Started watching Pan Am with the family (note, we usually don't take up watching TV regularly, but it's something we can all do together and we wanted to give it a chance - takes place in my favorite era, great production value, lots of pretty girls, what's not to love?) I thought the pilot was pretty good - but it under delivered - it seemed kind of light and perhaps too deliberate in construction. The second episode improved some - characters building, interest building, acting actually pretty top notch, especially Christina Ricci - getting promising.
I just got to watch episode three - and let me tell you, if you wrote off Pan Am after watching episode one, or didn't give it a chance thinking it a too light confection that overplays a false sense of feminism to mask the sexist underbelly of a postwar world finding its stride in prosperity (well, maybe you didn't think about it that much): IF you did then you've missed out.
If there is any way to un-jump the shark, Pan Am just did it - in slow motion, but episode three was and is a finely crafted piece of television. I hope they keep this curve up.
Bravo.
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