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Episode 8 Review: Pan Am’s Dark Night.

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By  Michael Fitzgerald Troy

It’s fitting that Pan Am centers around a hurricane this week as the show seems to pick up speed. The first fifteen minutes read like a 70′s disaster film and I couldn’t be more thrilled. It’s exactly the white knuckled over the top excitement I was hoping for as the crew is forced to make an emergency landing in a closed airport because one of the passengers who is making his first flight is having a heart attack. And then? And then it becomes Tropic Thunder meets Hotel Rwanda meets The A-Team as the crew is stranded and terrorized in Haiti.

Flying On the Grift

My favorite sky doll, Maggie (Cristina Ricci) is up to her usual carry-on bag of tricks grifting and networking the passengers to ensure her and the other ladies get a coveted party invitation. (And Paris Hilton is lamented for attending the opening of an envelope!) Maintaining her cool as a cucumber demeanor all the while quoting Hemingway.

Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da

Colette continues to be a strong character and easily one of favorites. She makes me want to speak French ALMOST as much as sweet old Lady Marmalade.

Been Around the World and Back

I am glad that Pan Am has made it this far as I think it is starting to live up to it’s potential. I questioned wether it was suffering an identity crisis as it was and is a little all over the place. But hey, that’s life. Ups and downs. Camp and espionage. Highs and lows. Laughs and lulls. Glitz and glamour. That’s Pan Am. I’ll take business class, thanks.

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3 Responses to “Episode 8 Review: Pan Am’s Dark Night.”

  1. Sabrina #

    LOVED that episode! The part where Maggie throws the luggage over the side and then smirks “Thank you for flying Pan Am!” LMBO. Of course, the kiss with Dean and Collette was well worth waiting for :)

    November 17, 2011 at 3:41 PM Reply
  2. Millie #

    Too bad this was such a farce….landing a 707 in Haiti & I would love to know when they left so quickly……who moved the steps????? The dead PAX.
    NO airline would leave someone’s loved one on a tarmac in a foreign country.
    Like the show just with the 25 year old CA was a reality. In the 60s most CA were 50+
    This too is a goof…..but I could go on& on & ON about the gaffes….
    I do watch every show.

    November 17, 2011 at 4:07 PM Reply
  3. Riada #

    B707s did not have APUs, how did they have power in the cabin for lights and the galley or start the engines.

    February 17, 2012 at 4:02 PM Reply

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