Netflix’s Most Embarrassing Show Is Back. I’m Absolutely Thrilled.

Television Netflix’s most embarrassing series is back for its fourth season. I’m absolutely thrilled. By David Mack Aug 15, 202411:45 AM There’s a moment in the newest season of Emily in Paris that perfectly captures my feelings about this insipid yet strangely alluring Netflix show. The titular Emily (Lily Collins) and her friend/love rival Camille (Camille Razat) find themselves feuding in Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny, outside Paris. There, in the water lily pond that inspired some of the most astonishing and beautiful art in human history, the two women bicker until they fall out of their respective rowboats and splash into the water. As I watched the pair swim for the shoreline, I wondered to myself exactly how much money Netflix must have forked over for the privilege of defiling such a sacred space. As the women dry off, Camille tries to explain to Emily, who appears to have the education of a golden retriever, why Monet’s attempts at capturing nature through Impressionism we...