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[quote=Anonymous]Stuff I liked about the season:

- The scenery
- The relationship between Sylvie and Emily
- The Sylvie stuff generally -- her relationship with her DH and her mom and just generally getting a fuller picture of her as a person
- Luc and Julian and just generally the office vibe with the exception of something I'll get to in a moment -- would watch a show called Agence Grateau that was just an office comedy about an American working in a French marketing agency

Stuff I did not like:

- Everything about Camille's storyline. If they had NOT had her lie to Gabriel after she learns there's no baby and spent a tiny bit more time fleshing out her bisexuality and why she is torn between him and her new girlfriend this might have worked. Instead she comes of as a narcissistic user and it's hard to root for her at the end of the season. I like the actress I just think her character was written terribly
- Alfie and marcello. Like Camille they wind up being 2-dimensional characters who do nonsensical things simply to amp up the drama and put roadblocks in the way for Emily and Gabriel. I wind up disliking the characters because they are so random and inconsistent. People on this show are constantly randomly mad at Emily for all the wrong reasons (minor misunderstandings) and never mad at her for legitimate reasons (she seems to flit from guy to guy and it's unclear if she likes any of them or just has an accent fetish).
- The entire Genevieve storyline top to bottom. Deeply disappointing. At first you think it's going to be part of Sylvie's character evolution and the scene where Sylvie takes her shopping is cute but then it's immediately ruined by Genevieve (maybe on purpose to be cruel -- hard to say) revealing that Laurent still f***s Genevieve's mom when he's in NY. Just felt casually rude and obnoxious especially when combined with Genevieve very obviously treating Emily like crap after Emily makes a real (and totally unnecessary) effort to help her in the office. Genevieve's moves on Gabriel are frankly embarrassing all around. She's just bad vibes. Not a fun villain or an interesting foil for Emily. Just kind of a crap person with no redeeming qualities. The only scene I liked with her was the one where Julien won't let her sit in Emily's chair and is clearly onto her shenanigans.

This season took itself way too seriously with the baby plot and the Genevieve plot and it was soapy and dramatic where it should have been poppy and fun.

Again I would love this show if it were just a fun comedy about the agency. The French cast is so good and I often love the marketing client of the week and all the opportunities for hijinks. A perfume for babies in a rattle! Selling an italina espresso machine to French people with their crap French roast! And I like the rivalry with the big conglomerate and that Emily's ex works there. But all this should be pumped for delicious humor not depressing drama. I feel like the writers didn't understand why this show is fun when they wrote this season with the exception of getting that a change of venue to Rome is a good idea.[/quote]

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