Emily in Paris Season 3

Extreme self-absorption, only considering one's own thoughts, never considering the feelings or emotions of those around them, with no sensitivity or care for others.

1. Cheats with her best friend's boyfriend, showing no sense of guilt. After finding out about her best friend's affair, she suddenly becomes a "justice warrior" and feels the need to tell the boyfriend. Thankfully, Mindy is awake to reality.

2. The guy clearly shows interest in Mindy, but she acts like a naive fool, completely oblivious, and shamelessly makes a scene in front of everyone. A true friend would have been quietly observing and going to her best friend to figure out her feelings, planning whether to offer help or not.

3. Alfie's company is in trouble, and she has a solution, but instead of quietly telling her boyfriend so he can handle it, she chooses the most attention-grabbing way and directly goes to the boss, saying, "I heard about the issue with your factory." Seriously, she doesn't care if her boyfriend loses his job, leaking confidential business information could get him fired and banned in the industry. Yet, the writers have her save the day with a happy ending. Friends, no matter how smart you are, don't follow this example.

4. When a good friend just starts dating someone, she teams up to embarrass the guy without any consideration for her best friend's feelings. Later, she makes it seem like the boyfriend hurt her best friend and owes her an apology. The writers create this narrative where she is portrayed as the pure and innocent one, and everyone else is wronged by her. When Mindy goes through a breakup or struggles at work, she offers no empathy, just a light word of comfort before turning the conversation back to her own problems. In contrast, Mindy stands firmly by her friends, listens patiently, and offers advice.

5. When her boyfriend is leaving, she doesn't attend the farewell party, busy with work. I get it, writers, you want to portray her as a dedicated workaholic, naïve and careless. Well, comrades, let’s not have friends like her, lest we end up hurt and then be accused of being petty and calculating.

6. In a meeting with clients, she only talks about her own ideas, talking non-stop without caring about her colleagues’ feelings. Okay, you're talented, and you have ideas, but please, let people breathe in the workplace. Most of us ordinary people would be driven to quit if we had to work with someone like this “genius.”

7. At the wedding, after giving a speech, Alfie walks away in sadness. Instead of explaining or chasing after him, she sulks on the rooftop, feeling like the whole world has wronged her. When Gabriel shows up, the two share a moment of joy, as if all obstacles have been cleared, and they can finally be open about their relationship. Just lock it down, you two.

The plot of "a naive, careless character who hurts everyone but is innocent and doesn't mean any harm" is disgusting. If you hold her accountable, then you are the one with the dark side.

Finally, I hope everyone never has friends like this, partners like this, and never encounters colleagues like this in the workplace.

I still remember writing a review for Season 2 last year, and the most memorable part was Gabriel's flat ass. And guess what, it's back this year.

As the popular comment from Hong Kong says, if this show has reached Season 3, then we all have a responsibility in this.

In my circle, little gays are the biggest fans of this show, eagerly pushing me to watch it: "Come out of The Crown , this is just perfect for middle schoolers!"

This reminded me of 2013, when I was still a student, watching the three installments of Tiny Times at a cinema in Guangzhou ( Shameful Face , Actually Not Ashamed ). In that freezing cold air conditioning, I was deeply shocked by the exaggerated, hedonistic world, and I couldn't help but feel goosebumps.

As for why I was fascinated by this kind of melodramatic literature, I think The Penthouse has done the best job of illustrating it. Now, looking at The Next Door Neighbor , with the chaebol's Song Joong-ki, aren't we all driven crazy by the pandemic and in need of drama to release stress?

But after watching the first six episodes of Season 3, I have to say this show isn't the replacement for GG (previously I made a mistake, sorry).

Although GG isn't exactly serious literature, not all messes are GG style.

First, GG is female-centric. Whether it's S or B, they've always been the ones choosing their men, and these two queens have never bowed their beautiful and noble heads. Every time they fall for a man, I feel like it’s because of hormones. Compared to that, Emily feels like Queen B's handbag, blending into the Upper East Side, and swooning when she sees Nate. Maybe GG was chaotic, but the ladies were still noble, and the men didn’t deserve them.

By comparison, Camille and her muse, the female artist, often make me read a bit of male gaze-y lesbian undertones. Or maybe Greek women are more like men?

Second, Emily and her friends dress terribly.

In GG , S is always on point as an IT girl, and B’s preppy and princess-like styles were all the rage in our 90s dorms. What about Emily? A chicken with a phoenix feather stuck on it... This chicken loves to dye her hair in all sorts of colors, vibrant and dazzling.

This picture I casually grabbed from Season 1 still captures it.

Emily’s clothes aren’t cheap. In fact, that yellow jacket from Vassilis Zoulias in Season 2, Episode 4, costs a whopping $50,000. PS: She really loves dressing up like a peacock.

Golden peacock, pink peacock, golden powder peacock, black peacock?!

Some enthusiastic fans calculated that Emily spends nearly $120,000 a year, which is quite luxurious. But when you dress like that, it's not worth it.

The only one who makes a decent impression in this show is Camille, and you can’t help but feel that she is her own Cody. She’s the one who brings the style into the show.

Third, no character arc.

I know comparing character arcs is a bit unfair (apologies to my fingers), but still, there’s a comparison to be made. At least in GG , by the end, the poor boy is no longer insecure, the high-status IT girl finds her certainty, and the one who wanted to become a princess actually married the prince. I think a character arc, in simple terms, is the character's growth or change. But Emily, by Season 3, is just the same as before.

As long as Alfie isn’t around for a bit, she’ll have a “soul-shaking” moment with Gabriel. We’re saying, craving physical connection is fine, but constantly being defeated by it, can’t we reflect on ourselves? Maybe the beautiful country just thrives on "country bumpkin" literature.

Fourth, I just read a comment upstairs that made me think, Emily is really the new Notre-Dame de Paris .

In GG , it seemed like everyone was a bad girl, but everyone's selfishness and dark sides were put out in the open. After all the drama, they were still brothers. But in Emily's case, she's a completely innocent and naive character. She cheats with her best friend's boyfriend but feels no guilt. She steals her boss's cover and thinks it's because she deserves it. The question is, does the confident, bad girl attract more people, or does the pseudo-pure little phoenix win more hearts?

Anyway, I don’t choose the chicken.

In the end, we all know this show is far from perfect, yet we continue to watch it. Maybe this is our online Black Mirror —we're curious to see where this melodramatic, surreal plot goes. Emily is our small-scale social experiment. We enjoy it, but we should be ashamed. Amen. May the Flying Spaghetti Monster forgive all fans of bad taste.