This show had potential but it just came off as a complete bore.
I expected more from this but it seemed to take a present day attitude toward 1960s issues and there was no subtlety to what the characters said and did.
Instead of the characters speaking the subtext every thing was so direct.
What do you expect from broadcast network TV? All the good stuff is on cable or Netflix.
share100. This did not have the mature realistic writing of Mad Men.
shareYes, it had all the hallmarks of having been made for and shown on a bottom-feeder simplistic network like ABC, rather than the original AMC (when it was a class act channel and not what it became later), when AMC was more high concept and made Mad Men in the same way we hoped Pan Am would be made -- a careful recreation of the time and place that folks could look at and take in, along with great characters and plots that went deeper than a car park puddle....
But ABC? If ABC were a person and not a network, they'd have an IQ of 70.
I had very low expectations and they were met (not the casting or perfect design though, except for the absurd too-young captain with hair so long in the back is stuck out in shards below his cap). Ha.
No pilot in those days had hair that long. It just showed that ABC was more interested in having some of their "stars" look modern to cater to their fan base and it cheapened the whole thing. Imagine Don Draper without the 1960 haircut, haha!