Emily In Paris: Season 2 - Better or Worse? 

Quick correction: Petra is not a Russian name, I got that wrong. BUT MY POINT STILL STANDS! Also, feels fitting to end my first year on RU-vid with the show that started it all. Thank you for sticking with me this whole time. I'm very lucky. Love & KitKat to you all! ♥️

I can't wait for this show to have an Italian man with dark hair, olive skin and a mustache who works at a pizzeria and we find out is secretly a mafia boss

The irony of Emily comparing Paris to Ratatouille back in season one is that Ratatouille was more respectful of French culture and its people than Emily in Paris is

another thing about Petra is that her colorful and weird clothes, bright makeup, and lousy pronunciation of words are treated as tasteless and uncultural. While if Emily does all those things, she is still stylish, chic, and quirky. (even when Emily's outfits are a fashion disaster) So the subconscious message is that American women > eastern European women ???

They did Camille SO DIRTY. She was introduced as the perfect counterpart to Emily's villain - she's cool, has great style, is a good friend, is good at her job, is charming and cute. and then they devolve her into a man-obsessed angry woman?? uuuugghhhhh

Showrunners: Yes, indeed, we see your point and we apologize for being insensitive towards French culture! ... So a Ukrainian walks into a bar....!

I'm more offended that Emily STILL dresses like a ten-year-old's Barbie Doll after her outfits were _slammed_ by the fashion community

The showrunner has recently commented on the Petra debacle. He apologised, but was SO CLUELESS as to why this was wrong… He said it was "bad timing" due to the war (NO, it was bad regardless of the war), and then explained that "they didn’t even plan Petra to be specifically Ukrainian - it could be anyone from that region: Russian, Romanian, whatever." Sooo basically: "We didn’t mean to be racist towards Ukrainians. We meant to be racist towards the whole region. We don’t even care whether or not they’re all the same thing".

I wish a French tream would make a new series "Emily à Paris" where it's basically the same show, but made by people who actually know the cultures presented and the challenges you get living in a country with language/cultural barriers and makes it a good scenario tool.

i also disliked how much the writers framed gay characters as overtly sex-obsessed ?? Nearly all the straight characters are given subtle/romantic storylines, whilst the gay characters got jokes being horny or surrounding themselves with naked men ??

Emily breaking the fourth wall felt like my dad “apologizing” but only because we’re in front of a counsellor

The fact that Emily thinks the "solution" to Camille's problems is to try and set her back up with the boyfriend who will cheat on her with apparently the literal first woman he sees is wild. Not only did she sleep with him, but she thinks she's got some magic power and that if it weren't any other vaguely pretty woman he wouldn't have also cheated is wild. Like, your friend dodged a bullet by leaving him. Set her up with a guy whose genuinely not a dick or help her realize her value as a person is not reliant on some dude. Don't try and set her up with the boyfriend you know will cheat on her. And stop sleeping with the guy holy shit.

I'm a fan of Lily Collins, and after this and knowing she's PRODUCER in the show, I can't just say is not her fault. She has a voice in the show and can do better. She has responsibility in this too. And the stupid stereotypes in the show just show us the American ignorance of other cultures and how they DON'T CARE ABOUT IT.

Best part of season 2: Camille telling Emily she's a "psychotic illiterate"

Still getting over the fact that this show was nominated for a golden globe.

The bit about her having sex with a under-aged guy is actually familiar. Because Friends did that, back in 1995, in the episode "The one with the Ick Factor", in which Monica who is 26 in the show sleeps with a boy who is 17. He did lie about his age, but she did the same. And still I think they managed to do it better there, despite the writers of this show living 25 years in the future in a far more progressive time. For the record, just don't lie about your age in a sexual context. If you're too young or old for a person, lying doesn't change that and trying to circumvent that issue is just gonna turn out bad for all parties.

the Ukrainian xenophobia could not have possibly been more horribly timed. xenophobia is always bad but targeting Ukraine specifically is not just punching down, it's punching from the stratosphere to the earth's mantle

I'm Romanian (so neither Russian, NOR Ukrainian), and the portrayal of Petra still was pretty damn offensive to me because that's ALL I ever see us Eastern Europeans portrayed as. We're either simple minded criminals with a thick accent or vampires with a VERY thick accent. The writers of this show really need to open a book, be it a history book, an encyclopedia or a fucking dictionary

Imagine if they had leaned in to Emily being super awful and intentionally made her in to a super villain instead trying to redeem her, then it might have become a watchable drama

So they got tired of being xenophobic towards French people and holding up dumb French stereotypes so they wrote in Alfie to be a "All of England is xenophobic and hate the French" stereotype and Petra to be "All of Eastern Europe are crazy eccentrics who do crime" as her stereotype. Even Emily is the "Americans are annoying tourists who make everyone uncomfortable by basically demanding other cultures change to accommodate them" stereotype. The writers are lazy and racist. They just go with "What negative stereotypes do we know about this culture" and call that combination a character.

Making two main characters with hours of screentime somehow still fail the Bechdel Test between Camille and Emily is certainly impressive.

Best thing- They actually took the criticism and tried to work on it in season 2 Bad thing- They successfully made each character more unlikeable

Emily in Paris had one job: be a show about a basic rich white girl doing basic rich white girl ish and having basic rich white girl problems in Paris. Instead the show tries to make Emily the Jeanne d'Arc /Joan of Arc of self-righteousness.

The shoplifting “plot line” was so random too, like the show introduces a new character, writes the character to be a stereotype and then the character steals from a supposed designer store with no reason or a lot of dialogue and then abandoned the character all together. Like why did the writers feel the need to add any of that. It wasn’t necessary for plot development and no one ever talks about it. It made absolutely no sense to me

You know, a movie about two foreigners in Paris trying to learn the language getting together as friends or on a wacky adventure with only a smattering of a shared language would be a fun movie

If you remember, right before the show was officially released, Lilly Collins was BrAGGING about how much she was involved in this show. She had a LARGE part in writing and developing her character, as she HERSELF said. SHE IS EMILY IN PARIS. As soon as the show got backlash she pretended like she had nothing to do with it. COME ON HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE.

That's a real pity about the Ukrainian character, because the concept of an entire episode dedicated to Emily and another foreigner exploring Paris and trying to communicate in French could actually be super rich. Like they could bond over how out-of-place they feel, learn more about each other's separate cultures, Emily could have a breakthrough in speaking French - it could have been a really sweet and poignant episode that genuinely developed Emily's character. But I guess Ukrainian shoplifters are more down Darren's alley.

as a frenchie who moved in Québec Canada and manages to have language barrier issues with english and even with ppl speaking Qc french, I'd love to see Emily struggling to pass immigration, open her first bank account with a teller who barely know three words of english, struggle looking for the English language option on websites until she realizes that here we use the UK flag for it instead of the US's. You know, concrete examples of the life of a migrant in a country with a different language. Freak out as her fob contract arrives to its end because she thinks she'll be homeless and lose her healthcare, till she realises that things are really different here.... Then you can have fun with little realisations, like how you can go visit countries around the EU with no customs nor border check, how the price you see is what you pay. Thate there are couple more cheeses than "blue" or "mozzarella", that "mozzarella" isn't the plastic brick she grew up with, ... But no, all we got is an bad rom-com that happens to have some frenchi landscape.

I speak Italian, & one of my biggest blunders EVER was getting the way you express time & date mixed up. This resulted in me thinking that the guy I was madly in love with was leaving "At 3pm" when he was actually telling me that he was leaving on the third of the month. To Sardinia. AND THAT I WOULD NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN. Seems like that kind of thing would be great material for a show like this.

Fun fact: With the ending they wrote for Emily in Season 2, Emily Season 3 should not exist because it is realistically not possible for Emily to stay in France anymore, according to French immigration law.

Lily is definitely guilty at some level. She's not a saint at all. She's a producer for fuck's sake and she was bragging so much about the show before it aired.

Camille's line of thinking: - Gabriel is being distant with me after money drama with my family - Emily said Matthiu stood her up - Matthiu said Emily cheated on him and refused to elaborate further - Gabriel's frying pan was in Emily's apartment after she cooked a big meal for seven people - Gabriel's cheating on me with Emily! After all those hoops Camille jumped through I'm surprised she didn't get gold at the Olympics

I'm watching this video in (the beginning of) 2024. I'm not Ukrainian, but I am from Eastern Europe and I really really want to thank you for you rage. Everything you said is true and it's honestly uplifting to know that people in the west see it and understand how that kind of stereotypes played for the "comedic" reason impact real humans lives. So thank you.

I don’t understand how hard it is to make a lighthearted show about a girl and fashion without going into some ignorant jokes. People around the world already see us Americans as ignorants and this show is not doing us any favors. It could have been heart warming seeing her over come language barriers, learning things through her and the contrast of idealizing romance and the reality of it.

The fact that in American media the Eastern Europian women are portrayed as either a criminal or a sx worker just makes me so dissapointed

I'm a touristic guide in Paris, and I got stuck with a group of 20 people on the Pont des Arts (the bridge with all the locks on it, that was a long time ago, now it's a regular bridge) for 10 minutes because they were shooting that dumb show. We had to wait for them to finish shooting, they were taking the whole bridge, and preventing anyone to cross so it would look like she was alone on it. Who cares if people are working, on a schedule, or with actual American tourists who love and enjoy Paris >.>

Your EIP video was your FIRST?!?!?! It was so well done I thought you were an established RU-vidr. Awesome job and thanks for sharing your insight as a French person watching this stupid ass show.

The whole backlash over Petra is deserved. Eastern Europeans are having enough with their portrayal in American shows...from Serbs and Russians being terrorists to the rest of the Slavic nations being portrayed as stealers and gangsters, or when it comes to women - whores and just blatantly stupid. The amount of xenophobia we, as Eastern Europeans go through in Western Europe is disgusting and is often overlooked because it is seen as a normal thing. For instance, I am from Croatia, when I came to the Netherlands I was called a "bear head" in the bar, it was weird and humiliating. And why do they call us like that? Because they think we look like animals. Thank God we are finally shedding light on xenophobia towards Eastern Europeans and that people are speaking about it more.

When people enable/write-off women predators who prey on young boys, it doesn't only downplay and inevitably damage the perspective of female predatory actions, it ultimately harms all anti-predatory efforts. Creating such a double standard with no justifications can only lead some to justify other forms of pedophilia and sexual assault. In reality, it should all be damned and taboo'd, not just male on female pedophilia, but female on male pedophilia as well. And idk, I feel like this should be common sense......

I took French classes throughout high school, and our teacher taught us very carefully about French customs, culture, language, etc. I grew to respect the culture and how much diversity the country had. This show was an absolute disgrace, and Emily herself is so ignorant of the French culture/people. Anyways they tried so hard to make Emily this "girl boss slay" character, but we all know that title should've gone to Sylvie. Sylvie is the true main character of this story.

How does a show get COUNTRIES against them 💀

Is it possible to have a cast that’s 90% female and still fail the Bechdel test??? Find out in S3 of Emily in Paris

Honestly I think they attacked the whole eastern Europe with their Petra scene. Yes, they chose Ukraine specifically to make fun of, but the point is they chose an eastern Europe country, because we all know how famous eastern Europe is and how it's portrayed in american culture. Ukrainian people are rightfully feeling attacked, but as an eastern european myself, I felt that it was an attack to all slavs and balkans. I really hope they face consequences for this.

reminds me how great Jane The Virgin’s Petra was in contrast. she was a complex character and did shitty things but got growth, admitted her faults and her european background was discussed in an okay way

I've realized that Emily in Paris is just Darren Starr doing a SATC fanfic. It's the story of what if Carrie had been sent to Paris for work and they reconfigured the other three main gals.

If you look at Emily as a metaphor for how US Americans behave and see themselves in the world then you get it. Sadly the writers do not realize it.

so uh, are we still sure that Riverdale isn't better than Emily in Paris? because i dont think Riverdale managed to piss off an entire country

I don't know who is Darren Star, so I looked him up and turns out he's behind the creation of Sex and the City........that explained EVERYTHING

This has been my comfort video to fall asleep to the last few days. Apparently there’s something about you ripping this show to shreds that works better than a lullaby.

Man, Lily Collins is one of the producers, she also makes the decisions around the show as well... Since she is not only an actress, it is completely reasonable to make her accountable as well. And even if she was only an actress, she should speak up about how the writers are trashing her character and creating scenes that associate her with blunt racism.

I want a spinoff called "Camille in Seville" where Camille ditches all of the shitty people in her life and finds happiness and succes in Spain while drinking sangria and taking flamenco lessons. I also find it astounding that there are still people like Darren Star who lives in such a bubble that any characer who is not a basic white American is exotizied and flanderized in ways that are supposed to be "funny" to an american audience. Like with the Shanghai Garden-girl in SATC, or the black chef whose brother Samantha dated in SATC, or Mirandas Ukranian housekeeper in SATC, or Mirandas Asian nanny in SATC

We should all ask for a Season 3. By the time the show finishes making an enemy out of humanity, maybe we can all unite against our common enemy and achieve world peace.

Pissing off entire governments seems to be a new hobby of Netflix. 😂

I couldn't even get through the first episode and you conquered two seasons. Braver than the marines.

Darren Star really said “okay so we can’t degrade the usual minorities, QUICK somebody come up with a new minority we can degrade RIGHT NOW so I don’t have to write a good show”

Sylvie literally has the best fashion of all, there is no wrong outfit she wears, unlike all the others, she gives an outstanding performance and is literally amazing🤩

I audibly gasped when the third character trait for Petra popped up omg????

The power this man possesses to single-handedly cancel the Golden Globes. True king shit right there.

I'm sorry but Lilly Collins deserves some blame. She is a producer and the star of the show. But I guess it is easy to not care when people keep watching this stupid show and she keeps getting paid.

I know you're french too, but your accent is so great compared that I tend to forget while watching and it always makes me laugh to hear the french names with the correct pronunciation. Like, it's so weird to hear a french word correctly said during an english video, it's funny

Hahah tes vidéos sont toujours incroyablement quali, ça fait plaisir de découvrir une chaîne aussi chouette! Merci de prendre autant de temps pour nous proposer ce type de contenu :)

I feel like they're really sleeping on Camille. She's the only character that I fully like, and she has so much potential, yet they stick her in a love triangle with Emily and Gabriel. She really needs to see Gabriel for the cheating git he is, and focus on herself, and her own interests.

Why, instead of hating on Ukrainian women, they didn’t just make a carbon copy of Emily? She could be played by the same chick. But she could be even worse than Emily. Go hard on the stupid American stereotypes and let Emily SEE how she treats everyone and makes them feel? Which would give her the ability to be a better person. Plus it adds the joke of everyone thinking Emily was the one who did something stupid.

Petra is actually greek in origin meaning rock. It is not a Russian name as you said. The name Petra is popular in other countries, including but not limited to, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Croatia, and it’s the name of an ancient city in Jordan.

I completely agree with everything you said. Also going back to what you said in the first video about Sylvie being annoyed because she expected the boss who speaks French and is educated… and the boss arrived and it was absolutely horrendous. She didn’t speak French well at all and then disrespected the French constantly. They did not even do that right. I also have to add that I really dislike what they did with the Alfie character. They added in a negative stereotypical British character to make her look better. They portray him as an ignorant, stubborn guy who refuses to adapt to change, calls everything a pub and acts “British”. I really hate how they decided to just throw in him and the Petra character as more negatively stereotypical characters to make Emily look better and that she’s “trying”. As a Brit who has lived in three other countries besides the UK, it’s this type of attitude I really hate to see. I originally thought the premise was good, it might show accurately what a struggle it is to live abroad because of the language and cultural barriers and how you really have to learn about them and respect them to truly feel a part of the country but no, they just reduce every single character in the show down to a stereotype for comedy and to make the US way/ Emily better. I’m sincerely hoping that season 3 will be okay… but at this point, I think it’s wrong to hope.

I think the writers didn't understand what made Emily such a horrible character. It seems they think that the problem wasn't Emily, but how nice Camille was... So they're strategy was to transform Camille into an evil character and people would immediatly love Emily

I think Lilly should be held accountable. She was bragging about how she WAS Emily and how she had a big part in the show, then was shocked at the backlash (like the rest of the cast probably wasn't shocked but took the roles for a paycheck, Lilly implies that she has no critical thinking and can't understand why stereotypes aren't funny). She only claimed to not be responsible once the backlash hit, then all of a sudden she has no part in the show at all. Also, it really bothers me that people keep saying that but is she really a good actress? She was good in To The Bones (IMO it was a great script and I can't imagine how someone could mess up that character) but that's absolutely it. I've seen 90% of her movies and she seems very much to be a mediocre actress who only gets roles due to nepotism and good looks.

In the midst of the suffering, can we just have a moment of appreciation for how hard the Ninja rocks those sunglasses?

The thing about Petra being shoplifting reminds something that happened with one my teacher when he traveled to what I think it was Greece, but anyway, basically the store put on the speakers something like: "Brazilians in the store: beware of thefts"

Why isn't anyone talking about how Emily try's to go back to the unforgettable chef WHILE STILL HAVING A BOYFRIEND?? It's like they were trying to reverse any "character development" they made

ALL the mean girls who became nurses from my high school unironically love this show and it's not a coincidence

If there's a top 10 worst fictional protagonists, then Emily and Lady Bug would be in a tie

Thank you for making this video Glad to know that you will be making another video on it cause it was renewed for season 3

This is why we are constantly calling for diversity behind the camera. Look at the way they half assed their way through the critiques of season 1.

Damn, that Ukrainian backlash aged like wine

The French and Ukrainians got the worst from this show but as an American it hurts. It portrays Americans coming to Paris as stuck up and demanding everything be done their way. I’m studying French and hope to go to France one day to study history and when I tell people that the first thing that comes to their mind is this Godforsaken show. Like just let me travel and study Charles de Gaulle in peace.

I love the fact you highlight a good song at the beginning of every episode. I also have been binging your videos they’re very well made

Emily’s outfits were somehow worse this season. I didn’t even think that was possible

Can’t wait for an Scandinavian character that is tall, blonde and only drinks coffee for season three!!

So cool that your first EiP video was also your first RU-vid video ever! I didnt even realize that at the time because it was so good and professional. Which is really motivating for smol youtubers in their baby shoes 😊

That the Emily in Paris video was your first video blows my mind rn

Honestly, I don't think Americans have any notion of the type of discrimination Eastern Europeans face in Western European countries in particular, so thank you for having a whole segment on that. This show feels like it's 10-20 years behind on the times, I have no idea who's even watching it.

There is this anti-slavic sentiment that is really not talked about but especially slavic people can confirm that there is this negative attitude towards us, even tho it's not as obvious as other issues in this world, we can see it. The stereotypes and prejustices towards us are harmful and shouldn't be portrayed in shows like these just for some cheap jokes.

As a French national living in the US for many years, I have to say Emily in Paris to me is just very revealing of how most Americans view the world and imagine it to function. Let's be real, how many Americans get to travel? How many Americans speak a foreign language? And how many Americans have been brainwashed into spending every penny on the latest fashion or gadget, or, if they are lucky, a week in Paris where they tour the most famous sights, go shopping till they drop and do not understand a word spoken to them? Emily in Paris is an American fantasy full of the prejudices that rule the average American thinking. This show says just about nothing of the actual world that exists outside the US, but a heck of a lot about the people who made this show and who they made it for. In that sense, I am not really getting offended by it, because in the 10 years I have lived in the US, I have seen this thinking at work over and over. It is just sad, but the average American is that ignorant (not all Americans, obviously). I think what this show did is show to the rest of the world how the average American sees them. And it isn't even the Americans' fault, if you consider their terrible education system, the constant patriotic brainwashing (America is best so everyone else is inferior type of thinking) and the difficulty or even impossibility for most Americans to escape this bubble, because so many Americans are too poor or in debt, and have been brainwashed to think the rest of the world is a scary and dangerous place (how ironic considering the level of gun violence here). It's just sad but I think this show is quite accurate in its representation of what Americans think the world is like.

I'm sure the show learned its lesson. In season 3 they'll address Emily's support for Ukraine, and how her firm donated money to help the cause. Then we'll proceed to meet her new love interest - An Italian man who has gelled black hair, talks with his hands, constantly eats pasta, calls her ''amore'' in every sentence, talks with a heavy accent, and lives with his loud and protective mother. I'm sure the show will be more progressive next time around. 🤣

I'm so glad that you covered the problem of demonstrating Ukrainian women in the show. As a young Ukrainian woman, I am used to being seen like this and people do not think that this is a problem.People are interested in watching content in English and netflix is ​​a global platform, so for us it becomes a problem that the only representation about Ukrainian women in the media is only negative. Demonstration of a Ukrainian woman in the series offended and rooted a lot of people in my country. It was soy sed for me, because l true to learn four languages and it scares me, can people outside my country see me like that? National stereotypes are bad, they scare, because no matter how hard you try, you are still seen as a typical Petra or a trophy wife. I am scared because I am preparing to receive an education in a foreign country. I am afraid that I will be seen only as a national stereotype. I understand that no one represents you better than you yourself, and therefore I draw comics with Ukrainian characters, and try to write good stories, in the hope that people will be able to see not only national stereotypes.I worked on my comic for a long time and on the fact that people outside my camp could read it, so if you want to see a story from a Ukrainian from a Ukrainian, check out my comic @elaisamisstry

Can we all agree that the best thing Emily In Paris season 2 ever did was make this video? Oh wait we already knew.

I watched the first review, which i didnt know was your first ever video? And automatically subscribed. Speaks volume about your talent and how well spoken and clear your opinions are. Amazing stuff, Ninja.

Dear Friendly Space Ninja, thank you for your Emily in Paris videos! Even though I consider myself a critical viewer of shows and movies (as I am a writer myself), I really had a different angle of understanding this show, so I am very glad that you opened my eyes to the truth. I actually thought that this show was SUPPOSED to be dumb and that Emily was SUPPOSED to be an awful, ignorant and obnoxious American coming to Europe. I actually think that Emily is the perfect American stereotype, a loud, shallow, ignorant person who feels entitled to everything for no reason. Mabye I am too optimistic, but I really did think that this was Hollywood's/Netflix's way of being progressive and trying to depict Americans in a bad light to circumvent the over glorification of so many Hollywood productions that basically are American propaganda projects where Europeans are depicted badly. So, what I am trying to say is that I actually thought this was supposed to be a parody of American views towards Europe, but after watching your videos, I realise that I was VERY wrong! So, thanks a lot. Also, I don't use social media at all, therefore did not know about the massive backlash the show had gotten. Thank you for making me aware!

Am I going to watch this season? No. Am I going to watch 47 minute long video analysis about the show? hell yes 💅

I love the Gabriel slander, I seriously do not even understand the appeal. He’s a douchebag with no personality who flip flops between 2 women and has no problem cheating. Throw the whole man away 🤦🏻‍♀️

i haven't seen emily in paris at all, ijust watch your videos and your content is so great and much better and efficient than watching the series in itself, thank you so much for your content

The fact that we don’t even have such name as PETRA in Ukraine…

Emily spent this season gaslighting Camille, encouraged Alfie to fall for her then ran straight to Gabriel clearly with the intention of getting back with him- she's not unlikeable anymore, now I hate her. The best thing in this season (apart from Sylvie, obviously) is Pierre Cadault saying 'You can speak all the bad accented French you want, I will never understand you and you will never understand me'. Whoever wrote that line needs to be put in charge of the script because that is definitely not the work of the usual writers.

Lily is, in my opinion, a genuinley good actress and seems like a really cool person, so the fact that she was a producer and so proud of this garbage fire show is somewhat disappointing. Come on man. At least it changed the industry for the better by being SUCH a trash fire.

Damn, these videos are making my day ! It's a pleasure listening to you rip that show into pieces XD !! T'es un grand, Bro !

My solution to the shoplifting girl storyline: Make her American as well. Make her and Emily bond over being from the USA but decide to speak to each other in French in order to practice. Eventually have the whole shoplifting deal and have Emily call her out, to which the other girl would be like "Come on, it's not a big deal" in English. Emily then snaps to her in French before returning the clothes. After all the character was there just to contrast with Emily and make the audience think "Oh Emily isn't so bad", might as well have gone the full way and made her a real "nega-Emily"

I'm not even Ukrainian but as a Slavic woman, I feel offended, I can't even imagine how the Ukrainian women must have felt watching Petra being the "representation of them"

I didn't know about the Ukrainian women stereotype, but after I looked into it and reflected I could think of a few examples i've seen. Thank you so much for bringing it to my attention.

cant wait to see your point of view on the 3rd season