Why you should watch Emily in Paris
By: Kitty Kye
Tags: Women, Review, Netflix, Series, Life

Emily in Paris is a Netflix Original series about an American girl who gets transferred to Paris for her dream work. The first season consists of ten episodes and premiered on Netflix on October 2.

After finishing this short, 10x30 minutes feel-good series here are my reasons for you to check it out.

1. Short episodes

The creators were geniuses. With 30 minutes per episode, Emily in Paris is easy to fit into your schedule. An episode is just enough for a short unwind at the end of the day, but it’s also perfect to binge-watch if you have some extra time.

2. Digestible

This series is very light and digestible. It is about a young woman who moves to Paris to work for a marketing firm to provide the American perspective for them. Although moving to another country is a complex and difficult topic to discuss it focuses on the fairytale side of it, just as Paris itself is considered a “fairytale destination”.

Nothing is overwhelming in this storyline. Even when it seemed like a major fight or struggle would come, the consequences of each act have been swiped under the rug. Emily in Paris cannot be further from reality — and that’s exactly why I loved it.

3. Dreamy

Who wouldn’t love to see magical Paris? Who wouldn’t love to get their opportunity of a lifetime to do their dream job in such a spectacular city, meet interesting new people and level up in their careers?

Emily in Paris shows exactly this dream life. Especially when the romance plot with handsome Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) commences and the lady watchers melt into their sofas.

Of course this dreaminess can be way too much. I did my homework and read the so far existing stories about Emily here on Medium, as well as other reviews of the show. They were definitely right: this production is nothing but a fairytale. A guilty pleasure of busy women, a false picture of life, unnecessary mocking glass to French people and so on.

Con: Don’t watch Emily in Paris if…

So, I thought I could list at least two more valid reasons why to watch Emily — but the fellow writers of the strict reviews were right: it can be as annoying as entertaining.

Originally, I planned to list here “4. Outfits” and “5. The Guys” as definite pros why to watch the series, until I realized they annoyed me. Why?

4. Outfits

Emily is no fashionista. In fact, there’s an episode about her style being mediocre according to a great designer. She accepts it as she never really tried to be stylish. The annoying thing is that she is always chic and classy.

In fact, she’s so chic and classy I hate her for it. Like, how the hell did you stuff all those awesome shoes into your luggage?

This is definitely something this series would never care to explain, and neither should we care too much. The same applies to my other Con:

5. The Guys

Yapp. Not only is Emily awesome at her dream job and always chic, she is also surrounded with awesome guys of different backgrounds. Surprisingly, she stuns all of them with no adequate explanation. She reminds me of those Barbie movies I consumed as a child.

If I really want to, I can find a logical explanation to this one: Emily is the perfect girl next door: she’s naturally nice and charming, a little goofy who’s not anxious to knock on her neighbor’s door in a piece of towel because her shower went bad. I get it, and I can get over it.

I can lean back and enjoy the show even if our protagonist seems to be perfect in each and every area of her life — but I understand completely if some of us busy women do not tolerate this effortless rainbow-colored marshmallow cloud she lives in.

Still, it’s a good series

If you, dear women out there don’t get annoyed by all that above, I would suggest you to give Emily in Paris a try. It’s like Sex and the City, but lighter and quicker — and that is a big yes for me.

I probably would have stopped watching after two episodes if they were longer — then, this series would have wanted to seem more that it was. But again, the creators knew what they were doing and put a pretty fun, easily digestible fairytale series on the table.

If you wish to relax with something else than rocket science, give Emily in Paris a try!