Emily in Paris: our favorite shots on France in 10 gifs

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by Marion Olité

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Since its launch on Netflix, the comedy Emily in Paris has ignited social networks because of its caricature painting as possible of the French capital and its inhabitants.Freshly arrived from Chicago, Emily will live in a postcard Paris, with a view of the Eiffel Tower, jogging at the Tuileries and Voisin Beau Gosse, incidentally chef cook.

So on the one hand, we swallowed our crooked butter crescent facing certain Over the Top scenes (like Emily with its red beret tasting a baguette) or even hurtful for our ego, on the other,Some jokes based on shots are quite funny.Among the heap of shots present in the series, we retained some that made us laugh (or edgy, it is according to) because it must be admitted, they are not completely false!

The good room on the top floor, without elevator

With a bonus, a not nice goalkeeper!It is known but it is unfortunately true and the series has fun in the first episode: a large part of the Parisian apartments do not have an elevator - and not only those with old rooms of good.So certainly, it makes the thighs to go up six floors every day, but we are not going to lie, it's downright relou.

As for the places in question, on the other hand, we are far from the truth - for having visited a package (including one with the shower in the kitchen, why not?).Emily's studio is more like a charming loft in one of the most expensive districts in Paris than a good room.And I'm still waiting to meet a neighbor as sexy as Gabriel.Besides, beware, plot twist violent for those who ignore it: in Paris, the neighbors do not speak to each other.

French people are vulgos and have a dirty character

Even if we do not all have a pig character, let's say that from an American point of view, we can actually pass for people who are not..Without being as bitch as Sylvie, the Boss of Emily who looked at the devil too much dressed in Prada, the French and even more the Parisian · stressed can slightly miss tact, especiallyearly morning, if he or she has not yet taken her coffee and her butter crescent and hits the line 13 to come to the job!But once this initial period of hostility has passed, we can be as helpful as Gabriel and smile in life (even people in the big evenings).

This opera scene is also rather accurate: we confirm that this kind of Parisian guy and snob, who always knows everything better than his girlfriend, exists in real life.And that indeed, one of the best ways to answer him is still to plant him and make him a big finger, like Emily.

On the menu: red wine and extension lunch

Among the small exaggerated but not completely false spikes: there is the fact that in Paris, we start late in the morning (around 9:30 a.m.) and we take rather substantial lunch breaks at noon.Not necessarily with wine, but let's admit.What the series does not really say, or awkwardly, is that if the Parisian does not take their time at the beginning of the day, it is because it is long, that their professional and personal lives areMix and that they do not finish working at 5 p.m., but rather at 8 p.m..Emily in Paris has a vague tendency to make us pass for alcoholic laziness, it would be a question of restoring the truth!

French and sex

If the series questions with a certain relevance the French culture of seduction in the era Me Too (in episode 3 "sexy or sexist?"), It also paradoxically surfs on fairly sexist shots.Men like women are more liberated, inclined to be unfaithful to their partner and to cheerfully mix and personal lives.Not everyone shares this fantasy vision of French sexuality.This vision is reproduced in the series in a unwelcome way: Emily receives lingerie on the part of a client who seems to have double his age (and she is told that it is normal and that she even risksSylvie on Back, so it's her fault when she didn't ask for anything).Then she flirts with another rich customer to whom we give forty, and all this is shown in a very casual way.To make a good measure, we will also see her sleeping one evening with a young man who will reveal himself, to his great dismay, minor.

We actually have the same vision as America on questions of sexuality.But the series seems to make believe that, as we are French, we think that all is fun, messy and sexy.In reality, this vision is very masculine, as demonstrated by the Me Too movement.If some stars, such as Catherine Deneuve and her disconnected friends, defended the "freedom to annoy" men (implying to flirt heavily when nothing has been asked), others, and in all areas of thecompany, raised their voice to denounce the patriarchal system specifically at work in France, which uses the alleged sexuality liberated from the French to better dominate them.

This culture of "French seduction" that Emily discovers, and who would like women and men to be sexual beings freed from any system of domination, 100 % consenting and on an equal footingLit, is a lie lying that it would be good not to reproduce Ad Vitam Eternam in the series that speak of French culture.It is perhaps the only cliché that really annoyed me in the series, because it is the most reactive '.

We smoke like firefighters

You may not know it, but in the United States, smoking is prohibited less than several meters from shops and restaurants in most states.It has been a long time since America has banned cigarettes.In France (as in many Latin countries), separation is longer.Nothing will prevent the inhabitants of the capital from landing on the terrace, heated in winter, with a glass of wine and a cigarette in the beak.

If the number of smokers drops each year (24 % of French people smoke daily against 28 % in 2014), not so long (five, six years), it could happen that an employeeOr a star of passing through going to smoke in the premises.But obviously, this scene in which Sylvie smokes with her client on her business premises, in broad daylight, is downright exaggerated.

We can't stand when a person does not speak French

If Emily wants to impose her American point of view on her colleagues a little quickly, the series points to a fairly true point, especially among boomers: the pride of the language.Many do not speak English and have no effort to understand foreigners or tourists passing through our beautiful country.

In a fairly funny episode, the young woman tackles the fact that Molière's language is gendered, and sometimes absurdly (we say "the vagina", while we talk about the female genital organ) but sheis regularly yelling by her colleagues because she does not speak French.What is not frankly relevant, knowing that its sector, marketing (even luxury), is still dominated by Anglo-Saxon language, and if we follow history, it is the firm ofChicago, where Emily comes from, who bought the agency know.Let us add that for the needs of the series, many characters speak to him ... in English.In real life, dear English speakers, I regret informing you that you will find few people in France who speak to you as well English!But you surely already know: Emily's Paris only exists most of the time in its series.

The entire first season of Emily in Paris is available on Netflix.