Emily In Paris: Season 5 - Against All Odds... They Actually Fixed Her

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[00:05] still without

[00:08] cowboy pop sounds.

[00:12] 6 years again

[00:16] my

[00:19] improve.

[00:22] Well, well, here we are again. Another

[00:25] year, another season of Emily in Paris.

[00:28] You know what? If you had told me back

[00:29] in 2021 when I made my very first video

[00:32] on YouTube that Emily and Paris would

[00:35] eventually get to season 6, because yes,

[00:38] the show has already been renewed for a

[00:40] sixth season. I absolutely would not

[00:42] have believed you. I would have reported

[00:44] you as a witch. Netflix is not exactly

[00:46] known for longunning TV shows. an

[00:49] immense portion of their TV series die

[00:51] between seasons 3 and four, mainly

[00:54] because of contractual stuff that would

[00:56] lead to pay increases that Netflix

[00:58] simply doesn't want to pay. That's why

[01:00] Netflix tends to cancel very popular

[01:02] shows in their third seasons. So, the

[01:05] shows that tend to survive for a very

[01:07] long time are cheap sitcoms passively

[01:10] consumed by masses and cheap reality

[01:12] shows that are basically a money glitch

[01:14] and an audience hack because they're

[01:16] inexpensive and quick to make. And

[01:18] people eat it up every single time.

[01:21] >> When I saw your face, I knew it was a

[01:26] big race to kiss you.

[01:30] >> Very few Netflix series have gone past a

[01:33] fourth season. So Emily in Paris still

[01:35] standing and going into its sixth season

[01:38] is nothing short of a miracle. I don't

[01:40] know. It's giving government conspiracy.

[01:42] Like what other Netflix series has

[01:45] gotten to this point? They're so rare.

[01:48] House of Cards ran for six seasons.

[01:50] Bojack Horsemen ran for six seasons. And

[01:53] if I'm not mistaken, Orange is the New

[01:55] Black, Virgin River, Elite, and Grace

[01:58] and Frankie are the only non-reality TV

[02:02] Netflix series that made it to season 7.

[02:05] You can literally count them on one

[02:08] hand. Since covering season 4 at the end

[02:10] of 2024, I was kind of thinking the show

[02:13] would be renewed for a fifth season, but

[02:15] I also believed it would be announced as

[02:18] the final one. To me, the idea of Emily

[02:20] and Paris going past five seasons was

[02:23] absolutely insane. So, I was ready to

[02:25] come back with one good video to send it

[02:27] off. I was like, damn, full circle.

[02:29] Covered the show till the end. Let's

[02:31] clown Emily one last time. But the thing

[02:34] with Emily and Paris is that it's not

[02:37] really a Netflix series. Netflix

[02:40] essentially just licenses the show. But

[02:42] Emily and Paris is actually made by

[02:44] Paramount. Yes, the same studio that's

[02:47] about to buy Warner Brothers and ruin

[02:49] everything. And all Paramount wants is

[02:51] to make money off the show. They don't

[02:53] give two shits about it. I don't think

[02:55] anybody thought it would be that big of

[02:57] a hit. I would be surprised if the execs

[02:59] are even aware of what the show is

[03:01] about. It's just a vehicle for them to

[03:03] sell products. So like it's not going

[03:05] anywhere except for one specific

[03:09] scenario. Emily in Paris is probably

[03:11] going to keep running until the actors

[03:13] decide they don't want to do it anymore,

[03:16] which is a process that has begun

[03:18] because one of the main actresses has

[03:20] left the show last year and another

[03:23] almost did after publicly complaining

[03:25] about how bored he was of it, which

[03:27] makes me think he's not going to be

[03:29] there for much longer. Actually, you

[03:32] know what? [ __ ] it. I'm going to put in

[03:34] a bold prediction right now and you can

[03:37] hold me to it because I am certain of

[03:40] it. I think season 6 of Emily in Paris

[03:43] is going to be announced as the final

[03:45] season of the show. I am certain of it

[03:48] for one specific reason. In long-term TV

[03:52] series, the actors usually end up

[03:54] signing for six seasons, which means

[03:57] that at the end of season 6, the cast

[03:59] will be reaching the end of their

[04:01] contracts. Now, that usually leads to

[04:04] lengthy negotiations where the cast gets

[04:06] to make so much more money for future

[04:09] seasons, but I have a very strong

[04:12] feeling that none of the big headliners

[04:15] of the show are going to want to renew

[04:17] their contracts to two more seasons.

[04:19] None of them are going to want to come

[04:21] back. I'm actually pretty sure most of

[04:23] them want out and cannot wait for their

[04:26] contracts to be up. Same thing that

[04:28] happened with Riverdale. the actors had

[04:30] signed for seven seasons and the second

[04:32] that contract was up, the show ended. I

[04:35] actually know for a fact that an actor

[04:38] on Riverdale tried to leave the show for

[04:40] an entire year because he was offered a

[04:43] massive role in one of the biggest TV

[04:46] shows currently running, but Warner

[04:48] Brothers refused to let him exit his

[04:51] contract, meaning he was forced to stay

[04:54] to finish season 6 and to do season 7.

[04:57] and that gigantic role went to somebody

[04:59] else. I have a feeling Emily and Paris

[05:02] is a similar kind of situation where the

[05:04] actors are really [ __ ] done with the

[05:07] show but have to complete their

[05:09] contract. So, mark my words, I am

[05:11] betting my entire [ __ ] career on

[05:13] this. Emily and Paris will end with

[05:16] season 6 because nobody will want to

[05:19] renew their contracts. If I'm wrong, I

[05:21] will make a public apology to Darren

[05:23] Star and Lily Collins and make an entire

[05:25] video about the show being the greatest

[05:26] of all time.

[05:29] Anyway, let's talk about season 5. Emily

[05:32] and Paris season 5 came out in December

[05:35] 2025 between two volumes of Stranger

[05:38] Things 5, which is a choice, but

[05:40] whatever. And right off the bat, there's

[05:42] a change. Season 4 had followed the

[05:44] release model of all the big Netflix

[05:47] series in the last few years that

[05:48] consists of releasing seasons in two

[05:51] parts. The first part of season 4 came

[05:52] out in August of 2024 and the second

[05:55] part came out in September. However, I

[05:58] think that release model actually harmed

[06:01] Emily and Paris and was kind of a

[06:03] disaster for them. And for season 5,

[06:06] Netflix dropped that release model and

[06:09] all 10 episodes of the season came out

[06:11] on the same day. And when it did come

[06:13] out, uh-oh, something went wrong.

[06:17] Something went very wrong. To say Emily

[06:20] in Paris season 5 was poorly received

[06:23] would be an understatement of

[06:25] significant proportions. And I mean,

[06:27] sure, the show has always been poorly

[06:29] received cuz it sucks. But I'm talking

[06:32] about the actual fan base here. The

[06:34] built-in crowd of Emily and Paris lovers

[06:37] and defenders. They're the ones who

[06:39] received it poorly and they were pissed.

[06:42] I don't think the show has ever had a

[06:45] worse response from the fans up to this

[06:47] point. Last season, I had talked about

[06:48] how it was becoming very apparent that

[06:50] fans of Emily and Paris were starting to

[06:53] get tired of the show's antics. But it

[06:55] has gotten way worse with season 5. Like

[06:58] seriously, the biggest fans of the show

[07:01] who have defended the previous seasons

[07:03] with their entire lives hailed the

[07:06] series as the greatest thing to happen

[07:08] in television. yada yada yada. Even they

[07:11] hated the season and they hated it

[07:14] passionately. They hated it loudly. It's

[07:18] been kind of insane to see honestly. I

[07:20] mean when I could actually see it

[07:22] because season 5 was kind of a

[07:24] poltergeist. Generally speaking, there

[07:26] is a shift happening when it comes to

[07:28] the attention the show is getting. There

[07:30] are some reports that revealed season 5

[07:32] had a 25% decline in viewership compared

[07:35] to season 4, that is a notable decline.

[07:38] Not technically catastrophic, the show

[07:40] is still a hit. But with the critical

[07:43] and fan reception to this season being

[07:45] so incredibly bad, I have a feeling this

[07:48] decline might continue on with season 6.

[07:51] For one, the online attention the show

[07:53] used to get is nowhere to be found this

[07:56] time around. Nobody talks about this

[07:58] show anymore. All the creators on

[08:01] various platforms that used to review

[08:04] the show, discuss the show, analyze the

[08:07] fashion, the characters, etc. gone. None

[08:10] of them talk about it anymore. Discourse

[08:12] about season 5 on the internet goes

[08:15] down. Finding reviews for season 5 on

[08:18] YouTube is kind of difficult. Not only

[08:21] are there only a handful of them, nobody

[08:23] is interested in watching them. You're

[08:26] lucky if you find a review that has more

[08:28] than like a,000 views. At the time of

[08:30] recording this video, there's only two

[08:33] on the entire platform.

[08:36] Hey, is somebody here? Even the trailers

[08:40] showed a lack of engagement compared to

[08:42] previous seasons. Teasers and trailers

[08:44] for the show usually get millions of

[08:47] views each. Yet, the teaser for season 5

[08:50] didn't crack the million mark. Kind of

[08:53] capped at 800,000. And the official

[08:56] trailer capped at 1.5 million, which is

[08:59] just about half of what the season 4

[09:02] trailer got. You get my point. There's a

[09:04] very visible general air of we're over

[09:07] this [ __ ] with Emily and Paris. People

[09:10] just don't care anymore. It's not

[09:12] relevant. and it has completely lost all

[09:14] of its status in pop culture. However

[09:17] ridiculous and ironic that status may

[09:19] have been. Five seasons in whatever

[09:21] spark was keeping the discourse alive is

[09:24] completely [ __ ] dead. It's been long

[09:26] enough that the people who hate watch

[09:28] the show don't care to hate watch it any

[09:30] longer. People who love the show are

[09:33] starting to get bored of it. And the few

[09:35] people left who have the desire to talk

[09:37] about it online rarely have anything

[09:39] positive to say about it. Basically,

[09:41] this show just isn't fun for anyone

[09:44] anymore. And don't take my word for it.

[09:46] Take the words of the fans.

[09:48] >> So, I finished Emily in Paris, and I

[09:50] don't know why nobody's talking about

[09:51] this. Or maybe it's just not on my feed

[09:52] yet. I'm not going to lie, that had to

[09:54] have been the worst thing I've ever

[09:55] watched.

[09:56] >> I have never had a season of Emily and

[09:58] Paris pissed me off this much than

[10:00] season 5 has.

[10:02] >> And dare I say, Emily and Paris season 5

[10:04] is the weakest season now.

[10:06] >> Hey, writer, Emily Paris, what are you

[10:08] doing? M. Send it back to the drawing

[10:10] board. Meow.

[10:11] >> I have never been an Emily in Paris

[10:12] hater, but I fear going to Rome may be

[10:14] where this show dropped the shark.

[10:15] >> As someone who has watched Emily and

[10:17] Paris from season 1, and I've always

[10:19] loved this show, are we all are we all

[10:22] over it?

[10:22] >> Season 5 premiered a couple of weeks

[10:24] ago, and I think this is the worst

[10:26] season of Emily and Paris I have ever

[10:28] seen.

[10:28] >> I know.

[10:29] >> I don't know about you, but this season

[10:31] of Emily and Paris was a little bit off.

[10:33] I feel like a lot of the characters and

[10:35] the story arcs that they've built for

[10:37] them have just been completely

[10:39] dismantled this season. And I just don't

[10:41] understand why.

[10:42] >> It's no secret that this show is

[10:44] terrible. But season 5 still surprised

[10:47] me because it still somehow managed to

[10:50] find a way to be the most terrible

[10:53] season of them all. Just when I thought

[10:56] it couldn't get any worse.

[10:58] >> I'm so sorry, but I'm kind of over it.

[11:01] We've been severely losing the plot. I

[11:03] >> feel like the show is now just about the

[11:04] outfits. They're going to get more

[11:05] ridiculous by the episode. Can't explain

[11:07] it, but it's just starting to give the

[11:08] same energy as Selling Sunset.

[11:09] >> I feel like when you tell stories, they

[11:11] need to make sense. I feel like there

[11:13] needs to be a sequence that the reader

[11:15] or the watcher can follow

[11:18] that actually mounts up to something.

[11:20] >> It's so [ __ ] immature. Like, it's

[11:23] season 5. Let's let the characters

[11:25] evolve and like have growth. My dog's

[11:27] over it, too. We wrap it up. This should

[11:30] be the final season. No more of this

[11:31] [ __ ]

[11:31] >> Yeah, they hated it. They hated this

[11:34] season with a passion. But here's the

[11:38] thing. I think season 5 is easily one of

[11:41] the strongest seasons of the show. This

[11:43] is the first season where the show is

[11:46] actively choosing to be coherent all the

[11:48] way through, which is funny because

[11:50] that's when all the fans decide the show

[11:52] is unbearable. Like really, the one time

[11:55] the show decides to have one brain cell,

[11:57] that's where you guys draw the line. I

[11:59] mean, the show is boring as hell. It

[12:01] always has been, but it is trying to

[12:04] improve. For the first time, season 5

[12:07] makes some drastic decisions to kind of

[12:10] revamp the series a little bit, and I

[12:12] actually think unironically that they

[12:15] did some things right. The season in

[12:17] itself is very uneventful. There isn't

[12:20] much to say about it, and I was even

[12:22] kind of debating making a video for a

[12:24] few months. But I got to be fair and

[12:27] address one specific thing the show did

[12:30] this season that is notable to me.

[12:33] Because the number one reason why season

[12:36] 5 is one of the strongest seasons is

[12:39] because the show accomplishes something

[12:42] that for the life of me I never ever

[12:46] thought it would ever accomplish. They

[12:51] actually fixed Emily,

[12:54] but everything in due time. We're going

[12:56] to talk about that. But first, I want to

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[16:05] All right, so five seasons and 5 years

[16:07] later, it's been quite a long time since

[16:09] the show spawned and ruined my

[16:11] existence. And for that reason, I think

[16:13] we're due for a solid refresher. So,

[16:15] Emily in Paris is the story of this

[16:17] girl, Emily. She's not from Paris. She's

[16:19] from Chicago, but that's not important

[16:21] because we learn nothing about her life

[16:23] there. We just know she has a boyfriend

[16:25] named Doug and she works for a marketing

[16:27] firm. One day, her boss tells her, "Yo,

[16:29] homie. I was supposed to move to France

[16:30] to work with the Parisian queen of

[16:32] marketing. Turns out one of the many men

[16:33] I've been sleeping with blew my back out

[16:35] one too many times and now I'm pregnant

[16:36] so I can't go. So you're going instead.

[16:38] You have to move to Paris for a year and

[16:40] you're leaving tomorrow. Good luck.

[16:41] >> Makes sense.

[16:42] >> So now Emily moves to Paris to work for

[16:44] a marketing firm that deals with luxury

[16:46] brands. The problem is she doesn't have

[16:47] the experience. She doesn't speak a word

[16:49] of French. And on top of everything,

[16:51] she's also kind of stupid. So naturally,

[16:53] the French firm is like, "What the [ __ ]

[16:54] is this? They sent us an incompetent

[16:56] American we did not sign up for." And

[16:58] Emily is like, "Yes, but I am not going

[17:00] to adapt to you. I'm an American. you

[17:02] guys need to adapt to me. So, she makes

[17:03] zero effort to learn French and everyone

[17:05] in Paris is now forced to speak English

[17:07] around her. But on top of being totally

[17:08] cooked at work, Emily shows up in Paris

[17:10] and is like, "Hey, what if I just start

[17:12] messing with everybody's personal lives

[17:14] and [ __ ] everything up?" So, she gets to

[17:15] work immediately because that she's

[17:17] actually good at. She meets her

[17:19] downstairs neighbor who is a chef named

[17:20] Gabrielle. She meets his girlfriend Kami

[17:23] and she becomes very close friends with

[17:24] her. Kami is super kind and inviting to

[17:26] Emily. She's helpful with helping her

[17:28] navigating Paris. And she invites her to

[17:30] hang out with her friends so she can get

[17:32] to know people in the city. So

[17:33] naturally, Emily starts sleeping with

[17:35] her boyfriend because that's just how

[17:37] she rolls.

[17:38] >> People like me. That's my strength.

[17:40] >> Now that it's been established that

[17:41] Emily is a bad person, she randomly

[17:43] meets the one who will become her new

[17:45] best friend, Mindy, a failed pop star

[17:47] from China who was cut off by her rich

[17:49] dad and is now forced to live a modest

[17:51] life in Paris. These two are perfect for

[17:52] each other because Mindy is also a

[17:54] terrible person. Even though the show

[17:56] doesn't seem to be aware of that either.

[17:57] So, okay, congratulations. You now have

[17:59] the basics of the show. And from that

[18:01] point on, nothing happens

[18:05] for four seasons. Essentially, there's

[18:08] three story lines the show has. Emily

[18:10] being in a love triangle with Gabrielle

[18:12] and Kami and occasionally having flings

[18:14] with other men that lead to nowhere

[18:16] because everything always goes back to

[18:17] Gabrielle. her marketing job not doing

[18:19] well until she finds miracle solutions

[18:21] at the last second to save the day and

[18:23] side characters being in romantic story

[18:24] lines that don't make sense and always

[18:26] end the same way. That's it. The

[18:29] entirety of Emily in Paris is these

[18:31] three plot points being repeated over

[18:34] and over and over again a billion times

[18:37] in every episode of the show. And

[18:39] nothing that happens ever matters. Emily

[18:43] runs around being an incredibly selfish

[18:45] person who ruins the lives of everybody

[18:47] around her while making herself out to

[18:49] be the victim. But she never faces any

[18:51] consequences for her actions. She never

[18:53] learns anything and she never changes.

[18:55] And it's the same for all the characters

[18:57] around her. So nothing happens until the

[19:00] end of season 4 when the show makes a

[19:02] drastic shift by relocating to Rome,

[19:05] even temporarily renaming the show Emily

[19:08] in Rome. So, season 5 picks up after the

[19:10] events of season 4 where Emily

[19:12] unexpectedly had to move to Rome because

[19:15] her boss Sylvie had to open an office

[19:17] there urgently in order to work with

[19:19] House Merriator, an old and prestigious

[19:22] luxury brand on the verge of collapse.

[19:24] So, when season 5 begins, Emily has been

[19:26] living in Rome for a little while and

[19:28] her personal life seems for once

[19:31] suspiciously stable. She's dating

[19:33] Marello, the charming heir to the

[19:35] Miratori Empire. He's handsome, rich,

[19:38] emotionally available, and he lives

[19:40] inside a world of traditional Italian

[19:42] luxury. In other words, he is the most

[19:44] stable romantic partner Emily has had

[19:46] since the show started, which of course

[19:49] means the relationship is probably

[19:50] doomed. Marello's family, particularly

[19:53] his mother, Antonia, who runs House

[19:55] Marriator, is deeply skeptical of Emily.

[19:58] From their perspective, she's

[19:59] essentially a social media marketing

[20:01] tornado who showed up out of nowhere and

[20:04] attached herself to their centuries

[20:05] old-fashioned dynasty. Antonia is a

[20:08] woman of tradition and she doesn't like

[20:09] change. So, while she doesn't want her

[20:12] prestigious company to die, she

[20:13] struggles to accept that it needs to

[20:15] modernize. So, there's a lot of blah

[20:18] blah blah in the professional

[20:19] relationship, which creates tension in

[20:21] the personal relationship between Emily

[20:23] and Marello. And honestly, that's about

[20:27] it. That is mostly the plot of season 5.

[20:30] There isn't really a main story line.

[20:32] This season is kind of made of bplots

[20:35] that have a shelf life of about five

[20:36] scenes. So again, nothing really

[20:39] happens. Nothing's really going on this

[20:42] season, which isn't any different from

[20:44] previous seasons, but somehow this

[20:46] season it feels like it more than ever.

[20:48] Believe me, if people who refer to Emily

[20:51] in Paris as their favorite show of all

[20:53] time found this season boring, you know

[20:56] this [ __ ] is boring as hell to the

[20:58] average human. So, we pick up sometime

[21:01] after the end of season 4. It's actually

[21:03] not clear how long it's been because the

[21:06] characters act like it's been a few

[21:07] months, but also in the first scene of

[21:09] the season, Emily says today is her

[21:12] first day running the new office in

[21:14] Rome. So, that doesn't make sense. It's

[21:16] actually a big thing with Emily in

[21:18] Paris. The timeline of the show is such

[21:20] a mess that even the people in the show

[21:23] are not certain of what's going on. If

[21:25] you haven't seen, there's this hilarious

[21:27] thing that happened at the premiere of

[21:28] season 5 where the cast was asked on the

[21:31] red carpet how long they think Emily has

[21:34] been in Paris, like how much time has

[21:36] passed between season 1 and season 5.

[21:39] And nobody agrees. Nobody really

[21:43] understands how the timeline of the show

[21:45] even works. Some of them think it's been

[21:47] a few months. Others think it's been a

[21:49] few years.

[21:50] >> That is a great question. I really

[21:53] actually think about this. It's a good

[21:54] question.

[21:56] >> That's all I have to say.

[21:57] >> Oh wow. I'd say like two. Yeah. Two or

[22:00] three years. Maybe three cuz we've had

[22:02] summers. We've had No, maybe two. Two.

[22:06] >> It's so funny you should mention that

[22:08] because I had an argument with a

[22:09] colleague of mine. I was like, "It's

[22:11] been four years." She's like, "No, it's

[22:13] been four months."

[22:13] >> For me, I think between the first two

[22:15] seasons and then the next two, it was

[22:17] only like a couple days. And I think

[22:18] that that was over the course of like

[22:20] beginning of spring into end of summer.

[22:22] And then we had our winter. I think it's

[22:23] only been a year. It is a timeless loop.

[22:25] You know what? It's a beautiful,

[22:27] aspirational,

[22:29] stunning show that I think time is just

[22:31] it's just a construct.

[22:33] >> Uh

[22:35] I don't know. The timeline of the show

[22:37] has always been broken, and season 4

[22:39] especially has a couple of major plot

[22:41] holes that make the timeline impossible.

[22:44] But for the record, if you follow the

[22:46] events of the show and what time of the

[22:48] year they happen, because a lot of the

[22:50] show is centered around specific

[22:52] holidays, you can conclude without too

[22:54] much doubt that it's been about a year

[22:56] and a half since Emily first arrived in

[22:58] Paris. But I know what you're thinking.

[22:59] You're like, Dylan, everything you just

[23:01] described about the plot of season 5 is

[23:03] taking place in Italy. Isn't Isn't this

[23:05] show called Emily in Paris? And you

[23:09] would be right. This season is not

[23:11] really worthy of the title Emily in

[23:13] Paris. About half of season 5 takes

[23:15] place in Italy. Only five out of the 10

[23:17] episodes of the season are actually in

[23:20] Paris. And okay, I'll take it. New

[23:22] setting. I mean, I said in my last video

[23:24] that the end of season 4 was my favorite

[23:26] part of the show because the show felt

[23:27] like it had a coherent storyline for the

[23:29] very first time, even if it lasted an

[23:31] episode and a half. But I'm game. give

[23:33] me stuff that is enjoyable to watch and

[23:35] I don't care that Emily in Paris takes

[23:37] place in Rome. And yeah, there are some

[23:39] things that are surprisingly cool in

[23:41] there. This season actually improves on

[23:43] a number of factors which was a welcome

[23:45] surprise. First of all, pretty much the

[23:47] moment the season starts, I'm like,

[23:49] wait, why why does this look good? Emily

[23:55] in Paris has always looked boring as

[23:57] hell. say maybe for a handful of scenes

[23:59] in seasons three and four, but it's

[24:01] always looked flat and lame. Most of the

[24:03] first two seasons looked like a

[24:05] commercial, more so than a TV show, but

[24:08] something about season 5 just feels

[24:11] elevated. It looks very pretty. The

[24:14] colors are so well used. The lighting is

[24:17] gorgeous. The sets are very well put

[24:19] together. The cinematography is

[24:21] different. There are some actually very

[24:24] cool looking shots. The color grading is

[24:26] so rich in certain scenes. Like, what's

[24:29] going on? Did they get a new director of

[24:31] photography? Are they using different

[24:33] cameras? I got to admit, the creative

[24:35] direction of the show in season 5 is

[24:38] amazing. Look at this title card. That's

[24:41] so sick for no reason. It's nice that

[24:44] the show is at least visually

[24:45] stimulating now because like I said, in

[24:48] terms of substance, not much to talk

[24:51] about here. I mean, to reiterate, this

[24:53] is the most widely hated season of the

[24:56] series in the fandom. Why is that? How

[24:58] is it that people who are obsessed with

[25:01] Emily and Paris, so people who are

[25:03] already predisposed to loving trash,

[25:06] hate season 5 so much? Well, is simply

[25:09] that despite all of its improvements,

[25:12] the season is boring as [ __ ] Emily in

[25:17] Paris has always been boring. I've been

[25:20] saying since season 1 that it's a show

[25:22] that never really had a story, but I

[25:25] think season 5 is where even the biggest

[25:27] defenders of this show can't really

[25:30] ignore it anymore. When I tell you that

[25:33] nothing happens in season 5, you have to

[25:37] believe me. It is not a joke. Nothing

[25:41] has happened in four seasons, but

[25:44] somehow even less happens in season 5. I

[25:48] think Serena Skyborn said it best in her

[25:50] review of the season by explaining that

[25:52] essentially her issue with season 5 is

[25:55] simply that it's a season with no

[25:58] conflict. And that's entirely true.

[26:00] Season 5 is just a succession of rare

[26:03] minor disagreements that only ever last

[26:06] a couple of scenes. They're pretty few

[26:08] and far between and none of them can

[26:10] ever have any consequence. The rest of

[26:12] the time, the show is adopting this

[26:14] notion of no thoughts, just vibes. So

[26:16] the episodes are just dragged out

[26:18] sequences of characters doing nothing,

[26:21] going towards nothing, and sometimes

[26:23] meeting in groups to talk about nothing.

[26:27] And then Mindy sings for some reason.

[26:29] And because nothing ever has any weight

[26:31] or real consequences in the show from

[26:34] episode 1, you can tell you're in for

[26:37] generational nothingness. The events of

[26:40] season 5 are just so vacant. You just

[26:43] watch two or three scenes happen over

[26:46] and over again in a loop. Episode 1:

[26:49] Emily takes the bus to go to work. Emily

[26:52] has a business meeting. Emily meets with

[26:54] her boyfriend. They go truffle picking

[26:57] with his family. Then they go home and

[26:59] hang out and have small talk. Emily

[27:01] receives a gift at work. Emily mingles

[27:04] and networks at a marketing event for 10

[27:07] minutes. That's about a third of the

[27:09] episode. And then the episode ends.

[27:12] Episode two. Emily has a business

[27:14] meeting. Emily then talks about set

[27:16] meeting with Sylvie. They then go to

[27:19] another business meeting. Then they go

[27:21] back to the office and talk about said

[27:23] meeting. Emily mingles at a party. Emily

[27:26] goes to a business meeting and then

[27:29] another. Emily mingles and networks at a

[27:32] marketing event for 10 minutes. That's

[27:35] about a third of the episode. Mindy

[27:38] sings. Emily meets with her boyfriend.

[27:41] They go shopping. The episode ends.

[27:44] Episode three. Emily goes to a business

[27:47] meeting and then another and then

[27:51] another. Emily goes to an event. Mindy

[27:54] dances. Emily walks through Rome with

[27:57] her boyfriend. Emily goes to a business

[28:00] meeting. And the episode ends. Episode

[28:03] 4. Emily goes to a business meeting.

[28:06] Emily walks through Rome with her

[28:08] boyfriend. Emily goes to another

[28:11] business meeting. Emily mingles and

[28:13] networks at a marketing event for 10

[28:16] minutes. That's about a third of the

[28:18] episode. Emily goes to a work lunch. The

[28:22] episode ends. Episode 5. Emily goes to a

[28:25] business meeting. Emily discusses said

[28:28] meeting with Sylvie. Emily goes to

[28:30] another business meeting. Emily goes to

[28:33] an event. Mindy sings. Emily goes to a

[28:37] business meeting. Emily goes to dinner

[28:39] with friends. Lots of small talk. Emily

[28:43] mingles and networks at a marketing

[28:45] event for 10 minutes. That's about a

[28:48] third of the episode. And then the

[28:50] episode ends. And whoop, just like that,

[28:52] we just broke down half of the season.

[28:55] And I assure you, the second half is not

[28:57] doing anything differently. It's the

[28:59] same boring formula in every episode.

[29:03] The entire structure of the season is

[29:06] based on it. and nothing happens. Plus,

[29:09] the show never really had anything going

[29:11] on aside from the forced romantic story

[29:13] lines and love triangles, but those have

[29:15] gotten so unbearably repetitive that

[29:18] even for the fans of the show, it got

[29:20] boring. They turned the focus of season

[29:22] 5 onto the only other aspect of the show

[29:25] that has been omnipresent by default,

[29:28] the marketing. So, season 5 of Emily in

[29:30] Paris is more about Emily's work life

[29:33] than anything else. This is the most

[29:36] marketing firmy season yet. And I think

[29:39] that's part of what the fans despise so

[29:41] much about this season. There is so much

[29:44] marketing campaign stuff in it. And of

[29:46] course, it's only here because it's more

[29:48] of an opportunity for the show to make

[29:50] big money by advertising for big brands,

[29:53] which is the only reason this show has

[29:56] gone on for so long. This season,

[29:58] there's an entire story line about

[30:00] Intimism, the Italian lingerie designer.

[30:02] A big chunk of the season is about Emily

[30:05] trying to figure out a campaign for

[30:06] Fendi. There's an absolutely shameless

[30:09] ad for L'Oreal at the end of episode 6.

[30:12] There's an entire scene with Sylvia and

[30:13] her best friend that is only there to be

[30:16] an extended ad for Karita House of

[30:18] Beauty. Like the show is getting more

[30:20] and more in your face about it every

[30:22] season. And the more uneventful the show

[30:24] gets, the more boring it becomes even

[30:27] for its biggest fans, the less possible

[30:30] it is not to notice just how much the

[30:33] show is constantly advertising products

[30:35] to the audience. From beauty products to

[30:38] clothing, lingerie, five-star hotels. If

[30:42] you really think about it, Emily in

[30:43] Paris is basically an infomercial at

[30:46] this point. NGTV's review of the season

[30:48] called it a luxury ad disguised as a

[30:51] romcom. And I completely agree. They're

[30:54] not even pretending to be trying to give

[30:56] you a story anymore. They just throw

[30:59] products at your face and then they're

[31:00] like, "But look, hot people making out.

[31:03] There may be a love triangle again." The

[31:06] 14th one of the show. Can you believe

[31:08] this? Distraction. Distraction. Buy this

[31:10] product. Distraction. And for some

[31:12] reason, people have been falling for it

[31:14] for four seasons. But something about

[31:16] season 5 really did not connect. And you

[31:18] know what? [ __ ] it. Me, too. Hey, I just

[31:20] put out a new song. It's called Astro

[31:22] Vision. It's available everywhere.

[31:32] >> Cowboy Kop

[31:35] 6 years again.

[31:38] Link in the description. Okay, but why

[31:40] is this season boring? Nothing I'm

[31:43] describing is any different from what

[31:45] we've seen in previous seasons. All of

[31:47] those criticisms are things I've been

[31:48] pointing out for years. So, why is it

[31:51] less engaging for people who love the

[31:54] show? Why is this season the breaking

[31:56] point for 95% of the fan base? Well, I

[32:00] can narrow this down to a few little

[32:02] points that explain it. One, when the

[32:04] season begins, there isn't anything to

[32:07] catch up on. Like, nothing really

[32:09] happened in season 4 either. And the

[32:11] little that did happen was of no

[32:14] consequence to the plot and did not

[32:16] affect the continuity of the show. The

[32:18] only plot point that carries over is

[32:20] Italy and the Murritori Company stuff,

[32:23] which again is about Emily's marketing

[32:26] work. In terms of substance, the show

[32:28] essentially starts at zero. There was

[32:31] nothing for people to be excited about,

[32:33] nothing juicy to see revealed or

[32:36] resolved. There wasn't a big plot point

[32:38] that people were curious to see play

[32:40] out. Nothing. So basically this season

[32:43] starts with absolutely nothing for the

[32:45] audience to look forward to. The season

[32:48] has no reason for you to be engaged in

[32:51] it. Two, again, no conflict. Nothing

[32:54] happens, or at least the conflicts that

[32:57] do appear are so superficial and devoid

[32:59] of any tension that they feel more like

[33:01] cliffotes. The season only hits beats

[33:04] the show has already hit a million times

[33:06] before. Everything feels repetitive. So

[33:09] for the audience, everything is

[33:11] predictable. Emily again cycles through

[33:14] new romantic interests while still

[33:16] orbiting Gabrielle in the background. In

[33:18] that endless loop, her life at work is

[33:21] the same. A campaign for a company

[33:23] doesn't go as planned. Emily finds a

[33:25] solution to fix it at the last second by

[33:27] throwing an event where Mindy say

[33:29] somebody gets into a love triangle that

[33:31] ends up playing out the exact same way

[33:33] as all the previous love triangles. And

[33:36] the character arcs, when they exist, are

[33:38] also stuck in a loop. Characters learn

[33:41] the same lessons over and over again.

[33:43] They then forget them to learn them

[33:46] again. Friendships are challenged, but

[33:48] the show never wants conflicts to last

[33:50] more than two or three scenes. So,

[33:52] everything gets resolved out of nowhere.

[33:54] And three, on the topic of repetition,

[33:56] the season claims to be different

[33:58] because it is now taking place in Italy,

[34:00] but everything is the exact same. It

[34:03] doesn't change the dynamic. You don't

[34:05] get interesting new characters to change

[34:07] things up because all the people from

[34:09] Paris just show up to Italy. So, it's

[34:11] the exact same show up to the same

[34:14] [ __ ] but on different sets. And even

[34:17] when they want to introduce characters

[34:19] to shake things up, they just halfass

[34:21] it. The big flex of Emily and Paris

[34:23] season 5 is the casting of Mini Driver,

[34:27] who is a fairly appreciated actress. So,

[34:29] people were very excited to see her

[34:31] entering the cast. Mini Driver, if you

[34:33] don't know, was in Goodwill Hunting. She

[34:35] was in Phantom of the Opera, in Will and

[34:38] Grace. She was in Golden Eye. She was

[34:40] also the voice of Jane in Tarzan. Like,

[34:42] she's a pretty respected actress who's

[34:44] done some pretty cool [ __ ] So, her

[34:46] coming to Emily in Paris is a big deal

[34:49] for the show. Fun fact, Mini Driver had

[34:51] a cameo in the second season of Arcane,

[34:53] and nobody noticed, but I did, and I

[34:55] appreciated it. Unfortunately, this is

[34:56] still Emily in Paris, so her presence

[34:59] becomes annoying very quickly. Even mini

[35:02] driver cannot elevate this level of

[35:04] mediocrity. At this point, they could

[35:05] have Viola Davis in the show and it

[35:07] would still be ass. Although that of

[35:09] course would never happen because black

[35:11] women do not exist in the Emily and

[35:13] Paris universe. Mini Driver plays a

[35:15] princess named Jane who has a lot of

[35:17] money and vaguely knows Sylvie. Uh, and

[35:20] that that's it. That's about it. Her

[35:22] character is pointless and annoying, way

[35:24] too cartoony, and there's nothing in the

[35:26] season that ever justifies her existence

[35:28] till the very end where she ends up

[35:30] being the one saving the agency, which

[35:33] is supposed to be an issue because Emily

[35:35] and her don't really get along. I mean,

[35:37] they've talked to each other maybe four

[35:39] times the entire season, but still. And

[35:42] that means she's likely going to have a

[35:43] bigger role in season 6, which nobody is

[35:46] really happy about according to what

[35:47] I've seen on social media. Not a single

[35:50] person is interested in this character.

[35:52] But there is a character I'm interested

[35:54] in in this season of Emily in Paris. And

[35:57] my sudden interest in this character is

[35:59] the only reason I'm even making this

[36:01] video because there's virtually nothing

[36:04] else to talk about this season. And that

[36:06] character is Emily herself.

[36:12] All right, cue the OG Space Ninja music.

[36:16] Listen, you know me by now. I've been

[36:18] covering this show for 5 years. You know

[36:20] what I think about it. You know the

[36:22] drill. So, you know what I'm about to

[36:25] say is something I never thought I would

[36:29] ever say in my life. But I have always

[36:32] promised to be 100% honest with my

[36:34] thoughts on the show. I always promise

[36:36] to be fair.

[36:39] I actually like Emily a lot in season 5.

[36:42] I know. I know. I know. Okay. You feel

[36:45] disoriented. You feel uneasy. I get it.

[36:48] I feel sick to my stomach, too. I want

[36:49] to throw up a little. But again, I got

[36:52] to be honest, so I got to say it. I

[36:54] liked Emily in season 5, and I don't

[36:57] care who knows it. And I'm the first one

[36:58] to be surprised by this. I have been so

[37:01] vocal about my dislike of this

[37:03] character. I have rightfully called

[37:05] Emily Cooper the worst character in

[37:07] television, and I have stood by that

[37:09] statement for years, since season 1.

[37:13] It's like the writers have made every

[37:15] worst decision they could have made with

[37:17] her. She was a literal incarnation of

[37:20] Murphy's Law. It was this weird thing

[37:22] where the writers genuinely got confused

[37:24] with their intent behind the character

[37:26] and the actual execution of the

[37:29] character. They made a character that is

[37:32] so obviously an [ __ ] with a gift for

[37:35] selfishness, an ignorant, entitled, and

[37:38] annoying hypocrite, prone to sabotage,

[37:42] discrimination, and cruelty. She's

[37:44] self-centered. She's a terrible friend.

[37:46] She's manipulative and impulsive. She

[37:49] never takes accountability for her

[37:50] actions. She never learns her lesson.

[37:53] She does horrible things to people and

[37:56] is always confused when people are angry

[37:58] at her because she genuinely believes

[38:01] she is always a victim of unfair

[38:04] treatment. She's just the worst. And the

[38:07] reason why I find it so irritating with

[38:10] her character is because it is very

[38:12] clear that her being this way is not

[38:16] intentional on the writer's part. The

[38:18] writers seem completely lost with the

[38:20] reception the character had because they

[38:23] see her as this quirky, likable, but at

[38:26] times clumsy, friendly neighborhood

[38:28] American girl. And they didn't seem to

[38:31] understand why nobody else saw her that

[38:34] way. They were so shocked with how much

[38:36] people hated Emily in season 1. I will

[38:38] always remember how the producers gave

[38:41] an interview before the release of

[38:43] season 2 and had to promise that Emily

[38:46] would be less annoying. She's not, by

[38:48] the way, she's just as annoying in

[38:50] season 2 as she was in season 1. So, if

[38:51] you've never watched Emily in Paris,

[38:53] here's a quick rundown of some of

[38:55] Emily's greatest hits. Sleeping with her

[38:57] best friend's boyfriend behind her back.

[38:58] Being that best friend's shoulder to cry

[39:00] on when she learns her boyfriend is

[39:02] cheating on her, even though she's the

[39:04] other woman. sleeping with that same

[39:06] best friend's underage brother. Making

[39:08] jokes about sleeping with the underage

[39:10] boy. Taking credit for her co-worker's

[39:12] ideas and stealing their clients.

[39:14] Attempting to have a pregnant woman

[39:15] evicted from her home so she can have

[39:18] more time with the baby daddy. Outing

[39:20] that woman for being pregnant when she

[39:21] wasn't ready to tell. Almost drowning

[39:24] that same pregnant woman because she's

[39:26] too stubborn to leave her alone when she

[39:28] asked for space. pressuring a man who

[39:30] left her to get back into a relationship

[39:32] with her, only to then emotionally cheat

[39:34] on him with the guy she's actually in

[39:36] love with. Pressuring her ex-boyfriend

[39:38] to talk about something traumatic when

[39:39] he's not ready to, and then making him

[39:41] feel bad for not telling her right away.

[39:43] Lying to two employers and friends

[39:46] trying to accommodate her by working for

[39:48] both at the same time in secret because

[39:50] she doesn't want to make a choice. using

[39:52] company funds to bribe her boyfriend's

[39:54] way into a Michelin star, making her

[39:56] boyfriend feel guilty for wanting to

[39:58] take care of the mother of his child,

[40:00] making more than one person quit their

[40:01] job because she's just that

[40:04] insufferable, and the list goes on.

[40:07] Emily is a terrible character. She has

[40:09] been a terrible character since day one.

[40:12] I have been very vocal about how much I

[40:14] dislike her. Hell, I started this

[40:17] YouTube channel because she annoyed me

[40:20] so much that I just had to rant about it

[40:23] to somebody. So, you know how serious

[40:26] this [ __ ] is coming from me. This is

[40:29] some very uncomfortable honesty. But

[40:32] yes, as much as I cannot stand Emily

[40:36] Cooper, I have to recognize in complete

[40:39] sincerity that season five fixes her.

[40:43] And not only that, it fixes her well and

[40:47] gives dimension to her character. Not a

[40:50] lot of it, but still. So, if you don't

[40:53] know, 3-ish years ago, after season 3

[40:55] came out, I made a video titled How to

[40:58] Fix the Worst Character on Television,

[41:01] which is about the character of Emily

[41:03] Cooper. This video was mostly a joke, to

[41:06] be completely honest. I use Emily

[41:08] Cooper's awful characterization as an

[41:10] excuse to talk about Naruto for 30

[41:12] minutes, but I do lay out what I think

[41:14] can be done to solve the issue the

[41:17] writers have cornered themselves into

[41:18] with Emily that makes her so irritating

[41:20] and unlikable to people. In the video, I

[41:23] say there's three things that should be

[41:25] done. One, give Emily a backstory that

[41:29] addresses her personality and more

[41:31] importantly her flaws and makes us have

[41:34] a better understanding of why she is the

[41:37] way she is. Her flaws will seem less

[41:40] irritating to an audience if they can

[41:42] understand where they come from and

[41:43] their emergence is something they can

[41:45] relate to. I talked about how it was an

[41:47] easy thing to pull off because three

[41:49] seasons in at the time, Emily had never

[41:52] been given a backstory in the entire

[41:55] show, and we still knew virtually

[41:58] nothing about her as a person. So, there

[42:00] was all the space in the world to do

[42:02] that. Two, you do not need to suppress

[42:05] Emily's flaws, but for God's sakes, you

[42:09] need to give her redeeming qualities. I

[42:13] have been talking for years about how

[42:15] Emily is a character that is essentially

[42:18] just made of flaws with zero redeeming

[42:21] qualities. The writers tried too hard to

[42:24] make her quirky, but it just made her

[42:26] annoying, rude, and unlikable to people,

[42:28] which left them feeling very overwhelmed

[42:30] and puzzled with what to do next because

[42:32] there's literally nothing else to her

[42:35] character. They never thought about her

[42:37] any further than that quirkiness. So, in

[42:40] that video, I explained that Emily

[42:42] having flaws is not a bad thing, but she

[42:45] needs redeeming qualities so that she

[42:48] can eventually get storylines where she

[42:50] learns to overcome her flaws and let her

[42:53] qualities remain, which is what will

[42:55] make the audience feel like she's

[42:58] growing. And getting a chance to

[43:00] rebalance her character is what will

[43:03] make her compelling and what will

[43:05] ultimately make people feel attached to

[43:07] her. And three, if you want to fix Emily

[43:10] while making the show more engaging,

[43:12] aside from repetitive romantic story

[43:14] lines, you could use the lack of writing

[43:16] for her character to introduce a bit of

[43:18] mystery based on her past. I suggested

[43:21] the idea of introducing a new character

[43:24] that would be from Emily's past back in

[43:26] Chicago and that would introduce a

[43:28] conflict revealing that Emily came to

[43:30] Paris not just because her boss asked

[43:32] her to at the last minute but because

[43:34] she used it as an excuse to run away

[43:37] from something. Either something that

[43:38] happened to her or something she did

[43:41] which would have made her friends

[43:42] realize that they maybe don't really

[43:45] know her that well. And suddenly the

[43:48] lack of writing for her character

[43:50] becomes a part of her character that you

[43:52] get to uncover. Obviously, they didn't

[43:55] do that last one. It was a bit too

[43:57] specific. But to my absolute surprise,

[44:01] they did do the first two things in

[44:04] season 5. They addressed Emily's flaws

[44:06] by giving her a backstory. And then they

[44:09] allowed her to overcome these flaws with

[44:11] the help of newfound redeeming

[44:13] qualities. And like I said, not only did

[44:16] they do it, I think they did it pretty

[44:19] well. A lot of people, me included, have

[44:21] complained that Emily is a very empty

[44:24] character with no depth. And I've been

[44:26] saying since the very beginning of the

[44:28] show that we don't really know anything

[44:30] about Emily as a person. And I guess the

[44:32] writers finally caught on to that

[44:34] reality because they decide to do

[44:37] something about that. It took them half

[44:39] a decade, but finally we learn a little

[44:42] bit about Emily. Basically, in season 5,

[44:45] they attempt to fix the issue of Emily

[44:47] being an empty character we know nothing

[44:49] about by introducing a core theme for

[44:52] her this season with the revelation that

[44:54] Emily has issues with intimacy. In

[44:58] episode 3, after a conversation with

[45:00] Luke and Julian, she goes to Mindy, who

[45:03] tells her it's very hard to know much

[45:05] about Emily because she has to be pushed

[45:08] to open up, otherwise she never talks

[45:11] about anything personal, even to the

[45:13] people she's actually close with, from

[45:16] friends to romantic partners. Emily then

[45:18] acknowledges that earlier that day her

[45:20] boyfriend Marello tried to open up to

[45:23] her about his mother. And when her time

[45:25] to share came, she deflected the

[45:28] conversation to another topic to avoid

[45:30] having to reciprocate that openness. She

[45:33] doesn't like realizing that about

[45:34] herself, though. So later that night,

[45:37] she decides to make an effort to open up

[45:39] to Marello and talk about something else

[45:41] than work for a change. It's a big thing

[45:43] throughout the entire show that Emily is

[45:45] an obnoxious workaholic and everyone

[45:48] around her is fed up with her always

[45:50] talking about work like it's the only

[45:52] thing in her life. And in this episode,

[45:54] the show addresses that in a way where

[45:56] it's implied that being obsessed with

[45:59] work and talking about it all the time

[46:02] is a way for Emily to avoid talking

[46:04] about personal things because opening up

[46:07] to people makes her uncomfortable. and

[46:09] yes, even with her own boyfriend, she

[46:11] has a real issue with intimacy. Being

[46:14] vulnerable bothers her. And so in this

[46:18] episode, after being called out for her

[46:20] using work as an excuse to be avoidant,

[46:22] for the very first time, Emily talks to

[46:27] Marello about her family. And as an

[46:30] audience, this is our first time hearing

[46:33] about it, too. She talks about how her

[46:35] parents always made her feel that the

[46:37] only thing that gives her value in life

[46:40] is achievements. That having success is

[46:43] the only thing that could make her

[46:45] matter. So having good grades at school

[46:47] is what gave her importance as a child.

[46:49] And as an adult, it's having a good job.

[46:52] She even has a line of dialogue I really

[46:54] like where she says her parents are good

[46:56] people, but that for them, quote, "Just

[46:59] existing was never going to be enough."

[47:02] In other words, she explains that her

[47:04] parents pretty much designed her to be

[47:06] an overachiever who always tries to be

[47:09] perfect and puts all of her value as a

[47:12] person into her visible accomplishments,

[47:15] which as an adult translates to her

[47:17] professional endeavors, but also in her

[47:20] ability to solve problems. And that is

[47:23] why she can't help but force herself

[47:27] into other people's lives and their

[47:30] problems. That's why she has this insane

[47:32] inability to respect people's

[47:35] boundaries. It's almost a compulsive

[47:37] need to fix things for people so that

[47:39] she can prove to them and to herself

[47:42] that she matters. Basically, having

[47:44] those notions drilled into her head her

[47:47] entire life is what made Emily this

[47:49] obnoxious overachiever who always has to

[47:52] meddle into things because she always

[47:54] feels like she has to try hard. She

[47:58] always has to fix things because if

[48:00] she's not in a constant state of

[48:03] achieving, she feels like nothing can be

[48:06] okay. And her anxiety over that fear of

[48:09] things not being okay makes her unable

[48:12] to just let things be.

[48:14] >> Maybe I don't have to push or fix or try

[48:18] so hard.

[48:20] Maybe I can just let things be and it

[48:22] will all be fine.

[48:23] >> And I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I

[48:25] think this is great. I actually really

[48:29] like this. It's addressing the most

[48:31] annoying traits of the character, but

[48:33] instead of corny dialogue that addresses

[48:35] the audience directly, it's addressing

[48:37] those traits by doing something that

[48:40] humanizes her a lot. It's really not

[48:43] that much, but it effectively makes

[48:45] Emily a way more sympathetic character

[48:47] than she's been in the previous four

[48:50] seasons. And that's because it's the

[48:52] first time the writers really want to

[48:55] put effort into getting to know her.

[48:57] This one scene has told us more about

[49:00] her character than the entire show has

[49:03] over the last 5 years. Let that sink in.

[49:06] I have been complaining since season 1

[49:08] that we know nothing about Emily as a

[49:10] person. We never find out anything about

[49:12] her. And look how easy it was to do it

[49:16] and to fix her in the process. One

[49:19] twominut scene made all the difference.

[49:23] You could have done that 4 years ago.

[49:25] This season is the most likable Emily

[49:28] has ever been. And this short dive into

[49:30] her personal life from before Paris is a

[49:33] huge contribution to that. Season 5 has

[49:36] an Emily that feels like she has grown

[49:39] and has actually learned from a lot of

[49:41] her mistakes. She no longer feels like

[49:43] this entitled [ __ ] with no morals who

[49:47] [ __ ] with people's lives and then

[49:49] positions herself as a victim when her

[49:51] own decisions to do immoral things blow

[49:54] up in her face. They tone down her

[49:56] character in a way that makes her way

[49:58] less absurd and a bit more grounded. And

[50:02] it really works actually. But most of

[50:05] all, the show finally commits to

[50:08] acknowledging some of her flaws in a way

[50:10] that actually furthers her character.

[50:13] Emily has genuine character development

[50:16] for the very first time in five seasons.

[50:19] This is a version of Emily that is

[50:21] actually super introspective and that

[50:24] spends a majority of the season

[50:27] questioning her own behaviors and trying

[50:30] to make sense of why she is the way she

[50:33] is. There's a scene I actually quite

[50:35] liked in episode 9 where she asks

[50:37] Gabrielle if she was too pushy with him

[50:40] because of her need to fix everything.

[50:42] In previous seasons, the writers tried

[50:44] to fix Emily by making the characters

[50:46] around her worse, hoping it would make

[50:49] her look better in comparison. They

[50:51] ruined the character of Keam by turning

[50:54] her into Emily's evil rival with little

[50:57] to no coherence. They made Gabrielle

[50:59] worse and worse and worse, and it never

[51:02] worked. All it did was make Emily a

[51:04] terrible character next to other

[51:07] terrible characters. This season is the

[51:10] first time the show is like, "Hey, what

[51:12] if what if this time we try to fix her

[51:15] by actually giving her character

[51:18] substance?" And wo, look at that. It

[51:21] worked. There are little moments and

[51:23] tidbits in the season that hint at

[51:25] Emily's mental state in a way that shows

[51:28] a bit more complexity to her character.

[51:30] There's a mini story line in episode 7,

[51:33] I think, where Emily meets an American

[51:35] who takes her to celebrate the 4th of

[51:37] July in Paris with other Americans. And

[51:40] there is this one shot where Emily looks

[51:43] at the fireworks with a really sad face.

[51:46] And from that look alone, you can tell

[51:49] that Emily feels very homesick. A

[51:52] feeling that is later confirmed by that

[51:54] conversation with Gabrielle in episode

[51:56] 9, where she talks very openly about

[51:58] feeling like living in Paris has stopped

[52:00] being a fantasy to her and that it is

[52:03] way more difficult now than when she was

[52:05] new to it because she can't romanticize

[52:07] it anymore. And you get this feeling

[52:09] that she's not happy in her life despite

[52:12] the constant corporate ass smile she

[52:14] puts on for everyone. you get a sense

[52:16] that there is actually a lot of sadness

[52:19] to Emily's character, but it's only a

[52:22] hint because the show doesn't have the

[52:24] depth to explore it, but I like that we

[52:27] can see a glimpse of it. There's finally

[52:30] a bit of something in that character to

[52:32] grasp onto, and I appreciate it. That

[52:35] scene at the train station between Emily

[52:37] and Gabrielle is easily the best and

[52:40] most earnest scene in the entire show.

[52:42] It's the first time these two characters

[52:45] feel like people and both Lily Collins

[52:48] and Luca Bravo can carry it on screen

[52:51] because in case the last four seasons

[52:53] have prevented you from noticing,

[52:55] they're good actors.

[52:59] It took them half a decade, but I think

[53:01] they're finally starting to figure Emily

[53:03] out. It's just too bad that it's in the

[53:05] middle of a boring story where nothing

[53:07] happens. But still, it's kind of crazy.

[53:10] Like, I can't believe I'm about to say

[53:12] this, but for the very first time, Emily

[53:15] is now the best part of the show. She

[53:18] was the part I could actually stomach

[53:21] watching this season. I feel like I'm

[53:23] finally seeing Emily the way the writers

[53:26] have been seeing her all along because

[53:29] they finally realize that in order for

[53:31] us to see that, they need to like write

[53:35] it. But it works. They made her work.

[53:38] They finally fixed Emily. This season

[53:40] also builds a first story line where

[53:43] Emily is the one that is being wronged

[53:45] by everybody. A story line where she

[53:47] actually doesn't really do anything

[53:50] wrong for a change. Usually, she acts

[53:52] like a victim of everything, even though

[53:54] she's the one ruining everybody's lives.

[53:57] But this time around, she really isn't

[54:00] at fault. One of the most universally

[54:02] despised storylines of the season is the

[54:04] infamous new romance between Mindy,

[54:07] Emily's best friend, and Alfie, Emily's

[54:10] ex-boyfriend, which also comes out of

[54:13] absolutely nowhere. By the way, there's

[54:15] never a buildup to this happening. It

[54:18] just spawns out of thin air and suddenly

[54:20] these two idiots are madly into each

[54:22] other and there is nothing there. They

[54:26] don't have any chemistry. It makes no

[54:29] sense for these characters to be into

[54:30] each other. It literally just happens

[54:33] because the script is forcing it to

[54:35] happen. And because without it, there

[54:37] would literally be nothing for either of

[54:39] them to do in this show. This entire

[54:41] season is about Emily's work stuff,

[54:43] which has nothing to do with Mindy and

[54:46] Alfie. And the writers do not have the

[54:48] creativity to come up with a new story.

[54:51] So, let's force two random characters

[54:53] into a romance and let's set up yet

[54:56] another love triangle because why have

[54:59] new ideas if you can just not? So, Mindy

[55:01] and Alfie start [ __ ] in secret and

[55:04] don't tell Emily about it. And

[55:05] naturally, we get to a point where Emily

[55:08] finds out in the worst way possible

[55:11] because we got to be dramatic about it.

[55:13] And for a second, it feels like it's the

[55:15] one plot point of the season that might

[55:18] have consequences.

[55:20] But no, not really. Emily stops talking

[55:23] to Mindy for a few days and then things

[55:26] go back to normal because nothing can

[55:28] have consequences that lasts more than

[55:30] two scenes. The show has a compulsive

[55:32] need to keep the status quo at all

[55:35] costs, so nothing can linger. What I

[55:37] like though is that Emily isn't actually

[55:39] mad that Mindy and Alfie hooked up. She

[55:42] doesn't give a [ __ ] about that. She's

[55:44] just heard that they hid it from her and

[55:46] lied. And I mean, she doesn't really

[55:48] have much of a leg to stand on because

[55:50] she literally did the exact same thing

[55:52] to Cami, except worse because she was

[55:55] sleeping with Gabrielle when he was

[55:57] still with Kenny and then would be the

[55:59] one consoling when she found out he was

[56:02] cheating. So, she's done much worse

[56:05] fairly recently. But I think it fits the

[56:08] new direction of her character to feel

[56:10] betrayed in this specific way. Oh, and

[56:12] fun fact that is completely off topic.

[56:15] After five seasons and precisely 54

[56:18] episodes, for the very first time, we

[56:22] finally hear Emily pronounce a full

[56:25] sentence in French.

[56:31] >> Yeah, the French are so rude.

[56:34] >> Oh my god, you think I'm French? Thank

[56:35] you. It's only in one scene and it

[56:39] sounds awful, but that's better than the

[56:41] last four seasons with a combined total

[56:44] of zero scenes. So, yeah. Uh, verdict on

[56:46] Emily in season 5. Great job. You

[56:49] finally cracked it. Congratulations.

[56:51] Genuinely, I'm not even being sarcastic.

[56:53] I never thought they would ever pull

[56:55] that off. They proved me wrong. I got to

[56:58] give them credit for it. The season also

[57:00] shows pretty effectively that the show

[57:02] is much more stomachable when Gabrielle

[57:05] and Cammy aren't around. I had talked

[57:07] extensively about how Cam was a

[57:09] character that significantly dragged the

[57:12] show down. She made no sense and was

[57:15] turned into an absurd villain with

[57:17] incomprehensible motivations and her

[57:20] presence just made the show a mess. And

[57:22] as for Gabrielle, he's also a terrible

[57:25] character with incomprehensible

[57:26] motivations. And his only function in

[57:29] the show is to have romantic tension

[57:31] with any woman that appears on screen.

[57:34] Even Luca Bravo, the actor playing him,

[57:37] has admitted he didn't understand the

[57:39] character anymore, and he doesn't really

[57:41] have fun playing him. And both of these

[57:43] characters took so much space in the

[57:45] show that it made it much worse than it

[57:47] ever had to be. Season 5 changes that.

[57:51] Kami Raza, who plays Kami, left the show

[57:54] at the end of season 4. She felt like

[57:57] she was done with the character and had

[57:59] been very candid in interviews that she

[58:01] no longer understood what the point of

[58:03] Cami was anymore. She also expressed in

[58:05] an interview with French media that she

[58:07] felt like that part of the story was

[58:09] over and she had grown frustrated with

[58:11] the fact that her commitment to the show

[58:14] forced her to turn down incredible

[58:16] opportunities for other projects she

[58:18] really wanted to be a part of. So, she

[58:20] dipped. As for Gabrielle, Luca Bravo had

[58:23] also voiced frustrations with the

[58:25] handling of his character. He flat out

[58:27] said Gabrielle became boring and

[58:29] inconsistent. He said the show doesn't

[58:31] take the intelligence of the viewer into

[58:33] consideration. Basically saying it's a

[58:35] show for people who are dumb. And he had

[58:37] said after season 4 that he wasn't sure

[58:40] he wanted to come back for season 5.

[58:42] Ultimately, he did. Though it was

[58:44] announced that he would be returning for

[58:46] the new season. I kind of assumed it

[58:48] would be to give his character an exit.

[58:51] So, Gabrielle is in season 5, but in a

[58:55] significantly reduced role. He has a

[58:57] couple of scenes in the first episode

[58:59] and then he doesn't appear and he is not

[59:02] mentioned for the entire first half of

[59:04] the season. And we don't see him again

[59:05] until episode 5. And the only purpose of

[59:08] him coming back is only so the writers

[59:10] can write him out again until episode 9

[59:13] where he has one last scene with Emily

[59:16] and then leaves. He's also written

[59:18] better. Gabrielle in season 5, for the

[59:21] few scenes he's actually in, is the best

[59:24] version of the character so far. He

[59:26] feels less like the wimpy crybaby of the

[59:28] previous seasons and more like a

[59:30] reasonable guy. Even when he's having

[59:32] beef with Altoan over the restaurant,

[59:34] which is the most sleepind inducing

[59:36] thing that happened this season, you can

[59:38] actually agree with his arguments. It

[59:41] makes Luca Bravo's charisma come out

[59:43] more and it makes him more stomachable

[59:45] to have on screen. And case in point,

[59:47] despite being such a despised character,

[59:50] a lot of people have been saying that

[59:52] one of the few redeeming qualities this

[59:54] season is Gabrielle. So Gabrielle not

[59:57] being a huge part of season 5 actually

[59:59] helps the show feel more narratively

[1:00:01] balanced. But for the few scenes he's

[1:00:03] actually there, he's the best the

[1:00:05] character has ever been. I'm guessing

[1:00:07] the effort in the writing for him

[1:00:09] probably comes from how vocal Luca Bravo

[1:00:12] was about being bored of the character.

[1:00:14] Because unlike Kami, the show can't

[1:00:17] really afford to lose Gabrielle. He's

[1:00:20] Emily's big endgame. And that endgame is

[1:00:23] the one brain cell the show has ever

[1:00:25] had. Everything falls apart if he

[1:00:28] leaves. He can't [ __ ] off for good. So

[1:00:30] they probably panic when Luca started

[1:00:33] talking about leaving the show and

[1:00:34] thinking the show is dumb. And they had

[1:00:36] to put some effort in to keep him on and

[1:00:39] around in some capacity. And the finale

[1:00:42] suggests that he will return for season

[1:00:44] 6, which again makes me think that

[1:00:46] season 6 will be the final season of the

[1:00:49] show. There's no [ __ ] way Luca Bravo

[1:00:51] agreed to go past that. The season also

[1:00:54] significantly reduces the role of

[1:00:56] Genevieve, a side character introduced

[1:00:58] in season 4 that not a single person

[1:01:00] liked. So, the writers clearly didn't

[1:01:02] have much interest in keeping her

[1:01:04] around, especially because it's very

[1:01:06] obvious they don't really know what to

[1:01:08] do with her. She appears in a handful of

[1:01:10] scenes and is given a tiny like three

[1:01:13] scene arc that has for only purpose to

[1:01:15] give the characters a reason to kick her

[1:01:17] out of Ashel's Gateau and therefore a

[1:01:20] reason for the writers to kick her out

[1:01:22] of the show altogether. And thank God

[1:01:25] what a pointless character. Genevieve

[1:01:27] only existed to put a spotlight on an

[1:01:29] epo baby who probably really wanted a

[1:01:31] role. Goodbye. Who cares? What about the

[1:01:34] other characters? Sylvie again is just

[1:01:37] kind of coasting this season. Nothing's

[1:01:40] really going on with her. We're still on

[1:01:42] that impossibly long thread of her

[1:01:44] incomprehensible relationship with her

[1:01:46] husband that at this point doesn't make

[1:01:49] any sense anymore. These two are in an

[1:01:51] open marriage, but they both get jealous

[1:01:54] of the other partners all the time, but

[1:01:56] they also don't want to not be in an

[1:01:59] open marriage. So, they continue to

[1:02:01] sleep with other people and they keep

[1:02:04] getting jealous. It's like an endless

[1:02:06] loop where nothing is ever really

[1:02:08] resolved and nothing really ever

[1:02:10] evolves. Their relationship was never

[1:02:12] interesting to begin with. Nobody gives

[1:02:14] a [ __ ] about her husband. So, the more

[1:02:15] they try to play this up, the more

[1:02:17] uninteresting it becomes. It's

[1:02:19] maddeningly boring. I don't know why the

[1:02:21] writers seem to think the most

[1:02:23] accomplished thing they can do with

[1:02:25] Sylvie narratively is have her have an

[1:02:28] affair with a man half her age. It's a

[1:02:30] very popular thing in Hollywood

[1:02:32] currently to have these stories about

[1:02:34] female characters in their 40s and 50s

[1:02:36] having affairs with men in their 20s.

[1:02:39] And it's as if the show is trying to

[1:02:41] confirm that Sylvie is still hot. Not

[1:02:44] because she can have any man she wants,

[1:02:46] but because she can have young ones. And

[1:02:49] I just find that lame and weird. I don't

[1:02:52] know. Normalize dating people your age.

[1:02:55] This weird obsession with having

[1:02:57] middle-aged people hook up with 20somes

[1:03:00] just so yeah, the narrative peak of

[1:03:03] Sylvie this season is when she starts

[1:03:05] sleeping with some guy who is maybe 30

[1:03:07] years younger than her and she then

[1:03:09] realizes in the worst way possible that

[1:03:12] the guy is her best friend's son. That's

[1:03:15] it. And it's awkward because earlier

[1:03:19] Sylvie showed her a dickpick that she

[1:03:22] received from him and she liked it a lot

[1:03:26] and said a lot of things about it and

[1:03:28] now she's realizing it was her son's

[1:03:31] dick.

[1:03:34] That's really all they do with Sylvie

[1:03:36] this season. Aside from having her argue

[1:03:38] with her husband, Sylvie this season is

[1:03:40] just kind of there. I will say though, I

[1:03:43] do like that this season builds more of

[1:03:45] a mentor mentee relationship with Emily

[1:03:47] and Sylvie. Their friendship and the

[1:03:49] trust that's been built between them is

[1:03:51] actually a larger focus of the season.

[1:03:54] And seeing the mutual respect they have

[1:03:56] for one another and the teammates

[1:03:58] they've become is actually pretty cool.

[1:04:01] Turns out they work better when it's not

[1:04:02] the constant shtick of Sylvie hating

[1:04:04] Emily's guts. Their interactions

[1:04:06] actually lead to the best line of the

[1:04:08] season uttered by Sylvie. I want to

[1:04:10] prove the French can sell sex better

[1:04:12] than the Italians.

[1:04:14] >> But I'm American.

[1:04:16] >> Well, that's your problem. Don't make it

[1:04:17] ours.

[1:04:18] >> This season, they had more of a Harvey

[1:04:20] Spectre and Mike Ross type of energy,

[1:04:22] and I think it works so much better for

[1:04:24] their dynamic.

[1:04:27] I'm going to say something that's going

[1:04:28] to sound harsh, but it just has to be

[1:04:31] said. I think there is a conspiracy in

[1:04:34] Hollywood that was started by people in

[1:04:36] the industry who [ __ ] hate Ashley

[1:04:38] Park and they use this show as a way to

[1:04:41] humiliate her in the most devious ways

[1:04:44] they can think of. I think the writers

[1:04:46] are in on it. I think the people in

[1:04:48] charge of her endless musical numbers

[1:04:49] are in on it. I think the wardrobe

[1:04:52] department is in on it because holy

[1:04:55] [ __ ] whoever is responsible for styling

[1:04:58] Mindy's outfit should be sent to Asaban

[1:05:01] for at least as long as Sirius Black was

[1:05:03] in there. That person has a personal

[1:05:06] vendetta against Ashley. There is no

[1:05:08] other explanation. Mindy's wardrobe is a

[1:05:12] constant humiliation ritual. It is

[1:05:15] distracting to watch. And again, those

[1:05:19] musical numbers. Oh my god, everybody

[1:05:23] hates them. They know everybody hates

[1:05:26] them. There's an entire trend on Tik Tok

[1:05:29] with people watching the show and

[1:05:31] filming themselves skipping the Mindy

[1:05:34] singing scenes, but they just will not

[1:05:38] stop. They keep doing it, and they keep

[1:05:41] getting bigger and so much worse. Who is

[1:05:46] praying on this woman's downfall? They

[1:05:49] made her sing espresso.

[1:06:03] I don't think you have the facilities

[1:06:04] for that, big man.

[1:06:05] >> This has to be a conspiracy. This is an

[1:06:08] inside job. I swear the producers of the

[1:06:11] show are all trying to tank Ashley

[1:06:13] Park's career. I know it. I just can't

[1:06:16] prove it. And that's that's kind of it

[1:06:20] for the characters really. There's

[1:06:22] nothing to add. Mindy doesn't do much

[1:06:24] aside from singing and smooching with

[1:06:27] men. Alfie is there. He's reliable. He's

[1:06:31] likable. Still no life aside from

[1:06:33] whatever girl he's in love with. Julia

[1:06:35] and Luke are there, too.

[1:06:39] I don't know why, but they are. Julian

[1:06:41] doesn't have a story this season, and

[1:06:44] Luke is guess what? Stuck in a love

[1:06:48] triangle. Yes. Yes. The formula is alive

[1:06:51] and unwell. Long story short, Emily in

[1:06:54] Paris is style over substance, but to a

[1:06:57] degree that has gotten mind-numbing.

[1:06:59] People wait over a year to watch nothing

[1:07:03] happen for 10 episodes. That's kind of a

[1:07:06] crazy concept. And I think it's

[1:07:08] hilarious because during the press tour

[1:07:10] when the cast was being asked what we

[1:07:12] can expect from season 5, all of them

[1:07:14] are like, "Oh my god, there's going to

[1:07:17] be so many twists and turns. None of you

[1:07:19] are ready for the craziness of the

[1:07:22] twists and turns that will ensue." And

[1:07:24] it's like, "What do you mean? Nothing

[1:07:28] happened. It's literally 4 hours and 35

[1:07:32] minutes of people just kind of hanging

[1:07:34] out with nothing interesting to say.

[1:07:37] Nothing really happens for 10 episodes.

[1:07:40] And then the season ends with a bit of a

[1:07:42] twist as Sylvie randomly finds out in

[1:07:44] episode 9 that her husband is broke and

[1:07:47] in severe debt and that he borrowed $2

[1:07:49] million from Sylvy's mom behind her

[1:07:52] back, which causes her to be targeted by

[1:07:54] debt collectors as well. It's a very

[1:07:57] convoluted revelation that essentially

[1:07:58] means Sylvie is bankrupt and is forced

[1:08:01] to make questionable choices to save her

[1:08:03] company. Absolutely random twist that

[1:08:06] comes out of nowhere only to justify

[1:08:09] Sylvie asking for a divorce and to make

[1:08:11] us feel like there is tension to look

[1:08:13] forward to in season 6. But like, we

[1:08:16] know the show. Whatever issue there is

[1:08:18] will be resolved by episode 1 or two and

[1:08:21] like three or four scenes, and we're

[1:08:23] going to go right back to either shitty

[1:08:25] love triangles or literally nothing

[1:08:29] happening. There's a stupid

[1:08:30] misunderstanding with Emily and Marello

[1:08:33] where she believes Marello is proposing

[1:08:35] to her, so she says no preemptively. But

[1:08:38] it turns out he wasn't proposing to her.

[1:08:41] He was just keeping a ring for Nico who

[1:08:43] is about to propose to Meny. That

[1:08:45] incident makes Emily realize she doesn't

[1:08:47] want a life in Italy. Paris is now her

[1:08:50] home and she can't abandon it, even if

[1:08:52] it is for a perfect life in Rome. It's

[1:08:54] really stupid and it's only shoved in

[1:08:56] there to give Emily a viable reason to

[1:08:59] break up with Marello so we can go back

[1:09:02] to some Gabrielle [ __ ] in season 6.

[1:09:04] So, she breaks up with Marello and then

[1:09:07] she gets a postcard from Gabrielle who

[1:09:09] is telling her to come join him in

[1:09:10] Greece and that's like the big

[1:09:12] cliffhanger of the season. I guess it's

[1:09:15] giving Gabrielle will return in Avengers

[1:09:18] Doomsday. And I don't know if this is

[1:09:19] exciting for the fans or anything, but

[1:09:21] it doesn't seem like anybody was

[1:09:23] particularly impressed with this ending.

[1:09:25] So, I'm guessing season 6 is going to be

[1:09:28] Emily in Athens, Emily and Santorini,

[1:09:32] Emily Cooper and the Gods of Olympus.

[1:09:35] Ultimately, despite making a lot of good

[1:09:37] changes with the show for the first

[1:09:39] time, Emily in Paris season 5

[1:09:41] essentially dies by being the most

[1:09:43] uneventful season of the series. Even

[1:09:46] the finale is boring to watch. This is

[1:09:48] supposed to be the most exciting time of

[1:09:50] the season. Emily plans a fashion show

[1:09:53] for Marello's line. Something goes

[1:09:55] wrong. She finds a solution at the last

[1:09:58] second. Everything goes fantastic. The

[1:10:01] end. It's so bland. There's like a

[1:10:03] 5minute succession of scenes that is

[1:10:05] just so sleep inducing. You get a scene

[1:10:08] of Emily and Mindy having a drink at a

[1:10:10] terrace restaurant and talking about

[1:10:12] nothing. Then we cut to Emily and

[1:10:14] Marello at another terrace restaurant

[1:10:17] talking about nothing. And then we cut

[1:10:20] to Emily and Mindy again at yet another

[1:10:25] terrace restaurant talking about

[1:10:28] nothing. Three consecutive scenes of

[1:10:31] characters having random small talk in

[1:10:33] virtually the exact same setting. It's

[1:10:37] just so boring to watch, man. And the

[1:10:40] rest is just romantic stuff with no

[1:10:44] bones. Did anyone with more than two

[1:10:46] brain cells think Emily and Marello were

[1:10:48] going to end up together? Of course not.

[1:10:51] He's just a temporary thing in the

[1:10:53] middle of the Emily and Gabrielle thing.

[1:10:56] But everybody knows that. There isn't

[1:10:58] any reason to be engaged in this

[1:11:00] romance. We all know what the end is

[1:11:03] going to be. Nobody is ever going to

[1:11:05] work out because the writers clearly

[1:11:07] want Emily to finish the story with

[1:11:09] Gabrielle. So, I don't give a [ __ ] about

[1:11:12] any other love interest she will be

[1:11:14] given. I don't even give a [ __ ] about

[1:11:16] Gabrielle to begin with. So, imagine the

[1:11:18] other ones. And it's too bad because I

[1:11:20] think the show is on the right track

[1:11:22] with the character of Emily herself.

[1:11:24] They're finally finding a tiny little

[1:11:26] spark that could make her interesting.

[1:11:28] They're finally starting to flesh her

[1:11:30] out after half a decade. They're making

[1:11:33] adjustments to the show that make it

[1:11:35] less cringe to watch. They get rid of

[1:11:37] characters that drag the show down.

[1:11:40] Like, there are elements there, but they

[1:11:42] still can't commit to giving the show an

[1:11:45] actual story. Nothing happens, and it's

[1:11:48] boring. I've been saying it to the fans

[1:11:50] of the show for years. The fans who

[1:11:52] always say they like Emily and Paris

[1:11:54] because of the vibes. There is only so

[1:11:57] far this show will be able to go with

[1:12:00] just vibes. And those same fans that

[1:12:03] said, "I just don't get it." are now

[1:12:06] hating on the show because they're tired

[1:12:08] of it only offering vibes and they're

[1:12:11] bored. And I'm going to be that guy. I

[1:12:14] told you so. The problem when you

[1:12:16] willingly cheer for a show that

[1:12:18] shamelessly treats you like an idiot is

[1:12:21] that when you end up realizing you're

[1:12:23] the idiot, you get offended. Style over

[1:12:26] substance can be fun on the short term,

[1:12:28] but five seasons of a show giving you

[1:12:30] absolutely nothing is going to start to

[1:12:33] irritate you because you have a brain

[1:12:35] and your brain needs to feel stimulated

[1:12:38] when it's engaging with things. Nothing

[1:12:40] about Emily and Paris is stimulating.

[1:12:43] Like I said, there isn't much more to

[1:12:44] say about this season. Usually, I kind

[1:12:46] of dive into plot points, but I mean it.

[1:12:48] Nothing [ __ ] happens this season.

[1:12:50] There is nothing for me to talk about

[1:12:52] here. If it weren't for my desire to be

[1:12:55] fair and acknowledge Emily's drastic

[1:12:57] improvement as a character, I don't

[1:12:59] think I would have made a video, because

[1:13:01] there would be nothing for me to even

[1:13:03] talk about. Which makes me wonder if

[1:13:06] this might be the last Emily in Paris

[1:13:08] video I make. I mean, like I said, I'm

[1:13:10] betting my entire career that season 6

[1:13:13] will be the final season. So,

[1:13:14] theoretically, I only have one more

[1:13:17] video to make about this show. But in

[1:13:19] the event that I am wrong and season 6

[1:13:22] isn't the final season, if it follows

[1:13:25] this blueprint and doesn't change

[1:13:27] anything drastically, if nothing crazy

[1:13:29] happens to shake things up, I genuinely

[1:13:32] believe there is nothing left for me to

[1:13:34] say about this series. In that scenario,

[1:13:36] I might give Emily and Paris the same

[1:13:39] treatment I gave Riverdale to quit on

[1:13:41] the show until a final season is

[1:13:43] announced and then return for the series

[1:13:45] finale and make one final video to send

[1:13:48] it off in due form. But again, season 6

[1:13:51] will be the final season. I cannot see

[1:13:54] it going any other way. So, I guess I

[1:13:56] will be seeing you next year to put this

[1:13:58] thing to bed once and for all, and I can

[1:14:00] finally be freed from the shackles of

[1:14:03] Darren Star and his [ __ ] ass TV

[1:14:05] characters. Here's hoping.

[1:14:11] They made her sing espresso.

[1:14:16] I'm in my room.

[1:14:19] Still with them

[1:14:22] cowboy sounds.

[1:14:25] 6 years again.

[1:14:28] Don't break my groove again. Got nothing

[1:14:32] to prove. Yeah. Astro is true. Yeah. You

[1:14:37] will be disapproved.

[1:14:41] I'm in my

[1:14:43] still without

[1:14:47] cowboys

[1:14:48] and

[1:14:50] six years born again.

[1:14:53] Heat. Heat. N.