History Series / MrSelfridge

--> '''Lady Mae''': When Lord Loxley is in London, I'm in the country, and when Lord Loxley is in the country, I'm in London. That's the secret of a happy marriage.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Miss Bunting]], due to financial difficulties.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Florian]] unceremoniously dies off-screen in WWI. Presumably he had to die because [[spoiler: all other main characters (Henri, George, Groves and Victor) survive their tours of duty.]]

** [[spoiler: Josie]] uses almost these exact words to explain why she broke up with [[spoiler: Florian, her much younger love interest.]] She suspects he will one day want children, which she cannot provide.

* MyBelovedSmother: Princess Marie to Serge

* PutOnABus: Despite being a major player in Season 1, [[spoiler: Miss Ravillious]] never appears again. Mr. Crabb casually mentions that she took a job elsewhere.
** [[spoiler: Henri and Agnes]] move to France together in the middle of Season 3 and are never seen again.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Josie Mardle. Tries to be cool and controlled, is actually secretly cute and sweet.

''Mr Selfridge'' is a TV series, airing on Creator/{{ITV}} (UK) and Creator/{{PBS}} (US) since 2013, about the American Harry Selfridge (Jeremy Piven), who moves to London in 1909 with the intention of building a magnificent new department store. Drama ensues as he tries to make his store successful in spite of conservative British customs, his opportunist financier Lady Mae (Katherine Kelly), his own marital troubles with his wife Rose (Frances O'Connor), and, in season 2, the impending World War One.

* NoNameGiven: Mr Thackeray, Mr Crabb and Lord Loxley. As of Series 3, Mr Crabb's first name is Arthur .

* GenderBlenderName: Everyone assumes Miss Mardle's Belgian border is going to be a woman because of the name Florian. Turns out, he is very much male.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Josie Mardle. Tries to be cool and controlled, is actually secretly cute and sweet.
* YourCheatingHeart: Harry. Rose. Lady Mae. Mr Grove. Just about everyone.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Josie Mardle. Tries to be cool and controlled, is actually secretly {{adorkable}} and sweet.

Meanwhile, shopgirl Agnes Towler (Aisling Loftus) has her own personal troubles to deal with, including her rebellious brother George (Calum Callaghan), her rivalry with catty shopgirl Kitty (Amy Beth Hayes), and her burgeoning romance with Henri [=LeClair=] (Grégory Fitoussi); and Josie Mardle (Amanda Abbington) tries to stay strong in the face of her secret love affair with Mr Grove (Tom Goodman-Hill).

* ShedTheFamilyName: A variation: Lady Loxley insists on being addressed as Lady Mae[[note]]despite this being technically incorrect; see UsefulNotes/KnightFever[[/note]]. Probably because her husband Lord Loxley is a total jerk and {{domestic abuser}}.

** Youngest Selfridge daughter Bea disappears after season 2.

* NoNameGiven: Mr Thackeray, Mr Crabbe and Lord Loxley. As of Series 3, Mr Crabb's first name is Arthur .

* NoNameGiven: Mr Thackeray, Mr Crabbe and Lord Loxley. As of Series 3, Mr Crabb's first name is Arthur

* PornStash: Gordon acquires a small one in 2.03. (By today's standards, it wouldn't be considered porn at all: the pictures are of women wearing knee-length dresses, sitting on beds, but the characters treat them as "racy". TruthInTelevision, as in the 1910s a respectable woman would ''never'' wear clothing that revealed even her ankles in public - [[FullyClothedNudity a knee-length skirt]] was practically nudity.)

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ernest Shackleford, Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, Anna Pavlova, all of whom made RealLife appearances at Selfridges. In Season Two, [[SilentMovie producer Mack Sennett and actress Mabel Normand]] appear (although ''not'' in RealLife).

* NoNameGiven: Mr Thackeray, Mr Crabbe and Lord Loxley.
** As of Series 3, Mr Crabb's first name is Arthur

* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: Breaks out in Season Two.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ernest Shackleford, ArthurConanDoyle, Anna Pavlova, all of whom made RealLife appearances at Selfridges. In Season Two, [[SilentMovie producer Mack Sennett and actress Mabel Normand]] appear (although ''not'' in RealLife).

* HomeByChristmas: What ''almost'' every one keeps saying will happen when [[spoiler: the male Selfridges employees go off to fight in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.]]

* HomeByChristmas: What ''almost'' every one keeps saying will happen when [[spoiler: the male Selfridges employees go off to fight in WorldWarOne.]]

* WorldWarOne: Breaks out in Season Two.

* ShedTheFamilyName: A variation: Lady Loxley insists on being addressed as Lady Mae[[note]]despite this being technically incorrect; see TheBritishTitleSystem[[/note]]. Probably because her husband Lord Loxley is a total jerk and {{domestic abuser}}.

* MissKitty: Delphine Dey, author and owner of a high class drinking establishment, in Season Two. She becomes [[spoiler: friends with Rose Selfridge.]]

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Josie Mardle. Tries to be cool and controlled; is actually secretly {{adorkable}} and sweet.

''Mr Selfridge'' is a TV series about the American Harry Selfridge (Jeremy Piven), who moves to London in 1909 with the intention of building a magnificent new department store. Drama ensues as he tries to make his store successful in spite of conservative British customs, his opportunist financier Lady Mae (Katherine Kelly), his own marital troubles with his wife Rose (Frances O'Connor), and, in season 2, the impending World War One.

* CareerVersusMan: A remarkably sympathetic case. [[spoiler:Agnes]] quits her job at Selfridge's without a second of hesitation in order to [[spoiler:return to his home in France with her shell-shocked husband]], telling Harry Selfridge that "He's more important to me than anything". [[spoiler:Henri]] is aghast, telling her that she can't sacrifice her career for him, but she tells him point blank that "it doesn't mean anything without you." Given just how bad his PTSD was, nobody thinks she made the wrong choice, though Harry admits without shame that he'll miss her terribly.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: So, so much. Woman employees are fired if they decide to marry (and note that Harry is supposed to be a fairly progressive employer); Harry's wife Rose shrugs on his sleeping with other women but woe on Rose if she even kisses another man; the Empire Exhibition treats the British Empire as a fantastic thing with no consideration for the negative sides of colonization, and so on...

* CassandraTruth: Whatever Mr Crabb says about the finances

* HomeByChristmas: what ''almost'' every one keeps saying will happen when [[spoiler: the male Selfridges employees go off to fight in WorldWarOne.]]

* WorldWarOne: breaks out in Season Two.

* CassandraTruth: Whatever Mr Crabb says about the fiances