BONJOUR. Nous sommes à Paris, vous tous. Translation: HELLO. We are in Paris, y’all. We don’t care what side of the fence you’re on. Team Gabriel or Team Alfie. We don’t care. However, we do care about you being prepared for the fourth season of Emily in Paris. If you want a long story short, it’s a real will-they-won’t-they-should-they-should-they-not-oh-no-they-didn’t-she’s-what?!?!-will-he-won’t-he fashionable kind of experience. If you’re one for more detail and have some time on your hands, and are more of a long-story-long kind of soul, here’s a three-season refresher.
Season 1 Recap
Emily Cooper, played by Lily Collins, unexpectedly lands a marketing job in Paris (she doesn’t speak French) after her boss, Madeline, gets pregnant. In case you’re more of an ag person, marketing requires a lot of talking, and she doesn’t speak an ounce of French. Small, minor detail. Regardless of being unable to even ask for directions, she naively dives head first into the city of love.
Sylvie, her new boss, hates her. Constant side eyes from her coworker, they find her American stench unbecoming. Luckily, she becomes fast friends with a girl named Mindy. Breaks up with her boyfriend. Meanwhile, she becomes friends with her downstairs neighbor who could rival any Love Island contestant. His name is Gabriel. Oh and he cooks. Professionally.
But Emily’s feelings for Gabriel complicate her life. They kissed before she found out he is Camille’s (her new friend’s) boyfriend. Red flag. Camille and Gabriel break up because Gabriel decides to take a job in Normandy. Emily and Gabriel reunite one last time before he skips town.
Plot twist: Antoine, who is Sylvie’s ex-situationship, decides to back Gabriel’s takeover of the restaurant, so Gabriel is staying in Paris after all. Whoops.
Season 2 Recap
Emily deals with the fallout from her night with Gabriel, daydreaming during a work presentation. Keep it together. Sylvie gets suspicious, and Mathieu, who is a Savoir client, dumps Emily on the way to Saint-Tropez. Meanwhile Camille tries to rekindle her romance with Gabriel and Emily learns about Sylvie’s secret connection to Laurent G. They’re married.
At Emily’s birthday dinner party plans go awry when Camille finds out about her affair with Gabriel.
Emily tries to make amends with Camille, and Camille proposes a pact to avoid Gabriel, and Emily agrees. Emily meets Alfie, an English banker, in French class.
Madeline, who is Emily’s boss from Chicago, clashes with Sylvie. Which ends the season with the entire Savoir staff leaving Savoir along with all of their major clients to start their own firm. Despite previous differences, they ask Emily to leave Madeleine, her mentor, and join them.
Camille and Gabriel get back together. Shocking.
Season 3 Recap
Emily is at a crossroads with both her career and love life. She’s in another long distance relationship with Alfie back in London. She’s also playing double agent right in-between Madeline’s Savoir and Sylvie’s new agency. What could go wrong? Her and Alfie break up. She gets fired from the new agency.
Sylvie eventually offers Emily her job back, she realizes Sylvie is the one that got away and she quits Savoir for good. The entire team heads to Provence for a McLaren event. Emily and Gabriel bond over a Michelin-star lunch. Gabriel. Come on, man. Sylvie’s marital status complicates her relationship, and she ends up rekindling things with her husband, Laurent.
Gabriel declares his love for Emily but Camille returns and they get engaged. Makes sense. At the engagement party they decide to elope there. Why wait? At the altar Camille decides to not marry Gabriel. Who’s shocked? Crickets. She then proceeds to tell everyone about the strong connection between Emily and Gabriel. Perfect time to chat about that. Alfie leaves, AS HE SHOULD. The season ends with Gabriel explaining to Emily the reason he proposed to Camille in the first place, was because she is pregnant. Great.
All caught up? Grab a macaron for one hand and an éclair in the other, it’s time to rekindle the flame with the dumpster fire that is Emily Cooper’s love life. Ready or not, season 4 here we come.
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