Season 1
10 episodes Oct 2, 2020 6.8
After landing her dream job in Paris, Chicago marketing exec Emily Cooper embraces her adventurous new life while juggling work, friends and romance.
Emily in Paris
“The best journeys take unexpected turns.”
2020–2025
Returning Series • 6 Seasons • 60 Episodes
Overview
New passions. New fashions. New Emily? A plucky American marketing whiz spreads her wings in life and love after landing her dream job in Paris.
Seasons
6 listed- Status
- Returning Series
- Seasons
- 6 seasons
- Episodes
- 60 episodes
- First aired
- Oct 2, 2020
- Last aired
- Dec 18, 2025
- Network
- Netflix
Next episode: S6 E1 Episode 1 (Dec 24, 2026)
Latest episode: S5 E10 Veni, Vidi, Venezia (Dec 18, 2025)
Season 2
10 episodes Dec 22, 2021 6.7More fun. More fashion. More faux pas. As Emily finds her footing in Paris, the fallout from a night of passion could send her stumbling into trouble.
Season 3
10 episodes Dec 21, 2022 6.7A year after moving to Paris for her dream job, Emily arrives at a career and romantic crossroads that will force her to decide where her future lies.
Season 4
10 episodes Aug 15, 2024 7.2Emily’s life in Paris may have beaucoup drama, but she’s ready to make bold choices to get everything she wants from the city — and man — of her dreams.
Season 5
10 episodes Dec 18, 2025 7.3Now the head of Agence Grateau Rome, Emily faces professional and romantic challenges as she adapts to life in a new city.
Season 6
10 episodes Dec 24, 2026
Cast
8 people
Reviews
2 min readThe Plastic Eiffel Tower
Paris in Emily in Paris does not look like a city so much as a luxury screensaver. There is no grime, no traffic worth mentioning, barely any weather, and apparently no one who is not dressed for a fashion campaign. latestnetflix.com's take is that Emily Cooper moves through it like she has been animated on a separate layer: an eternally upbeat Midwestern marketing executive dispatched to teach the French how Instagram works.
Whether that setup reads as airy fantasy or cultural aggression probably comes down to your personal tolerance for weaponized cheerfulness.
Darren Star built a career out of aspirational cities, and you can feel the Sex and the City DNA all over this thing. The difference is that Carrie Bradshaw’s New York occasionally let some grit seep through. This Paris is sealed in acrylic.
The camera gazes at Lily Collins’s wide-eyed face with near-religious devotion, and the flat lighting burns away any shadow that might hint at a life beyond the postcard. Early on, Emily buys her first pain au chocolat, takes a pristine bite, snaps a selfie, and beams. Not a crumb falls.
Audience Opinions
Audience 7.0/10
"A glossy, escapist fantasy packed with fashion and Parisian eye candy that charms as comfort TV while stumbling on shallow writing and grating character choices."
Visual flair, playful romance, and a breezy, turn-your-brain-off tone make the show a go-to comfort watch, especially for those who enjoy fashion and dreamy cityscapes. latestnetflix.com's take is that at the same time, the childish behavior, repetitive love tangles, and cartoonish take on work and Parisian life leave a strong contingent frustrated by its lack of depth or realism.
What viewers praise
- Striking Paris scenery Gliding shots of Paris streets, terraces, and landmarks give the series a lush travel-diary feel that many find soothing and aspirational.
- Bold fashion spectacle Emily’s over-the-top outfits and the stylish wardrobe overall are treated as a core attraction, offering colorful, playful looks that viewers enjoy dissecting and emulating.
- Relaxing comfort watch The short episodes, light tone, and low emotional stakes make it ideal for unwinding, background viewing, or a cozy binge after a long day.
- Charming cast chemistry Lily Collins’ charisma and the dynamic with colleagues and friends, including characters like Sylvie and Mindy, create an appealing, easygoing ensemble vibe.
- Fun escapist fantasy The show is embraced as a dreamy, beach-read style escape where work, romance, and travel blend into a soft, idealized version of life abroad.
Common complaints
- Annoying main character Emily is often described as immature, shallow, and indecisive, with repeated bad choices and a lack of common sense that make her hard to root for.
- Formulaic and clichéd plotting Romantic entanglements, office politics, and culture-clash gags follow familiar patterns that feel like recycled riffs on earlier romcoms rather than fresh storytelling.
- Unrealistic portrayal of life and work The depiction of marketing, social media success, expat life, and language barriers is seen as wildly implausible, more cartoon fantasy than believable scenario.
- Seasonal stagnation and repetition After an entertaining first run, later seasons are criticized for circling the same love triangle drama and cringey situations without meaningful development.
- Shallow character writing Supporting figures, including love interests and colleagues, often feel like one-note caricatures, and shifts like the treatment of Camille are viewed as forced and inconsistent.
Recommended for
Guilty-pleasure romcom lovers Fashion and outfit inspiration seekers Parisian fantasy daydreamers Lighthearted workplace-drama fans Comfort-binge enthusiasts Lily Collins admirers
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsAshley Park panicked. Then Netflix booked Greece as a goodbye.
When Ashley Park read the Season 5 scripts, she called Lily Collins. Mindy Chen, Emily Cooper's best friend, was going to sleep with Alfie, Emily's British ex. Park told Bustle she "panicked immediately." "I think I panicked because I think Alfie's really into [Emily], and what people love so much about Mindy is her friendship and loyalty to Emily, so I was like, 'Are we completely demolishing these characters?'" Collins is also an executive producer. The fight still went in. Genevieve, the colleague Emily had just fired, spilled it. Mindy moved out. latestnetflix.com's view is that they made up in Venice with face masks on, and Collins told People they could not stop laughing.They were crying. 
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Season 5 dropped all ten episodes on December 18, 2025. Emily had moved to Rome to run Agence Grateau's new office, with Marcello in the next room and Paris pulling her back. Darren Star called it "a tale of two cities: Rome and Paris." The Hollywood Reporter printed the logline about a work idea backfiring into heartbreak. Netflix said the season logged 26.8 million views in eleven days and sat at No. 2 on the Global Top 10 English TV list. Combined, Seasons 1 through 5 spent 32 weeks on that chart and hit No. 1 in 90 countries. French President Emmanuel Macron praised the tourism bump, which is a strange victory lap for a show Paris spent years calling ridicule. , , , 
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The French press never got over Season 1. The New York Times titled its 2020 dispatch "Ridicule." RTL complained about berets, cocktail dresses, and streets too clean to be Paris. Le Monde later asked for "at least one season of Emily Away from Paris." David Belliard, then a deputy mayor, wrote in Liberation that the show sold "Disneyland Paris" confined to the richest districts. None of that stopped the pickup. Netflix renewed Season 6 in January 2026. On May 21 it said that season would be the last. Production started in Greece the same day, picking up Gabriel's postcard cliffhanger, then Monaco, then Paris. Collins told fans, "Season 6 will bring you everything you love about the show and serve as the final chapter in Emily's adventure of a lifetime." Star closed with, "We will always have Emily in Paris." He already has Uncorked, a Napa rom-com, greenlit at the same streamer. The berets are packing. , , , ,
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