Imagine if Carrie Bradshaw went to Paris and, instead of being snubbed by her boyfriend’s snobby friends, losing her beloved name-plate necklace, and getting slapped, she dumped the loser, went to the ballet solo, and spent weeks gallivanting the city in bucket hats and black tulle — leaving a trail of hot French men in her wake. That’s roughly the premise of Netflix’s Emily In Paris, a fashion-stuffed, 10-episode brain-candy binge from Sex and the City creator Darren Star.
The show follows Chicago-based marketing expert Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) as she travels to Paris to bring an “American perspective” to her firm’s global advertising team. She lands at Charles de Gaulle airport with beachy influencer waves, loud mixed patterns, and stars in her eyes — only to be very quickly schooled by her colleagues in the Parisian art of refinement. “Emily came from Chicago to Paris — a new life, new job, and also new relationship. The more [time] she spends in Paris, the more she takes involve in her image,” the show’s Paris-based hairstyling lead, Mike Desir, tells me.