- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 2, 2020
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Emily in Paris isn’t going to make your Top 10 Best Shows of 2025 list. But it’s still a high-quality comfort watch with good vibes and a charming cast that can give you a much-needed rest from reality.
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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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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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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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[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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Emily in Paris Season 5 won't win over any new fans, but if you've stuck with Emily this long, then there's no reason you won't enjoy her latest adventure in the Eternal City.
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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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Series creator Darren Star and the writers embrace frivolity, and season five swaps out Parisienne bakeries for picturesque Italian streets, providing a sufficiently beautiful and mind-numbing escape over its 10 half-hour episodes.
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Once ghastly, the show has matured into something quite pleasant. The characters are less grating now. The outfits (except the ones worn by Mindy) not so likely to cause retinal burn. I no longer want someone to push Emily into the Seine, and this is progress.
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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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Driver is pitch-perfect as this glamorous grifter, bringing what feels like a much-needed injection of camp, self-aware energy. That aside, though, experiencing Emily in Paris feels like allowing your brain to regress in real time.
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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.