Non Threatening Boys* : Emily in Paris and its Dawn of the Man Wars
Words: Janan Jama
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The second part of the fourth season of Netflix’s “Emily in Paris” has landed. For those blissfully unaware, it follows ambitious American Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) as she navigates PR hijinks at work and romantic woes in the French capital. It’s perfect glossy entertainment to switch your brain off to – though it is a bit of a Bechdel failure, to put it mildly.
The men in Emily’s orbit are inextricable from her story, either as colleague, client or love interest. And for a show that is entrenched in the world of luxury goods, high fashion and French fine dining, it’s really the menu of men that seems to be its primary plot vehicle.
