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    <em>Emily in Paris</em> Is an Irresistible Fantasy

    In Darren Star’s latest series, the <em>Sex and the City</em> creator imagines an alternate universe where good intentions and accomplishing the bare minimum are enough.
    by Shirley Li Oct 05, 2020 5 minutes
    Source: Stephanie Branchu / Netflix

    Late in Netflix’s Emily in Paris, the new comedy series from Sex and the City’s creator, Darren Star, Emily (Lily Collins), the titular American expat, tries to give herself a reality check about her new home. “It’s just Paris,” she says. “It’s not some alternate universe where rules don’t apply.”

    Oh, but Emily does live in an alternate universe, one built by Star for his first Millennial protagonist. The 59-year-old producer has been mesmerized by the generation for some time: He thinks of them not as a generation so much as a “state of mind,” he told Indiewire in 2015. In that interview, he compared Millennials to a foreign language, a system older generations “can learn to be fluent in.”

    With , he takes that idea even further: Being a Millennial isn’t just a foreign language, but a fantasy. The 10-episode series portrays Emily, a marketing executive from Chicago, as aon Candace Bushnell’s perceptive columns about dating in Manhattan. But for , he appears to have been inspired by a Francophile’s Pinterest board.

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