While fans can still expect chaos and high fashion from as it returns for its fourth season, the new installment leaned into “darker” and more “sophisticated themes,” according to EP and director Andy Fleming. “This scene overall is darker — it takes place in the winter with more sophisticated themes, and it’s more complicated,” Fleming told TheWrap, adding that the “really strong season” has become his favorite installment for the series thus far. Picking up after Camille and Gabriel’s disastrous wedding in the Season 3 finale, relationships and friendships between Emily (Lily Collins), Camille (Camille Razat), Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) and Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) are left fractured, and the stakes are higher than ever with Camille carrying Gabriel’s unborn child.
Meanwhile, Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) is forced to confront her past when a journalist comes knocking about a #MeToo story centered on Sylvie’s former employer. As Emily navigates the fallout of Camille’s truth-bomb, Fleming pointed to an emotional fight between Emily and Gabriel, which marked a “turning point” for Emily when Gabriel tells her he’s tired of all the lies and she exclaims back, “So am I!” “She really connected with her gut there ..
. I’ve never heard Emily speak like that before,” Fleming said. “In her work life, there’s either success or failure, but what’s really interesting in in the romantic side of this year is that there’s no pure moment .