Released in December 2021, Season 2 responds directly to criticism. The fantasy remains, but moral consequences enter the narrative.

If Season 1 was about arriving, Season 2 is about staying — and staying has a cost.

Episode 1 — Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi?

Emily is confused after her affair with Gabriel and her friendship with his now ex-girlfriend Camille. Even worse, Emily has a weekend getaway planned for St Tropez with Mathieu. The ad account for Champere, Camille’s family’s champagne brand, goes to Luc even though Emily believes she brought the new business to Savoir. Camille shows up to discuss the marketing campaign, though she, Sylvie, and Emily go to lunch instead. Camille teams up with Emily for a night out at the drag bar they previously visited, where Emily’s new roommate Mindy performs a solo version of BTS‘s “Dynamite. When Emily breaks away for her romantic weekend in St Tropez, Mathieu overhears her cell phone conversation with Gabriel about their sleeping together, which upsets him. As he leaves her on the train departing Paris, he gives Emily the tickets for a romantic weekend with Gabriel, whom he says she should invite for the romantic weekend they had originally planned for themselves.

Episode 2 — Do You Know the Way to St. Tropez?

Emily ends up staying at the Four Seasons Hotel in St Tropez and calls Camille and Mindy to join her. Emily meets a famous fashion journalist who claims to know M. Cadault and offers to model promotional marketing fashion shots with Emily’s new luggage, which features a life-size likeness of Cadault etched onto its surface. Upon seeing these pictures, the Instagram response upsets Cadault, and Mathieu asks Emily to remove them. While going out with Camille and Mindy, Emily receives a call from Gabriel. Camille refuses to take the call, and Emily says she will call him later. Later in the evening, Emily discovers that Sylvie has come to St Tropez and is married to Laurent, a restaurant manager at the hotel. The next morning, Camille calls Emily to pick her up at a church. Camille’s evening plans for a tryst with a stranger went badly, and she still has feelings for Gabriel. Emily and her friends walk on the pier and find the journalist on his yacht. Emily gets him to invite them on board as his apology for lying about Cadault. The girls relax on the yacht’s lounge chairs.

Episode 3 — Bon Anniversaire!

Camille takes Emily to a Moroccan bathhouse to meet her friends for a nude steam bath. All the girls are nude except Emily, who insists on wearing a full-length cotton robe for modesty. Later, Emily and Mindy make plans for Emily’s birthday, inviting Camille and Gabriel to attend, where Emily hopes they will reconcile. The planning takes all day; the evening eventually comes off, with Gabriel helping Emily with the dinner preparations. During the outdoor evening dinner party, everything goes well. Camille returns to Emily’s apartment for more champagne from Emily’s fridge. When she gets the champagne, she discovers that Gabriel’s favorite frying pan (with his engraved initials on it) is on Emily’s stove, and she concludes that for a chef to make a gift of his favorite pan to a girl can only have the worst implications for Camille’s future with Gabriel. She returns to the evening party and says she has a toast that everyone eagerly waits for. Camille denounces Emily as a turncoat for having an affair with their boyfriend, which Emily finds that she cannot deny.

Episode 4 — Jules and Em

Emily returns the frying pan and gives her presentation about Champere to Camille, who is still upset about Emily sleeping with Gabriel. Camille insists that the presentation must be in French, and Emily’s inability to speak it requires Luc to take over. Emily meets a tourist from Kyiv in her French class. She is then assigned to take a new account to promote leeks. Returning home, she bumps into Gabriel, who says he has a terrific recipe for leeks, and makes it for her. Emily goes shopping with the tourist, who becomes a shoplifter. Gabriel finds Camille at an art gallery opening and says that he wants to patch things up. Luc invites Emily to see Jules and Jim to help improve her French, but Emily does not connect with the ménage à trois. Emily tries to write a letter in French to Camille to reconcile their differences using a machine translator, which works poorly. Camille does not understand what the letter says and remains angry at Emily. The leek farmers’ ad campaign goes in a new direction—targeting America’s dietary health drinks market. In her next class, Emily introduces herself to a young bank executive from London.

Episode 5 — An Englishman in Paris

Gabriel makes his restaurant debut. Emily is given the responsibility of coming up with the music for the Choppard Happy Hearts Party. Emily is paired up with Alfie, a London-born classmate who is bored. Emily meets up with Alfie at a restaurant that is hardly related to French culture. Camille meets Emily at the Eiffel Tower, and vows for both of them not to make a pact with Gabriel. Emily and Alfie meet up again on a boat, and Emily gets bored with his anti-French attitude. Emily sees Gabriel again and reminds him that she is only in Paris for a year.

Episode 6 — Boiling Point

Gabriel’s restaurant opens. Vespa is added as a new client for Savoir, and wants Ellen von Unwerth to shoot a commercial for them. Gabriel quits on the opening night of Chez Levaux. Emily suggests keeping it a restaurant until 11:00 p.m., then turning it into a nightclub afterwards. Sylvie says a photographer named Erik DeGroot was hired for the Vespa photoshoot, of which Julien objects. The Vespa arrives, and Emily takes off on it. She finds Alfie, and they both ride to French class.

Episode 7 — The Cook, the Thief, Her Ghost and His Lover

Emily wakes up to a boiling hot summer day. Gabriel explains to Emily why Chez Levaux has a new menu every day. Madaline announces Palotech’s International Roll-Out coming to France. Emily is complimented on finally getting the French language down by her teacher. Alfie invites Emily over to her apartment. Gabriel invites Emily to come to Marche Bastille at 7:00 p.m. Pelotech is pitched to Savoir. Emily fumes over Alfie not responding to her texts and thinks he ghosted her. She eventually confronts him, and Alfie reveals that it was because he lost his phone, which was in the oversized suit jacket that she took.

Episode 8 — Champagne Problems

Emily returns to the Champère account and pitches a new campaign. Camille says that her father wants to be the face of the brand. She then offers Efor mily to come with her to the Chateau this weekend. Emily finds Alfie at Chez Levaux. Camille finds out that Emily is somewhat dating Alfie. The campaign takes an unexpected turn for the worse when Gerard cuts off the tip of his finger while trying to open the Champagne bottle. Gabriel comes to the Chateau after being notified about the accident.

Episode 9 — Scandal

A fashion scandal forces Emily to choose between loyalty and ethics.
She begins to think like a European professional. Emily insists to Camille that her relationship with Alfie is just fun and nothing serious. Madeleine announces to Emily that she is coming to Paris. Mindy’s secret as the daughter of one of the richest families in China puts her relationship with Benoit in jeopardy. Madeline looks into the business accounts of Savoir, and it puts Sylvie right over the edge. Madeline finds out from Catherine that Antoine had been having an affair with Sylvie for over three years. A fashion scandal forces Emily to choose between loyalty and ethics.
She begins to think like a European professional.

Episode 10 — French Revolution (Season finale)

Madeline tells Emily that Savoir may need to make personnel changes. Mindy makes up with Benoit. Emily announces that the Laboratory Lavaux launch was a success, and the company will be opening another DIY experience in the south. Gregory is shown having a meltdown that leads to his firing. Julien takes Emily to Le Raidd Paris to meet Gregory. A fashion show ends up being held at Versailles. Emily praises Gregory and Pierre for the show after it is over. Pierre then announces that he is firing Savoir, and Sylvie announces that she and her team are quitting, surprising Emily. Emily meets up with Madeline about the idea of returning to Chicago, and she suddenly gets a text from Sylvie. During this meeting, she is informed that Sylvie’s husband bought her shares from his club, and the money is being used to start a new firm, with both Pierre and Gregory on board. They want Emily to join and stay in Paris longer than planned. After some contemplating with Mindy and Gabriel, she decides to stay in Paris for what could be indefinitely. During this time, Emily finds out that Gabriel asked Camille to move in and be back together.