‘Emily in Paris’ season 2 review: ‘Salut’ to round two of French stereotypes and questionable decisions
The Hindu
Lily Collins brings her usual A-game to the second season of Netflix’s comedy-drama ‘Emily in Paris’, which tries to move away from cultural clichés and over-done love triangles... but does it succeed?
We are two seasons deep into Emily in Paris, and Emily (Lily Collins) – the Chicago-bred influencer with a glaring talent for being ever-optimistic – still hasn’t learned French. Not a criticism, just an observation given the writer of this review has been in India for about five years and is still butchering Telugu into kheema.
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Despite the first season having brewed some divisive opinions on the polarising Netflix show’s cliched representations of France and of Americans living in France (reducing French culture to mistresses galore, hordes of wealth and cigarette smoke, laziness and bizarrely camp fashion), here we are awaiting on December 22.
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