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⭐⭐⭐ (3/5) Watch if you like: The Devil Wears Prada , Sex and the City , Younger , or staring at real estate you can’t afford. Skip if you like: Slow-burn dramas, historical accuracy, or characters who learn from their mistakes.

Let’s be honest. Emily in Paris is not prestige television. It is an Instagram filter dressed up as a show. Created by the mind behind Sex and the City and Beverly Hills, 90210 , the series follows Emily Cooper (Lily Collins), a plucky Chicago millennial who moves to Paris to provide “an American point of view” at a French marketing firm. Emily in Paris

Love it or hate it (and trust us, Parisians really hate it), Darren Star’s pastel-colored fever dream has become a bonafide cultural phenomenon. As Season 4 drops its second batch of episodes, we’re forced to ask: Why are we still obsessed with a marketing exec who thinks a beret is a personality? ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5) Watch if you like: The Devil

The result is a culture-clash fantasy where every problem is solved with a witty hashtag and a free Hermès scarf. Critics have lambasted its stereotypical portrayal of the French (rude, cheesy, lazy) and Americans (gutsy, loud, naive). Yet, the viewership numbers are astronomical. Emily in Paris is not prestige television

Thank the streaming gods for Ashley Park. As the nanny-turned-chanteuse heiress, Mindy provides the heart and vocal fireworks the show desperately needs. Her cover performances of "Dynamite" or "La Vie en Rose" in the middle of a park feel utterly surreal, but Park’s charisma is so immense that you don't care about the plot logic. She is the best friend every heroine deserves.

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu has created an icon. Sylvie is everything Emily is not: seasoned, cynical, eternally chic, and sexually liberated. She wears tight black dresses and speaks in a low, smoky growl that could end careers. Sylvie represents the Old World's resistance to American hustle culture, and watching her dynamic evolve—from hating Emily to grudgingly respecting her—is the show’s most complex arc.

When Emily in Paris premiered on Netflix in October 2020, the world was in a very different place. We were masked, grounded, and starved for escapism. Enter Emily Cooper (Lily Collins): a plucky, social-media-obsessed 20-something from Chicago who is unexpectedly transferred to a French marketing firm. She brought with her a suitcase full of logomania, a vocabulary limited to "ooh la la," and an unshakeable belief that her American way was the only way.