With ‘Emily In Paris’ on hiatus until a new season arrives, here are several options for fans who cannot get enough of her drama or the city of Paris.
Because you can’t play it on repeat forever.
Netflix’s Emily in Paris increases the drama by leaps and bounds season after season. A coming-of-age dramedy starring Lily Collins, the series follows Emily as she relocates from Chicago to Paris, supposedly to bring an American point of view to an outdated French marketing firm. While her quirky ideas often bring her career success, she also learns hard lessons along the way. But Emily in Paris isn’t the only series about life and love in a big city. Here are a few shows like Emily in Paris to watch when you crave a frothy series the way Emily craves a good croissant.
Emily in Paris has packed a lot in already, and Emily hasn’t even been in Paris that long. There’s her on-and-off relationship with her downstairs neighbor, Gabriel, initially thwarted by his girlfriend Camille and now maybe by fate. There’s a tight BFF friendship with fellow ex-pat Mindy, and a not-quite-friendship, not-quite-frenemy relationship with her boss, Sylvie. And, of course, there are Emily’s attempts to date, which almost always end in disaster.
Then there’s her actual job, the impetus for Emily being in Paris in the first place. Emily’s career takes off — as does, confusingly, her Instagram presence — in the first season, forcing her to balance a more traditional career path in marketing with the influencer brand world of the 21st century. It’s a lot of fun but also a lot of drama.
In short, any show that takes its place on your watchlist needs to bring a lot to the table. Here are a few good contenders in a couple of different languages.
For those looking for more drama in Paris, Netflix has you covered with the series Plan Coeur, aka The Hook-Up Plan. The French romantic comedy series stars Zita Hanrot as Elsa « El » Payette, on the verge of turning 30, stuck in an uninspiring job, and hung up on her ex-boyfriend. The series starts when her friends hire a male escort to take her on a few dates, but by the time it reaches its third and final season, the drama extends every which way, not unlike Emily’s own experiences.
All three seasons of The Hook-Up Plan (Plan Coeur) are streaming on Netflix.
Gossip Girl was one of The CW’s most successful teen dramas when it aired from the mid-aughts into the early 2010s. It has all the fashionable beauty of Emily in Paris, with a lot of extra claws for drama. The new rebooted version with the next generation of high-end students is still working its way to the hilarious highs of the original, but it’s definitely on its way.
All seasons of both Gossip Girl seriesare streaming on HBO Max.
Darren Star’s most recent hit before Emily in Paris was TVLand’s Younger, which moved to Paramount+ for its final season. Starring Sutton Foster as a 40-something mistaken for a 20-something, it’s a dive into the high-powered book publishing world. For Emily in Paris fans, it’s got all the soapy drama and romance you could want.
All seven seasons of Younger are streaming on Paramount+.
