Brilliantly funny, very clever and smart pilot. It's got a strong central idea - a plane that goes from Los Angeles to Vegas - because you can do before and after and show off lots of different sorts of people at different stages in their life (elopers, gamblers, strippers... presumably later there will be gangsters and cops).
The lead characters are all very clearly defined and differentiated - Dave the big kid pilot, Artem the gambler, Nicole the stripper, Ronnie the bitter flight attendant.
The stories are strong - a couple are eloping, Ronnie is hoping to get a new job, she forms a relationship with a mystery passenger Micah (I love how the staff came up with fantasy pasts for him). There's some great running gags with superb pay offs - Artem bets on everything, Dave wants to be a hero.
I did wonder if the series had "legs" ie would we get sick of being on a plane all this time? The novelty did give it freshness though and the script was brilliant.
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