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Season 2 opens with Harry and his wife, Rose, having become increasingly estranged. He's thrilled when she returns to celebrate the fifth anniversary. There's still a rift between them exacerbated by the influence of novelist Delphine Day and their 15-year-old son who wants to leave school and work in the store.
The second go-around for Harry Selfridge and the commerce gang reeks of desperation, eschewing thoughtful, significant conflicts to become a turn-of-the-century Days of Our Lives.
Still impressively detailed and masterfully assembled, the show again focuses on the classed relations among employees and employers, relations that can be both supportive and dysfunctional, and, increasingly, affected by external forces.
The mood feels a little darker this year. Imminent world war can have that effect. But if things are a bit worse for the characters, they feel a little better for the rest of us.