Hi, I'm Lily Collins.
And I'm Ashley Park.
You may know us as Mindy and Emily,
the stars of Emily in Paris.
With the, so amazing, season two just around the corner,
we wanted to take some time to quickly recap
all the big stuff that happened in season one.
So let's start right at the beginning, I guess?
Yeah, totally.
So, Emily, moi, is working for a big marketing agency
in Chicago called the Gilbert Group
and her boss is planning to move to Paris to oversee
the new French marketing company,
the Gilbert Group has acquired, Savoir.
Maison Lavaux.
It's like wearing poetry.
But it turns out that her boss got a little bit pregnant
and that kinda derails the whole move to Paris
thing a bit, so naturally she sends-
Emily!
So, she quickly jets off to Paris
to be a social media executive for the new acquisition.
I should mention that Emily does not speak any French
at this point, so as you might imagine,
she's not exactly a big hit at the office
full of French people.
And they refuse to eat lunch with her,
real “mean girl” behavior.
Totally.
But at least eating lunch alone eventually leads to Emily
meeting her new best friend, Mindy.
That's me.
You're lonely, you text me, we have dinner.
Mindy is a nanny in the city
and pretty much the only person who is nice to Emily,
except for maybe her hot chef neighbor, Gabriel.
Oh, also Emily has a boyfriend back in Chicago named Doug.
They try the long distance thing for a bit
but I'm not gonna lie to you folks, Doug is on his way out.
Emily, very Americanly and unapologetically loves to work.
As the new, slightly overeager new member of the team,
this creates some awkward situations for her at her new job,
like at a party for a fragrance client,
her boss chastises her for talking about business
at a social event.
Or when she accidentally brings up the client's marriage
even though her boss is his mistress, surprise.
She can't stop stepping on her own toes.
So, she goes out to enjoy a lovely dinner at a restaurant
near her house with Mindy
and who should end up being the chef
but her aforementioned hot neighbor, Gabriel.
You know I'd be happy to burn it for you,
but promise me you'll try it first.
Yeah, try his meat, Emily.
Anyway, to add to all the stress, Emily's boyfriend,
Doug, calls her up and demands that either she move back
to Chicago or they are done.
Remember when Ashley mentioned he was on his way out?
Au revoir, Doug.
So at Savoir, Emily has now been assigned
to work on the Vaga-Jeune account,
which is, and like this is not a joke,
a product that promotes older women's vaginal wetness.
I mean, we told you that her boss didn't like her.
Well through her work on this product line,
Emily finds out that the word for “vagina” in French
is masculine, which she doesn't jive with
and posts about to her ever-growing Insta following.
And wouldn't you know it, the post gets tweeted out
by Brigitte Macron, wife of French president Macron
and the client is absolutely thrilled.
So, Emily's fortunes are ever so improving.
Well, kind of, Emily's also asked to introduce
the Gilbert Group's corporate commandments
to the office at Savoir.
You would like to destroy all French soul.
Which doesn't go great at first
but Emily's instincts succeed again on the next campaign.
So, the office softens to her approach.
She is winning them over one by one.
There are still some definite holdouts
but she'll break through those walls eventually.
Sure she will.
Nonetheless, Emily meets an awesome woman
the next day named Camille, who insists that Emily join her
for a party later that evening with a well-known
Chicago hotelier.
Emily, being ever the business-minded young woman,
uses the party as an opportunity to pitch the hotelier
on a signature scent, a deal she eventually closes
after a dinner out with her team at Gabriel's restaurant.
Oh yes and let's not forget that she kisses Gabriel
then almost immediately runs into Camille
who she learns is Gabriel's girlfriend.
Paris seems like a big city
but it's really just a small town.
So happy to see you.
Oh, Paris.
And her brash style of pitching ideas succeeds
when she meets with a big client Hästens luxury beds
and pitches an idea that the client loves.
Emily also loves to beg forgiveness
rather than ask permission and is temporarily forced
to shut down her Insta account by her boss
who thinks it's overshadowing the excellent work
that their company is providing for their clients.
And that is a huge bummer because Emily's Insta following
was getting pretty big at this point.
But luckily, the Hästens people saw the account
before it was deactivated and demanded
that not only Emily be the first bed model for the campaign
but that she post it from her Instagram account.
So, it's a short-lived death for the Instagram,
"Emily in Paris."
Things are hot and cold at work with some of Emily's ideas
going very well but also some not so well.
She soon meets a handsome professor named Thomas,
while out to eat at a cafe and the two begin
a little tryst.
Meanwhile, Mindy is struggling with her own issues.
Her wealthy father wants her to return to China
to work for his company but Mindy wants to live in Paris
and sing.
Emily obviously encourages her to follow her dreams
as a good friend should.
Emily starts kinda dating Thomas
even though Gabriel tells her that he doesn't like him,
which is like, none of your business Gabriel
but the two decide to attend the opera together,
nonetheless.
But as it turns out, Gabriel was like kind of right
because Thomas is a total snob.
So, the night ends with the two parting ways.
Triste!
But the exciting world of Paris can't stop
for even a moment, so Emily's quickly off to babysit
an American movie star, Brooklyn Clark.
Can you give me like 15?
I have to masturbate after a long flight.
As you might guess, babysitting a young starlet
has its challenges, all of which Emily experiences
on a hectic night out for one of her clients’ parties.
However, when the night is all over,
Emily has kissed Gabriel again, bonded a tiny bit
with Sylvie and oh, had another hit on Instagram
with one of her posts for one of Savoir's couture clients.
She's honestly killing it,
except for the whole Gabriel thing
since he's definitely still dating Camille
who is awesome and doesn't deserve to have her boyfriend
cheat on her.
Of course not, but it turns out that Camille
is also very interested in being friends with Emily
actually and invites her to come to her family château
where they produced fancy champagne to discuss
what Savoir could do for the the label.
But since Gabriel is also coming to the château,
the whole thing gets a little awkward.
Um, a little awkward?
Yeah, you're right.
Emily has to ride on Gabriel's lap for like three hours.
Okay, so yeah, that was a lot awkward.
And things don't really get much better once Emily meets
and sleeps with the tour guide, Timothée
who ends up being Camille's little brother.
But in the end, she wins over Camille's parents
with some creative ideas and heads back to Paris
with a new client for Savoir.
Way to go, Em.
So, back in Paris, Emily wastes no time and sets a meeting
with Mathieu Cadault, the nephew of Pierre Cadault,
who, if you recall, is the big fancy couture client
of Savoir.
She initially begins seeing him under the pretense
of getting a dress donated for a charity auction
but we all know Emily is interested in a little bit more.
Eventually, the night of the auction,
the final piece of the night is auctioned off
to some young American designers who go by the name
of Grey Space.
They famously make a sweatshirt that costs 900 euros
and have fashion shows nobody knows the address of,
naturally.
But in a really un-chill move,
it turns out they bought the Cadault dress at the auction
as a marketing stunt and absolutely battered the dress
and Emily with the paint balls.
This obviously sends Pierre into a bit of a spiral.
He's afraid he's considered old,
he thinks he's being made fun of.
You get it.
Emily does all that she can to smooth it over,
even getting the Grey Space designers to put out
a Pierre Cadault Grey Zone collaboration sweatshirt
but Pierre is just not a fan.
As a matter of fact, he's so upset,
he tells Mathieu that he's planning to cancel his show
at Paris fashion week, which is like a big deal.
- Huge. - Huge,
it's especially a big deal for Emily
because Pierre drops Savoir as a client,
which causes Sylvie to fire Emily for messing everything up.
But don't worry, it's apparently pretty impossible
to fire someone in France, so she just needs to play it
right and steer clear of Sylvie until things blow over.
But the hits just keep coming because when she gets back
to her apartment, she finds out that Gabriel
is planning to buy a restaurant in Normandy
and is moving away.
I'm really gonna miss your omelets.
They will miss you too.
Which is so sad because like Gabriel is perfect.
But I mean, is he?
But Emily barely has time to deal with this
before Pierre Cadault, ever the fickle fashionisto,
reengages with Savoir to tell them
that he has a new exciting line.
Emily helps Pierre and Mathieu to pull off
an epic PR stunt at the Grey Area fashion week show
and boom, Pierre is back in the spotlight.
Emily did it.
Sad side note, Mindy ends up losing her job as a nanny
after asking the family she works for,
if she can have nights off to work as an emcee
at a drag show.
Not even every night, just two nights a week.
And because full-time nanny gigs
usually come with housing, Mindy is also without a place
to live until she comes to stay with her best friend, Emily.
- Yes. - Okay, anyways,
back to the whole Pierre success story.
So, everyone goes out to dinner at Gabriel's restaurant
for his last evening in town and things go great.
Emily gets the Maison Lavaux account from Antoine,
she gets invited to Saint-Tropez by Mathieu
and once everyone leaves, she bangs Gabriel
which is technically okay at this point
because him and Camille broke up because he's leaving.
“They were on a break!”
Seemingly a nice goodbye but it turns out that Antoine
was quite taken with Gabriel and offers to buy him
the restaurant in Paris.
So, he's actually gonna stay in the city, which-
Yeah, complicated but also precisely where we end
the journey of season one.
Oh my God, so you guys don't know about the-
No, no, no, don't say...
Oh, right, okay yeah.
So, I guess you'll just have to watch Emily in Paris
season two, the moment it comes out,
December 22nd on Netflix.
See you there!