As if his old-school views on women, marriage and family weren’t bad enough, the Vice President of the United States has just revealed he likes a TV show so bad it makes Sex and the City 2 look like The Sopranos.
JD Vance has just called Emily in Paris “the Shakespeare of our time”. His taste apparently peaks at a show so trashy it even made posh French people angry. The show, like Cardi B’s “WAP”, Joe Wicks and Tiger King, was one of those strange cultural phenomena synonymous with Covid. People had nothing to do, so they binged it.
Now, I totally get a hate-watch, watching something so bad it’s good. We all do it. But it was Vance’s recent remarks about the show that took things to the next level. Because his interpretation of Emily in Paris genuinely revealed something much more interesting about him: just how wildly out of touch his idea of how millennials should be living our lives.
His latest asinine comments, aka his “meta-analysis”, included the revelation that this “masterpiece” is secretly a critique of millennial life. His main argument is that Emily and her main love interest, Gabriel, are obviously meant for each other, but instead of settling down, getting married and starting a family, the traditional family ideal – aka the Republican dream – they keep making terrible romantic choices and prioritising their careers.
Emily in Paris is so ludicrously sanitised – it is a whitewashed fantasy of one of the most diverse cities in Europe (Photo: Netflix)I mean, aside from pointing out the colossally obvious fact that it’s a TV show, and the will-they-won’t-they trope is a plot device as old as time, Vance, who is also a millennial and terrifyingly is just ONE YEAR older than me, could not be more wrong.
But first, let’s discuss what makes Emily in Paris so awful. When the first wave of criticism came, I thought: rather than jumping on the bandwagon, let me actually watch it before coming to my own conclusion. Much like I recently read Wuthering Heights before watching the film, so I could eviscerate it justifiably. And it turns out the people were right – the show is utterly terrible. Emily in Paris is so ludicrously sanitised – it is a whitewashed fantasy of one of the most diverse cities in Europe. The racism, poverty and the very real tensions around immigration, Islam and secularism, are not remotely visible on Emily’s perfectly cobbled Parisian streets. Then there is the over-the-top French clichés (daily croissants, etc.), Emily’s American exceptionalism of moving to France without bothering to learn French, yet expecting everyone around her wait on her hand and foot, and the unbelievably reductive and offensive take on sexism and feminism. It infuriated me.
Some people will say it’s not that deep. It’s just a TV show. Relax. It’s escapism. And actually, I think that’s exactly why it did so well. It arrived during one of the strangest periods in our recent history, when we were locked in our homes and desperate to escape into someone else’s ludicrously perfect life. Had it arrived at almost any other time, I’m not convinced it would have made it past one series.
‘We’re not living in the same world our parents did, or apparently the one Vance does, despite being only a year older than me,’ writes Poppy Jay, pictured (Photo: Teri Pengilley /The i Paper)But I would argue it is that “deep”, because Emily in Paris arrived at a time when we were questioning everything: privilege, race, representation, work, relationships, what women wanted from their lives and who got to decide what a successful one looked like. Yet here was a show so sanitised and two-dimensional it seemed completely oblivious to the world around it. It was utterly tone-deaf and entirely unreflective of the reality millennials find themselves in. So for the Vice President of the United States to see it as an illustration of what is wrong with my generation really speaks volumes about how out of touch with reality he is.
We’re not living in the same world our parents did, or apparently the one Vance does, despite being only a year older than me. We can barely afford our bills. I’m 41 and still don’t have a pension. Women don’t have to put up with the shit our mums’ and grannies’ generations did. And yes, we prioritise our careers, JD, because coffee and croissants now cost £15.
We’re taking longer to decide what a good life actually looks like because the world in which we were supposed to build one changed underneath our feet, and it’s still changing at breakneck speed. And as Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet: “This above all: to thine own self be true.”
And that, JD, is exactly what we’re doing.
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