00:00I just had a buddy of mine criticize the masterwork of American television called Emily in Paris.
00:06And so let me give you my meta-analysis of Emily in Paris and why it's genius.
00:11The basic idea, if you're just watching it superficially, is Emily in Paris is about
00:16this sort of bubbly girl who goes to Paris and has a cool job and has great experiences and
00:22drinks fine wine and does all the things that you would do in Paris. But what it's actually
00:26is it is a massive cultural criticism of millennial decision making. She goes to Paris and it's
00:34obvious to everybody watching the show that she should end up with the French chef. She
00:40should marry this guy. They should start a family. Whether in Paris or America, they should
00:44build a life together. That's what they should be doing. And by the same token, the French
00:50chef should obviously end up with her, not the various craziest people to bump in and out
00:54of his life. And yet what both of them do is they make a series of absurd, sometimes
01:00hilarious, sometimes not particularly believable mistakes where she ends up with a bunch of
01:05random people or focused on her job. He ends up with a bunch of random people or focused
01:10on his job. And it's like obvious fall in love, get married. You two were made for each
01:16other. And the fact that they keep on making atrocious decisions is kind of like the best bit
01:22of cultural commentary. I would say cultural criticism of my generation, the millennials.
01:27You've got to watch Emily in Paris. It is at the risk of overstating it, the Shakespeare of
01:33Part-Time.
01:34Let's go.
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