History Series / MrSelfridge

* As of Series 3, Mr Crabb's first name is Arthur

* DoubleStandard: See DeliberateValuesDissonance for one example.
%%* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Miss Bunting]], poor thing.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ernest Shackleford, ArthurConanDoyle, Anna Pavlova, all of whom made RealLife appearances at Selfridges.

* MayDecemberRomance: The past-childbearing-age [[spoiler:Josie Mardle]] with [[spoiler:her much younger Belgian boarder, Florian Dupont]]. She thinks it could never work because of this; he doesn't give a damn and wants her anyway.

* YourCheatingHeart: Harry. Rose. Lady Mae. Mr Grove. Probably everyone.

Meanwhile, shopgirl Agnes Towler (Aisling Loftus) has her own personal troubles to deal with, including her rebellious brother George (Calum Callaghan) 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).

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Miss Bunting]], poor thing.

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: Miss Bunting]], poor thing.

* DrivenToSuicide: Miss Bunting, poor thing.

* [[DrivenToSuicide: Miss Bunting]], poor thing.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: So, so much. Women 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 negative sides of colonization, and so on...

''Mr Selfridge'' is a TV series about the American Harry Selfridge, 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, his own marital troubles and, in season 2, the impending World War One.

The principal cast includes Jeremy Piven as Harry Selfridge, Frances O'Connor as Rose Selfridge, Aisling Loftus as Agnes Towler, Grégory Fitoussi as Henri [=LeClair=], Amanda Abbington as Josie Mardle, and Katherine Kelly as Lady Mae.

* DomesticAbuse: Lord Loxley on Lady Mae.

* GoldDigger: Lady Mae: it's implied she married Lord Loxley purely for the money and title.
* NoNameGiven: Mr Thackeray, Mr Crabbe and Lord Loxely.

* ShedTheFamilyName: A variation: Lady Loxley insists on being addressed as Lady Mae. Probably because her husband Lord Loxley is a total jerk.
* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler:Florian]] gives one to [[spoiler:Miss Mardle]] as she's trying to list all the reasons a relationship between them would never work.
* YourCheatingHeart: Harry. Rose. Lady Mae. Probably everyone.

Mr Selfridge is a TV series about the American Harry Selfridge, 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, his own marital troubles and, in season 2, the impending World War One.

Mr Selfridge has examples of the following:

* EverythingLooksSexierIfFrench: Oh, Henri. Is there a woman you haven't charmed?

* 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 - ShowSomeLeg was practically nudity.)

* 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".)

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