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Critic Reviews
The IndependentDec 21, 2021
Season 2 Review:
It is exactly what it is, harmless escapism, and on its own terms it is enormously successful. We wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s subversive, but Emily in Paris is definitely in on the joke. It winks at the audience. We know this is all ridiculous, it says, but don’t worry about it. Just keep watching.
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Dec 18, 2025
Season 5 Review:
By the season finale there’s a feeling that Emily has learned a lot from her Italian venture, and discovered more about herself and her love for Paris than she thought possible. It’s a nice bookend to one of the strongest seasons yet, one that reminds viewers why they fell for this show in the first place.
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Screen RantDec 18, 2025
Season 5 Review:
Beyond Sylvie, female friendship is hugely celebrated in Emily in Paris season 5, as Emily and Mindy's relationship becomes more complex and deep than it ever was. By making it just as important as Emily's romantic relationships, Emily in Paris continues to evolve for the better.
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Dec 21, 2022
Season 3 Review:
Part of Emily in Paris’ charm is that the show never takes itself too seriously. That charming tactic is implemented again in Season 3, but the writers make [a] refreshing, effective effort to give characters, storylines, and relationship dynamics some added depth this time around.
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Dec 17, 2021
Season 2 Review:
Meatier Season 2 delves into Emily’s personal growth. Her emotional progression is gradual and almost imperceptible until the last two episodes of the season, when you suddenly realize yes, she might still be grating to the last, but she’s no longer the wide-eyed naïf she was when she stepped out of that cab in the fifth arrondissement. ... As was with the first season, the most valuable people on screen are Emily’s coworkers.
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Oct 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Emily in Paris is a confection, a series so charming and fanciful that it becomes impervious to snobbery and cynicism. Star has served je ne sais quoi in a glittery package, a tray of macarons arranged neatly in a Ladurée display window, each episode providing a morsel of airy delight.
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Oct 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
I gobbled up the 10 episodes of the fluffy Netflix show, available on Friday. If nothing else, it’s an escape from, you know, everything, as well as a ravishing tour of the City of Light. It’s travel porn, with a plot. ... [Emily's boss] Sylvie is beautifully played by Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, who steals the show with her hauteur. There are many, many scenes of Sylvie sighing with disgust over Emily, bemoaning the younger woman’s lack of subtlety. I savored each one.
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Sep 30, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Emily in Paris is a treat, a beguiling work of Netflix escapism. ... It is a Darren Star show, which means it’s fun and stylish and only partly steeped in reality. It is unabashedly on the side of its plucky heroine, played by Lily Collins, who dresses like Carrie Bradshaw and is self-involved like Carrie Bradshaw and is also charming, so you will root for her regardless of her flaws, like … Carrie Bradshaw.
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Oct 5, 2020
Sep 30, 2020
Season 1 Review:
What’s interesting about Emily in Paris is that Star seems to know that his heroine is très annoying. ... You'll wish you were watching Mindy in Paris. (Not too late for a spin-off, Mr. Star!) That’s not to say that Collins has somehow failed in her role. Emily is written as an irritating go-getter who relentlessly pursues her colleagues’ approval and believes wholeheartedly that she deserves it. If Collins delivered an Emily who was likable — well, that would be a failure.
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The Daily BeastDec 18, 2025
Season 5 Review:
The show seems more aware than ever that it functions best as a colorful, Cocomelon-esque adult travelogue: with flimsy conflicts that can be swept away so easily, it doesn’t matter if you missed a beat while online shopping. .... It might be running out of steam, but as a piece of low-stakes eye candy, it’s right where it needs to be.
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RogerEbert.comDec 18, 2025
Season 5 Review:
[The characters are] still prone to bouts of ridiculousness, but they are works in progress, beginning to discard the flatness of caricatures to take on more dimension. The characters continue to annoy me, but the annoyances have more nuance. Still, if you’ve been here for the entire run of the series, the plot points will make you feel like a fortune teller. .... I hate that I somewhat enjoy watching it, but I do.
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Sep 30, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The point is, Emily in Paris goes down a treat if you can set aside the myriad things it does badly or, perhaps worse, fails to do at all. ... Otherwise Emily in Paris is almost disarmingly pleasant and frictionless, free of real stakes beyond whether or not Emily will have to quit her burgeoning Instagram account to please her stern and stuck-in-her ways boss.
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The GuardianDec 18, 2025
Season 5 Review:
There are many, many new faces, the best among them being Minnie Driver. .... There is also – perhaps surprisingly – more emotional heft to this series than previous outings, and the sense that Emily and friends are growing up. .... Before things can get too heavy, though, the series steers us back towards the absurd and the outrageous.
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iDec 21, 2022
Season 3 Review:
Narratively, Emily in Paris is a dud, taking us to a dead-end in a purple McLaren. But it looks pretty and there are standout moments (sometimes for the wrong reasons: Mindy’s take on a performance suitable for a small, historic jazz club is truly something to behold). But Emily in Paris has lost its magic.
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The GuardianDec 21, 2022
Season 3 Review:
It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it is so relentlessly chirpy it doesn’t really need to. The clothes are bright and hypnotically garish, to the extent that, like its ancestor Sex and the City, you just want a new episode to start so you can see what everyone is wearing.
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Dec 22, 2021
Season 2 Review:
Everyone is over-acting to a borderline unconvincing amount. The series’ narrative progression is carefully curated to appeal to the tastes and sensibilities of viewers. ... Nothing happening in the series may be real, or important, but that’s never Star’s goal. Rather, each episode in Season Two is nothing more than a 30-minute escape, peering into a world that is mere fantasy, and is all the more entertaining for it, which, in this case, is enough.
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Radio TimesDec 22, 2021
Season 2 Review:
Fun, fashion-forward and funny, Emily in Paris’s second season makes for a very easy watch if you’re after a fluffy romcom full of colourful characters and lovers’ tiffs to get you through the Christmas holidays, but if you’re looking for a sitcom with substance, I would say non merci to this messy comedy.
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Sep 30, 2020Aug 21, 2024
Season 4 Review:
This season’s tonal dissonance draws attention to the shallowness of the social commentary—and distracts from the self-aware frivolity that first endeared Emily in Paris to audiences. .... Emily in Paris isn’t equipped to offer clear-eyed analysis of the real world in bite-size releases, and that’s fine.
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Dec 21, 2022
Season 3 Review:
What once felt like a fun drift through a magical alternate universe, by Season Three, has come to feel like a stagnant decision that no one is willing to make. ... Star, by not choosing to go harder on his characters, lets them ambivalently coast through their world: still technicolor, still camp, but without the sense of adventure that made the show such a delight to begin with.
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Dec 21, 2021
Season 2 Review:
While the drama and tension between Emily, Gabriel, Camille, and now Alfie might be what keeps the lights on, there will likely come a point in time when viewers decide the good no longer outweighs the bad. For some, that point may have already come and gone. For others, it could be on the horizon. It's up to everyone to decide how much they're willing to handle.
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Oct 15, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It’s TV chick lit, a rom-com in a foreign location where nothing bad ever happens and the cute protagonist gets laid a lot on her way to having it all. But the complicating thing about Emily in Paris—the best thing about it really, the thing that turns it from a trifle people enjoy into a curiosity they enjoy insulting—is how brittle its protagonist is.
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The TelegraphDec 18, 2025
The TimesDec 18, 2025
Season 5 Review:
It is also not nearly as funny as it should or could be. It reminds me of one of those influencers, too busy simpering into the mirror and trying to look perfect to provide any proper belly laughs or insights. Although Driver may improve matters on that score since it looks like she’s staying for the next series.
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Aug 15, 2024
Season 4 Review:
Even “Emily in Paris” seems a little bored by romance, spending the first act of Season 4 either dutifully advancing the predictable plot or casually abandoning its few major twists. Much like Emily herself, the focus of the show is squarely on work, where the withering gaze of agency boss Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) creates enough friction to give the proceedings some spark.
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The Daily BeastAug 15, 2024
Season 4 Review:
The only truly compelling thread this season, so far, follows Emily’s boss Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu). .... Her scenes, as always, feel like they’re part of a different, more mature show for actual adults—one that makes the rest of Emily in Paris look like Cocomelon. Really, the best reason to keep watching is to see all the nutty outfits Lily Collins is saddled with this time around.
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The IndependentDec 21, 2022
Season 3 Review:
On the nose? You ain’t seen nothing yet. In Emily in Paris, an exposition-heavy script makes sure nothing is left open to interpretation. ... The high fashion world of Emily in Paris (aka her mildly ridiculous wardrobe) continues to be the best thing about this show.
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RogerEbert.comOct 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
So devoid of narrative tension that it barely qualifies as entertainment. ... The characters surrounding Emily are more intriguing than she is. ... Technically, “Emily in Paris” is well-made, but the show’s shortcomings—from its simplistic depiction of French culture to its paper-thin protagonist—make it more of an irritation than an indulgence.
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Dec 18, 2025
Season 5 Review:
A much-welcome Minnie Driver joins the cast of Emily in Paris this season as a daffy heiress-cum-influencer and appears to be the only one on set who knows the caliber of series she’s in. These glimpses of sentience almost make watching the series feel joyful, but the way its money-hungry motives are baked into the very fabric of its plot and character motivations robs it of any potential value as comfort TV, or even camp.
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Nov 30, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The warm and goofy and topical camaraderie of that show [“Sex and the City”] is nowhere apparent here. Nor are any laughs. There are no actual laugh lines here, just lines that let you know they were supposed to be funny. It is, in essence, a romantic picture postcard comedy show without any comedy (or much romance for that matter).
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IndieWireOct 23, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“Emily in Paris” is like scrolling through Instagram. It’s a great way to waste time looking at pretty pictures with no depth, taken by beautiful people with the ability to do and call it a job. If that’s what you’re looking for, it’ll be for you. If you’re thinking this is the second coming of “Sex and the City,” sorry, no dice.
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The GuardianAug 14, 2024
Season 4 Review:
It’s not that it is about nothing; it’s not that it is bland, boring and has an obnoxious hyper-fixation with the empty trappings of wealth. It’s because creator Darren Star has made the only engaging character a middle-aged white dude who is succeeding despite phoning it in at his job. And that is not about nothing; that’s very telling.
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The IndependentOct 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Here is a partial list of all the people who will not enjoy Netflix’s new series, Emily in Paris: 1. French people. ... 6. Anyone who has seen a picture of the Eiffel Tower. 7. Anyone who’s eaten a croissant. ... Emily in Paris is just Emily in “Paris”, and we ought to leave her there to get on with it.
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