38 of the worst moments on 'Emily in Paris' season 3

• Netflix's "Emily in Paris" just returned for its third season, which has plenty of cringey moments. 
• Emily and Alfie still can't speak French, and there are more messy love-triangle plots. 
• Warning: This slideshow contains major spoilers for "Emily in Paris" season three. 

Gabriel mentions Emily's bangs and she snaps at him.

Emily cuts her own bangs in the middle of the night after waking from a nightmare.

Her change in hairstyle is commented on throughout the episode, including when Gabriel asks, "Are you OK? What did you do to your hair?" with a slight grimace. 

But Emily's reaction is a little overblown. She snaps at him and yells, "They're just bangs!"

Since Gabriel just did her a favor by being discreet about the fact that she's working for both Madeline and Sylvie, Emily's outburst feels a bit ruder than necessary. 

Doug randomly calls Emily as though they hadn't broken up a few months prior.

After being a completely absent boyfriend when Emily moved to Paris, Emily's ex Doug randomly calls her to tell her about his great new promotion. 

He ends up helping her by giving her an in for a French McDonald's campaign. But the way he acts as if nothing has transpired between them is kind of shocking. 

After the out-of-the-blue call, he's back to being completely absent from the plot.

The first episode feels like a McDonald's ad.

McDonald's is a surprisingly big part of the first episode, and the constant mention of the brand gets tiring very quickly.

Once Emily decides to pitch the fast-food company to Sylvie, she visits the restaurant with Gabriel.

They call the Parisian location chic and praise the food, which Julien later compliments as well.

Emily still doesn't speak much French.

Despite having lived and worked in Paris for at least half a year, Emily still does not speak very much French.

She doesn't understand the firm names that Sylvie's office is discussing, continues to ask for translations in conversation, and is conjugating a very basic verb in her French class.

Since Emily has decided to stay in Paris, it seems like learning the language should be a higher priority. But she continues to speak English as much as possible and is rarely shown studying French outside of class.

Emily doesn't even take off her knee-high boots while working late into the night at home.

When Mindy gets back late from her first performance at La Trompette Bleue, Emily is still working in their living room, trying to balance her two jobs with Madeline and Sylvie. 

But despite the fact that it's the middle of the night and she's in her own home, she hasn't changed out of anything she was wearing that day — not even her knee-high boots. 

Madeline decides to confront Emily in front of a client.

Madeline finds out that Emily is planning on quitting to work with Sylvie.

Instead of talking to Emily privately, she decides to interrupt Sylvie's client dinner and confronts Emily in the middle of a restaurant on the Eiffel Tower.

The scene is extremely unprofessional, and everything is punctuated by Madeline's water breaking. 

Camille and Gabriel knew Alfie stayed in Paris but didn't tell Emily.

Alfie and Emily briefly break up when Alfie was supposed to go back to London. But he ended up staying in Paris because Antoine offered him a job. 

Alfie told Camille and Gabriel that he was staying in Paris before telling Emily, and Emily is understandably upset that her friends would keep this from her.

Although Alfie is close with Gabriel, it feels wrong that Gabriel and Camille would lie to Emily for him, seeing as they've known her much longer. 

Camille even uses the moment to remind Emily that she's kept things from her before, unnecessarily bringing up Gabriel and Emily's fling, which she supposedly already forgave her for.

Madeline begs Sylvie to come back, in front of her team.

In a last-ditch effort, Madeline shows up at Pierre's event and tries to apologize to Sylvie and her team. 

She praises the French executive's business savvy before outright begging Sylvie to return to Savoir. 

It's embarrassing to see Madeline grovel so much, and it doesn't help that she showed up wearing the same dress as Sylvie. But her plans quickly sour, and she returns to feuding with Sylvie. 

Emily sings "Alfie" to Alfie and it's so bad he almost begs her to stop.

Mindy introduces Emily to the song "Alfie," famously sung by Dionne Warwick.

After realizing that she never told Alfie how much she cares about him while they were together, Emily decides to serenade him in public at one of Mindy's band's shows. 

The moment is intended to be romantic. But seeing Emily struggle so much that Alfie actually asks what he can do to get her to stop singing just makes the entire scene a little cringey.

Sylvie's manipulation of Henri is embarrassingly obvious.

When Sylvie was at Savoir, she never bothered to talk to or even acknowledge Henri, the building manager. She even had her staff tell Henri to never speak to her directly.

But as soon as she wants a space in the building for her company, Sylvie takes him to dinner with Luc and immediately starts complimenting Henri to a ridiculous degree.

The moment is frustrating to watch. Sylvie solely relies on her flirtatious charm to make a major business move instead of trying something a little more professional.

Madeline gets stuck using a cat filter on Zoom despite previously seeming tech-savvy.

After Emily shows Madeline a cat filter as part of her pet-food campaign pitch, it somehow ends up carrying over to Madeline's Zoom call with the Chicago office.

Madeline can't remove the filter or even mute herself during the meeting despite having several successful Zoom calls earlier on the series.

She can't seem to use any technology effectively, even though she works in a field that relies heavily on social media. Plus, the scene is chaotic enough with a pigeon flying around the office. 

Gabriel lets Emily work in his restaurant even though she hardly speaks French.

Emily offers to help Gabriel in the restaurant while she's briefly unemployed because one of his servers ditches him. 

Emily isn't nearly fluent enough in French to effectively take orders, but Gabriel agrees anyway. 

Ultimately, she ends up threatening a customer's life when she doesn't realize he's allergic to mushrooms, which ends her serving stint. 

Emily and Mindy very dangerously exit a bumper car while the rest are still going.

Sylvie tracks down Emily at a Paris amusement park using her Instagram Live videos. When she walks up to the bumper cars, Emily and Mindy are still driving and getting knocked around.

They stop when they see Sylvie and proceed to just get out of their car despite the fact that the ride is still going and all the other cars are still driving. 

It's definitely a dangerous decision, especially considering they're both wearing high heels.  

It's implied that Alfie and Emily have sex on a Ferris wheel.

During lunch with Julien and Luc, Emily finds out that the Ferris wheel in Paris is a go-to place for couples to have sex.

She and Alfie then ride the Ferris wheel later on the episode, and it's implied that they take part in the tradition. 

Emily barely thinks about her visa implications when she quits Savoir.

Emily originally came to Paris with the intention of working for Savoir for one year before returning to Chicago.

Once she decided she actually wants to live in Paris, she never researches what she'll have to do to have her visa extended.

Sylvie is the one who has to bring her back down to Earth and explain how much effort and paperwork goes into the process. 

Sylvie continues to look down on Emily's social-media usage.

Sylvie mocks Emily's social-media accounts whenever they're mentioned.

But the two have worked together for months, and Sylvie has seen how helpful Emily's influence has been in reaching out to potential clients.

There's no reason for Sylvie to continue to trivialize Emily's presence, but she does, even when Emily uses her reach to arrange an important lunch with journalist Janine Dubois.

Camille cheats on Gabriel.

After all the drama of season two, namely Emily, Camille, and Gabriel's love triangle, Camille makes things even more complicated by starting an affair with one of her artist clients, Sofia.

Although it definitely seems to weigh on her a little throughout the season, it's never enough to make her tell Gabriel or admit to doing something wrong. 

Benoît tries to pull the card from Nicolas out of Mindy's hand.

Nicolas, someone Mindy went to boarding school with, sends Mindy flowers before one of her performances.

When her boyfriend Benoît sees them, he quickly becomes jealous and starts to argue with Mindy.

He tries to grab the note that came with them out of her hand, which was a surprisingly aggressive move that felt a bit out of character for Benoît.

Emily sits on a stool for her purse instead of the chair clearly meant for her.

When Emily and Gabriel go out to lunch in Provence, she accidentally sits on a stool meant to hold her purse.

The moment is unnecessarily embarrassing, especially since there are clearly two chairs at the table.

These purse stools are also visible in some other restaurant scenes on the show, so Emily should be somewhat used to them after months of living in France. 

Alfie is apparently also working in France without really speaking the language.

After an entire batch of Antoine's signature fragrance comes out wrong, Alfie is pulled away from Emily to help fix the problem.

When the staff tries to figure out what to do next, Alfie has to ask everyone to slow down and explain the situation in English.

Like Emily, Alfie is working with a company in France but still doesn't speak enough French to follow a conversation.

Emily complains about how difficult French names are to pronounce.

Emily checks guests into the luxury-car event at Antoine's chateau, which is an interesting choice seeing as she's still struggling with her French. 

As she checks people in, Emily also complains about how difficult she finds pronouncing French names.

Emily pitches an idea to Alfie's boss without talking to him first.

When Emily hears that a batch of Antoine's fragrance came out incorrectly, she comes up with an idea for how they can use it without losing money.

Even though it's a helpful idea that Antonie actually ends up using, she pitches it to him without talking to Alfie first.

Since Antoine is Alfie's boss, Emily could've let Alfie present the idea. Throughout the season, Emily seems unable to stop sharing ideas even when it's clear she's stepping on other people's toes. 

Grégory pitches a completely impractical BDSM-inspired flight-attendant line and is mad when it's turned down.

Grégory has the opportunity to create a new flight-crew uniform for Air France, but Sylvie and her team quickly realize how far off his designs are. 

His BDSM-inspired line isn't practical at all for the daily tasks of a flight attendant, but he's immediately defensive when he's shot down.  

Mindy seems to immediately get over Benoît without a second thought.

After her emotional breakup with Benoît, Mindy doesn't waste any time before shifting her attention to her old boarding-school crush, Nicolas.

It seemed like Benoît just disappeared entirely from the storyline.

The girl at movie night refuses to listen to Emily and Gabriel.

One of Nicolas' friends tries to proposition Gabriel — and then Emily and Gabriel — at a movie in the park. 

Gabriel and Emily both tell her that they're in relationships and not interested, but the girl continues to hit on them both and completely ignores their lack of interest.

Her obliviousness and aggressiveness are uncomfortable to watch, and it seems Emily and Gabriel thought so too since they end up leaving.

The movie in the park isn't dubbed or subtitled in French.

The movie in the park is "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" to fit with the episode, "How to Lose a Designer in 10 Days."

But despite how much flack Emily gets for not speaking enough French, the American movie is neither dubbed nor subtitled in French. 

It's clear that the movies in the park are little more than an excuse for people to hook up, so people probably aren't paying attention. But it still seems odd that there wouldn't at least be subtitles. 

The show really drags out a bit that makes it seem like Pierre died.

At the very end of episode seven, Pierre dramatically gets hit by a car on his way to lunch with Sylvie's team.

Episode eight starts with a drawn-out opening scene where Luc, Sylvie, Emily, and Julien talk about Pierre and the accident while wearing dark-colored outfits. 

The show is clearly trying to make it seem like they're at Pierre's funeral. But they're actually just visiting him at the hospital.

The worst of Pierre's injuries was a broken collarbone. 

Gabriel tells Emily he still loves her while he's dating someone else.

Gabriel asks Emily to go out for drinks while Camille is in Greece. But instead of going to a bar, he gets very drunk on the banks of the canal.

When Emily helps him home in a cab, he tells her he still loves her and Camille. 

Emily avoids responding to him and leaves him alone at the end of the night. But the moment effectively ruins the platonic friendship they'd been working on building up after their fling.

Alfie explains why he isn't comfortable with Emily meeting his family yet, but she still takes it as an insult.

Emily is offended when Alfie gets back from visiting his family and finds out that he hadn't mentioned her to them.

Even after Alfie explains that he's had a bad history of introducing girlfriends to his family, Emily assumes he doesn't trust her.

She mentions this to Mindy and continues pressing Alfie until he caves, despite his clearly explained reservations.

Camille proposes to Gabriel without telling him about her affair.

Camille and Gabriel visit Musée d'Orsay, where they had their first date, and after a lovely afternoon together, Camille asks Gabriel to marry her.

Gabriel quickly says yes, which makes sense because he was planning on proposing to her. 

But it's uncomfortable that Camille asked him knowing that she hasn't been honest about her recent affair with Sofia

She later tells Emily that she has no intentions of telling Gabriel about the affair at all.

Nicolas forces Emily to leave Mindy's dinner.

After an unpleasant business interaction with Emily, Nicolas decides to sabotage her friendship with Mindy.

He forces Emily to leave the dinner celebrating Mindy's last performance at La Trompette Bleue.

She blames it on a work dinner, which is believable for her. But work has already caused a strain on Emily and Mindy's friendship, so it's an extra bit of salt in the wound. 

Benoît lied to Mindy before breaking her heart and then just turns up unannounced.

After breaking up with Mindy, largely due to his jealousy of Nicolas, Benoît essentially disappears for a few episodes. 

One of their big fights before their split was about selling his song "Mon Soleil." He said he didn't want to because it was written as a special love song for Mindy and he makes her feel bad about it.

But he returns on the finale to tell Mindy that was all a lie. He actually had already secretly submitted the song for Eurovision and it was accepted. 

By the end of the interaction, Benoît seems like he's ready to just get back together with Mindy without discussing any of the problems that led to their breakup. 

Mindy somehow had time to completely change outfits even though she was running super late.

Mindy was ready and waiting for Nicolas to show up so they could go to Camille and Gabriel's engagement party. 

He finally calls her and tells her he has a plan to get them there quickly.

But despite being hours late already, Mindy finds the time to completely change from a fancy purple gown to an even fancier red gown with more cutouts. 

Mindy and Nicolas interrupt the engagement party by arriving late in a helicopter.

When Camille's father starts his toast at Gabriel and Camille's engagement party, Mindy and Nicolas arrive in a helicopter that is so loud and disruptive that the other guests are ducking under the dinner table.

Being late enough to an engagement party that the father of the bride has already started his speech is already rude. But arriving unapologetically in the loudest way possible makes the moment even harder to watch.

To top it all off, Mindy and Nicolas aren't even that close to Gabriel and Camille since they mostly only know them through Emily. 

Gabriel very prematurely celebrates getting his Michelin star.

Throughout the season, Gabriel makes it clear to everyone that he dreams of getting a Michelin star for his restaurant. 

As luck would have it, Luc used to date someone who works for the company, so he reignites their fling and takes her to eat at Gabriel's newly redesigned restaurant. 

She enjoys the meal and even returns the next night, so Luc takes the opportunity to secretly relay the message that Gabriel is on the road to getting his Michelin star.

But despite nothing being finalized, Gabriel announces to Camille and her parents that he's already succeeded in getting the star. 

Camille agrees to marry Gabriel at their engagement party despite clearly having reservations.

Camille appears physically torn at many moments during her engagement party — including when she sees Gabriel kissing Emily's hand.

But despite those hesitations and the fact that she still hasn't told Gabriel about her affair, she agrees to marry him right then and there.

Camille blames Gabriel's feelings for Emily as a reason not to get married rather than her affair.

Camille abruptly calls off the wedding while she and Gabriel are in the middle of their vows.

She tells Gabriel about the pact she and Emily made to not date him, and says she knows that Gabriel and Emily are in love.

Blaming Emily and Gabriel's feelings — rather than the affair she just had with Sofia — is a manipulative move on Camille's part.

She never comes clean, and she seemingly has no concerns about also ruining Emily's relationship with Alfie.

Camille admits that she only got back together with Gabriel so Emily couldn't have him.

During her big rejection speech, when Camille reveals the pact she made with Emily, she also says that she's realized that the real reason she got back together with Gabriel was that she wanted to "win."

In other words, she just didn't want Emily to be with him. 

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