30 minSeason 1 • Episode 12
LatestMarianne makes a startling discovery about Fred, and she leaves to blow off steam. Nora and Julien start to face the facts about their dwindling relationship. Meanwhile, Gil’s family reunites in a time of crisis. Elsewhere, Allison makes her way home, where she hopes to start a new life.
Five women and Paris. Five ways of being, crying, screaming and laughing, missing the bus, grinding teeth, enjoying, not enjoying, drinking too much, growing up, resisting, making a child or not, do not wanting to go home... Five ways to love. Five everyday heroines across Paris, from the start of the school year to the Christmas holidays.
Acting
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's unraveling is devastatingly precise.
Direction
Breitman captures Paris as lived-in, not postcard-perfect.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like women talking, not performing.
Creator
Zabou Breitman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's 'etc.' is deliberate — French bureaucracy loves incomplete lists, and so does life. Breitman fought distributors who wanted 'Five Women in Paris' instead.
Nora's storyline with her brother's radicalization was rewritten after the 2015 Bataclan attacks, making her the show's unexpected political anchor.
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