<p class="ingestion featured-caption">"Emily in Paris" gets a lot of things wrong about being French. Stephanie Branchu/Netflix</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>I'm a French person who watched part one, season four of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/shows-you-should-watch-if-you-like-emily-in-paris">"Emily in Paris."</a></li><li>Several scenes made me cringe, including when a French landmark was disrespected.</li></ul><p>"Emily in Paris" is now back for its fourth season — yet it still gets so many things wrong about the city in its name.</p><p>The <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-netflix-original-series-shows-2024-7">Netflix original</a>, which debuted in 2020, follows American marketing executive Emily Cooper (played by Lily Collins) as she navigates her new <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/american-in-france-ways-life-has-been-better-changes-2024-6">life in Paris</a>.</p><p>Despite it being widely panned by audiences, the show is pretty popular — part one of season four debuted with almost <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/emily-paris-season-4-debut-190425622.html">20 million views</a> on Netflix.</p><p>As a French person, I'd say the first season had some <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/emily-in-paris-worst-moments-from-season-3-french-opinion-2022-12">bad representations of France</a> and its culture. The second and third seasons showed some promise as Emily tried a little harder to integrate herself into the French lifestyle. </p><p>Unfortunately, season four seems like a regression to Emily's old self: She is more American than ever and seems to have decided she's better off culturally stagnating.</p><p>Here are some of the worst parts of this season so far.</p>