Emily in Paris returns for Season Five: - Here's what to expect

On September 16, 2024, Netflix announced that Emily in Paris, starring Lily Collins will return for a fifth season.  There will be another chapter in the saga of an American from Chicago trying to adjust to  the French language and culture.  

Here's what to expect in Season 5:

* Season 5 of Emily in Paris will premiere on December 18th, 2025.  There will be 10 episodes.  The fourth season brought the show's characters to Rome.  Meanwhile, the teaser for the fifth season shows Emily saying 'ciao" to Venice.

* Season 5 will find the fashionable marketing executive, Emily Cooper, stepping into a new role as head of her company's satellite office in Rome.  On August 20, 2025, Netflix released several photos of Collins as Emily in Italy.  In one photo, Emily sits on a boat while looking out at the water.  She wears a stylish white-and-black polka-dot two piece outfit and large white sunglasses.  In another image, she holds the reins of a horse beside her new Italian love interest, Marcello, as he dons a helmet and stands next to his own horse.

*According to OK Magazine, all the characters, except Camile Razat, who played Camille, will be returning.  The cast of characters for Season 5 includes Emily Cooper (Lily Collins), Marcello (Eugenio Franceschini), Mindy (Ashley Park), Gabriel (Lucas Bravo), Julien (Samuel Arnold), Luc (Bruno Gouery), Sylvie Grateau (Philippine Leyoy-Beaulieu, Antoine (Wiliam Abadie), Alfie (Lucien Laviscount), Genevieve (Talia Besson), Nico (Paul Forman), Laurent Grateau (Arnaud Binard), Princess Jane (Minnie Driver), Jake (Bryan Greenberg) and Yvette (Michèle Laroque).

 *  Although the new season begins in Italy, don't expect Emily to remain there for the foreseeable future.  In a 2024 interview with Deadline, Darren Star, the show's creator, stated that "Emily didn't change her Instagram handle to Emily in Rome."

"She is working in Rome sometimes," stressed Star.  Sylvie's company (Agence Grateau), has an office in Rome.  I  don't necessarily think that it means a permanent - in my mind, it's definitely not a permanent - move to Rome.  We're not leaving Paris."

In 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron shared with Variety that he wasn't pleased about the prospect of the show switching locations from Paris to the Eternal City.  A permanent switch now seems highly unlikely.  Of the filming in Rome, Darren Star told TVLine that "I feel like it just expands the universe of the show.  Just at the point that Emily has gotten comfortable in Paris, she's sort of thrown into another country where she's going to experience some cultural differences.  And also, I think there's cultural differences to explore - and we do - between French and Italians.  It's a whole new world, but it doesn't mean that we're leaving Paris."

"This season is a tale of two cities, Rome and Paris," Star told Tudum recently.  "Straddling both, Emily takes love and life to the next level."

* The official synopsis for Season 5 of Emily in Paris reads as follows: 

Now the head of Agence Grateau in Rome, Emily faces professional and romantic challenges as she adapts to life in a new city.  Just as everything falls into place, a work idea backfires, and the fallout cascades into heartbreak and career setback.  Seeking stability, Emily leans into her French lifestyle, until a big secret threatens one of her closest relationships.  Tackling conflict with honesty, Emily emerges with deeper connections, renewed clarity, and a readiness to embrace new possibilities.

- Joanne