Emily in Paris Review: Netflix Chose the Wrong Time for a Rom-Com About How Great Americans Are
Emily in Paris -- and with just 10 30-minute episodes, it won't take much time to devour the first season — but while the Darren Star-created series about an American expatriate living in Paris has its moments, we've also seen it before. The series stars Lily Collins as Emily Cooper, an ambitious millennial from Chicago with a master's degree in marketing who is exceptionally skilled at social media and is meant to bring an American perspective to the French firm her company recently acquired. But much like Liza Miller (Sutton Foster), the protagonist of Star's TV Land series Younger, or Jane Sloan (Katie Stevens) of Freeform's millennial drama The Bold Type, Emily is too confident, if that's possible, and a little too good at her job.