Lily Collins doesn't agree with some viewer opinions about her "Emily in Paris" character. "A lot of the qualities that Emily has, if you put them on paper, would seem so annoying," she told Nylon. "To have someone be optimistic, bright and bubbly — it's sad to think that people would look and go, 'That's a lot.' They're such beautiful qualities, and the fact that she can partner that with being vulnerable and asking for help and making mistakes — she's not infallible."
"I think that this is a heightened reality for Emily, to be moving to Paris, and what she experiences and what she sees," she added. "It's just that when you put them all together in a TV show that also aesthetically looks the way it does, it's a little less believable."
In the meantime, the show has also come under for its depiction of certain cultures, most notably the people of Ukraine. "In 'Emily in Paris,' we have a caricature of a Ukrainian woman which is unacceptable," said Ukraine's minister of culture Oleksandr Tkachenko, calling it "offensive" and inaccurate (per CNN). "In the 1990s and 2000s, Ukrainian guys were portrayed mainly as gangsters," he went on. "Over time this has changed. However, not in this case."
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