EPISODE
Pan Am - Season 1
Period drama about the pilots and flight attendants who once made Pan Am the most glamorous way to fly.
July 19, 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
14 May 1950, Newark, New Jersey, USA
19 July 1986, Pella, Iowa, USA
3 December 1975, New York City, New York, USA
6 September 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina
September 25, 2011
The show is dazzling to watch, with a huge assist from computer-graphics imagery.
September 25, 2011
The romance and the attractively stylized innocence of the era is addictive.
September 25, 2011
Beyond selling the glamour of it all, Pan Am may be very hard-pressed to come up with weekly storylines that impel viewers to climb aboard.
September 25, 2011
The careful attention to period detail is crucial here.
July 02, 2018
Garner definitely gets the most interesting stuff to do in the pilot and she handles it very well, but the other ladies manage to make their moments memorable, too.
July 19, 2018
Maybe it's all an ill-conceived homage to classic Sixties shows like The Man from UNCLE or The Saint.
September 16, 2013
Unlike Playboy's cramped, claustrophobic intrigue, at least Pan Am takes us somewhere.
September 25, 2011
The show does an incredible job of sweeping you into the era.
September 25, 2011
This is a soft-touch, mass-appeal '60s period piece.
September 25, 2011
There's soap here, and the liberated-woman part sometimes feels like a reach. But the show is fun.
November 21, 2019
A messy collision of genres mashing a Mad Men-inspired '60s homage with an empowerment story for women - and, believe it or not, a James Bond-style espionage thriller.
February 24, 2020
Pan Am is too obsessed with its surroundings, to focus on anything like characters or having a point.