EMILY IN PARIS Season 4 Eps 1-3

Here's the honest decision. This is a lovely-looking show. The costumes are fun, the shots of Paris are postcard-gorgeous, the production values are high, and the writing — soapy as it is — keeps you turning to the next episode. There's even a real emphasis on friendship, compassion, and forgiveness running underneath it all.

But the world these characters live in is one where feelings decide everything. Across these three episodes you'll find thirteen obscenities, an ongoing affair, a same-sex couple, an unmarried pregnancy, a brief mention of abortion, and sex that's constantly implied and joked about. It's charming, and it's steering.

So our answer is simple: skip it. The polish is real, but it's wrapped around choices that Scripture calls us to resist, aimed at your affections the way a good marketing campaign is. If you want beautiful storytelling for the family, we can point you somewhere better below.

Emily Cooper is an American social-media marketer building a life in Paris. As Season 4 opens, she's picking up the pieces after a wedding that fell apart at the altar — a breakup that's rippled through every friendship and romance in her orbit.

Now she's juggling a fractured relationship with her boyfriend Alfie, a full slate of marketing campaigns, and the pull of an old flame named Gabriel. A viral TikTok, a missing friend, and a brewing scandal in the Parisian fashion world all land at once. That's where we'll leave you.

Three stars, and they're honestly earned on craft alone. This is a high-production show that knows exactly what it's doing: every episode is a showcase of fashion and beautiful French locations, and the money is on the screen.

The writing leans soap-opera — melodrama, love triangles, viral scandals — but it's fun soap opera, and the supporting cast get genuinely entertaining plotlines of their own rather than just orbiting Emily. It's engaging television, easy to keep watching.

None of that is the problem. The problem is what all that skill is deployed to make appealing. A show can be well-made and still be one to skip, and this is that show.

At heart this is a Romantic story in the older sense of the word: emotions steer the wheel. Characters follow their feelings toward whatever seems to promise happiness, and the series largely smiles on the result.

To its credit, the show does honor some real goods. Emily works hard to track down a missing friend. Alfie shows up when she needs him. Sylvie chooses to expose a powerful man's mistreatment of women underneath him, at real risk to herself. Friendship, compassion, and forgiveness are treated as things that matter.

But the moral world around those goods runs the other way. An affair unfolds while one woman is still in a relationship with a man. A same-sex couple is shown as simply part of the landscape. An unmarried woman is pregnant, abortion gets a passing mention, and sex is constantly implied and joked about even though no act is shown. Feelings, not any fixed standard, are the final authority.

That's the ache underneath the glamour — the search for love that will finally satisfy, chased down every avenue except the One who made us for it. Scripture answers the longing this show can't: "You have made us for yourself" — and, more plainly, "let us love one another, for love is from God" (1 John 4:7).

There's real craft here — the fashion, the city, the glossy fun of it all. But beauty pointed at the wrong things is still pointed the wrong way, and these three episodes ask you to enjoy an affair, a casual view of sex, and feelings-as-authority. So our answer stands: skip it. Want something beautiful for family night instead? Start with our latest family-friendly picks.