Thread by @thetimes

#EmilyInParis2 is no different from the first, packing in the same old “oh là là” French clichés and being almost gleefully bad. Well, you don’t tamper with a winning formula
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If people like watching something with the emotional complexity of a hair bobble just so they can see thin people wearing high fashion, who is it harming? Apart from my knuckles as I chewed them to the bone, writes @CarolMidgley

Series one saw #EmilyinParis as Netflix’s most popular comedy of 2020. This wilfully shallow series was a stonking success watched by 58 million households within its first 28 days
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In series two, Emily is in love with her friend Camille’s handsome ex-boyfriend after a passionate night of sex. Although nothing is “passionate” here; these aren’t humans but bots in an over-stylised Coca-Cola advert

It actually put up subtitles for “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?” Maybe the producers think that the Emily in Paris audience doesn’t even have Christmas cracker-level French

Its star #LilyCollins is not so much acting as wearing expensive clothes while pulling infantilised expressions like a CBeebies presenter. Her permanently dancing eyebrows do more work than the script
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Collins, to be clear, is an extremely good actress.

But it’s as though she has been told to take everything she has learnt about nuance and depth and reverse it for this candyfloss role. It’ll do brilliantly
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