Don’t Be Fooled. Emily in Paris Is Not a Guilty Pleasure

Trashy TV is not as comforting as you think

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Watching Emily in Paris was like watching those surgery programs that were all the rage in the 2000s. Painful, gross, but really hard to tear away from.

I spent half the time pretending not to watch it, keeping it on as I made dinner or cleaned as if worried that my…