Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Emily in Paris” has a way of driving viewers crazy.There were groans when the Netflix series’ first season was nominated for best comedy at the Golden Globes and at the Emmys.
And it occasioned a widely-circulated New Yorker piece that described it as part of a rising trend of “ambient TV,” describing it as “an artifact of contemporary dystopia.”Sure, nominating “Emily in Paris” as one of the very best shows on TV seems a little overblown.
But, as the show’s second season drops Dec. 22, so does describing it as at the forefront of any contemporary movement, much less a dystopian one.
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