glossy shiny clashing stories
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.
score 6/10
SnoopyStyle 29 August 2015
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3306959/14241
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