Emily in Paris is venturing further afield as the cast and crew head to Greece and Monaco to film its sixth season this May.
The Netflix series, which stars Lily Collins as American marketing executive Emily Cooper who goes to work in Paris, has become more of a pan-European endeavour in recent seasons, with Emily living between Paris and Rome — and falling in love with various men from those cities.
While plot details for the forthcoming season remain under wraps, the season five finale showed Emily’s on-again, off-again romantic interest, Gabriel (Lucas Bravo), sending her a postcard inviting her on a Greek getaway. He revealed at the end of the series that he had left his Paris restaurant and taken a new chef job on a yacht.
Speaking to Variety in December, the show’s creator Darren Star admitted that Frenchman Gabriel was Emily’s “big love.”
“I can’t imagine the series without Gabriel,” he said, adding that the depth of their relationship comes from “a past… with memories and good times and bad times.”
For the new season, key cast members Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo, Lucien Laviscount, Samuel Arnold, Bruno Gouery and Andrew Fleming will join Collins.
The latest season wrapped with Emily deciding whether to stay in Rome with her Italian beau Marcello (Eugenio Franceschini) or return to life in Paris. Meawhile, back in Paris, Emily’s best friend Mindy (Ashley Park) was having a secret relationship with Emily’s ex-boyfriend, the Londoner lad Alfie (Lucien Laviscount).
Emily in Paris has continued to be a huge hit for Netflix, despite middling reviews. The latest season amassed 26.8 million views globally in just 11 days, Netflix revealed. It also hit the top 10 list in 91 countries.
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In The Independent’s two-star review of the fifth season, Katie Rosseinsky pointed out that the show relies on stereotypical tropes associated with European men.
“[Emily’s] skill for attracting men who seem to embody the national stereotype of any country she visits remains unmatched,” she wrote. “Marcello is a tall, dark and handsome mamma’s boy who works for the family cashmere brand, and whose idea of a grand day out is a truffle hunt in the forest (he and his family are drawn, of course, with all the nuance of the Dolmio puppets).”
She continued: “I look forward to the inevitable future series where Emily romances, say, a bullfighter from Spain, or a Volvo-driving Ikea employee from Sweden named Karl Karlsson.”
“Meanwhile, her other exes, French Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) and English Alfie (Lucien Laviscount), now seem to be hanging out together in some sort of pan-European group for spurned men.”
A release date for season six has not yet been announced.
