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With all eight of its episodes dropping in than a month, HBO Max s acclaimed thriller
The Flight Attendant gave viewers a winter send-off with the TV equivalent of a summer beach read. Based on the actual book from author Chris Bohjalian,
The Flight Attendant delivered plenty of drunken turbulence for Kaley Cuoco s Cassie Bowden and a variety of other characters ahead of the Season 1 finale. But it all came to an end (for now) with the episode Arrivals and Departures, which tied up the storyline s loose threads in ways that practically begged for a second season to be ordered.
Let s be clear about HBO’s new suspense-dramedy
The Flight Attendant: its protagonist is a hard-partying, fast-living individual who blithely walks right into trouble.
And when we say “hard-partying”, we mean reckless boozing, lost weekends, memory gaps, one guy’s bed being as good as any other, you know the routine.
Also, as it becomes obvious to the viewer by the fourth episode, flight attendant Cassie Bowden (
The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco) did not exactly have the greatest father figure growing up.
And there’s a good reason why we see a lot of awkwardness when she tries to do a simple thing like set up a meet with her visiting brother Davey (T.R. Knight of
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The unreliable narrator is still having its heyday in the peak television era, and its latest iteration comes in the form of Kaley Cuoco’s Cassie Bowden in HBO Max’s new series,
The Flight Attendant. To be fair, that is an oversimplification of what
The Flight Attendant is, and undermines how well it plots and unravels a mystery through its protagonist’s internalizations and guilty conscience, all the while being darkly clever, and highly entertaining.
Adapted from Chris Bohjalian’s novel of the same name, the show follows Cassie, a flight attendant who is also a debatably functioning alcoholic. The opening moments of the series are presented in a split screen of several frames of Cassie’s clubbing and drinking and then scrambling to get to work on time before the flight to Bangkok she’s scheduled to work takes off. During the flight, she serves the handsome Alex Sokolov (Michiel Huisman), a first-class passenger reading
Ranking the Many, Many Crimes Committed in ‘The Flight Attendant’
Sure, there is one biggie that sets off the show’s plot, but there are A TON more after that
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A crime is what we start with in
The Flight Attendant: Someone murders the handsome passenger that the titular flight attendant, Cassie (Kaley Cuoco), had spent a woozy, boozy night out with in Bangkok. The mystery of who did the deed and why and if Cassie, who wakes up beside his body with spotty memories of the preceding evening, was involved drives the plot.
But from there, there are a whole lot more crimes many of which are not even related to what happened in Bangkok or committed by Cassie. So: Behold a dissection of all the crimes OK, not
The Flight Attendant - Series Review
Starring Kaley Cuoco from The Big Bang Theory HBO Max hits it out of the park with their premiere original series. (Source: HBO MAX) By Craig Thornton | December 22, 2020 at 2:47 PM EST - Updated December 23 at 9:08 AM
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The Flight Attendant
The Flight Attendant is an eight-episode series streaming on HBOMAX. A prestige, high budget project produced by Kaley Cuoco and her production company, it’s a genre bending thrill ride. It is billed as a comedy, drama, mystery thriller, but classifying it or labeling it, isn’t so easy. Call it what you want, it’s fantastic.