I read about this show at the same time it was announced there would also be a show about Playboy Bunnies. It seemed that networks wanted to capitalize on the success of Mad Men and the popularity of the mid-century period, and make shows about "stewardesses" and cocktail waitresses in an era when they were the most objectified. I know at that time, the fledgling air travel industry was a great direction to go for young women who didn't want to go the nurse/secretary/homemaker route, but it was also a rampantly chauvinistic boys club and they were treated like shit.

Does the show address those issues, or just romanticize the glamorous golden age of travel without peeking into the darker corners? How do these women have agency in an environment where they are basically pretty ornaments getting their asses groped by businessmen? If there IS female empowerment, is it diminished by diverting into romantic story lines so soon into the series, before their characters are even fully developed?

From one feminist to another, I'm curious.