Emily in Paris Season 5 Episode 3 recap: Emily secures the Rome office as personal boundaries begin to collapse

Emily in Paris Season 5 Episode 3 is titled Intimissimi Issues.

All 10 Episodes of this latest Season were dropped at once on Netflix on December 18, 2025. In Episode 3, Emily is (still) trying to figure out how not to be a tourist in Rome. She is also juggling her work and personal drama.

This Episode also includes Mindy’s storyline, which deals with misunderstandings and cringeworthy moments. It’s a standard Emily in Paris with all the shenanigans taking place in Rome.

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Emily in Paris Season 5 Episode 3 recap: Intimissimi Issues

Emily in Paris Season 5, Episode 3 opens with an awkward moment. Emily wakes up in her Roman apartment, all cozy with Marcello. Everything is lovey-dovey until Marcello strolls downstairs completely naked, totally oblivious of the fact that Mindy crashed on the couch. He accidentally flashes her, leading to a hilarious encounter as poor Mindy gets cringe pro max.

This fiasco pushes Mindy to do something she has been dragging around for a while. After seeing a little too much of Marcello, she decides to move out. Luckily, her dance competition show offers her a hotel room. It’s the same place Alfie is staying at, btw. Turns out, the universe is dramatic in TV land.

Over at Agence Grateau, Giancarlo is all set to dazzle with his short film pitch for Muratori perfume. However, Sylvie hijacks the pitch and serves it herself before he even shows up. While Antonia Muratori is into the idea, Marcello suggests they shoot somewhere more modern.

Emily is all for it, believing it fits the whole ‘future of the brand’ theme. Giancarlo swears he will make magic happen no matter what, but you can see things starting to get spicy behind the scenes. Later, Sylvie takes Emily aside, warning that her relationship with Marcello is messing with her work decisions.

In Emily in Paris Season 5 Episode 3, things at the agency are looking pretty bleak until Gianni strolls in with a possible savior: Intimissimi, an Italian lingerie label. Luc wants to take charge, but Sylvie hands it off to Emily. She wants to see if Emily can bounce back after the Fendi chaos.

Emily, being Emily, dives into the job. She even tries on the lingerie herself just to get a feel for it. Then she is throwing ideas around with Marcello, but it quickly turns into a therapy session. She whines a bit about Sylvie breathing down her neck, and Marcello starts spiraling about his sister Antonia.

Somewhere in that vulnerable moment, Emily catches a flash of inspiration. The next day, she goes into the pitch meeting and throws out the tagline: “Sexier than naked.” The big idea is that this lingerie is so comfy and hot, you would rather keep it on than strip down. Sounds clever, but the Intimissimi crew looks stone cold. They shut it down instantly.

Now Emily is panicking that her gut instincts are off in Italy. All that usual swagger is gone.

Back at the office in Emily in Paris Season 5 Episode 3, they are supposed to be chatting about the Intimissimi campaign, but Luc misreads the room and thinks Emily wants to talk about “intimacy” as in her feelings. He starts going off about emotional walls and personal growth, and it lands a little too close for Emily’s comfort. You can see her getting introspective about why she is so guarded.

Meanwhile, over on the Muratori set, it’s a total circus. Sylvie is all up in everyone’s business, poking holes in scenes, nitpicking performances, and just generally being a pain. Then she has a deep chat with Antonia about Antonia’s late husband, Umberto. Out of nowhere, Sylvie suggests changing the film’s ending to better please the client.

And Giancarlo loses it. He is fed up, accuses Sylvie of steamrolling his vision, and just peaces out. He leaves Sylvie standing there, forced to direct and wrap up the whole film solo.

Emily is barely keeping it together at work, and meanwhile, Mindy is freaking out about a big TV gig, Dance Dance Dance Italy. There’s a final lift she just can’t nail. She is so desperate that she ropes Alfie into rehearsing with her. And it actually works. With Alfie, the move just happens. They are pumped, adrenaline is high, and they kiss. The moment is brief, but it crosses a line neither of them fully acknowledges.

Fast forward to show night: Emily, Marcello, Alfie, and the crew show up to cheer Mindy on. Right before she hits the stage, her partner tries to warn her not to do the lift due to a back injury. But Mindy is lost in translation, feeling all confident from practice, she goes for it.

Disaster. The lift tanks and both crash to the floor. The judges give harsh comments and vote very low, thus humiliating them. Mindy is very disappointed; however, Emily and Alfie still want to console her.

To lighten the mood, Luc confesses that he has been saving money by staying in a convent with a very strict 11 p.m. curfew. He suggests that Bianca pay a visit, but she comes in late. Following the lock-out, Bianca flashes the Intimissimi lingerie she has on under her coat, thus dazzling Luc and the convent residents, who are all shocked by her performance.

So, later that night, Emily finally lets her guard down with Marcello. She just lays it all out how love, back home, always felt like something you had to earn. You mess up, and you are on the outside looking in. Perfection was currency, and she grew up thinking that’s just how you get by. No wonder she is addicted to chasing success. Rome, though, is kind of blowing her mind by revealing that maybe you don’t have to patch up every crack. Maybe things can just… be.

Marcello is a total gem here. He just listens with no judgment, no trying to fix her. He tells her she shouldn’t be so scared about what’s next. And maybe your future doesn’t need a ten-point plan.

The next morning, Emily is on fire. She shakes off all that baggage and totally flips her approach to Intimissimi. She goes in with a new pitch, new vibe, and they are in. Agence Grateau lands the deal, and just like that, the Rome office is safe. Emily goes to celebrate with Sylvie, but, of course, nothing is ever that simple. Turns out Giancarlo bailed on the Muratori project.

And then, Emily in Paris Season 5 Episode 3 just quiets down. Emily checks in on Mindy, who insists she’s fine. The reality gets exposed just a few moments later: Mindy is in a bed with Alfie, and this implies a transgression of boundaries, which is likely to cause a rift among the friends and make future interactions messy.

Emily in Paris Season 5 Episode 3 ends up on an ambiguous note with a number of storylines still hanging in the air. Emily’s professional success brings along the agency’s new tension, Sylvie has to deal with the spoils of Giancarlo’s leaving, and Mindy’s hasty move with Alfie could break one of Emily’s nearest friendships.

As the lines between personal and professional are increasingly crossed in Rome, the impact of these choices is only starting to reveal itself. The conflicts and emotional confrontations of the future episodes of Emily in Paris are hinted at already.

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