One writer asks: 'Why is a show like 'Shrill' the exception when 'Emily in Paris' is the rule?'
kicks off with a fatphobic bang. Our protagonist, the titular Emily , has just arrived at her new office in Paris, where her oh-so-American enthusiasm and inability to speak French make her an obvious fish out of water; when Emily meets her new boss, Monsieur Brossard, he immediately launches into a tirade against her native Chicago’s deep-dish pizza, complaining, “The people are so fat.
Why are they all so fat?” Sylvie—another equally intimidating, but slightly more sympathetic boss of Emily’s—chimes in, blaming Chicago’s “disgusting food.” Before you know it, we’re in a full-scale back-and-forth about America’s obesity epidemic, an ever-popular straw man that’s been invoked to excusefor decades. “Perhaps stop eating,” scowls Sylvie, and when Emily nervously points out that the cigarette Brossard is smoking also causes disease, she’s quickly laughed off—after all, cigarettes constitute “pleasure,” something the French are uniquely well-versed in, whereas food is just another example of Americans’ lack of discipline.is deploying Brossard and Sylvie’s cruel biases to illustrate just how condescendinglyand out-of-touch they are; the show isn’t necessarily cheering their fatphobia, but on yet another TV show that follows a rail-thin female protagonist, it “hits different,” as the kids say. All in all,
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