Couch Potato Chronicles: Come Fly With Me

I hadn't intended to check out the new TV show "Pan Am" tonight, but this review makes me think, hm, maybe I should!

Like "Mad Men," "Pan Am" is about glamour, but unlike "Mad Men" there's no critique attached: This is not a story of manufactured desire and empty illusions. 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 — though anyone who has flown anywhere in the last, oh, 30 years, may find it difficult to believe, or to remember, that air travel ever was this gracious, customer-friendly or fun. (We are assured, by network communiques, and a little extra research, that it was.)

Air travel used to be fun, exciting, and even glamorous?  Golly!  I do recall older people saying that back in the day, people would dress up to go to the airport.  Ah, travel before the TSA!  Oh, and the show has Michael Moseley too -- so adorable in the now-(sadly)-defunct show "Kings."