Sacrebleu To You
When we first meet Emily, she’s an aspiring Ad Agent in a “we’re basically engaged” relationship, who’s ready to blow up her life and head off to find adventure in the great wide somewhere. Lily Collins takes on the lead role and is charming, savvy, and incredibly clever. However, the role of Emily is the least interesting of the bunch. Not unlike Elena, in The Vampire Diaries.
During Emily’s adventure, we meet many interesting characters such as the sexy Gabriel, a chef with a long-term girlfriend. Cami, the super adorable, fun-loving girlfriend – and her brother (yikes!). Mindy, a Chinese expat heiress, who becomes Emily’s BFF while in Paris. And the bumbling knuckleheads who work with her at the Marketing Firm. However, for some reason – outside of the shockingly tame love triangle – you don’t really learn much about any of them and the characters become somewhat one dimensional and thrown away.
They Could Have Made It More Risque
I have two big qualms with this series. One, if you’re Darren Star and bringing me a sexy, drama based in Paris GIVE ME A SEXY, DRAMA BASED IN PARIS! I’m not even asking for Sexy and the City level. At least give me Younger level of sexy drama. The CW is more scandalous. Every moment in this series is wildly tame knowing who created this show.
My other issue with the show is the lack of consequences. In every episode, Emily runs into an issue she created because she’s American. However, by the end of the episode, everything is magically fixed with zero consequences. How is she supposed to learn and grow as a person? Is this series really going to be about how these magnificent Parisians can only learn from Emily and not the other way around? If the show gets a season 2 I’m gonna need this fixed ASAP.
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