I Lived In France For A Short While So Here Are Some Thoughts About Emily In Paris

When I found out that there was a new Netflix series called Emily in Paris I was a little salty about it for two reasons. One, I had previously created a character on TikTok called “Girl Who Lived in France for a Short While” who was also named Emily, who I had created in March and that seems suspicious to me. Two, I, like Emily, moved from the Chicago area to the Paris region to work there for a little while and I expected the show to be way different from my own personal experience — and I was right about that.

If you haven’t given in and watched all 10 episodes of Emily in Paris yet, here’s a short recap. A girl named Emily Cooper who lives in Chicago and has a cool social media job gets an even cooler job doing social media for a Parisian marketing agency. She doesn’t speak any French and her coworkers hate her because she doesn’t speak French and is loud and pretty annoying and ruins things all the time. That doesn’t matter, though, because she has a hot neighbor who is nice to her and is also a chef. There’s sexual tension between them, but he has a girlfriend who also becomes one of Emily’s best friends. It’s okay though because every other man Emily meets during the show also wants to have sex with her because she is Emily in Paris and is very hot. Her coworkers hate her less. And that is pretty…