Pan Am (2011)

The jet age at its most polished. Pan Am follows the pilots and stewardesses of the Clipper Majestic from 1963, when a transatlantic ticket still meant dressing up, and it treats the uniforms, the mandatory girdles and the cabin service as part of the story rather than set dressing. The CIA courier subplot is the weaker half, and ABC canceled the show after a single season of 14 episodes, so the ending is not really an ending. Watch it for the crew rooms, the stopovers and the sense of a job that felt like the future.