‘Emily in Paris’ Season 5 Ending: Who Does Emily Choose?

Emily Cooper has embarked upon yet another whirlwind adventure!

Emily in Paris season 5, which hit Netflix on Dec. 18, left off on a major cliffhanger for Emily (Lily Collins) with both her professional and romantic future. As the season played out, Emily ventured through Rome, Venice and Paris with her boyfriend, Marcello Muratori (Eugenio Franceschini), while also serving as the head of Agence Grateau’s Rome office.

In true Emily in Paris fashion, Emily must make several important decisions about her career and her love life. Along the way, she puts out fires across Italy and France, from fashion disasters to one of her closest relationships getting turned upside down.

“Marcello is a whole other adventure that we want for Emily because we ultimately want Emily to be able to have a better work/life balance,” Collins told Tudum ahead of season 5. “We want to have Emily be able to smile without condition. We want to see her beyond her vacay mode. And he comes at that perfect time.”

In addition to following Emily’s love life, the series also showcased her best friend, Mindy (Ashley Park), as she navigates a love triangle of her own. Of course, it wouldn’t be an Emily in Paris season without a few final twists and turns along the way!

Here’s everything to know about how Emily in Paris season 5 ended.

How does Emily in Paris season 5 end?

As season 5 plays out, Emily appears to be more confident than ever while working as the head of Agence Grateau’s Rome office and navigating her work-life balance with her boyfriend, Marcello, who is also one of her clients.

Although Emily and Marcello hit a few rough patches along the way, they ultimately end up throwing a successful fashion show together during Venice Fashion Week. Marcello exceeds expectations, and his mother, Antonia (Anna Galiena), is so impressed that she makes him the head of the House of Muratori.

As part of that arrangement, Marcello must move back to his home in Solitano, Italy, and manage the brand from there. He asks Emily to move with him there to “build a life together” and lead the “best fashion company” with him.

While Emily initially feels flattered and thrilled by the opportunity, it isn’t until she thinks Marcello is about to propose to her — with a diamond ring she found in his bag — that she realizes she would be giving up the life she made for herself in Paris for a romantic partner.

“It’s not my life,” she tells him on a romantic gondola ride. “It’s a beautiful dream, but it’s just not mine.”

Do Emily and Gabriel get back together?

Over the last five seasons, Emily and Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) have had a will-they-won’t-they dynamic, and their evolving friendship continues playing out in season 5.

Earlier in the season, Gabriel initially flew to Rome to try to win Emily back, but after he meets with her, he realizes that she seems happy with Marcello and lets her be.

Later on in the season, Gabriel and Emily reconnect for a second time when Emily returns to Paris amid her woes with Marcello and works from the Paris office. Since Gabriel is the head chef at one of her clients’ restaurants, he asks her to consult when the two butt heads. As a solution, Emily gets Gabriel a job offer as a billionaire’s private chef on his yacht in Greece, and the two part ways once again.

However, Emily and Gabriel’s on-and-off-again relationship end with on a major question mark after Gabriel finds out that she and Marcello have called it quits for good. Gabriel takes a risk and sends Emily a postcard asking if she’d like to spend a few weeks off with him in Greece, but viewers don’t see how she responds.

“I don’t know what the future holds for Gabriel and Emily,” Collins told Tudum. “I appreciated that they were able to say goodbye gracefully, without knowing what comes next. Emily is supportive of his adventures and career, and she respects his journey without interfering. That kind of graceful goodbye felt deserved for the characters, and I’m not entirely sure where it will go from here.”

What happens in Mindy’s love triangle with Alfie and Nicolas?

While many of the past seasons have revolved around Emily’s love life and career, season 5 also took a special interest in her best friend, Mindy, who also finds herself in Rome for work. There, she starts to develop a close friendship with Emily’s ex, Alfie (Lucien Laviscount).

Before Mindy and Alfie know it, their friendship turns romantic and they have an Italian fling. Both of them are determined to not let it interfere with their friendships with Emily and refuse to let it turn into a full-fledged relationship.

However, after they return to Paris together, they can’t help but think they have developed genuine feelings towards each other. They prepare to tell Emily about their true feelings, but their plans get a wrench thrown into it when Mindy’s on-again-off-again boyfriend Nicolas (Paul Forman) sees her and begs her for another chance.

Mindy decides to see Nicolas again, but things take a turn when Emily finds out about her best friend and ex’s fling. Although she’s initially hurt by the deception, she finds a way to move past it since she wants Mindy to be happy above all else.

As the season progresses, so does Mindy and Nicolas’ relationship, and he proposes. Mindy accepts but is still left thinking about Alfie — especially after he tells her he still has feelings for her.

The season ends on another cliffhanger for Mindy’s love life when she and Emily run into Alfie back in Paris, and she thinks about what could have been. Alfie also warns her about marrying Nicolas, which leaves Mindy more confused than ever.

“By the end of the season, everything really hits the fan: Mindy might be engaged, but there’s still tension with Alfie,” Collins told Tudum. “It’ll be interesting to see how that drama unfolds.”

Is Emily still involved with Agence Grateau?

While Emily was busy working with Marcello in Agence Grateau’s Rome office, she was unaware that her boss, Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), was struggling to run the company more than ever.

Even though the Rome branch was facing its own problems — including a disastrous Muratori promotion strategy — Sylvie was reeling from major financial problems created by her estranged husband, Laurent (Arnaud Binard).

Amid the company’s financial strains, Sylvie is relieved when she finds out about the potential of Emily leaving with Marcello to find her own in-house success and even expresses how much she cares for her, after all. However, Sylvie later learns that Emily turned down the role, and she now must face the difficult truth of the company’s position.

In order to save Agence Grateau from being sold or shut down altogether, Sylvie accepts financing from her longtime friend, Princess Jane (Minnie Driver) — who already butted heads with Emily when they worked together earlier in the season. With the money Jane gives the company, she is now an equal partner with Sylvie.