Emily in Paris Season 4 Review: Our Dear Emily Has Learnt Nothing

We are back for the fourth season of watching Emily Cooper make several mistakes and destroy a few lives in the process of being cute and quirky! Releasing in two parts this time around, the romantic-comedy drama series is created by Darren Star.

Emily in Paris Season 4 Review

Watching Emily in Paris always feels like watching a bunch of immature and bratty teens running at full speed into a bonfire… constantly. I think after three seasons, you’d expect the story to change in some way or for the protagonists to have bigger and more interesting arcs but the series continues on this teenage French boy fantasy where Emily can’t help but self-destruct and the audience only associates the characters with whom they are dating at the moment.

Thanks to the fantastic cinematography and the cute clothes, the Netflix series starring Lily Collins manages to keep us occupied a lot but after three long seasons, you start to realise that the series is more interested in giving us the same story over and over again rather than coming with something daring or, heck, different in any way. Emily, after the disaster that was Gabriel and Camille’s wedding in the last season, is out to make more dumb decisions this season – in between juggling work and simply being unable to choose between Alfie and Gabriel, this adult woman makes a mockery out of everything sane and makes the worst decisions out there.

See, the quirkiness was rather entertaining in the first season (which I enjoyed a lot thanks to the pandemic) and somewhat sweet in the second. But in the fourth season, Emily seems to have learnt nothing. She regularly blows off work to do some unnecessary tasks but thanks to the “main character plot armour” finds a way to wiggle out of consequences. The men she constantly hurts and who hurt her back keep on coming back to her for some reason and repeat a toxic cycle that I, at least, am tired of repeating. At some point, you have to choose to separate yourself from this triangle to move forward. But, our Emily is fine with the mess that she keeps on creating and also okay with dragging us down with her while she’s at it.

Anyway, men aside, the conflicts that pop up in the series have some weight and there are situations that are genuinely entertaining. However, instead of talking about these important and interesting things, the series quickly rushes off to talk about the next boy problem which is quite disappointing. However, Emily in Paris Season 4, as per usual, maintains the fluffy and forgettable nature of the last few episodes and although it doesn’t really provide any arcs or conflicts of interest or weight, it does provide one party after another that is entertaining to watch if you don’t feel like you’re up for anything serious.

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Of course, this season still has five more episodes to leave us utterly shocked. Maybe something profound will happen after which each and every character will stop acting immaturely and won’t self-destruct themselves. However, till then, we are left on a cliffhanger that feels like it has the potential to open up some important conversations. That being said, I feel like the series needs to focus on something important and expand it instead of going after what is convenient and ending up creating a show that lacks depth and reliability.

Emily in Paris Season 4 Part 2 Review

Continuing on the trend of destruction, Emily in Paris ends with two new characters for Emily to work off of – one lover and one new rival. However, even after 5 more episodes, we are no close to seeing Emily making smart decisions, standing up for herself or having any depth to her character that will differentiate her from her past self. Unreflective of her past decisions and unable to conceptualise the thought of letting go, sometimes it feels like Gabriel is the only man that she will ever see and they will be locked in this toxic dance with each other for the rest of their lives.

And don’t get me wrong – Emily has a lot of suitors and rich men seem to constantly fall for her. But, of course, Gabriel is her true love and thus they constantly push and pull each other but find themselves back with one another in the end. That would’ve been sweet had it not been this toxic to witness and distasteful to watch as well.

There’s a lot to this show that leaves much to be desired. However, what I will give Emily in Paris credit for is that it looks so good and is so forgettable that it behaves as the perfect brain rot content to binge. With short episodes and a ton of unnecessary but dramatic things happening constantly, one can’t help but keep on watching. But, in the end, we don’t really get anything out of it. It’s all just repetitive situations that make us feel as if we are stuck in some sort of time loop from hell and can’t escape from it.

Final Thoughts

Emily in Paris Season 4 has become sort of irrelevant at this point because there are hardly any characters or story arcs. Each and every season feels like it’s surrounded by the same conflicts and resolutions and not one character learns anything from the consequences that they face. All in all, the fourth season remains unimportant and thoroughly disappointing and I just want Emily to stop jumping from one man to another hoping that they will fix her issues and look inward for once.

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