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.
Kaley Cuoco Thanks You for Flying With âThe Flight Attendantâ
Cuoco, the star and executive producer of the HBO Max thriller, and the showrunner Steve Yockey discuss the season finale and their ideas for Season 2.
“The Flight Attendant” is part mystery-thriller and part screwball comedy. “It was so tonally challenging, I did every scene multiple ways,” Kaley Cuoco said.Credit.Colin Hutton/HBO
By Jennifer Vineyard
This interview includes spoilers for Thursdayâs finale of âThe Flight Attendant.â
Early in âThe Flight Attendantâ on HBO Max, Kaley Cuocoâs titular character Cassie asks, âWhatâs wrong with messy?â Sheâs referring partly to her taste in Russian literature (long story) but also to herself. Whatâs wrong with being a little complicated, she wonders?
Kaley Cuoco s The Flight Attendant earns Season 2 renewal from HBO Max Bill Keveney, USA TODAY
HBO Max s The Flight Attendant isn t going to be grounded anytime soon.
The darkly comedic thriller, which stars Kaley Cuoco and has been an early critical and popular hit for HBO s young streaming service, received a Season 2 renewal Friday, one day after the finale of its inaugural, eight-episode season.
The first season, which was based on the novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian, followed free-spirited flight attendant Cassie Bowden (Cuoco) on a harrowing and hilarious adventure that starts after she wakes up next to her dead one-night stand (Michiel Huisman) during a Bangkok layover.
Megan didn’t realize she was working for North Korea
This entire storyline felt like it was part of a different show all season long but it all came to a very satisfying conclusion, tied into the main story, and plays into how the show might do a second season (more on that later).
Megan (Rosie Perez) came clean to Cassie (Kaley Cuoco) about stealing information from her husband after Cassie came clean to her about Alex (Michiel Huisman). She began her confession with the word “apparently,” indicating the truth about what she was doing came as a big surprise to her, and explained how she was approached at one of her husband’s conferences.
The Flight Attendant.
The Flight Attendantfinale brought the season to a satisfying close while also leaving Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco) on the brink of exciting change.
After realizing that Buckley (Colin Woodell) is actually Felix, Alex s (Michiel Huisman) sociopathic murderer, Cassie heads to Rome for work, intent on luring him into a trap with Miranda s (Michelle Gomez) help. Unfortunately, Buckley/Felix gets the jump on Miranda, leaving Cassie to fend for herself when he attacks in her hotel room. Luckily, Cassie procured a gun from her Italian friend-with-benefits Enrico (Alberto Frezza) and manages to fire off one shot. And then, in a totally surprising turn of events, Cassie s coworker Shane (Griffin Matthews) heroically bursts into the room with his