I gave it a 4* for lovely visuals of Paris, beautiful actors who are good at their job, nice costumes, and in general, visual presentation is really nice. Series is also light and fun to watch.
But, here are the negatives... main character, Julie, for which we are supposed to root for, is just awful. I can't stand to watch her, she is horrible. Most characters are not presented well, even for a comedy, they say and do stupid and unrealistic things, and this maybe could pass in the 80s or so, but today, hardly. Ava's husband just kicks her out of their home and takes children away from her with really poor explanation and I am still not sure what did she do so wrong. Couldn't they just talk it out, is solution for her forgetting some stupid dinner to kick her out of home and we are supposed to be on his side? And children are like "ok, mom is gone, whatever". What?
Manon looks barely human, she is like some kind of French version of Samantha from Sex and the city. But ok.
Stephane is also poorly defined and I am not sure why did he even fell for Julie, why was he lying that he is gay etc. He is like undefined, two-dimensional hottie and that's it.
Mom and Dad are kind of fine, dad is the most likeable character in the series.
Max, poor Max is like barely a character. Like Stephane, and even more, he is just there to be a hottie for main character Julie. He has no spirit, no humor, he has a charisma of a kitchen table. None.
Julie... where do I even begin. She is selfish, self-centered, manipulating, rude, inappropriate, meddling, controlling etc. She wants what she wants, and she will use everyone around her to get it. She "falls in love" with a man she never met, she doesn't know and she will use all her friends to get him, she even separates him from his girlfriend of many years by lying to Max, runs him over with a car, stalks him to get into his way, and uses her friends to further separate him from his now ex and stop them from getting together again. Nice person ha! She always plays cute, which is easy because actress is tiny and very pretty, and plays ditzy silly girl but is calculated, fake and manipulative and totally selfish in all her acts. She even "outs" her roommate in front of everyone and sounds like a biggest bigot by doing so. He never gave her permission to out him, yet she goes around and screams "my roommate is gay you know". Cute? No.
So far, I have seen 4 episodes and she is getting worse and worse, and I don't understand why Stephane even cares about her anymore since she was using him constantly to get to Max in most inappropriate stalkerish ways.
So. Why are we rooting for her? Is she supposed to be so unlikeable or is it just bad script? Many things said in series made me cringe so hard. Her sister bragging that she is marrying before Julie, Julie's obsession with stranger and marriage, Ava's husband kicking her out of their home because she forgot some dinner, many very strange rude comments about gay people... What is happening, is it still like 1980?
All in all, you can watch it for lovely visuals and happy summer attitude, but script is not good, story makes no sense, and a lot of characters are just awful especially Julie.
But, here are the negatives... main character, Julie, for which we are supposed to root for, is just awful. I can't stand to watch her, she is horrible. Most characters are not presented well, even for a comedy, they say and do stupid and unrealistic things, and this maybe could pass in the 80s or so, but today, hardly. Ava's husband just kicks her out of their home and takes children away from her with really poor explanation and I am still not sure what did she do so wrong. Couldn't they just talk it out, is solution for her forgetting some stupid dinner to kick her out of home and we are supposed to be on his side? And children are like "ok, mom is gone, whatever". What?
Manon looks barely human, she is like some kind of French version of Samantha from Sex and the city. But ok.
Stephane is also poorly defined and I am not sure why did he even fell for Julie, why was he lying that he is gay etc. He is like undefined, two-dimensional hottie and that's it.
Mom and Dad are kind of fine, dad is the most likeable character in the series.
Max, poor Max is like barely a character. Like Stephane, and even more, he is just there to be a hottie for main character Julie. He has no spirit, no humor, he has a charisma of a kitchen table. None.
Julie... where do I even begin. She is selfish, self-centered, manipulating, rude, inappropriate, meddling, controlling etc. She wants what she wants, and she will use everyone around her to get it. She "falls in love" with a man she never met, she doesn't know and she will use all her friends to get him, she even separates him from his girlfriend of many years by lying to Max, runs him over with a car, stalks him to get into his way, and uses her friends to further separate him from his now ex and stop them from getting together again. Nice person ha! She always plays cute, which is easy because actress is tiny and very pretty, and plays ditzy silly girl but is calculated, fake and manipulative and totally selfish in all her acts. She even "outs" her roommate in front of everyone and sounds like a biggest bigot by doing so. He never gave her permission to out him, yet she goes around and screams "my roommate is gay you know". Cute? No.
So far, I have seen 4 episodes and she is getting worse and worse, and I don't understand why Stephane even cares about her anymore since she was using him constantly to get to Max in most inappropriate stalkerish ways.
So. Why are we rooting for her? Is she supposed to be so unlikeable or is it just bad script? Many things said in series made me cringe so hard. Her sister bragging that she is marrying before Julie, Julie's obsession with stranger and marriage, Ava's husband kicking her out of their home because she forgot some dinner, many very strange rude comments about gay people... What is happening, is it still like 1980?
All in all, you can watch it for lovely visuals and happy summer attitude, but script is not good, story makes no sense, and a lot of characters are just awful especially Julie.
