The Paradise: Season 1

METASCORE

Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Ratings

See All

7.4

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

7.4	Your Score
7.4	User Score Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Ratings

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Season Details & Credits

PBS | BBC | BBC One | Season Premiere Date: September 25, 2012

Starring: David Hayman, Sarah Lancashire, Elaine Cassidy

Summary: In 1875, new salesgirl, Denise Lovett (Joanna Vanderham) attracts the attention of John Moray (Emun Elliott), the owner of the department store, The Paradise, in this adaptation of Émile Zola’s novel, Au Bonheur des Dames.

Creator: Bill Gallagher

Genre(s): Drama

Watch Now

Buy on

Stream On

Expand

Season 1 Episodes

tbd
S1:E8. Episode 8
Air Date: November 13, 2012
tbd
S1:E7. Episode 7
Air Date: November 6, 2012
tbd
S1:E6. Episode 6
Air Date: October 30, 2012

See all Seasons and Episodes

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

Brian Lowry

Oct 7, 2013

Impeccably cast, extremely handsome, predictably soapy and a trifle slow moving, it’s another first-rate costume drama. Read full review

David Hinckley

Oct 7, 2013

The dramas, rivalries, kindnesses and treacheries begin almost at once, and as in all the best PBS series, they are well-drawn. Read full review

Dorothy Rabinowitz

Oct 7, 2013

A spectacularly entertaining enterprise. Read full review

Matthew Gilbert

Oct 7, 2013

It will engage--though not obsess--those of us who enjoy parsing out the morals and manners of another time and place. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Oct 7, 2013

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. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Oct 7, 2013

A pleasingly soapy story of beating hearts and changing times. Read full review

Mike Hale

Oct 7, 2013

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. Read full review

SEE ALL 9 REVIEWS

User Score

Write a Review

7.4

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

User Reviews

dramaaddict

Oct 14, 2013

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.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

ursomniac

Apr 24, 2014

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.

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

kinson

Dec 19, 2017

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!!!

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

StellaBe

Oct 29, 2018

This movie is a feminist concoction that Emil Zola would not imagine. This could not have happened in the historical times depicted. Complete nonsense.

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

Seasons & Episodes

71

Series Overview
Season 2

tbd
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: October 20, 2013
Season 1

71
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 25, 2012
- tbd
  S1:E8. Episode 8
  Air Date: November 13, 2012
- tbd
  S1:E7. Episode 7
  Air Date: November 6, 2012
- tbd
  S1:E6. Episode 6
  Air Date: October 30, 2012
- tbd
  S1:E5. Episode 5
  Air Date: October 23, 2012
- tbd
  S1:E4. Episode 4
  Air Date: October 16, 2012
- tbd
  S1:E3. Episode 3
  Air Date: October 9, 2012
- tbd
  S1:E2. Episode 2
  Air Date: October 13, 2013
- tbd
  S1:E1. Episode 1
  Air Date: October 6, 2013
- tbd
  S1:E1. Episode 8
  Air Date: November 13, 2012