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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, Alfie expressed his very sincere hurt and heartbreak to Emily (the guy was tearful), and then she goes off with Gabriel without a word to Alfie? That’s just terrible writing, and it makes Emily seem even more flakey and unlikeable. Maybe something got lost on the editing room floor.

I watch for the Paris porn - the city is beyond beautiful. I don’t think Gabriel is less handsome - they just have zero chemistry somehow, and their scenes fall flat. And it’s the writing too - he’s become bland. I imagine if we saw him in something else - something edgier - he’d be very attractive.

I agree with all of this except Gabriel is definitely less handsome than season one. I just don’t find him attractive anymore. Alfie on the other hand!! Antoine and Laurent are handsome as well.

Season 1 hot:

Season 4 not:

Even in the second pic - if he was your new coworker I imagine you’d swoon. He’s still very handsome.

He did not look like that second picture for most of the season. And honestly yes he is handsome compared to the other dudes at my office but compared to Emily’s other choices he is a dud. Like Alfie is smokin’ hot. Marcello is very charismatic. Then you have that bump on a log Gabriel.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, Alfie expressed his very sincere hurt and heartbreak to Emily (the guy was tearful), and then she goes off with Gabriel without a word to Alfie? That’s just terrible writing, and it makes Emily seem even more flakey and unlikeable. Maybe something got lost on the editing room floor.

I watch for the Paris porn - the city is beyond beautiful. I don’t think Gabriel is less handsome - they just have zero chemistry somehow, and their scenes fall flat. And it’s the writing too - he’s become bland. I imagine if we saw him in something else - something edgier - he’d be very attractive.

I agree with all of this except Gabriel is definitely less handsome than season one. I just don’t find him attractive anymore. Alfie on the other hand!! Antoine and Laurent are handsome as well.

Season 1 hot:

Season 4 not:

That's actually like the best he looked in Season 4. For the latter half of the season he looks like this:



He also spends those episodes looking depressed and lost and it is not a good look. Appropriate to the wtf storyline he was in but still not great.

That last picture is much more how he looked this last season. And his character was so lame the whole season.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, Alfie expressed his very sincere hurt and heartbreak to Emily (the guy was tearful), and then she goes off with Gabriel without a word to Alfie? That’s just terrible writing, and it makes Emily seem even more flakey and unlikeable. Maybe something got lost on the editing room floor.

I watch for the Paris porn - the city is beyond beautiful. I don’t think Gabriel is less handsome - they just have zero chemistry somehow, and their scenes fall flat. And it’s the writing too - he’s become bland. I imagine if we saw him in something else - something edgier - he’d be very attractive.

I agree with all of this except Gabriel is definitely less handsome than season one. I just don’t find him attractive anymore. Alfie on the other hand!! Antoine and Laurent are handsome as well.

Season 1 hot:

Season 4 not:

Even in the second pic - if he was your new coworker I imagine you’d swoon. He’s still very handsome.

I actually loved this season. BUT, I'm so done with Gabriel. He lacks sex appeal and charisma. His haircut makes him look like he's from The Beetles. He's dour instead of brooding, messy instead of complex, plain instead of interesting. I'm rooting so hard for the Italian yall don't even know. This is the best you've got, Paris? Seriously?

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, Alfie expressed his very sincere hurt and heartbreak to Emily (the guy was tearful), and then she goes off with Gabriel without a word to Alfie? That’s just terrible writing, and it makes Emily seem even more flakey and unlikeable. Maybe something got lost on the editing room floor.

I watch for the Paris porn - the city is beyond beautiful. I don’t think Gabriel is less handsome - they just have zero chemistry somehow, and their scenes fall flat. And it’s the writing too - he’s become bland. I imagine if we saw him in something else - something edgier - he’d be very attractive.

I agree with all of this except Gabriel is definitely less handsome than season one. I just don’t find him attractive anymore. Alfie on the other hand!! Antoine and Laurent are handsome as well.

Season 1 hot:

Season 4 not:

That's actually like the best he looked in Season 4. For the latter half of the season he looks like this:



He also spends those episodes looking depressed and lost and it is not a good look. Appropriate to the wtf storyline he was in but still not great.

Anonymous wrote:the Cami story line bothered me. She's gay. She's expecting. She isn't. She lies about it. She tells the truth and still tries to keep the fickle guy.

It bugged me how Gabriel would sometimes call her cam-iLLe, emphasizing the "L" when taking to Emily.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, Alfie expressed his very sincere hurt and heartbreak to Emily (the guy was tearful), and then she goes off with Gabriel without a word to Alfie? That’s just terrible writing, and it makes Emily seem even more flakey and unlikeable. Maybe something got lost on the editing room floor.

I watch for the Paris porn - the city is beyond beautiful. I don’t think Gabriel is less handsome - they just have zero chemistry somehow, and their scenes fall flat. And it’s the writing too - he’s become bland. I imagine if we saw him in something else - something edgier - he’d be very attractive.

I agree with all of this except Gabriel is definitely less handsome than season one. I just don’t find him attractive anymore. Alfie on the other hand!! Antoine and Laurent are handsome as well.

Season 1 hot:

Season 4 not:

Just finished all 10 episodes. The scenery was great, Italy is always good on screen. I’m so sick of the Gabrielle/emily/camille story line. Also not sure what the new American girl Genevieve is bringing to the season either. Seemed really random and went nowhere in my opinion.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand Emily.

She was upset that Alfie ended things. She and Gabriel were both available and he told her he had feelings for her, but she told him it wasn’t going to happen. She’s basically a single woman again. Cool.

Then she goes to the ball and Alfie seems to want her back. She says she needs to choose which guy she wants…but why? She already rejected Gabriel. If there’s a choice to be made, it’s whether she wants to get back together with Alfie or not.

So she makes this supposedly impossible choice, in five seconds, and chooses the one she rejected over the one she wanted back.

Do the writers not keep track of what the characters say from one scene to the next?

Correct!

the Cami story line bothered me. She's gay. She's expecting. She isn't. She lies about it. She tells the truth and still tries to keep the fickle guy.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, Alfie expressed his very sincere hurt and heartbreak to Emily (the guy was tearful), and then she goes off with Gabriel without a word to Alfie? That’s just terrible writing, and it makes Emily seem even more flakey and unlikeable. Maybe something got lost on the editing room floor.

I watch for the Paris porn - the city is beyond beautiful. I don’t think Gabriel is less handsome - they just have zero chemistry somehow, and their scenes fall flat. And it’s the writing too - he’s become bland. I imagine if we saw him in something else - something edgier - he’d be very attractive.

I agree with all of this except Gabriel is definitely less handsome than season one. I just don’t find him attractive anymore. Alfie on the other hand!! Antoine and Laurent are handsome as well.

Anonymous wrote:The writers are trying to design Gabriel as too boring. Too “good” but in a doormat way.
This isn’t 1955. He didn’t need to offer to marry “pregnant” Camille if he was in love with Emily.
And his convo with Allie was flat too.
They want us to love Gabriel *and* Allie but we can’t love them both FOR Emily.

So true! It is supposed to be French afterall...not puritanical USA.

In general I think this season was just really poorly written.

There were a few laugh out loud moments, mostly involving Luc, who is the only consistently delightful character.

I think they’re just running out of appealing plot points. I agree that Gabriel and Emily used to have a lot more chemistry, but now something seems off. I think it’s poor writing though, not that their relationship isn’t end game - unless the writers are setting up Emily to end up alone with the point of the story being “Emily in Paris” - not “emily falls in love in Paris and lives happily ever after.” But idk.

Just feel like the writers have run out of ideas for character development. All of the main characters felt flat this season.

The writers are trying to design Gabriel as too boring. Too “good” but in a doormat way.
This isn’t 1955. He didn’t need to offer to marry “pregnant” Camille if he was in love with Emily.
And his convo with Allie was flat too.
They want us to love Gabriel *and* Allie but we can’t love them both FOR Emily.