





School’s out, and it’s time to hand out report cards — that is, if “school” means Emily in Paris Season 2 and “report card” means grading everyone’s success in the love department. While Season 1 was laser focused on the love life of its titular leading lady, Emily Cooper (Lily Collins), Season 2 builds out the romantic world of its entire cast. People fall in love. Lovers are sabotaged. A waitress is scandalized by a lunchtime makeout! These 10 new episodes are a buffet of roller coaster love affairs and crushes. Like all things Parisian in Emily in Paris, the only way to properly enjoy these romantic shenanigans is by lovingly judging them. So let’s find out who gets an A in the amour department — and who needs a tutor after that season finale.

Whether she wants to believe it or not, Emily spends Season 2 trapped in one love triangle or another. First, it’s Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) versus Mathieu (Charles Martins). Once Mathieu realizes he’s in a romantic competition (rather than an elegant love affair), he bows out — leaving space for Alfie (Lucien Laviscount), Emily’s seatmate in French class. Alfie is everything Gabriel isn’t: available and singularly focused on Emily. Still, Em can’t get her mind off of Le Chef Hot. In the Season 2 finale, Emily tries to tell Gabriel her true feelings. There’s only one problem: He’s just moved in with ex-girlfriend Camille (Camille Razat), sinking any hope for an Emily-Gabriel relationship capping off Season 2.
Grade: D-
Emily knows she isn’t all-in with her hunky boyfriend — who is moving back to England, no less — and her all-encompassing crush is now living with his girlfriend, the same girlfriend who forced Emily into a No Gabriel Ever pinky promise... and betrayed her. Emily’s got it bad. But at least everyone involved in this trainwreck is gorgeous.

Gabriel ends Season 2 realizing the woman he’s actually interested in — Emily — feels the same way about him. Except this information arrives just as his complicated on-again, off-again girlfriend Camille is moving into his one-bedroom apartment.
Grade: D
While the situation is rough for Gabriel, Emily is the one who walks away from their conversation truly crestfallen and embarrassed. All of this could’ve been avoided if Gabriel chose Emily eons ago.

On the surface, Camille gets everything she wants in Season 2. Her pinky promise scheme keeps guilt-ridden rule-follower Emily away from Gabriel long enough for Camille to seemingly fix her years-long relationship. Now she has a drawer in Gabriel’s apartment and is planning to buy even more furniture for their shared home. Camille has technically won. Unfortunately for Camille, Gabriel looks far too devastated when he learns he could’ve had a lasting relationship with Emily.
Grade: C+
Camille is living her dream, for now — but she’s going to wake up to a cold, hard reality very soon.

Alfie is a dreamboat. He has a great job, athleticism to burn and can slide his arm around his girlfriend like he’s the star of an old-school big-screen romance. He believes Emily sees these “catch” qualities in him and offers to continue their relationship long-distance, as he’s heading back to London for work. Emily kisses him, seemingly sealing the deal. But what Alfie doesn’t know is that Emily can’t get over Gabriel and rushes to spill her feelings to him about five minutes after agreeing to continue dating Alfie.
Grade: C
From Alfie’s perspective, his love life is an A. But given what we know about Emily’s lovesick waffling, he’s actually failing. Let’s take the average and give Alfie a C — it’s not like someone this eligible will be in the romance dumps for long.

Mindy has the most obviously plummeting love life at one point in Season 2. Her new beau, Benoît (Kevin Dias), learns of her tabloid-fodder (and very privileged) past from their bandmate Étienne (Jin Xuan Mao), instantly shattering his view of her and their relationship. But, in the finale, Benoît comes around and seemingly forgives Mindy for protecting one of her most painful secrets. They share a kiss at the end of their rousing set at a supper club. Cute!
Grade: B+
Mindy and Benoît still have a lot to work out in their burgeoning relationship, but it’s officially a promising one. It doesn’t hurt that they’re beautiful and extremely attracted to one another.

Romantically, Sylvie has the best Season 2 out of everyone. Last season, she distanced herself from married lover Antoine Lambert (William Abadie) after his wife Catherine (Charley Fouquet) sabotaged their secret getaway. This decision leaves Sylvie open to new connections in Season 2. She finds one in Erik (Søren Bregendal), a handsome Dutch photographer and ex-model. Although Anton tries to shame Sylvie for dating a younger man — and a momentarily embarassed Sylvie herself attempts to pump the breaks on her intergeneration romance — Sylvie ultimately tells Antoine she doesn’t give “a flying fuck” about his opinion. Later Sylvie finds Erik at lunch with his friends and makeout ensues, repairing the coupling.
Grade: A-
Sylvie and Erik are a sexy pair who have successfully gone public with their relationship. Their single roadblock is Erik learning that Sylvie is amicably estranged from her husband… from Sylvie’s husband. Erik is the only one who finds this awkward.

Emily in Paris actor Samuel Arnold is promoted to a starring role in Season 2. Those new responsibilities naturally come with some romance for his character, Julien. At the start of the season, Julien hopes to hook up with Mindy’s dreamy bandmate, Benoît. Unfortunately, Benoît’s already into Mindy. Thankfully, in “Boiling Point,” Julien meets Gerhart (Julian Looman), the agent of a luxury photographer. While the relationship starts out contentiously, Gerard is soon making eyes at Julien and urging him to visit his home in Hamburg.
Grade: B
Julien quickly got over his first failed crush to find an even more smoldering flirtation. Someone is set up for future romantic success.

When we met Madeline in Season 1, we learned her love life — or, at least, her sex life — was thriving. That’s why she had no idea who the father of her baby could be. Yet in Season 2, there’s no mention of Madeline’s dating history as she zeroes in on micromanaging Savoir.
Grade: F
Madeline is far more interested in remaking Savoir in her image than meeting Parisian men who are interested in pregnant women. This is no way to experience the City of Love.

Luc might be Savoir’s horniest employee, but we rarely hear about his love life. It’s unclear if Luc is even dating anyone.
Grade: A+
Luc isn’t entertaining a (known) love interest, but he’ll always have sexy French art cinema and his list of photographers who’ve shot women straddling things. That’s clearly all he wants.

































































