What happens when a young American marketer is dropped into a French office with big ideas and very little French? Emily in Paris, a romantic comedy-drama series listed under 2020, spends its half-hour episodes answering that question.
What is Emily in Paris about?
Emily is an ambitious marketing executive from Chicago whose career takes a turn she did not plan for: a position in Paris, the job she has always wanted, suddenly becomes hers. A French marketing firm brings her over to supply an American point of view, and she arrives eager to prove herself. The city has other ideas. Her new colleagues are not sure they asked for her opinions, the working culture runs on rules nobody explains, and her Midwestern optimism is met with raised eyebrows as often as with smiles. Outside the office she starts building a life from nothing, collecting friends, finding her way around the neighbourhood and stumbling into romance. Each episode balances those three strands of work, friendship and love, as Emily learns which of her habits to keep and which the city will quietly take from her.
About the cast
Lily Collins heads the cast list, followed by Ashley Park, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Lucas Bravo, Samuel Arnold, Camille Razat and Bruno Gouery. Darren Star is the name credited at the helm of the series in our listing. The ensemble mixes performers on both sides of the story's cultural divide, which is where much of the comedy comes from: the newcomer on one side, the Parisians who must put up with her on the other.
Context & significance
Emily in Paris is an American production set in the French capital, and that outsider's view of the city shapes everything about it. Comedy, drama and romance are its three listed genres, in roughly that order of weight; the tone stays light, the stakes are personal rather than dangerous, and the city itself is treated almost as a character. With episodes of about 30 minutes, it is built for easy viewing, the sort of series people watch several chapters of in one sitting. Viewers have given it a fairly warm, if not unanimous, reception. For anyone who has moved abroad and had to learn a new workplace and a new language at once, a situation many in the Iranian diaspora know well, the premise will feel familiar.
Watching Emily in Paris on Ktime
Both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles are available for Emily in Paris on K-Time, so the choice between Farsi voices and the original English track is yours. Anyone can read this page; watching the episodes means signing in with a K-Time account. Menus, search and episode lists are all presented in Farsi.