Emily brings her can-do American attitude and fresh ideas to her new office in Paris, but her inability to speak French turns out to be a major faux pas.
Well, I’ve watched most of the 1st episode with my wife.
I won’t call it bad, it has its style, yet I won’t say I have the capacity for this series. My wife says it’s girlish, so I guess I’m not even going to watch it, and there is no sense in adding it into the might project.
Does not look like my cup of tea.
My wife likes the series, so might go as a recommendation from someone else’s in my counterpart blog, might.watch.
Language Barrier
On a side note, I see a lot of the US as Russia, in a bad sense of the word. As an empire too.
Coming to another country, expecting everyone would speak your language, and you knowning nothing of the destination country, none of its culture, a few words, expecting everyone would just listen to you and would understand you.
Of course, English is not Russian. It’s simpler, million times better language. It’s truly spoken everywhere, and is de-facto international language №1. Yet, the attitude is still the same. People are more likely to speak your language, yet you cannot expect that, actually.
France is a good example of a country that respects itself, its own culture and where people don’t feel obliged to learn English.
I must add, I’ve been there and I felt the same irritation when I was unable to communicate with people, beacause I was just a tourist with no French knowledge, but English. Yet, I understand that’s my problem, not locals.
That’s not the series issue, that’s the cultural one that the series just highlights.