EPISODE
SEASON
The story of a young woman who works in a department store and gets caught up in the charms of the modern world.
1964, Cherbourg, Manche, France
27 February 1980, Romford, Essex, England, UK
1979, Rotherham, Yorkshire, England, UK
24 March 1945, Berkshire, England, UK
19 November 1968, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
19 September 1954, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
15 March 1949, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, UK
2 August 1981, England, UK
October 08, 2013
Impeccably cast, extremely handsome, predictably soapy and a trifle slow moving, it's another first-rate costume drama that should keep an older audience happily diverted until Thanksgiving, when the great ship Downton Abbey looms closer on the horizon.
January 07, 2019
The Paradise blew its budget on fancy packaging and forgot about the product. I was left feeling short-changed.
January 07, 2019
Television drama risks becoming not a department store but a one-product shop.
January 07, 2019
It will engage - though not obsess - those of us who enjoy parsing out the morals and manners of another time and place.
January 07, 2019
The first episode was such a pastiche, it's hard to see how Wood could manage to send it up any further.
July 01, 2015
TV series about a spirited and creative young woman whose enthusiasm for work is a wonder to behold.
October 08, 2013
Buyer beware: You're about to be charmed.
January 07, 2019
The Paradise's eight-hour journey eventually resolved itself into an unequal tussle between love and pragmatism.
October 08, 2013
A spectacularly entertaining enterprise.
October 08, 2013
It suffers at times from a reductive, pastel-tinted chick-lit treatment.
October 08, 2013
The dramas, rivalries, kindnesses and treacheries begin almost at once, and as in all the best PBS series, they are well-drawn. Only the finest soap.
October 14, 2013
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.
