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This movie is like amercian psycho

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Significant Others -  Fox  -  March 11, 1998  -  March 25, 1998

Drama (6 episodes - 3 unaired)

Running time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Scott Bairstow as Henry Callway

Eion Bailey as Cambell Chasen

Jennifer Garner as Nell Glennon

Michael Weatherly as Ben Chasen

Elizabeth Mitchell as Jane Merril-Chasen

Richard Masur as Leonard Chasen

Gigi Rice as Charlotte

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Wait, Is This Show Actually Good? - Emily in Paris, Episode 4 Recap (Spoilers!!)

Poster from IMDB

I actually liked this episode. In general, I enjoy watching this show, but it has been in an I-hate-it-so-much-I-enjoy-it type of way. This episode I actually liked. Crazy, right? But don’t worry, it still had the eye-roll moments we know and love from the show.

It begins with a French florist trying to refuse to sell Emily pretty roses and instead giving her worse ones. I don’t think she deserves pretty flowers either, nameless French women. Then a gorgeous blonde woman comes up and helps Emily out. For no explicable reason, this woman, named Camille, decides to befriend Emily.

Photo from IMDB

Camille (played by Camille Razat) invites Emily to an art exhibit that night at the gallery where she works. Emily mentions this means she will have to miss her language class, which she is in absolutely no position to skip. Only a minute earlier, she asked the florist, “I can the roses?” Whatever, I’m not her mom. Also, as they say goodbye, Emily and Camille kiss on the lips, which I guess isn’t that unusual in French culture. Still, this was made for an American audience, and Mindy later hints that perhaps Camille was hitting on Emily, and this all felt very queerbait-y to me.

Emily then returns to her apartment and has a bunch of packages to pick up, and who comes in to help her but Gabriel? Does literally any other person live in this six-story building? We have never seen a single other neighbor, but Gabriel always seems to be around. Emily opens her package to discover that her peanut butter has exploded and is now smeared all over her belongings, which is not how peanut butter works in my experience, but whatever. Gabriel decides he must make her an omelet right then because apparently Emily did not have any food in her apartment and was really relying on her peanut butter showing up soon, or else she was going to die of starvation.

Gabriel, who had noticed the lingerie that Antoine had gifted Emily at the end of the previous episode, asks why a client giving her lingerie is an issue for her. It’s crazy to me that that needs to be explained. Emily responds with three reasons, in the following order:

Antoine is married.

Antoine is having an affair with Emily’s boss.

The gift is wildly inappropriate.

I cannot be alone in thinking that this is in no way the correct order of importance. His marital status is not even a fraction of the problem compared to the level of inappropriateness.

When Emily arrives at work (she must show up at that office at like, noon, right?), Antoine and Sylvie are in the middle of a fight, and Emily decides to insert herself. To calm Antoine down, she tells him a half baked plan to pitch a line of perfumes from his company to a hotel chain owner from Chicago who she knows will be at Camille’s gallery that night. She implies that the hotel company has already expressed interest in this idea, despite having just come up with it. While this may stop his anger temporarily, it could make the situation a lot worse farther down the road. If her plan doesn’t work out, and he finds out she lied, there is no salvaging that relationship.

When Sylvie asks Emily who sent her the lingerie, for some inexplicable reason, Emily says Gabriel. I can’t imagine how that could possibly backfire. Then, Luc and Julien swoop in to take her out to lunch. They sit her down and explain to her why she needs to be careful with Antoine, as he is her client and her boss’s boyfriend. Again, absolutely wild that this needs to be explained. Also, Emily seems shocked at the suggestion that Antoine wants to sleep with her. How are you surprised, baby? He sent you lingerie! What did you think that meant?

In the next scene, Emily and Mindy are walking into the art gallery, discussing if Emily should give Antoine the lingerie back, and I have to wonder if her company has an HR department. It sure seems like they don’t. Mindy, for some reason, encourages Emily to sleep with Antoine. She is clearly not a good friend, or at least not a good friend to ask for advice. When they get to the party, Emily sees Camille speaking to the hotel owner, Randy Zimmer, who looks a lot like Antoine. (Sidenote, Randy is played by Elon Bailey, who I know from playing Pinocchio on Once Upon a Time, which was very distracting for me).

Camille introduces Emily to Randy, and the whole time Emily is making googly eyes at Camille, which again felt very...suggestive?

Emily then tries to court Randy as a client by reciting his own quotes from interviews to him and telling him he needs to “tease the smell” of his hotels, whatever the fuck that means. There is no way that this would work in the real world, but in the Emily in Paris universe, it does, because here up is down, and Emily is good at her job.

The next day, Randy comes to Emily’s office, and Antoine gives him a demonstration of their products because obviously, the CEOs of each of these companies would be hands-on with this project. They decide to have dinner together, prompting Randy to state, “I’m up for anything with a Michelin star,” which is quite possibly the worst sentence I have ever heard in my entire life.

While Emily is on the phone trying to make a reservation, Antoine sneaks up behind her in the creepiest way possible. He tells her he didn’t buy the lingerie for himself, but for her. I don’t care who he bought it for; it is still inappropriate and creepy. He also says, “I understand you have different boundaries,” while stepping towards her and invading her personal space. So, while he may understand she has different boundaries, he definitely does not respect them.

When they get to the restaurant, Emily discovers that because Europeans write the date day before month, as opposed to the American month before day, she made the reservation for November 8th rather than August 11th. As opposed to Emily’s usual stupid mistakes, this blunder, I found funny and relatable. I could see myself doing this. She then calls Gabriel, because a professional chef can definitely take a phone call in the middle of service, and asks him to stay open late for her group. He says yes, and then his wait staff apparently doesn’t murder him, which they would’ve been 100% justified in doing.

Why would she take them to Gabriel’s restaurant? She told Sylvie that Gabriel was the one who sent her the lingerie. I felt like I could see where this was going from a mile away. But then, it doesn’t go there. Like, yes, Sylvie does tell Gabriel that he has exquisite taste in lingerie, which Gabriel questions, but Emily pushes Sylvie out of the restaurant, and everyone just moves on? I feel like they’ll circle back in a later episode, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t based on how this show has gone so far.

Outside the restaurant, Sylvie, who now feels confident she is not competing with Emily for Antoine, is actually nice(ish) to Emily. She tells her she did a good job and encourages her to go after Gabriel. I loved this because I desperately want Sylvie and Emily to be friends. Television is always better when women are working together instead of against each other. Women competing for men’s attention is a tired, dated trope, and we, as a society, need to move on. (Unrelated, but did you guys see my Bachelor recap?)

Emily takes Sylvie’s advice, goes back into the restaurant, and has a steamy makeout with Gabriel. Fuck yes, Emily! After this, Emily exits the restaurant and runs into Camille, who is revealed to be Gabriel’s girlfriend, and holy shit, is that a good plot twist! The episode ends on this note, and I was so eager to continue, I almost watched the next episode without writing the blog first. Expect the next recap imminently.

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Jennifer Garner, Michael Weatherly, Scott Bairstow, Elizabeth Mitchell and Eion Bailey in “Significant Others”

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