Review of season four of Emily in Paris

I’ve been having a bit of a moment lately when it comes to the kind of content I’m watching. Not only have I have I been watching Sex and the City, which I never really cared for despite everyone around me gawking for it in fashion school, but I’ve been binge watching Emily in Paris too.

And that was how I ended up watching all 3.5 seasons of Emily in Paris over the course of two weeks while waiting for my visa to come through. I finished with the first half of season four, and found myself waiting for the next part to come out. I needed to know what happened.

Like everyone else, I waited for a hot minute for the second part of Emily in Paris season four to come out. And man, that was a rollercoaster of a ride as I watched the second part the morning it came out in one go. It’s not like I had much else to do, as I quit my job as a film critic in order to prepare for my big international move.

Let’s chat about season four then, shall we?

Emily and her love triangles get a little more intense, with a flair for drama.

In this season, there’s a lot that’s about to unloaded on us. Note that this review is going to contain some spoilers about how this season ends, as I’m still processing what the heck just was dumped on us as viewers.

We begin this season with Camille unloading a disaster at her wedding, as she refuses to marry Gabriel because of his relationship with Emily. This ruined her relationship with Alfie, who is very upset at everything going on, and then Emily and Gabriel find themselves in a state of flux.

Throughout the course of this season, there are going to be a lot of arguments, and then the second part of Emily in Paris S4 completely switches tones. Camille suddenly wants Gabriel back, she had a phantom pregnancy, and her newfound relationship with the Greek girl seems to cool off. Toward the season's end, she realizes she wants to foster kids, but Gabriel doesn’t seem to be on the same page.

There’s also drama involving Gabriel and his hunt for the Michelin star, as well as Mindy’s love life. Mindy finds that she might not be on the same page as Nico after all, especially after all of the scandals going on involving his father, and she’s been performing more in clubs and with Benoit and the band again.

That might cause some more sparks to come back up, but Emily also finds herself meeting a handsome Italian man when she wipes out skiing during Christmas. This sets the scenes to come, as Emily finds herself in a new relationship with Marcello, the Italian, and Sylvie offers to give her a position in Italy.

So not only does Emily move to Rome at the end of the season, but Mindy gets the opportunity to follow her own dreams, too. Suddenly we’re not really in Paris anymore, and if the show continues this way, we might not be solely focusing on France anymore to spice it up. We also might not have Alfie anymore, as on Christmas he revealed he is in a new steady relationship that’s looking pretty serious.

We meet Genevieve, a new character, at the start of the second part of the series, and she’s a little wicked. She’s also the secret daughter of Sylvie’s on and off husband Laurent. She comes in from New York, and she’s ready to stir up trouble as she gets more involved with the agency and Emily’s personal and love life.

Overall Thoughts

I think the first half of this season started out strong, but when we got into the second part, it started unraveling at the seams for me. Too much changed quickly, and it felt like two different seasons at time because of the drastic tonal/story shifts happening on-screen.

That said, I would confidently say I don’t care for the direction the show is going in right now. A core part of the series is the fact it takes place in Paris, and I think I would have rather preferred this be the last season rather than continuing to drag out the story in such dramatic ways.

Maybe I’m watching too much of the show and am starting to think critically about it, but the second part of the season felt a little off to me. I’d still try the next season, but not sure if I would keep going beyond into a sixth season.

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