Emily in Paris' Season 3

2022 - 12 - 21

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'Emily in Paris' Season 3 Review: Couture Continuation (The Wall Street Journal)

The latest entry in the well-dressed if shallow Netflix series sees its protagonist's career at a turning point.

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'Emily In Paris': Darren Star Says Season 3 Is All About Consequences (Forbes)

Emily is still in Paris, and she's not coming home anytime soon. It's been a year since Lily Collins' Emily Cooper moved from Chicago to Paris for her dream ...

“The characters I write are very strong-minded, independent women who are very much in control of their destiny, and women enjoy seeing themselves reflected that way. At the time, Star said the women in his life inspired his writing. He has a knack for writing memorable male and female characters, but the women he’s created will forever hold a place in our hearts. He has a winning formula; Sex and the City and Emily In Paris have cult followings. “It’s about the power of making choices and the consequences that follow.” Star explained season one was about Emily getting acclimated to Paris and adjusting to a new culture.

Emily in Paris season three review – there's no point fighting this ... (The Guardian)

The plot lurches from melodrama to high farce, it's frequently baffling and the supposedly luxury marketing could have come from a task on The Apprentice.

After watching the second and third seasons in close succession I now know that Emily in Paris is horribly moreish. The first few episodes spend a lot of time attempting to put the pieces back together after breaking everything in season two, right down to the location of the offices and who her boss is going to be. As she is a magnet for any man in Paris who looks as if he has been pulled off the set of an underwear shoot for a mid-range catalogue, Emily’s personal life is also going swimmingly. And Emily’s ex-boyfriend in Chicago puts her up for a contract with McDonald’s, which, in Paris, is apparently the height of sophisticated lunching (there’s no shortage of real-life brands on show here). Luckily, she has Emily at her side, though in a twist everyone saw coming, Emily is simultaneously trying to work for the French firm and for Madeline, who is heavily pregnant, at Savoir. The French staff have exited the marketing firm Savoir to set up on their own, and American boss Madeline (Kate Walsh, who has a perfect grasp of the intended tone and puts in a virtuoso slapstick performance) is attempting to pick her way through the cultural confusions of the French luxury market.

'Emily in Paris' Season 3 Shocker Explained: Who's Pregnant? (Collider.com)

After Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) and Camille (Camille Razat) moved back in together in the second season's finale, Emily (Lily Collins) must put on a brave face and ...

There are many routes the series could take with this twist, but the ending of the third season feels somewhat similar to the ending of the first season where Emily and Gabriel were given a chance to be together but didn’t seize it because of Camille. Before that, he had been focusing too hard on the restaurant and drunkenly spilled to Emily about his love for both her and Camille and how he could tell something was off in his relationship. Instead, Camille finally addresses the elephant in the room, which is that Emily and Gabriel have been in love since she arrived in Paris and would be together if not for the scheme she concocted with her mother to trick Emily into cutting Gabriel out of her life with a manipulative pinky swear. Then, just when it seems like Emily and Gabriel will finally get their chance to be together unencumbered, a new twist is thrown their way: Camille is pregnant. After Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) and Camille (Camille Razat) moved back in together in the second season’s finale, Emily (Lily Collins) must put on a brave face and ignore the fact that she was just about to confess her love for Gabriel. Throughout the third season, Emily pushes her feelings for Gabriel away to explore a relationship with Alfie (Lucien Laviscount), who has taken a job in Paris and befriended Gabriel with no knowledge of Emily’s history with her handsome neighbor.

Emily In Paris review: season 3 simply extends the show's mindless ... (The A.V. Club)

Congratulations to Netflix for making Emily In Paris one of the most glamorous yet insipid series on TV.

And that’s why Emily In Paris is a visual treat—look out for a couple of Gabriel and Emily scenes halfway through, and an episode set in Provence, that is a standout. Emily In Paris is obviously a form of escapism; for that, it gets the credit, even if it doesn’t deserve much else. Emily, Mindy, Sylvie, and Camille are all involved in the trope of juggling multiple love interests. It’s a good thing she belts out covers of Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga in season three, an antidote to Emily crooning Dionne Warwick’s “Alfie.” But Mindy sort of disappears in the middle episodes as she gets caught up in her own love triangle. Despite most of the actors’ efforts, Emily In Paris is still a chore. In that sense, EIP is the equivalent of mindlessly browsing through TikTok—an overlong scrolling session that feels like an amusing enough waste of time. To date, Emily In Paris’ approach to the Parisian adventures of Chicago native Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) has been “rinse and repeat,” and the show’s 10-episode third season stays true to these roots. (At the risk of pulling an Emily In Paris, gosh this show loves to be rote). Collins looks perpetually flummoxed, but at least her hair is never out of place, not even when Emily cuts her own bangs. (Hint: Until the last-minute cliffhanger of season three). The new episodes carry on the trend of being equal parts boring and confusing. The show suffers by trying to be superficially earnest instead of fully embracing its whimsical nature.

Emily in Paris Season-Premiere Recap: Cutting It Close (Vulture)

Emily gives herself bangs in the season three premiere of Netflix's 'Emily in Paris.' Can she throw a party for Alfie at the same time she's meeting with ...

Over at the Eiffel Tower, Emily is using the passive voice to absolve herself of all responsibility for the mess she’s made of her own life (“It all just got so complicated”). But okay!) This is all potentially quite juicy stuff for the start of the season, but given this show’s track record for letting Emily actually live with the consequences of her actions, I am not sure how hopeful to be. We aren’t with her and her bandmates enough to be all that invested in what happens to them, and nothing she’s doing has any effect on Emily or the core goings-on of the show. (Fortunately the one couple I do believe in and care for deeply — Sylvie and the sexy, young photographer — are still together, and still have the correct priorities: no work talk when it’s time to make out). Again it is hard to believe that these two people are an item given that Emily is such a bad girlfriend (never pays attention to him; is obviously hung up on someone else) but the show needs us to believe that Emily is being torn asunder in both her professional and personal lives, so here we are. Emily goes to her other job (how she explains being MIA for half the day with both her bosses is left unclear). (How exactly does it benefit Madeline for Emily to have no idea who the meetings are with and what she needs to prep for … It is best to think of the entire exercise of Emily in Paris as a sort of collective hallucination that we are all having together. Madeline’s outfit is significantly worse (bright magenta and orange, very tight), I assume because her role in this world is “terribly not-chic American,” and I know I said this last season but I am very not into the way this show treats her pregnancy as beyond comical, like practically grotesque. — though I wonder if we are to believe this sort of frenetic, scrambled ritual is not her standard practice but instead is a manifestation of her frenetic, scrambled mind. Emily goes back to the Savoir offices so we can get a full-body shot of her outfit: a fuzzy sweater in a Care Bear color palette, a metallic miniskirt, and just-over-the-knee shiny green boots. [Camille hate Emily’s guts](https://www.vulture.com/article/emily-in-paris-recap-season-2-episode-4-jules-and-em.html) and only [ pretend to be nice to her](https://www.vulture.com/article/emily-in-paris-recap-season-2-episode-5-an-englishman-in-paris.html) to neutralize her as an obstacle on Camille’s (also inexplicable) quest to regain Gabriel’s heart?