Emily in Paris Fans Can't Stop Tweeting About the Show's 'Biggest Plot Hole'

There is, actually, a simple explanation, at least when it comes to the show's timeline: The seasons don't play out in real time. “Our seasons are not nine months long,” Emily in Paris creator Darren Star confirmed in an interview with Glamour. It's not unprecedented! There's a seasons-long pregnancy playing out on Virgin River, and the first three seasons of Grey's Anatomy canonically play out over the course of one year. 

If we accept that Emily has been in Paris for only about seven months, her whirlwind romances and many career adventures seem even more whirlwind-ish, but her progress in speaking French is far more impressive! And Mindy's career is taking off at lightning speed. On the other hand, this timeline puts Madeline back at work, like, a day after popping out that long-gestating baby, which also doesn't make a ton of sense!

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Perhaps the lesson here is, and we mean this totally respectfully, to just turn your brain off when you watch this series. Pretty dresses, pretty men, pretty Paris.

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