Mon, September 14, 2026 at 10:21 PM UTC
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Vice President JD Vance offered his surprisingly passionate take on Emily in Paris, dubbing the Netflix series the “Shakespeare of our time” and weighing in on its central romantic dilemma: “She should end up with the French chef!”
The video was shared Monday on the vice president’s TikTok account and on X by his communications director, Taylor Van Kirk.
The romantic comedy, which stars Lily Collins, will return for a sixth and final season in December.
In the video, Vance appeared eager to weigh in on the show’s central love triangle, enthusiastically telling the camera:
I just had a buddy of mine criticize the masterwork of American television called Emily in Paris, so let me give you my meta-analysis of Emily in Paris and why it’s genius, okay?
The basic idea, if you’re just watching it superficially, is that Emily in Paris is about this sort of bubbly girl who goes to Paris and has a cool job and has great experiences and drinks fine wine — does all the things that you would do in Paris.
But what it is actually is a massive cultural criticism of millennial decision-making. She goes to Paris, and it’s obvious to everybody watching the show that she should end up with the French chef! She should marry this guy. They should start a family — whether in Paris or America. They should build a life together. That’s what they should be doing.
And by the same token, the French chef should obviously end up with her, not the various crazy people that pop in and out of his life, and yet what both of them do is they make a series of absurd, sometimes hilarious, sometimes not particularly believable mistakes where she ends up with a bunch of random people or focused on her job, he ends up with a bunch of random people or focused on his job, and it’s like obvious.
Fall in love, get married, you two were made for each other, and the fact that they keep on making atrocious decisions is kind of like the best bit of cultural commentary — I would say cultural criticism — of my generation, the millennials.
You gotta watch Emily in Paris. It is, at the risk of overstating it, the Shakespeare of our time.
Watch the clip above on X.
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