EPISODE
SEASON
Season 2 opens with Harry and his wife, Rose, having become increasingly estranged. He's thrilled when she returns to celebrate the fifth anniversary. There's still a rift between them exacerbated by the influence of novelist Delphine Day and their 15-year-old son who wants to leave school and work in the store.
17 February 1947, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
20 January 1985, Slubice, Lubuskie, Poland
8 March 1957, Sheffield, England, UK
19 June 1989, Bristol, England, UK
20 April 1945, Brooklyn, New York, USA
19 June 1957, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
28 June 1966, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1981, Bromley, Kent, England, UK
1969, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1967, Great Cornard, Suffolk, England, UK
April 29, 2014
Though the central figure of Mr. Selfridge is obviously Harry Selfridge, it's really the supporting cast that makes the show come alive.
March 31, 2014
Still impressively detailed and masterfully assembled, the show again focuses on the classed relations among employees and employers, relations that can be both supportive and dysfunctional, and, increasingly, affected by external forces.
March 28, 2014
The mood feels a little darker this year. Imminent world war can have that effect. But if things are a bit worse for the characters, they feel a little better for the rest of us.
March 28, 2014
The reassembling of an enormous cast creates a vortex of engrossing new story lines, plots, dangers and passions.
May 10, 2014
The second go-around for Harry Selfridge and the commerce gang reeks of desperation, eschewing thoughtful, significant conflicts to become a turn-of-the-century Days of Our Lives.
March 25, 2014
This poor man's Downton Abbey about London's retail king is even more bloated and boring in season two.
