Netflix: this successful series is knocked out by the American press

If this series is a hit on Netflix, it does not escape criticism. The American press was particularly pleased to knock out season 3, released at the end of December 2022 on the streaming platform.

Among the long-awaited novelties of the end of 2022 on netflix featured season 3 ofEmily in Paris. The American series made its big comeback on December 21 with a new burst of episodes. More than a year after leaving Chicago to take up her dream job at a marketing agency in Paris, Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) finds herself at a turning point in her professional and personal life. Indeed, the young woman found herself faced with a dilemma in the finale of the previous season: stay with Madeleine (Kate Walsh) in the Savoir agency or integrate the new structure of Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), and continue to work with Luc and Julien. In terms of privacy, nothing is going right. As she went to Gabriel’s to finally confess her feelings to him, she discovered that he had gotten back together with Camille. If season 3 ofEmily in Paris met with success with the public, it was once again the target of the American press.

The American press ignites against season 3 ofEmily in Paris

Barely released, season 3 ofEmily in Paris ranked directly at the top of the Top 10 most watched series of the moment, before being quickly dethroned by the long-awaited season 2 ofAlice in Borderland. But if Darren Star’s fiction continues to meet with great success with Netflix subscribers, who also do not hesitate to make fun of it, she suffered the wrath of the American press, and more precisely of the New York Times. “I wrote about all the reasons why I can’t stop watching this wonderfully well-crafted series, and the most important thing that happened to the universe of Emily in Paris, which was that Emily cut his own bangs“wrote ironically Iva Dixit, one of the daily’s journalists, on her Twitter account.

Emily in Paris, “a unique brand of empty infantilism”

“In 1919, when Edith Wharton wrote that ‘compared to the women of France the average American is still in kindergarten’, she might as well have been talking about Emily, whose stock in trade is a unique mark of empty infantilism. Nowhere is this more evident than in the way Emily Cooper seems fashioned from a baby boomer’s nightmare of what today’s youth are like.“, she continued, before qualifying the series “buffoonish assembly of dated stereotypes that managed to offend both Americans and French“. Despite this bad press, Emily in Paris has been renewed for a season 4, the release date of which has not been communicated by Netflix.

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