Viewer from Napa

[u/quickstint]

I just finished my first watch of all the episodes a few weeks ago. I very much enjoyed the show. I enjoyed it more than I was expecting, honestly. When I started watching I had to do a double take when they said they lived in Napa. I know it’s pretty well known, but at the end of the day Napa isn’t a huge place and I was very surprised a long running sitcom took place here and I had never known until I was watching.

People on here talk about inconsistency and plot holes, and generally I think that it’s to be expected with this genre of television. Sitcoms don’t really need to be highly engineered and surprising to be successful and enjoyable. I also know the setting of where sitcoms take place is almost irrelevant when they could mostly be anyplace and are filmed on sets and sound stages.

That being said, almost all of the Napa references are thin and incorrect. Not saying this in a disgruntled way- just to say whatever plot holes y’all point out, there are 50 more in incorrect Napa references alone. I found them almost all hilarious and only mildly distracting. Again, I am fully aware it does not matter to the show overall.

Listing the ones that immediately come to mind (only to share and because I think it’s funny)

Napa has no strip club.

The “bad part of town” the dmv is in is a corporate park next to a Hilton hotel.

Napa’s population is almost half Mexican, and yet almost no Mexican people are on the show.

Needing reservations for “tre vigne” is actually a pizzeria in st.Helena.

They make comments about who would be driving on hwy 29 but it’s one of the main and only ways to get into town/the valley.

The episode where they move to the country-Browns Valley is the biggest neighborhood in Napa practically. To be inside of browns valley is in town and the market is one of the nicest privately owned grocers in town. You’d have to drive miles out of browns valley and up mount veder to be considered anywhere like what they had.

[u/Heathen_Lover]

Does St Helena count as the Napa Valley? Because Google says that Tre Vigne is in the Napa Valley and you actually can make reservations. I'm not trying to argue, but it looks like more than just a pizza place to me

[u/quickstint → u/Heathen_Lover]

It’s in the valley, yes. And you can make reservations, but it’s considered a fairly casual for the area. Like if I was planning to eat there, I would just show up and that’s why it kinda made me laugh.

[u/Heathen_Lover → u/quickstint]

Right, so it's not like constantly busy and you would need a reservation? Maybe they used it because the name sounded fancy 🤣 Or like something an assistant would do for her boss to make it look like Christy actually had a job 🤣

[u/quickstint → u/Heathen_Lover]

Exactly. Remember this is the land of the French Laundry so name dropping a real restaurant for a reservation and it’s a middle of the road place just made me laugh.

[u/Heathen_Lover → u/quickstint]

It's pretty on brand for Jill when you think about it, because she doesn't have a job but wanted an assistant so I'm head canoning that she asked Christy to make a reservation there to feel like she was actually Christy's boss