Recently, the second season of the fashion light comedy "Emily in Paris" produced by Netflix was launched as scheduled.
Emily (Lily Collins) parachuted into Paris, responsible for improving the social media strategy of her marketing company and dealing with various people in the fashion industry; while running her own social media, she gradually became a local celebrity and talked about several violent relationships.
When the first season was launched, "Emily in Paris" was complained about by many viewers for its exaggerated costume matching and chaotic relationship between men and women as "American Clay Hammer in Paris" and "Sex and the City" of "Gossip Girl".
But it is undeniable that this Mary Sue drama, which runs through "soil" and "hi", is still sought after worldwide.
The second season of "Emily in Paris" consisted of ten episodes, and as soon as it was launched, it topped Netflix's on-demand charts, continuing the popularity of the previous season.
"Goldfinger" Mary Sue man set, "earth" but easy to use
Many people wonder why Netflix, which is known for its deep cultivation of classic content, is still doing Mary Sue dramas in 2021.
The reason is simple. According to Netflix's big data analysis, chicks like "Emily in Paris" have a large audience to watch as long as the Mary Sue is thorough enough to decompress.
Emily's continuously shining Mary Sue protagonist aura has to start from the end of the first season, Emily, who has made a lot of jokes in her career, has won one big customer after another with one "god assist" again and again, and even french fashion master Pierre Coote appreciates her unique creativity.
In the second season, at the planning meeting of the Zhimowa suitcase, the proposal that was originally the responsibility of colleague Julian was casually stirred up by Emily, and then because of the fashion circle feud that Emily did not understand, she completely offended a big customer like Pierre Coote.
Unexpectedly, luck is always on Emily's side. Julian helped her intercede with clients and avoided the company's losses. Even the female boss Shivi (Filipin Leroy Bolijo), who wanted her to leave at any time in the last season, took the initiative to persuade Peel to accept new things and new challenges and become her new assistant.
In the workplace, the heroine who is smooth sailing and always has the help of high people in case of trouble is not the standard of everyone's favorite open and hanging heroine?
Emotionally, emily and her girlfriend Camry's cook boyfriend Gabriel (Lucas Buhavo) have a good relationship in the first season. At the end, the two finally revealed their hearts to each other. Gabriel, who had decided to leave Paris, was left by Emily, and also received investor capital injections into her restaurant.
In the second season, on Emily's birthday, Camille discovers the story between her girlfriend and boyfriend, raises a toast and scolds her to leave. This familiar scene also appeared in the movie "Little Times" when Nan Xiang gave Gu Li a birthday.
The "Stinky" memes can even take on the sparkling rivalry between Camille and Emily without any impact. No wonder many viewers sighed when watching the second season, "Is this "Little Times 5"? ”
Even so, Emily in the second season does not "stink", but appears a new lover, Alfie, a single-minded and sullen London man.
Emily, who opened the "goldfinger", harvested a steady stream of career achievements and emotional peach blossoms in such a strange place as Paris. The screenwriter writes "cool", and the fixed audience looks "cool".
The "collision" of American and French values is still full of hilarity
Of course, as a light comedy, in addition to showing the protagonist's workplace and love life, there also needs to be laughter and hi-dots that can cause the audience to chase down.
It is not difficult to see from the title of "Emily in Paris" that the screenwriter will focus on the creation of the "cultural shock" and value differences between the United States and France.
First of all, Emily, as an American, was sent to Paris, the capital of fashion and romance, to work in a job related to fashion and luxury marketing.
Judging by Emily's fan-like daily Christmas tree outfits, high-saturation suits, and audience spit, it's clear that she's failed. Even the director has "cleverly" designed the shot of Emily standing in the middle of the French on several occasions, and the difference in dress between the two is immediate.
Second, the lazy Frenchman who goes to work at 10:30 every day always "knocks" americans in the open and in the dark: don't try to do workplace infighting.
When Emily on vacation learned that there was a problem with the customers and brands she handled, her first thought was to give up the vacation and solve the problem quickly. But when trying to call customers and related colleagues to deal with the crisis, a well-meaning French colleague reminded that "in France, it is illegal to work on weekends"...
After two seasons, such a comparison of American and French values can be seen everywhere. Emily, who was new to the city, was given a "preventive shot" by her colleague Luke: Americans live to work, and French people work to live.
This not only surprised many Americans at the extent of their efforts, but also made many Chinese audiences on the other side of the ocean laugh out loud.
At the same time, the croissants and berets that can be seen everywhere in the play, the French "label" in the eyes of Americans, have become real "stereotypes" in the eyes of the French.
The female boss Xi Wei is even more speechless, in addition to often hanging "Americans just like to take shortcuts" hanging on the lips, but also a serious admonition to Emily "in this year in Paris, trouble you live a Parisian look."
The "collision" of American and French values constitutes a special landscape of "Emily in Paris", and it is also a rare series of Netflix rooted in the culture of other countries but showing the thinking of American dramas.
In fact, Mary Sue series like "Emily in Paris" that received feedback from "spitting and watching" are not uncommon around the world, such as "Little Times".
The audience's pursuit seems to have also allowed "Netflix" to master the traffic password, making this kind of low-scoring but traffic-prone film and television works emerge in an endless stream, becoming a featured branch of global industrial production. But how long this "scenery" can last, I am afraid it will take time to verify.
【Text/Liu Bingqian】