"I launched # EmilyInParis2 and this series makes me want to live and work in Paris while I live and work in Paris."
This is one of the many comments made by Internet users after watching the second season of the series by Darren Star, available since Wednesday, December 22 on Netflix.
We remember season 1 with Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) arriving in Paris in a marketing agency and starting a new life between professional disillusions, romantic encounters and eventful evenings.
A first salvo released in 2020, which already included its share of absurd clichés: an immaculate Paris, in the streets of which we never saw any homeless, the apartment of Emily Cooper, presented as a "maid's room", but well larger or even jogging in the Tuileries garden, done while tasting a croissant in Montmartre, several kilometers away.
It seems that we learn from our mistakes, but Darren Star seems to have nothing to do with criticism.
In video, "Emily In Paris" season 2, the trailer
Geographic aberrations
We start with the most glaring detail in the first episode of this season 2. Emily Cooper leaves for Saint-Tropez for the weekend, via an overnight trip in a sleeper train.
This route will start with a slight detour, since it begins at Gare de l'Est (and not Gare de Lyon, as logic would suggest).
And which looks more like a trip on the Orient-Express than in a good old TGV, as the Minister of Rurality Joël Giraud ironically pointed out in a tweet.
Or @PonterluX who writes: “The train in
Emily in Paris
season 2 I'm going to die, the Americans will come to France to book on oui.sncf and expect to take the Orient Express, they will end up in an intercity it will calm them down ”.
Some internet users, like @tygryskx, have noticed another geographically unrealistic detail.
“Wait, I just saw the plan with the Pont-Neuf de Toulouse in
Emily in Paris,
it's hilarious,” she wonders.
While this second season only takes place between Paris and Saint-Tropez, and never in Toulouse.
Another geographical freedom: the restaurant where Mindy and her group give a concert, a "super club in Belleville" of which Étienne (Jin Xuan Mao) speaks.
However, on the map shown on the screen, this famous restaurant located on the banks of the Seine is none other than the Chinagora d'Alfortville, 3 km south-east of Paris.
Some, like @justesublime have also noticed that the Saint-Tropez where Emily goes had assumed the identity of another: “Saint Tropez, really Netflix?
Rather see @ Villefranche06 no? ”.
Last September to announce this new season, Netflix had indeed posted a postcard where was written "Rendez-vous à Saint-Tropez".
However, this landscape would be found in Villefranche-sur-Mer in the Alpes-Maritimes and not in the Var.
Still concerning the first two episodes of the series, Emily stays at the Grand Hôtel de Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, that is to say ... two hours by road (if it is not too crowded) from Saint-Tropez.
The French and work
If in the first season, we discovered that we could quietly smoke in the office in France (despite the Evin law passed in 1991), we discover in the second that it is absolutely forbidden to work on weekends.
"I learned via # EmilyInParis2 that working weekends is illegal in France ?!
It would be a question of warning us, writes @Xav_Stonem.
We also notice that the French do not start work before 10:30 am and take endless lunch breaks of almost two hours where, as is well known, alcohol is still flowing.
Paris in real life
"So we discover in the new season of # EmilyInParis2 that we can set up a table in the middle of Paris to invite our friends to a dinner, just like that in the street," writes @hortense_crepin, talking about the meal of Emily's birthday, organized in front of her apartment in the 5th arrondissement, with no one around.
Another well-worn cliché that gets people talking: the famous peeing lady.
In this season 2, Mindy embodied by Ashley Park, must exercise this profession in a cabaret where the musicians Etienne and Benoît (Kevin Dias), will recruit her to form a street group.
"It's only in # EmilyInParis2 that we can make Madame Pipi a star of the stage!"
The reality is quite different, the Madame Pipi that I have known in the club were all in their 50s, cigarettes in their mouths with a look that made you want to hold back if you didn't give them € 2, ”tweeted @Laurenpettorru.
It is still necessary to find some, the latter becoming more and more rare.
French love
"So doing
dates
at Père Lachaise, is it a common thing among Parisians or is it just a cliché ??? # EmilyInParis2 ”asks @Blss_bee. On Emily's birthday, her colleague Luc (Bruno Gouery) decides to take her to lunch in the Père-Lachaise cemetery, the ideal place, obviously, to meditate on death, life and especially love, the subject with which the American woman most often finds herself "
lost in translation
".
It must be said that the series depicts a vision of the couple fairly free among the French.
Very open-minded, we would be very accustomed to adultery and threesomes.
The proof with Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), the big boss of the agency Savoir, who even married, connects the adventures and the boys, her husband (from whom she lives more or less separated) being aware and in agreement.
And with the love triangle that links Emily, Camille and Gabriel, illustrated by a
Jules and Jim-style sequence,
which aligns long monologues shot in black and white, as any self-respecting French film wants.
Naked in the hammam
If Tweeter takes pleasure in making fun of the clichés in this second season, it is because they are very numerous.
We notice, in bulk, that the parks where Emily Cooper goes to run or to chat with Mindy are very often empty, like this almost deserted place in the Vosges in the middle of summer, a real science fiction scene.
Another highlight, the leek producers who have an outrageously "peasant" style, in episode 4.
And this hammam scene, in episode 3, where French women go completely naked (although they most often wear swimsuits).
In short, a new season which once again accumulates clichés on the capital and its inhabitants, which give it back.
And perhaps also participate, with this ultra-fantasized side, in the slightly guilty pleasure that one takes in looking at her.
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