Emily In Paris
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And you know what?
And our theoretically big relationship plot feels like a hot mess but well get to that later.
Emily is meeting with Madeline in boots made of … is that hot-pink tulle?
Madeline says Savoirs books are chaos and it is probably time for some personnel changes.
Heres the thing about the Madeline-Sylvie dynamic: Did this have a lot of potential?
But does it work here?
Obviously, we are supposed to find Madelines super-corporate way of doing things to be irritating and uncool.
But arent we also supposed to think Sylvie is good at her job?
But this show is going to try!
Madeline cannot believe everyone isnt jumping at the opening this creates for Savoir.
Madeline, not incorrectly, points out that LVMH works with everybody, so why cant they?
black and white, a.k.a.
Sylvie wakes up with her boyfriend, who in turn wakes up to Sylvies husband at the door.
Sylvie insists their marriage was all a technicality, but I sense some lingering sparks between those two.
(How come Sylvie has chemistry with everyone, but Emily has chemistry with no one?)
Seems a little dated for a show thats supposed to be a modern, exhilarating romance.
Emily realizes that with their Let Them Eat Cake theme, they will need, well, cake.
If only she knew a chef with nothing better to do than cater this event!
That night, Mindy and her band have a gig at a Chinese dinner club.
Isnt it the middle of a heat wave still, and also, what?
and she is very freaked out about her past viral failures.
I feel like she is totally missing how this could work for her!
Pop careers have been built on far less auspicious introductions.
Gabriel unconvincingly says its over and done with.
By the end, she and Benoit are making out.
Good for those two beautiful kids.
Sad we didnt ever follow up with the whole thing about her dad, though.
Time for the Versailles show!
Gregory says the theme is Pieces We Are Told to Keep Hidden.
Very budget Sofia CoppolasMarie Antoinette.
Emily actually looks fantastic love the pearls in her updo.
Sort of a Savage X Fenty experience.
But no matter, Pierre is firing Savoir.
He wants to be with a French house, and Savoir has gone totally American.
Madeline, enraged, finds the Savoir trio Luc, Julien, and Sylvie to demand an explanation.
Wasnt Sylvie supposed to be handling this?
If you dont like the results, you have no one to blame but yourself, she says.
Madeline accuses Sylvie of insubordination and summons her for,dun dun DUNNNN, a 360 review in Chicago.
Sylvies response: She is resigning, as are Julien and Luc.
Remember how she madethat spreadsheet for Human Plot machine: The Chicago Boyfriend?)
The next day, the office is a shell of itself.
She swiftly demotes Emily to assistant status just until things get up and running.
Red flag, red flag!
She arrives to find the Savoir trio there as Sylvie informs her that shell be starting her own firm.
What has she done for him that he didnt basically do for himself?)
Emily says this is all a giant mess, and it actually isnt!
It would be much more interesting if it were!
In this conversation with Mindy, Emily says aloud that she fell in love with Gabriel.
Mindy encourages Emily to ignore a manipulative pinky swear with Camille and just tell Gabriel how she feels.
This would have been good advice several episodes ago, but oh well.
They got back together, and shes moving in.
She is also fine with this.
Whats so obnoxious about this is that the pact didnt move the plot in any direction!
Then she calls Sylvie and says she has made a decision.
I mean, the decision is Sylvie; there is no decision.
Before this season began,showrunner Darren Star promised us Emily would be less annoyingthis time around.
My question for all of you: Is she?
And if she is … did that make the show better, or not so much?
