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Over the last few years, I’ve added an increasing number of TV shows to my review schedule as streaming platforms such as Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ and Amazon Prime and the good old-fashioned broadcast networks churn out massive amounts of content some of it on a par with the very best of cinema. This is the Platinum Age of Television, and while it would be impossible to keep up with every new series, I sifted through more than 100 titles that debuted in 2020, and these were my absolute favorites.
Cassie (Kaley Cuoco) has a mystery to solve on “The Flight Attendant.”
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
And Season Two IS Happening!
By Jessica MasonDec 18th, 2020, 1:15 pm
If you think of TV shows like food, some are as sweet and insubstantial as cotton candy, some are comforting like a delicious burger, and … some are overcooked and unseasoned. If HBO Max’s
The Flight Attendant was food, it would be a gourmet prix fixe eight-course tasting menu, the kind that where the cook needs to use tweezers to delicately place a rose petal on top of caviar or something. This show was so meticulous, finely crafted, and wildly entertaining that I can’t think of a better descriptor than gourmet television.
The Flight Attendant closed one chapter, but may have left the door open for another.
Billed as a miniseries, the eight-episode HBO Max thriller certainly left a lot of questions unanswered in the end, even as Cassie s (Kaley Cuoco) topsy-turvy, chaotic and incredibly messy journey seemed to wrap up on a bright note. After catching Alex Sokolov s real killer, Felix (ahem, Buckley Ware), with the help of an unlikely ally in Miranda (Michelle Gomez), Cassie turned over a new leaf, vowing to leave behind the demons of her past a troubled childhood, the excessive drinking, the never-ending spiral to break the cycle and start anew. Will she accomplish her goal of recovery and sobriety? Potentially. The open-endedness of that question left more intriguing with the possibility that Cassie may be recruited into the CIA s asset program. (Seriously, there is so much to digest!)