself to Parisians with gumption and began a hot flirtation with suave French chef Gabriel (Lucas Bravo).<\/p>\n
A year later, Season 2 stayed the course and added a jolt of energy in the form of studly British banker Alfie (Lucien Laviscount), who put a wedge between Em and her smitten kitchen catch. But Netflix just couldn’t manage a trois<\/em>.<\/p>\nThis time we get \u2026 workplace politics and songstress Mindy (Ashley Park) having a fling with a friend from boarding school. The effect is Le Ambien. The tedious office shenanigans involving the Savoir group, the relationship retreads and backpedaling and every clunky thing Kate Walsh does as the oblivious American boss Madeline all melt the mind like so much Gruyere.<\/p>\nEmily (Lily Collins) goes nowhere as a character in the latest batch of 10 boring episodes. <\/figcaption>COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\t<\/aside>\nSeason 3 is mostly about Madeline dumping Savoir, then desperately wanting the company back in the fold, while the French employees have secretly formed their own separate agency. Is this \u201cEmily in Paris\u201d or \u201cMergers and Acquisitions\u201d?<\/p>\n
I grew weary of the once-an-episode marketing pitches from Emily, a supposed industry wunderkind with the world’s most obvious, try-ketchup-on-your-burger ideas. Every time she is presented with a product, she exclaims \u201cLet’s sell it as luxurious and boutique!\u201d and then it’s a raging success. Every damn time.<\/p>\n
And now she doesn’t even butt heads with boss Sylvie. The show’s best casting was always Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Emily’s coolly removed Paris manager. Now Sylvie half-heartedly respects Emily, but she still puts on airs. Indecisive and dull. <\/p>\nThe staff of Savoir engage in secret corporate maneuvers while Emily looks like she’s going to audition for \u201cMyst\u00e8re\u201d in Las Vegas. <\/figcaption>COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBut what about the fashion? It used to be fun gawking at Patricia Field’s brightly hued clothes, but now they look increasingly like the wardrobe of a Cirque du Soleil clown out on the town.<\/p>\n
And the sizzling romance was once the plot’s saving grace. Nothing else mattered so long as viewers, devouring their pints of Ben & Jerry’s, could picture themselves moving to Paris and getting cozy with a gorgeous chef whose restaurant sits conveniently below their apartment. The role of Gabriel made a star out of Bravo (he’s gone on to play Julia Roberts’ younger French lover in \u201cTicket to Paradise\u201d), and he and Collins’ Emily had a cute will-they-won’t-they chemistry. At this point, we’re all saying \u201cWill they please stop?\u201d<\/p>\nEmily’s relationship drama with Alfie (Lucien Laviscount, left) and Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) this season is dull and repetitive. <\/figcaption>ST\u00c9PHANIE BRANCHU\/NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAlso sad is that Gabriel, either because of the newly womp-womp character or Bravo’s acting choices, is suddenly sapped and sparkless \u2014 even when he and Emily are alone, without the pressures of his engagement to Camille. So, the show’s central pair is a wash.<\/p>\n
There were bombshells in the season finale, and those too had all the force of a puff of smoke.<\/p>\n
And then there’s snoozy Emily. She’s lived in Paris for a year, has a decent and influential job and a clique of French friends, yet she still behaves like a doofus with an upside-down road map. She doesn’t grow, she doesn’t change, she does whine.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily in Paris\u201d has been renewed already for a fourth season \u2014 but I demand deportation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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“Emily in Paris”? More like \u201cEmily in a Coma.\u201d Season 3 of Netflix’s poisson-out-of-water comedy series \u2014 about a Chicago simpleton who moves to France and causes a fracas \u2014 is a total, crashing bore. The 10 episodes are so dull, you can’t even hate-watch them, for hate requires passion. The time has come for …<\/p>\n
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