Have not watched it, thus no opinion either way. But I've been seeing two different perspectives. One is the steady decline in viewership. The other more recent one, is that the show has eclectic tastes and if you stick with it, it's rather good. This of course was on opinion, but still.

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That's not good

The Genuine Article



I guess you can say this was the "origin" episode of Maggie (Christina Ricci) in where she started from and how she ended up at Pan Am. It was interesting, but I just don't see where this show is going or if it has the legs to make it to the end of the season. I will give it another couple of episodes to see if they can come up with something better.

Looking at the ratings numbers for the series it looks really bad, dropping from 11 million viewers of it's premiere to just a little over 5 million for this episode. Not good. I am interested to see Gaius Charles (Friday Night Lights) guest staring on a future episode of the series and it's really the only reason why I am giving the show a temporary reprieve till it airs.

Truth Or Dare



What a great episode. I think it helped the series that they simplified it and went with only 2 story lines, both dealing with the beginning of a relationship and the ending of another. The first one dealt with Joe (Gaius Charles) and Laura (Margot Robbie) attraction for each other in a time that wasn't always acceptable which created the bulk of tension. But I thought the scenes they shared together were fantastic. They left it open at the end for his character to return. The other story dealt with Kate (Kelli Garner) and Niko (Goran Visnjic) saying goodbye now that the US Government is forcing his hand to defect and work with them as a spy against his own country.

Overall this was a solid episode and if they decide to keep it simply like they did here at the exclusion of other characters, then so be it.

Unscheduled Departure



This is exactly the kind of episode I was expecting from the series. The entire episode consisted just of the plane, the crew and it's passengers as they make an emergency landing in Haiti when one of their Pan Am passengers has a heart attack. Adding a wrinkle to the mix is when the stewardess' allow a refugee to stowaway on board back to the states. Really good episode and I hope to see more of these kinds of episodes in the future.

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