Mr Selfridge

[desperatehousewife21]

Anyone watching? Looked for a thread but couldn't find one.

Can't stand those twins!! Gah!

[lorelei9]

The Victor actor has mostly been on stage so I don't know.

I meant the areas looked so nice and green. I'm just interested really, to know where they are meant to be.

[Housewife2010]

I thought Kitty looked fantastic when she left for New York. In an earlier series when Mae was married to a nasty Lord I never understand why they referred to her as Lady Mae. She should have been Lady (nasty Lord's title). She could only have been Lady Mae if she'd been an Earl's daughter and she wasn't. She was a former showgirl.

[lorelei9]

Housewife, Lady Mae always asked to be called Mae. I do recall others calling her Lady Loxley and then she would say "please call me Mae" e.g. guy at the bank. She didn't want to be associated with Loxley from early on, it seems.

so the short version is it is what she asked to be called.

[Housewife2010]

Thanks Lorelei.

[scarlets]

I find the storylines with Harry Selfridge in the club and the boardroom rather tedious. I prefer the "personal" to the "professional" - his platonic, trusting relationship with Mae, dangerous yet vulnerable Jimmy, Crabb's warm friendship with Groves, Josie's return, Kitty's career dilemma, the racist discord in the sewing room, Meryl's un-middle class aspirations, the frosty newspaper magnate's charity stuff/acquaintanceship with the Selfridge daughter...all that has been great. I could just do without the nightclub/casino scenes and those silly twins. It's all integral to the plot though, I know.

I concur that Gordon looks much too young to be the 30y old heir and the husband of the Welsh woman but I can overlook that because I think he plays "serious and buttoned up" rather well.

I love the fashions and the styling.

[Housewife2010]

Only one more episode left. Anyone else swooning over Mr Grove's house?