Emily in Paris Season 5: Is Marcello About to Replace Gabriel?
Emily in Paris returns December 18, 2025, with all 10 episodes dropping on Netflix at once to finally resolve last season’s cliffhanger. Emily Cooper now runs Agence Grateau’s Rome office while juggling sparks with French chef Gabriel and a new Italian complication.
Netflix is dropping Emily in Paris Season 5 all at once on December 18, 2025, which feels like the show admitting it left us hanging and deciding to rip the Band-Aid right off. Emily has swapped croissants for carbonara, running Agence Grateau’s Rome office, and yes, the love triangle (now more of a love polygon) is very much alive.
- Premiere: December 18, 2025 on Netflix (all 10 episodes, same day)
- Setting: Emily runs Agence Grateau’s Rome branch
- Complication: Gabriel shows up; Marcello is not a fling
- Seasons/Episodes so far: 5 seasons, 50 episodes
- Creator: Darren Star
- Main cast: Lily Collins, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo, Samuel Arnold, Lucien Laviscount
- Scores: Rotten Tomatoes 63%, IMDb 6.8/10
Where Season 5 actually starts
Emily kicks off the season steering the Rome office, which sounds glamorous until a bad call at work hits both her job and her love life. So right after choosing Italy, she runs into very real consequences. Career turbulence, personal fallout, the works.
Gabriel flies in, baggage included
Remember that Season 4 cliffhanger? Gabriel asked Mindy where Emily was after Alfie told him to swallow his pride and go after her. Now the French chef lands in Rome, and all the feelings Emily tried to pack away in Paris unpack themselves. Creator Darren Star has said Gabriel knows he blew it by letting Emily go and that there’s still unfinished business between them. Translation: this is not a quick cameo.
Marcello is not just a rebound
Marcello Muratori (Eugenio Franceschini) stepped up as a real contender once Emily chose to stay in Italy. He’s an Italian businessman who, unlike Emily’s Paris entanglements, pushes for a healthier balance. Lily Collins has said Marcello represents a new adventure where Emily can actually value simplicity and family over chasing content and chaos. That said, the synopsis hints Emily might drift back toward her French rhythms when she goes looking for stability. So… even the calming influence comes with its own question mark.
Alfie levels up
Lucien Laviscount is back as Alfie, now officially a series regular as of January 2025, and he’s getting more screen time than last season. Last we saw, he’d ended things with Emily and started dating someone else. This time, the British banker is bringing a different energy.
"I think this season we see a little bit of a different side of Alfie — I think more of an adventurous side, I’ll put it that way."
With Alfie more involved, expect him to matter in ways beyond giving Gabriel pep talks. He’s hinted he wouldn’t rule out a future with Emily entirely, and he also teased that love is in the air for everyone this season. So the ripple effects won’t stop at Emily, Gabriel, and Marcello; the broader friend group is getting pulled into the romance weather system too.
The choice, or something messier
Season 5 is setting Emily up at a crossroads: Gabriel’s history and heat, Marcello’s grounded simplicity, or a newly adventurous Alfie lingering on the periphery. The twist is that her career stumble in Rome is going to collide with all of it. Even by Emily standards, it’s a crowded heart vs. head vs. job situation.
The drop
All 10 episodes land December 18, 2025, streaming exclusively on Netflix. Clear your queue; the show is clearly aiming to settle that cliffhanger and then some. So, who are you putting your chips on: Gabriel, Marcello, or Alfie?