The chirpy comedy-drama was a lockdown hit despite a snooty response from critics and Parisians alike. As it returns for season four, we go on set to meet the people making TV’s most divisive show
first appeared on television screens during that long pandemic winter of 2020, it was as though a bright bird had flown into a staid dinner party that had gone on for too long. There was excitement; there was glee; there were a great number of feelings about the garishness of the bird.
I had given up hope until last winter, when I saw a news article about the show’s plans to finish filming season four in early 2024, before the Olympics. I emailed again. And so on a grey April morning this year, as heavy rain pounded down on the city, I found myself arriving at a large, unassuming warehouse on the outskirts of Paris. Never give up on your dreams.
“French cinema is all about reality: three people, bored and depressed, drinking alcohol in a room. I love French movies. But it’s true,” says the show’s Toulouse-born costume designer Marylin Fitoussi. “So when someone says to me, ‘I don’t care about reality, let’s make people dream’, I love that.’” Fitoussi is dressed in a vibrant green co-ord, looking as bright as the show with red lipstick and statement jewellery.
“I never understood the hate, quite honestly, why it provoked a reaction,” Star says. “People who live in Paris, it’s not their dream to live here, so maybe they didn’t quite understand how people from all over the world view Paris as this sort of ideal. Those people, who are dealing with their day-to-day lives – it’s not a fantasy for them.”
We are taken to the set of Emily’s apartment, a cosy little testament to conspicuous consumption, with a vanilla Diptyque candle on a table, Kérastase hair products in the shower, a magnificently colourful array of clothes and shoes on display, and only a few sad little jars in the fridge. Every branded product has been featured as part of a deal, a designer says.
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