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[QUOTE="Fast Learner, post: 5692551, member: 649"] [b]Person of Interest[/b]: The pilot felt like a somewhat muddled version of [i]The Early Edition[/i] with more action. Not a bad thing, but I'll need more to make it watching it a habit. With Abrams behind it I expect that there is more depth to come; I just with it had been in the pilot. [b]The Playboy Club[/b]: An attempt to take advantage of the popularity of [i]Mad Men[/i] by utilizing an early 1960's atmosphere, it includes some interesting dramatic twists from the start and plenty of lovely women, but the writing worked way too hard to paste Don Draper's charm on actor Eddie Cibrian. The character (and the actor) might well be charming, but you don't convince me by having other characters point out how charming he is. Good enough to give it another shot. [b]Pan Am[/b]: Another show attempting to grab that early '60s vibe, but this one doesn't mimic [i]Mad Men[/i] the same way, focusing primarily on the stewardesses and their lives. While it too will take more time to flesh out its characters in interesting ways, this feels like it has a lot more promise than [i]The Playboy Club[/i] and I'll definitely check out the next episode. Besides what I'll touch on below, the most jarring anachronism is that everyone in the cockpit crew is way, [i]way[/i] too young. Pan Am (like most airlines of the time) used very experienced pilots; in the early 60s plenty of them were WWII vets. Both [i]The Playboy Club[/i] and [i]Pan Am[/i] have several highly noticeable anachronistic changes that [i]Mad Men[/i] avoids (and in some cases actively embraces). The one that stands out the most is the lack of smoking; I remember well airplane cabins with smokers everywhere, the sound of a hundred lighters being flicked and matchbooks being struck the moment the "No Smoking" light went off. Other noticeable changes include comparatively little drinking and a lack of attention to the racial realities of the time (TPC touches on the latter but mostly avoids it). [/QUOTE]
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