I haven't read the Zola book upon which this series is supposedly based but I have read Zola and there is NO WAY this reflects anything he wrote-- i.e.., an innocent rube's sugar-coated rise to the top. Zola's books were tough, his kind of realism is not reflected in this series. Moreover the series in NO WAY reflects the time in which it was made -- men and women -- in Victorian England no less -----kissing out in the street with impunity, inter-racial sex, women wanting it all and to be treated equally to a man, not to mention the lesbian French woman- a cliché of both lesbians and French, get real, this is not 2020, it's mid -1800. The best thing about this series to me was the store itself, nicely done; I like the costumes too -- the matching hats with the dresses, good work. Other than that thumbs down -- it was a boring slog to get through, but I did, yay me.
Review of The Paradise
