Emily in Paris
Family Affair
TV Flash files “Family Affair” as hour 8 of 50 in the TV Flash guide — Emily in Paris (2020–) on Netflix, season 1, episode 8, aired 2020-10-02, 29 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E08: listed hour 8 of 50 in the Emily in Paris guide, hour 8 of 10 in season 1. It aired 2020-10-02 (29 min). The listed hour before it is “French Ending” (S01E07). Next is “An American Auction in Paris” (S01E09).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Emily's weekend trip to a friend's château fizzles like day-old champagne. Back in Paris, Mindy's reluctant meet-up with old friends ends on a high note.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Family Affair sit in the Emily in Paris guide?
S01E08 is listed hour 8 of 50 — hour 8 of 10 in season 1, season 1 episode 8.
When did Emily in Paris S01E08 air?
Family Affair aired 2020-10-02 and is listed at 29 minutes.
Do I have to start at season one?
Season one teaches the faux pas and the job nobody has. Later seasons are more postcard; entering mid-run still works if you accept Emily already lives there.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Darren Star's postcard comedy is the decade's most efficient so-bad-it's-booking-flights series. Lily Collins plays American cluelessness as haute couture, Paris is a mood board with Wi-Fi, and every think piece about whether it is "good" only feeds the wardrobe machine. Watch for the colors, the jobs nobody has, and the argument it keeps winning with the charts.
A Chicago marketing exec relocates to Paris and commits every cultural faux pas chicly, which is an older American-in-Europe night than the app will admit. Darren Star's Netflix comedy, 2020 onward, makes Lily Collins's Emily Cooper American cluelessness as haute couture, with Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu's Sylvie and Ashley Park's Mindy in the orbit. Fashion postcard fantasy: Paris is a mood board with Wi-Fi, jobs nobody has, colors that photograph like a booking. Critics treat *is it good* as a weekly assignment;…
Filed against
- Lily Collins as Emily Cooper
Lily Collins plays American cluelessness as haute couture on Emily in Paris — Emily Cooper, a mood-board city, and Darren Star’s postcard comedy that books flights whether or not the think pieces approve. Wardrobe as plot engine. TV Flash…
- Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Sylvie Grateau
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu plays Sylvie Grateau on Emily in Paris, Darren Star’s 2020s postcard comedy — the decade’s most efficient so-bad-it’s-booking-flights series. Lily Collins as American cluelessness in haute couture, Paris as a…
- Ashley Park as Mindy Chen
Ashley Park’s Mindy Chen kept Emily in Paris from being only a postcard — Darren Star’s so-bad-it’s-booking-flights comedy, Lily Collins as American cluelessness in haute couture, Paris as a mood board with Wi-Fi. Think pieces about…