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'Emily In Paris' Is A Painless And Pretty Frolic (And That's About It)

Darren Star, who created Younger and Sex And The City, has a new show on Netflix about a young woman who heads to France for the job of her dreams.
Lily Collins plays Emily in <em>Emily in Paris</em>.

The question that may determine whether you enjoy Netflix's new comedy-drama series Emily In Paris is this: Do you think Americans who take jobs in France and want the respect of their co-workers should probably be able to speak French?

Emily (Lily Collins) cannot speak French. She is an American who, when the boss at her marketing firm (played by Kate Walsh in what Kate Walsh fans intrigued by the marketing should understand is a cameo) unexpectedly has to bow out of a transfer to Paris to help with the acquisition of a new French subsidiary, steps in

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