The food in 'Emily in Paris' does not have a corporate sponsor and is therefore not worthy of much attention. And thus, in this pay-to-play universe, neither writer nor director nor set designer really cares about it.
debuted in October 2020, the world was such a mess that one might be forgiven for overlooking the series’ deep inanity for the sake of escape. No one was traveling anywhere. To see Paris, a beautiful city even in its debased form as a provincial paint-by-numbers fantasy, was a treat. That lasted for about 30 seconds into S1:E1. At the time, I called. In the second season, which premiered in late December, the pastry might have changed but the filling hasn’t.
To the extent that the new season has a plot, which itself is iffy, it chiefly concerns the opening of a new restaurant by Gabriel , the love interest and a PR client of Emily Cooper, the show’s chirpy protagonist. As previously indicated and widely affirmed, Lucas Bravo, who plays Gabriel, is a real looker. His restaurant, which occupies the space of season one’s Les Deux Compères, is now called Chez Lavaux, named after the fragrance company of its owner Antoine Lambert.
One could, if so inclined, chase down all the ways in which the series gets the particulars wrong about the restaurant world. In an early episode, during a pre-opening tasting dinner — inexplicably held in the mid-afternoon — Lambert enters the kitchen to find Gabriel plating “tripe à la normande.” “I thought we agreed we weren’t doing cuisine from Normandy.”Gabriel serves the tripe. It is good tripe.
I am genuinely confused about why this show exists. I’ve read that it might be an elaborate exercise in trolling. There is something scintillating about this explanation, a sort of deep Christopher Guest move. This reading, at least, would make Darren Starr — and all those involved — provocative geniuses, the Vito Acconci’s of streaming services. But I doubt that it’s true.
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