'Emily in Paris': the myth of 'la vie en rose' lives on'Emily in Paris' has been accused of recycling tired cliches of the French capitalPARIS - Love it, hate it or love to hate it: the smash-hit Netflix series "Emily in Paris", which perpetuates long-held fantasies about the City of Light involving berets and pleasure-loving Frenchies, leaves no one indifferent. It is a sugarcoated reality that irritates Lindsey Tramuta, an American writer who has lived in Paris for 15 years. Criticised too for magnifying the French-US culture clash, "Emily in Paris" has nevertheless found success in recycling the decades-old cliches and Netflix is entirely at ease with that. "If Emily had come to your city and not 'in Paris', what would the big cliches of the series be?," it joked on Twitter. "We often forget that Americans see Paris as a type of Disneyland -- Emily takes a selfie with a pain au chocolat," says the former model.

Source: Bangkok Post October 15, 2020 02:26 UTC