Oh, for the days of Tami Taylor uncorking a bottle on “Friday Night Lights.” In more recent TV, our wine columnist finds depictions of wine mostly cringe-worthy.
Wine is for drunks. And white wine is the universal drink of choice for women. This is what I learned watching a great deal of television these past several weeks in preparation for this special TV issue of Off Duty. I had hoped to see wine woven into plots in some creative ways. Spoiler alert: I did not.
In the Netflix series “Emily in Paris,” for example, wine features a great deal—generally to demonstrate a character’s “Frenchness” or simply as a means to get drunk. The show features a vapid American “influencer” who arrives from Chicago to teach the French about marketing. Emily Cooper “discovers” Paris in every clichéd way . When her sidekick Mindy shows up at Emily’s apartment planning to stay a while, she promises to buy"so much wine.” I was not reassured.
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