SummaryBased on Émile Zola’s novel, Au Bonheur des Dames, Denise Lovett (Joanna Vanderham) is a young girl who joins the new department store The Paradise, where owner John Moray seeks to expand his store.
Created By:Bill Gallagher, Sarah Barton, Sarah Brown
❮ The Paradise
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Sep 25, 2012
Metascore
Generally Favorable
71
User score
Generally Favorable
7.4
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
71
78% Positive
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Oct 7, 2013
80
Impeccably cast, extremely handsome, predictably soapy and a trifle slow moving, it’s another first-rate costume drama.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.4
82% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
9% Mixed
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2 Ratings
Oct 14, 2013
10
A light romantic drama about an entrepreneur who opens the first department store in the UK. The storyline is much like Mr. Selfridge, but I prefer the set design and acting of the Paradise. It is visually delicious. I watch the show purely to be entertained and I am never disappointed.
Dec 19, 2017
8
Absolutely loved this series. Very sad there isn't going to be a series 3? i showed both series to my mother & sister and they both loved it as well. Why is it when a great English period drama comes along with no swearing & sex scenes it doesn't get much of a rating/ bring it back to series 3!!!
Oct 7, 2013
75
For now, though, it’s comfortable, but inessential. The performances blur together, as actors deliver lines in a competent, polite way, and everything is filmed in a hazy glow. There’s nothing wrong with any of it.
Oct 7, 2013
70
Paradise is based on a Zola novel but is redolent of Dickens, envisioning the store as an insular world full of colorful characters, with its sentimental and romantic upstairs-downstairs intrigues opulently packaged.
Oct 7, 2013
60
If the daily competitions for commissions don’t quite match the savagery of the male-on-male contests in Glengarry Glenross or In The Company of Men, they remain vicious enough to give the otherwise fluffy plotting a little bite.
Oct 7, 2013
50
It’s the last of the big-four British costume dramas of recent years to make its American public-television debut, after “Downton Abbey,” “Call the Midwife” and “Mr. Selfridge,” and it’s the most frivolous of the bunch, which is saying quite a bit.
Apr 24, 2014
8
It's Mr. Selfridge "light" which is odd because both are properties of Masterpiece Theatre and they premiered back-to-back. That being said, it's enjoyable to watch.
Oct 29, 2018
0
This movie is a feminist concoction that Emil Zola would not imagine. This could not have happened in the historical times depicted. Complete nonsense.
