I guess there’s one now. 
Another significant time jump since the prior season. Actually, two! “Nine months later” after the funeral. No pregnancy involved, though, unless Mrs. Grove was pregnant again. 
Rose dying was no surprise, between last season’s foreshadowing and the real Rose’s 1918 death. Edwards marrying Kitty wasn’t a big surprise. Florian dying was a big surprise. :mad: I suspected Henri had PTSD as soon as Agnes insisted on marrying him right away. Lord Loxley’s return wasn’t a surprise because PBS promo’d the heck out of it. George Towler clearly has a bromance/mancrush on Victor. 
Loved that Thackeray finally went a step too far and got sacked – why he still was at Selfridge’s after he got Henri falsely arrested for espionage is anyone’s guess. 
I was surprised to learn from Wikipedia that the Irish department store purchase in 1919 – from which Selfridge was returning by airplane near the beginning of the episode – was real. Buying a store in Dublin during the Irish Civil War sounds like a worse idea than investing in subsidized housing in Acton. But Mr. Crabb didn’t mention that aspect when he [del]pulled the rug out from under Selfridge[/del] made his report to the board. :smack:
Did anyone else notice chemistry between Selfridge and the lady promoting the subsidized housing (can’t recall her character’s name though she showed a business card :smack:)? I liked this plot for various reasons: Selfridge memorializing Rose but also starting to move on, Crabb having to choose the board over Mr. Selfridge (that is, the store having gone public, it’s no longer the case that the store IS Selfridge), the obvious bidding war with Lord Loxley for the Acton land, etc.
Sergei full-of-himself and his mother the sponger were irritating every time they’re on the screen, as I’m sure the writers intended. I hope the samovar, which nobody in the Selfridge household (servant or family) liked or could even figure out, explodes when nobody’s in the room. Sergei is also not the brightest tool in the shed – he as much as said he married Rosalie because he thought Selfridge was an aviation fan who’d finance his work, before his mother cut the toast short. On the other hand, while Sergei’s clearly being played for a sucker by Loxley, Selfridge never bothered to explain why Loxley can’t be trusted. :smack:
