In Defense Of Alfie & Mindy In Emily In Paris Season 5

Enter the scandal no one saw coming but everyone will have an opinion on: Alfie and Mindy. Yes, that Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) — Emily’s charming, handsome, British, jilted, (did I mention handsome?) ex — and Mindy, the glitter-soaked pop princess whose devotion to Emily is as strong as her impressive vocals. At the end of last season, Mindy was single, fresh off a breakup with Nico (Park’s real-life ex, Paul Forman), and moving on from Benoît (Kevin Dias) and her band after they got disqualified from Eurovision. This season, she flees to Rome to join Emily and outrun her problems, and runs straight into Alfie. Of course, drama is destined to ensue after you sleep with your best friend’s ex, and it would be easy to write this off as a Season 5 gimmick the writers threw in because they were searching for storylines, but the Alfie and Mindy hookup feels fresh.