It's 1963. Laura Cameron (Margot Robbie) is a runaway bride following her black sheep sister Kate (Kelli Garner) to be a Pan Am stewardess. Kate is recruited by government agent Richard Parks (Jeremy Davidson) to be a secret courier. Maggie Ryan (Christina Ricci) is the sassy wild one. Colette Valois (Karine Vanasse) is the worldly French one. Ted Vanderway (Michael Mosley) and Dean Lowrey (Mike Vogel) are pilots.It is a glossy mix of disparate and clashing story styles. The family drama of Kate and Laura is probably the most compelling and starts the show on the right foot. The cold war espionage drama is probably the most clashing. It is tonally a completely different show. Annabelle Wallis haunts the show like a ghost. Colette is probably the darkest. Again her dark tones clash with the bright shiny show. Christina Ricci is probably the most disappointing because the show struggles to find a long term stable story for her. Dean is weakly written or weakly performed. Ted has some good daddy issues but he gets annoying. This is a glossy shiny recreation of an era that is a bit too glossy. The clashing tones keep it from a stable platform. There is some good work from these beautiful women but the TV show struggles to figure out what it wants to be. It is a flighty workplace melodrama one minute and a dangerous espionage show the next.

Everything in the story looked perfect to me. And personally I enjoyed all episodes. I wonder that I watched this show in march 2014. And some of the actors have became mainstream movie stars.The depiction of aviation industry in general and life behind it was quite nicely done. The spying part, different country life, was all done well. The show was glamorous not to mention.The depiction of life in Russia was also good and funny. And I was little bit went into that time and it made me think about life in Russia in that era. The last episode was ended happily. But I wanted that it should continue. And I was sad that its getting over. Because I really liked it. All the actors have done good job and I wish them all the best for their future carriers. And hope for the best, this show will continue someday. May be aviators, navigators, and stewards life in 40's and 50's .

Pan Am is a great show. I am obsessed with learning about past decades, especially the 50's and 60's. I was really excited when the show started and every week I'm anxiously waiting to watch the next episode. I think the whole plot is really interesting. Some people have said it doesn't show how Pan Am truly was in the 60's, but the show wasn't meant to give everyone a history lesson. It is meant to give people an idea of what life was like back then for people, mostly focusing on the lives of Pan Am stewardesses and pilots. I'm sure most people know that not all of Pan Am's employees behaved the same way or had the same lifestyles as the characters in the show. This show is really good and I hope it gets brought back for another season. If it doesn't I will be really disappointed. It is a lot better than some other shows out there. And for the people who complain that it's on too late, you can watch it anytime on ABC.com or on demand. I think the show is good for pretty much any age group over 12 years old.

I was a Pan Am Pilot for 20 years- started three years after the time in which the Series was set. To start with the (admittedly few)positives, the CGI of the 707's the uniforms, the JFK Worldport were great from a nostalgic point of view. They even had the proper engines on the 707 for 1963.That's about it... A Captain who looks like John Boy Walton or a New Hire Male Flight Attendant with the wrong hat is bad enough, but how he got there out of Seniority is ridiculous. In the elevator with Juan Trippe- I seriously doubt that Mr. Trippe ever rode the "Economy Class" elevator. He starts telling Mr. Trippe how to run his Airline- I suspect that Trippe would have personally thrown him out of a window. Trippe is so impressed that he makes him a Captain out of Seniority- and ALPA (the Union)shuts down the whole operation. Other than that, very plausible.The history of Pan Am is filled with so many great stories- so much better than the vapid pap that these writers turn out. Maybe an adventure series would have worked better than this idiotic Soap... at least it would have had variety.I watched the first few and just couldn't do it any more until last night. I initially thought it was at least a little better. Took me back to the early Moscow flights. Yes, we really were required to take along a Russian "Navigator." The KGB tailed us in a manner that would have been obvious to Inspector Clouseau (they should have- most of us were still Reserve Military Officers). They throw in another Captain who could actually pass for a Pan Am Pilot. Maybe they're getting warmer, I thought.And then one of the gals (we used to call them Beanies because of the hats they wore) is having an affair with a Congressman. One of the Boy Aviators says something like "You're not sleeping with a Republican!!!!" Now not condoning or condemning, but at that time 96% of the guys were former Military Pilots and, politically, pretty uniformly between Bill Buckley and Ghengis Kahn. I know your writer was itching to take a jab at the hated Republicans, but really....