Breaking Down the Emily in Paris Season 4 Part 2Cliffhanger [Video]

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Emily in Paris Season 4, Part 2.

A major central conceit of Emily in Paris, Darren Star‘s Sex and the City-lite Netflix series starring Lily Collins as an American fish-out-of-water social media manager working and living in the French capital, is that she just can’t get things right.

In the years Emily has iconically been in Paris, she’s made a few faux pas. There was the time she got the European date convention wrong and fumbled a luxury dinner reservation for her clients, and the time she accidentally slept with her love rival’s underage brother. There’s also the egregious fact that she still can’t speak any French which, four seasons in, finally comes up as a sticking point in her relationship to the city. 

But despite her many gaffes, Emily’s frustrating charm is that she always manages to turn it around so that no one remains an antagonist for long. …