Review of Emily in Paris Season 3

I remember very clearly when Emily in Paris came out during the pandemic. I know a lot of people don’t remember the pandemic outside of bits and flashes, but I spent a lot of the pandemic documenting my life and what I was consuming through the beginnings of this blog. We’ve grown since then, haven’t we?

Anyways, I refused to watch the show when it first came out. I knew that it wasn’t up my alley, and I got through about three episodes when I turned away and said I could no longer do it anymore. It was too mind numbing at a time that already felt more mind numbing to me.

Several years later, I was in a period I called funemployment. I was working on this blog a little more than usual, and I saw that the fourth season was preparing to come out in a few weeks. So what did I do during this time? I sat down and watched Emily in Paris because I was ready to numb my brain.

The blog posts corresponding to each season are out of order, as I dropped seasons one and four when the fourth season was airing on Netflix, and this third season was basically me catching up on blog posts right now. It’s the last to come out from all of my time catching up.

Let’s get into the review then, shall we? I don’t want to bore you with the semantics and unnecessary details.

As Emily enters crossroads of where her career and romantic life takes her, she needs to make a decision.

We begin season three of Emily in Paris right at the end of season two. Emily has been offered jobs with both Madeline and Sylvie, and she has no idea what she should be doing right now. Her loyalties to her former boss are still there, but she loves her French team so dearly and can’t imagine letting them go.

So what does she do? She works for both of them secretly. Neither party has any idea that she’s working for the other, which seems pretty illegal on the American side of things. Most companies will never let you work at two different companies.

It’s in episode one when the problem hits the fan, as Sylvie does end up finding out that Emily is two-timing them, and she does fire Emily. That sets up the conflict for the rest of the season when it comes to Emily’s work life, and as we can infer from the previous seasons, her love life is a mess too.

I say this is the season where it all begins to seriously go downhill in terms of plot. The actor who plays Gabriel also starts appearing a bit more lifeless during this season, and I started seeing interviews later on that he was lowkey kind of done with this role because of what his character became.

It’s in this season I start questioning everything that Gabriel is doing. He does end up working mainly at the restaurant, where he’’s chasing after acclaim and his Michelin Stars, and he does give Emily a job when she needs the income the most (and a work visa—but that’s a problem for the second half of the season).

Camille and Gabriel are also still doing their little dance, although her lesbian lover from Greece makes an appearance in the later half of the season. That causes even more of a love triangle to develop, especially as Emily and Alfie, no matter how happy and comfortable they are, are also dancing around the subject of Gabriel.

Another B plot that emerges is Sylvie trying to run her own company. We see how she’s illegally running it out of her apartment and has no clients. They have a massive hill to climb throughout the course of the series, that’s for sure.

Mindy also has a new beau in this season, as she reunites with an old friend from boarding school that’s now a big part of the business world the characters are dealing with. However, these two are also going to have push and pull moments, because no one in this series can have a normal relationship.

Overall Thoughts

I still do think this show is mindless entertainment, and I can feel my brain rotting while I’m watching it. However season three starts out pretty decent, then goes down a bunch of little rabbitholes that had me pretty confused. From this point on, the show starts descending in terms of quality.

That said, here I am still watching it. I honestly don’t have a ton to say in this section beyond the decline in quality because this is Emily in Paris. There are still the same problems throughout the course of the show, especially when it comes to the expats living here and making little effort into assimilating.

That’s all for today. I don’t think I can analyze this show anymore. I’ll see y’all when season five rolls around and will be reviewing many other television shows in the mean time.

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