Spoiler Alert: This interview contains spoilers from Season 5 of “Emily in Paris.”
Darren Star had come a long way with his eye-candied romantic comedy series “Emily in Paris,” which was first met with a Parisian shrug when it bowed on Netflix in 2020 and has now been embraced by millions, including French President Emmanuel Macron, who named Star Knight of the Legion of Honor for his contribution to the country earlier this week.
When Star set off to create “Emily in Paris,” he didn’t anticipate that it would become such a pop-culture juggernaut that would boast the French economy — driving…