9.060 minSeason 2 • Episode 8
LatestClémence returns to the Paradise and a moment of reckoning forces Moray to risk everything
An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the pasts that follow them there. A love story, mystery, and social comedy all in one.
Costume
Silks and bustles that cost more than your car.
Production
The store itself: a cathedral to consumption.
Creator
Bill Gallagher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed in a real restored Victorian department store in County Durham—the building's original fixtures appear throughout.
Based on Émile Zola's novel 'Au Bonheur des Dames,' which savagely critiqued the new consumer culture; the BBC version noticeably softens the political bite.
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