Wall Street Journal by Dorothy Rabinowitz

A spectacularly entertaining enterprise.

Variety by Brian Lowry

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

New York Daily News by David Hinckley

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

The A.V. Club by Zack Handlen

For now, though, it’s comfortable, but inessential. The performances blur together, as actors deliver lines in a competent, polite way, and everything is filmed in a hazy glow. There’s nothing wrong with any of it.

TV Guide Magazine by Matt Roush

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.

Los Angeles Times by Robert Lloyd

A pleasingly soapy story of beating hearts and changing times.

Boston Globe by Matthew Gilbert

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

PopMatters by Maysa Hattab

If the daily competitions for commissions don’t quite match the savagery of the male-on-male contests in Glengarry Glenross or In The Company of Men, they remain vicious enough to give the otherwise fluffy plotting a little bite.

The New York Times by Mike Hale

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.