Warning: This post contains spoilers for Emily in Paris Season 4, Part 2.

An important central idea of Emily in ParisDarren Starr Sex and the City-lite Netflix series starring Lily Collins as a stranded American social media manager living and working in the French capital is that she just can’t get things together.

In the years Emily has been in Paris, she’s made a few faux pas. She once misunderstood European dating convention and botched a luxury dinner reservation for her clients, and once accidentally slept with her rival’s underage brother. And then there’s the egregious fact that she still doesn’t speak French, which, after four seasons, is finally becoming a sticking point in her relationship with the city.

But despite her many slip-ups, Emily’s frustrating charm lies in the fact that she always manages to turn the tables so that no one is left as an antagonist for long. Her cold French boss Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), who wanted to have her extradited from the country? Emily is now her most valuable employee. Her bored French classmate Alfie (Lucien Laviscount), who has no interest in taking Paris seriously? She persuades him to have a relationship.

What I mean to say is that Emily Cooper is not making any enemies – yet!

With the start of Part 2 of the fourth season of Emily in Paris, which includes five new episodes, a new enemy is introduced. And instead of another cold Frenchman that she must try to thaw out with a clever social media strategy, it is her own.

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Enter Genevieve, played by Thalia Besson (yes, Luc Besson’s daughter), the newly discovered 20-year-old daughter of Sylvie’s husband. Genevieve starts working as Sylvie’s assistant at Agence Grateau and is immediately taken under Emily’s wing as a protégé. However, all of this happens just as Emily has just broken up with Gabriel (Lucas Bravo), the hot chef she’s been pining after since she set foot in the City of Light, because he’s still in a relationship with his ex-girlfriend Camille (Camille Razat). Despite their breakup, Gabriel is Emily’s client, and if there’s one thing we know, it’s that Emily will never screw up a client relationship.

Tensions arise between the two during a photo shoot for Gabriel’s restaurant, and he eventually loses his temper, telling her that communication between them is so poor because they’ve only ever spoken English to each other (and Emily’s inability to remember a single French word is a problem, after all). He rants at her in French before storming off, leaving Emily confused.

Then Genevieve steps in because, as it happens, she speaks French and is able to translate Gabriel’s speech. She tells Emily that Gabriel doesn’t want to see her again, and Emily takes it at face value and leaves, being Emily.

But the thing is, Gabriel never actually said that. Genevieve just made that part up to get Emily out of the way. She wants Gabriel for herself and will do anything she can to get him (it should be noted that she has already spent a whole hour with him in the kitchen at this point, but Emily in Paris has never won an award for building up its drama slowly).

This act of meanness sets off a domino effect in later episodes, in which Emily tries to push aside any remaining feelings for Gabriel and pretends not to pine after him while Genevieve makes a pass at her. By the end of the series, Emily is cozying up to a new Italian lover, which makes the series’ shocking twist of her being relocated to Rome—yes, Emily in Paris will now be Emily in Rome!—easier for her to swallow.

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Let’s be honest: In the grand scheme of villainy, Genevieve’s little translation lie is worth far less than the misdeeds of Cersei Lannister or Hannibal Lecter. She’s just a girl in Paris trying to pick up a hot guy! But for Emily in Parisher appearance marks a surprising moment of character development for a series that has used this concept as a vague guideline rather than a rule. For the first time, Emily is faced with an adversary she can’t win over with a thousand likes on Instagram. Emily’s efforts at the office are no match for Genevieve, a freshman college student spending a European summer.

In typical Emily in Paris Genevieve doesn’t really win. In the end, Gabriel has politely rejected her advances and is ready to board a plane to Rome to win Emily back – although Emily doesn’t know that yet. She is already busy trying to find her Lizzie McGuire Moment on the back seat of a Vespa with her new darling Marcello.

But Genevieve’s bite added something spicy to the mix that broke through the show’s usual offering of fine French cuisine. It’s easy to scoff at that Emily in Paris for being, well, what it is. That was always the point, anyway! It’s a show that’s deliberately mindless but not completely stupid, the kind of series made for YouTube’s autoplay function. But with Sealson 4, it feels like the series is ready to be taken a little more seriously and approached with a little more urgency. It may not be prestige TV, but Emily hovering over the Instagram name edit button wondering whether she should change her name from @EmilyInParis to @EmilyInRome is a cliffhanger whose outcome we’re eagerly awaiting.