Emily In Paris

After The Bold Type, I jet off to Paris where I check in with Emily and her chums. This show is as ridiculously urealistic as it gets, but my oh my it is fun to watch. It centres around an American PR guru Emily who has to spend a year working in her company’s French office which is, of course, full of French people.

While Emily is as American as they come, her colleagues are French through and through – particularly her boss Sylvie who absolutely has the best lines of the entire series.

She is not in it anywhere near enough in my opinion but when she’s in a scene, you know it’s going to be a good one and she will end up saying something which will make you LOL (laugh out loud for anyone over 40).

She is said to be based on the former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfield – and I really hope that is true!

Emily’s friends are just as screengrabbing particularly her eccentric work colleagues Luc and Julian and her gal pals Mindy and Camille.

Her love interest in series one – Gabriel – didn’t tickle my French fancy but the new cheeky chappy Londoner Alfie – in town for work – is right up my Rue (that’s French for street, in case you were wondering!) Again, the writing is tres bon, and the fact that it is done by former SATC writer Michael Patrick King speaks volumes, plus former SATC costime designer Patricia Field is in charge of the outfits, making them tres magnifique.

As this new series has a link to London, there is talk that Samantha (who has moved to London in the new And Just Like That series) might make a cameo and we can only hope as this series is much more up her Rue too.

The fact is, I totally get that it takes two shows to even come close to replacing the old SATC, that’s how good it was, but combing these two is as close as I could get, while staying as far away from ...And Just Like That as Kim Cattrall is.