Emily Cooper could have been right when she said, “I like Paris, but I’m not entirely sure Paris likes me.”
A French politician has criticized the favored Netflix series Emily in Paris, accusing it of fueling the climate crisis and conservative values.
David Belliard, the deputy mayor of Paris, wrote a scathing review of the sitcom Liberation newspaper Thursday.
“This is a snapshot of the unchanging Paris, a Disneyland that is confined to the ultra-centre, inhabited only by the wealthiest people in a uniform architectural heritage,” Belliard wrote. “In brief, ‘Instagram Paris’ with impeccable colours and excellent views.”
The show was first released on Netflix in 2020, with the third season starting last month. The romantic comedy centers on a young American woman in her 20s who moves to Paris to work in promoting and stumbles over cultural differences while effortlessly all the time ending on top – and gaining popularity.
“This fairy tale is neither desirable nor feasible … there is an entire elimination of the constraints of climate deregulation and scarcity of resources,” said Belliard, leader of the Green party in the left-wing coalition.
“We’d like to maneuver beyond nostalgia for the stereotypical city and invent a latest aesthetic coherence to suit a changing world.”
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In accordance with Nielsen’s data, the Lily Collins-led series has been drawn by critics and viewers alike for its stereotypical – and obnoxious – characters, while being watched at record rates.
Tens of millions of viewers watched the ultimate season, but Belliard wasn’t thrilled with Emily’s return to the screen, galloping around France before returning to her tiny attic apartment in an old constructing in the fifth arrondissement generally known as the Latin Quarter.
The Nineteenth-century constructing where Emily lives, at 1 Place de l’Estrapade, along along with her best friend Mindy Chen (Ashely Park), may look like a cute shoebox for the 2 girls on screen, however the deputy mayor warns that this place is just one other unrealistic detail of the series.
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While on the show, Emily and Mindy were cutely stumbling over their overflowing suitcases in a small studio while lounging in their designer apartment in the center of the day, Belliard notes that these old units have grow to be unbearable because of Europe’s recent heatwaves.
“Apartments on the highest floors, often occupied by the poorest people, grow to be unbearable in the warmth,” he thundered. “The easy solution… can be to color the roofs with reflective white paint. But are we able to abandon the colour palette of Paris?
These issues are of particular importance to Belliard, whose responsibilities deal with transforming public spaces, transportation, mobility and road management.
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Belliard is one among the 34 deputy mayors of Paris serving as mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, a member of the Socialist Party. He claims that the portrait of his city in “Emily in Paris” appears as conservative propaganda, opposing attempts to adapt urban infrastructure.
“The vision presented in the series works in favor of conservatives who oppose the town council’s efforts to adapt the town to modern needs,” he insisted.
Despite Belliard’s damning notes on the show, Emily in Paris will return for a fourth season, although some have accused the show of becoming too boring to even hate.