Needless to say, that bouncer likely would recognize them now: The Netflix show has become so identified with its titular city that French President Emmanuel Macron advocated to keep Emily in Paris after she moved to Rome in the Season 4 finale. Audiences immediately fell for Emily, an American who's thrust into the haughty world of luxury marketing when she's transferred to a French boutique agency, and Park's Mindy, the first person Emily connects with in Paris.
In the season premiere, as Emily (Collins) is in Rome, Mindy (Park) reconnects with Emily's British ex Alfie (Lucien Laviscount), which ends up getting more romantic and emotional than expected. They don't act on their newfound connection until they head to Rome and start hooking up, but promise to keep it an Italian fling. Naturally, that plan fails. As soon as she read the script, Park "panicked immediately," and turned to Collins, who is also an executive producer on the show, for confirmation.
One of the consulting costume designers for Emily in Paris, Patricia Field, is now a household name thanks to Sex and the City. The fictional Carrie Bradshaw has become a fashion icon, and women have replicated winning looks from the series, like tutus, flower brooches, and vintage Dior saddle bags, in the decades since the show's first episode aired. The hype was high for the fashion in Emily in Paris since the city itself is a style symbol.
This isn't a new phenomenon. Hate-watching, which we'll generously call ironic viewing, has been documented since the 1990s, though it's probably always been around and has reached its peak thanks to social media and to streaming, which lets you binge-watch episodes. There's no longer time to wonder whether you really want to keep wasting your time on a show you only watch so you can mock it.
Emily in Paris fan Sam Geiger did the hard work of investigating the show's complicated timeline. Posting a detailed video breakdown on Dec. 1, he examined all four seasons to date, laying out time references to establish when different episodes are supposed to take place. What he found was a mess of inconsistencies and the occasional "spring reset" bringing Emily (Lily Collins) and crew back to late spring or early summer, regardless of proper chronology.
