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Pan Am Episode 2: Everyone Goes to Paris, No One Enjoys It Much

October 3, 2011 at 9:14 AM | by | Comment (1)

Whew—ABC's Pan Am made it beyond its premiere to get a real series and now we see the beginnings of that, as everyone takes off to Paris on Pan Am's jet service and, as in the first episode, most of the major action happens while still onboard. This time around, however, we have the introduction of an angry—possibly vindictive—mother of the two sister stewardess, Kate and Laura, and the continuation of the Bridget-the-missing-CIA-agent-slash-stewardess plotline.

First let's talk about the elephant in the room. When did Laura get so blonde? Her hair has totally changed, and the show keeps this new look even in her wedding flashbacks when she had an obvious different look last episode. Details! In general though, we're liking the evil mother drama because it brings about actual surprises like the ex-fiance popping up, and great lines like this, yelled by Kate:

I rode an elephant in Bangkok last week! I watched the sun rise in Patagonia the week before that! You don't even have a passport.


Laura's mysteriously super-blonde hair

Kate's frustration with her family is growing on us, as we do get antsy with her sister Laura's naivete and we're really pushing for Kate to be a good CIA agent. Speaking of! Is Bridget going to be a real character in this show or what? She's there...and she's not. She's like the dead narrator voice of Desperate Housewives or something, and we're already tiring of the her-and-Dean story because he's so quickly moving on...to French flight attendant Colette, whom the show is quickly making out to be a slut.

We're afraid for Colette! She's being quite cavalier and that usually means something very bad is planned for her in the future. And Dean's half-assed attempts to track down Bridget while Colette flirting (simultaneously) are not doing anything toward making him a likable character.


Dean and Bridget chat with the proprietor of a Paris nightclub

And then the show finally gave Christina Ricci her moment when she stabs a First Class passenger with a salad fork for drunkenly attempting to assault her. Go, Christina! Or rather, her character Maggie. It seems that Maggie's deal is that she's to be on the edge of being fired all the time, despite being such an excellent flight purser that Pan Am specially heli'd her out to Idlewild (not called JFK Airport yet) for a flight on the first episode.

Next week's promo promises some servicemen and more CIA intrigue, so we'll see how things improve, if they do.

[Photos: ABC]

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I thought it was going to be like Mad Men, guess I was wrong!
dullo1 on October 3, 2011 at 11:58 AM #Permalink

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