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- 2012
- TV-PG
- PBS
- 2012
- TV-PG
- PBS
Summary Based 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
- 2012
- TV-PG
- PBS
- 2012
- TV-PG
- PBS
The Paradise
Season 1 Premiere: 2012
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7.5
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Summary Based 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
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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22% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
71
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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A spectacularly entertaining enterprise.
Impeccably cast, extremely handsome, predictably soapy and a trifle slow moving, it’s another first-rate costume drama.
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.
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.
A pleasingly soapy story of beating hearts and changing times.
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.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
7.5
83% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
7.5
83% Positive
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
8% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
8% Negative
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Initial Release Date: 2012
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-PG
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Awards
Music + Sound Awards, International
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Music + Sound Awards, UK
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Televisual Bulldog Awards, UK
• 1 Nomination
