A word about Emily in Paris

The fifth season of Emily in Paris is online. And despite the fact that my toes have just escaped cramping from the frequent curling while watching season 4 (seriously, that scene with Mindy behind the piano in that square in Rome, that just couldn't be), I tried it again yesterday. Because Emily in Paris may have a high theater-of-laughs content, but it also watches quite nicely. Paris is nice, Rome is beautiful, Emily's outfits are occasionally entertaining, and in Sylvia Grateau, I recognize my senior director from Marie Claire. So, I’m in. I'm not the worst.

Because my beloved really suffers from rising acid when watching Emily in Paris, I opened the laptop while cutting vegetables for dinner. Headphones on and hit play. And well, what can I say? There were mainly many moments when I yelled “why?” at my screen.

Why doesn't Emily's Italian boyfriend tell her that they are going to pick truffles and let her step into his car in platform heels? Okay, he asks if the shoes fit, but Emily thinks they are going for lunch, so what does she know.

Then there was the scene where Emily takes the bus and leaves her scarf on the bus. There follows a sort of Mission Impossible-like scene where Emily, now having gotten off, runs alongside the bus and eventually gets her scarf thrown back to her. The why of this scene I must remain guilty to you. Emily grabs the scarf and walks into the office.

Then there's that scene where Sylvie drinks coffee with her lover, registers the logo of the coffee brand on her cup, realizes that this is the client she needs to legitimize an office in Rome, and then calls her entire crew and says she won't return to Paris but will stay in Rome. Okay, all that for a client you haven't even approached yet. Sure.

Then we have Mindy, who of course went viral on TikTok after the aforementioned scene in that square and immediately got an offer to be a judge on Popstars in China. I needed two sessions with the physiotherapist to get my toes straightened again after seeing this scene, but that's beside the point. In this episode, she was in China, but suddenly thought that getting comments from other people isn't her thing and that she's coming back to Paris. Okay, you couldn't have predicted that in advance.

And then there's the scene where the client – I forget his name, but he's Sylvie's ex-lover who now works with Alfie – is angry because the product Sylvie came up with isn't catching on and because Sylvie isn't in Paris. The group 8 musical of my daughters had more layers, but I fear I will dive back in tonight. Maybe it will still be something. What do you think?