Emily in Paris
I Have Two Lovers
TV Flash files “I Have Two Lovers” as a desk essential hour — Emily in Paris (2020–) on Netflix, season 3, episode 1, aired 2022-12-21, 36 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 21 of 50 in the Emily in Paris guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 2022-12-21 (36 min). The listed hour before it is “French Revolution” (S02E10). Next is “What's It All About...” (S03E02).
Essential hour: “I Have Two Lovers”. I Have Two Lovers as season-three math: the title as sitcom ledger, still haute cluelessness, still a series the desk lists because culture kept watching.

Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
An impromptu coiffure change is Emily's only quick decision as she drags her heels over choosing a path forward for her career and her love life.
Viewer FAQ
Where does I Have Two Lovers sit in the Emily in Paris guide?
S03E01 is listed hour 21 of 50 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.
When did Emily in Paris S03E01 air?
I Have Two Lovers aired 2022-12-21 and is listed at 36 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…