Emily In Paris Fans Spot Low-Key Sex And The City Homage In Season 5

The connections between Sex And The City and Emily In Paris are both numerous and well-documented, given the two shows are both Darren Star creations that share a costume designer in fashion icon Patricia Field, who helped turn both series into veritable eye candy.

But in the recently-released fifth season of the polarising Netflix show, fans spotted a much more deliberate homage to Sex And The City.

Lily Collins’ character begins season five of Emily In Paris still in Rome, before returning to the French capital as the story unfolds.

In a nod to the original Sex And The City finale, Emily’s return to Paris was accompanied by a shot of her looking enamoured as she is reunited with the Eiffel Tower, mirroring an iconic clip of Carrie Bradshaw seeing the French landmark for the first time.

Side-by-side clips of the two scenes have now been posted numerous times online, with Lily Collins even recreating Sarah Jessica Parker’s exaggerated gestures to really drive home the deliberate tribute…

The fifth season of Emily In Paris premiered the week before Christmas and, at the time of writing, is still in the most-watched shows on Netflix in the UK.

According to Rotten Tomatoes, Emily In Paris’ fifth season was actually the most well-received of the show’s whole run, with a respectable critical score of 76% (though its audience score currently stands at a far-less-enviable 34%).

Meanwhile, on Monday evening, Netflix announced that Emily In Paris would be back for a sixth run, which fans can probably expect to stream in late 2026 or early 2027, given the gaps between previous seasons.

Darren Star previously teased of the show’s future: “The show is Emily in Paris. It’s never going to permanently leave its home base. But if I can take the audience on a journey somewhere else, I would love that …  [It’s] fun to think about.”