Emily Cooper

Emily Cooper is a marketing exec from Chicago who lands her dream job at a Paris firm without speaking French, expecting her enthusiasm to carry her through. She's earnest, ambitious, and endlessly optimistic, filming every croissant for social media while charming and baffling her new colleagues in equal measure.

Collins plays Emily's cluelessness with total sincerity rather than smugness, so her fish-out-of-water blunders read as hopeful rather than grating. The show leans into culture-clash comedy, and Emily's genuine belief that a good attitude fixes everything makes her an easy, breezy anchor for the fantasy Paris around her.