![]() ![]() I May Destroy You was not only my favorite show of 2020. “That show,” I told everyone who would listen, “deserves to win all the awards.” Our show also aired soon after I read Caste by Isabel Wilkerson and gobbled down Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You, a work of sheer genius about the aftermath of a rape. I could definitely see how a show about a white American selling luxury whiteness, in a pre-pandemic Paris scrubbed free of its vibrant African and Muslim communities, might rankle. Emily in Paris aired a few months after I’d spent June and July marching for racial justice through the streets of New York with my kids. I’m pregnant.”ĭid I take the criticism of the show personally? Of course. Je suis pleine.” Which does not mean, “No thanks, I’m full,” but rather, “No, thanks. As for Emily’s many faux pas? Let’s just say that during my first month in Paris, when I was a 22-year-old ingenue having dinner with my photojournalism colleagues, and one of them asked if I wanted more food, I answered, “ Non, merci. “ Le vagin n’est pas masculin?” I came up with that, too. Emily’s vaginal ring brand manifesto? Cut and pasted from the one I wrote for my marketing job. Like Emily, I’m both a former American expat who was based in Paris (as a photojournalist from 1988 to 1992), as well as a former pharmaceutical brand marketer: a gig I took after being sexually harassed out of my journalism job (by a man Trump just pardoned, but I digress) when I was a single mother trying to put two kids through college. ![]() “Best comedy series? Are you sure?” I down a spoonful of whipped cream. Golden Globes 2021: full list of nominations Maybe the first one messed with her head. She gets her second vaccine shot in two weeks. It never occurred to me that our show would be nominated. I tried to avoid reading its criticism, but I don’t live under a rock. “Emily in Paris just got nominated for a Golden Globe!” she said. ![]() Early Wednesday morning, as I was trying to decide whether to do a Yoga with Adrienne video or eat the leftover whipped cream, my mother called to tell me the news. ![]()
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