Doing an 'Emily in Paris' Thing

Emily in Paris revolves around the eponymous Emily Cooper, an American who’s been sent to Paris to help manage the transition of her firm’s new ownership of a French marketing agency. Her new workplace finds her gauche and too eager—showing up at work before 9 a.m.—and far too productive by French standards. Yet she lives a rather idyllic life in an apartment in the well-to-do fifth arrondissement, where she happens to be neighbors with a handsome chef, Gabriel. For the whole first season, she doesn’t speak a word of French; in the second, she starts attending class, but is still rather terrible.