While 2020 will be best remembered as the year of lockdowns, isolation periods and lateral flows, it did give us lots of excellent TV to pass the time whilst trapped in solitary confinement, from Feel Good and Schitt\u2019s Creek, to I May Destroy You and The Crown. It was also the year that gave us Emily in Paris<\/a> \u2013 Netflix\u2019s controversial comedy-drama that many loved to vocally hate and others hated to secretly love.<\/p>\n Now, with the UK just a few coughs away from yet another lockdown, the series starring Lily Collins is back for a second season of messy love triangles, reductive takes on French culture and excessive selfies that\u2019ll make you want to delete Instagram for good.<\/p>\n The first season of Emily in Paris ended on a rather juicy cliffhanger, with the titular Chicagoan social media strategist sleeping with her handsome chef neighbour Gabriel (Lucas Bravo), who has just split with Emily\u2019s new friend Camille (Camille Razat) after deciding to move back to Normandy. While the pair finally put to bed (quite literally) the palpable sexual tension between them, the series ends with Emily\u2019s client Antoine (William Abadie) offering to team up with Gabriel to finance a restaurant in Paris \u2013 which means he\u2019ll be staying for good.<\/p>\n Season two pretty much picks up where the last one left off, with Emily fretting over her affair with Gabriel whilst working hard at PR firm Savoir and preparing for a romantic break to Saint-Tropez with her semi-boyfriend and client Mathieu Cadault (Charles Martins). You can tell that the show, created by Sex and the City\u2019s Darren Star, listened to its critics ahead of the second season, after many reviews branded the social-media-obsessed American as a loud, entitled tourist.<\/p>\n In the new season, Emily is definitely less obnoxious, having relaxed more into her picturesque Parisian surroundings, while her peers are no longer just walking French stereotypes, with Savoir\u2019s formidable boss Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), the brazen Julien (Samuel Arnold) and odd-bod Luc (Bruno Gouery) all receiving their own storylines in this series.<\/p>\n That being said, Emily is still somewhat unlikeable no matter how hard the charismatic Lily Collins tries to convince us otherwise. As much as the comedy-drama would like us to, you can\u2019t quite bring yourself to root for someone who doesn\u2019t seem particularly sorry for ripping the clothes off of her best friend\u2019s freshly single ex and breaking the heart of her adoring businessman boyfriend. In one episode, a character angrily tells Emily \u2013 whose French still hasn\u2019t improved since season one \u2013 that she is an \u201cilliterate sociopath\u201d and at some points in season two, you can\u2019t help but agree.<\/p>\n You could argue that Star\u2019s most popular character creation \u2013 Sex and the City\u2019s Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) \u2013 wasn\u2019t a stranger herself to infidelity, selfish behaviour and cringe-worthy faux pas moments. However, there was still a lot to love about the seminal New York columnist, who was witty, edgy and very three-dimensional. Unfortunately, Emily is no Carrie Bradshaw and, much like the show, still lacks depth and is as basic as you can get.<\/p>\n As much as I\u2019ve just ripped into the Netflix show, those who loved the first season will still want to book a one-way ticket to watch the romcom\u2019s second run. As the romantic drama around Emily, Gabriel and Camille is ramped up, Paris finally becomes the City of Love for Emily\u2019s roommate and disowned Chinese heiress Mindy (Ashley Park) and Savoir\u2019s glamorous yet intimidating boss Sylvie, with the two characters being introduced to brand new love interests.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Emily soon meets 30-year-old Londoner Alfie (Waterloo Road\u2019s Lucien Laviscount), a businessman on a secondment in Paris who dresses like David Beckham but speaks like a Love Island contestant. From being a football-obsessed day-drinker, to regularly saying \u201csorry luv\u201d, \u201cbevvy\u201d, \u201cbabes\u201d, \u201cgo on the lash\u201d and even \u201chunky-dory\u201d, Alfie is as many English stereotypes as you can get, all rolled into one, suave package.<\/p>\n Fun, fashion-forward and funny, Emily in Paris\u2019s second season makes for a very easy watch if you\u2019re after a fluffy romcom full of colourful characters and lovers\u2019 tiffs to get you through the Christmas holidays, but if you\u2019re looking for a sitcom with substance, I would say non merci to this messy comedy.<\/p>\n Emily in Paris season two arrives on Netflix on Wednesday 22nd December. Looking for something else to watch? Check out our guide to the\u00a0best series on Netflix<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0best movies\u00a0on\u00a0Netflix<\/span><\/a>, or visit our TV Guide<\/a>.<\/b><\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Lauren Morris Published: Monday, 20 December 2021 at 12:00 am 3.0 out of 5 star rating While 2020 will be best remembered as the year of lockdowns, isolation periods and lateral flows, it did give us lots of excellent TV to pass the time whilst trapped in solitary confinement, from Feel Good and Schitt\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8953,"template":"","categories":[5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/emily-in-paris-season-2-review-lily-collins-finds-her-french-footing-in-fluffy-romcom-follow-up.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/emily-in-paris-season-2-review-lily-collins-finds-her-french-footing-in-fluffy-romcom-follow-up-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/emily-in-paris-season-2-review-lily-collins-finds-her-french-footing-in-fluffy-romcom-follow-up-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/emily-in-paris-season-2-review-lily-collins-finds-her-french-footing-in-fluffy-romcom-follow-up.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/emily-in-paris-season-2-review-lily-collins-finds-her-french-footing-in-fluffy-romcom-follow-up.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/emily-in-paris-season-2-review-lily-collins-finds-her-french-footing-in-fluffy-romcom-follow-up.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/emily-in-paris-season-2-review-lily-collins-finds-her-french-footing-in-fluffy-romcom-follow-up.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Lauren Morris Published: Monday, 20 December 2021 at 12:00 am 3.0 out of 5 star rating While 2020 will be best remembered as the year of lockdowns, isolation periods and lateral flows, it did give us lots of excellent TV to pass the time whilst trapped in solitary confinement, from Feel Good and Schitt\u2019s…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/8952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\""Emily\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/12\/EIP_201_Unit_01056R-0f1939e.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"emily-in-paris\"\\"\/")
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