Synopsis of 'EMILY IN PARIS', the Story of an American Girl Brave Enough to Work in Paris

Kapanlagi.com - Need a light yet entertaining weekend watch? EMILY IN PARIS is the answer. This series, which aired on Netflix on October 2, 2020, tells the story of Emily Cooper, an American girl played by Lily Collins, who is in Paris to replace her boss. She is trusted by her company to share marketing insights from an American perspective to employees in Paris. Emily, who works in marketing, is required to change their social media strategy to be more appealing.

Emily, who is too positive-thinking, doesn't think about the differences. She thought she would just move places. But as soon as she arrives, she realizes she will have many problems in Paris. Emily comes as a representative of an American company without knowing French. He can only speak English and it makes it difficult for him to communicate while working. He also came to Paris without doing any research. There, Emily found out that the use of social media is very different from when in the United States. It should make her work harder than she should. Plus, now she has to live alone, far from her boyfriend in the United States, which makes her feel lonely.

1. Criticized by the French Society

Not only Emily is facing obstacles, her production studio is also experiencing the same thing. Through social media, the people of Paris consider the series EMILY IN PARIS to be insulting France, especially the native people of the country. In the series, the people of Paris are shown to be arrogant, not liking to speak with English-speaking people, coming to the office as they please, always going to expensive cafes, drinking wine every day, and many more.

The people of Paris feel that the series EMILY IN PARIS does not reflect the reality. They believe that this series wants to make the people of Paris look selfish, superior to others, and rich. It doesn't stop there, on Twitter there is also a hashtag EmilyInParisBad that was trending a few days ago.

One Twitter account said, "If their goal is to create a series that triggers people, I think they succeeded."

2. Still Attracting Many People

Despite being criticized by many people for not reflecting the reality of the people of Paris, the series EMILY IN PARIS is still attracting many people. On IMDB, this series has a rating of 7.5/10, which means EMILY IN PARIS still has many fans. Many people tweeted that EMILY IN PARIS is not bad, they just have a different perspective on this series.

"TV series are made to entertain us, what's the point of showing the everyday life of Paris which is ordinary, what's the benefit of watching that?" said one account.

"EMILY IN PARIS successfully visualizes my dreams, it makes me more excited to achieve them," added another account.

EMILY IN PARIS is starring Lily Collins, Ashley Park, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Lucas Bravo, Samuel Arnold, and  Bruno Grouery. The first season consists of 10 episodes that can be watched on Netflix starting from October 2, 2020.

(kpl/mag)