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SPOILER ALERT This series blog is for viewers watching Pan Am on BBC2. Please don't read on if you haven't seen episode two – and if you've seen further in the series, please be aware that other viewers may not have done.
Despite the onslaught of criticism its debut received, I'm enjoying Pan Am. It's not clever, it's not realistic, it's got more anachronisms than The Hour and its "inspirational" dialogue is thuddingly absurd. But it's a retro Desperate Housewives with pop feminism and nice scenery. It's frivolous, escapist fun. Maggie
Plucky Maggie worked on John F Kennedy's cheap airline tickets canada election campaign. We find this out through a series of remarkably excitable facial expressions that are supposed to convey Christmas morning wonder but make her look as if she's on the verge of falling to the tarmac in a state of slobbering catatonia. Still, she gets a wave at the end of her mission to meet JFK, tells off the Village cheap airline tickets canada Voice journalist who can't understand why a stewardess would be reading "the voice of bohemia", and later, moves sweet, innocent Laura into her smoke-free bohemian apartment. Kate
Plucky Kate's intelligence career is taking off, despite her almost bungling every job she's had so far thanks to nerves and ineptitude, and her insubordinance, cheap airline tickets canada and her recklessness, and her lack of regard for international protocol. Still, she saved her German cheap airline tickets canada cohort's life, bought her sister a camera and managed to keep both her job as a stewardess and as a "courier", so it's another decent double bill for Nancy Flew. No? OK then. My apologies. Laura
Plucky Laura manages not to fall for Ted's slightly creepy charms, yet, and instead spends much of the time in Burma being taken in by Maggie's libertarian ways (she's not scared of lizards!), realising she shouldn't be clinging to Kate quite so closely, and deciding to stand on her own two feet, by moving into the cleanest-looking commune in all of history. Colette
Plucky Colette has no family, she tells Dean (known as Captain America from here on), and on her first trip to Berlin, we learn why: they were killed during the Nazi occupation of France. So Colette gets drunk and realises she hasn't forgiven the Germans at all, and sings Deutschland Uber Alles at a posh presidential party – a moment that crackled with sadness, thanks to Karine Vanasse's decent acting. The men
I don't really care about Ted or Captain America yet, even given Ted's tragic military back story, and there was too much of them in the second episode tonight. Their bromance would lend itself cheap airline tickets canada nicely to fan-fiction of an unwholesome cheap airline tickets canada sort, however. Notes and observations
• As a reformed nervous flyer, the Hong Kong landing approach unsurprisingly brought back some of the old wobbles. But of course Captain A had it all under control. He's no Captain Phil from my Flying Without Fear course, mind you.