Critic Reviews

A gorgeous production, though the story sometimes keeps it on the tarmac.

So far, so great.

Watching Pan Am is like getting a free upgrade to escapist class.

Pan Am's easy whirl fits the bill, when its chatter is snappy and also when it's not.

The glamour in Pan Am may indeed be manufactured--doubly manufactured, given the re-created places and planes--but it's not empty: The show says, yes, this is as good as it looks, and it looks very good

Derivative Pan Am may be, but that doesn't make it any less watchable.

It's definitely a flight worth booking.

Pan Am is nostalgic bonbons for the mind, made with the finest ingredients.

The romance and the attractively stylized innocence of the era is addictive, but the espionage plot, with its link to political history, is absurd.

The show is fueled with so much soap-operatic hot air that it takes off. [26 Sep 2011, p.54]