Fizzy, light and amusing, The Flight Attendant is one of those shows that passes by quickly, a very watchable star vehicle for Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco.
The Flight Attendant, streaming now on Binge*, is an undemanding murder mystery injected with a sense of fun and sass – and makes for enjoyable if somewhat forgettable weekend viewing.
Cuoco plays Cassie Bowden, a goodtime flight attendant who starts flirting with the very handsome passenger in 3C, Alex Sokolov (Michiel Huisman).
After spending a night together in Bangkok, Cassie wakes up the next morning in his luxurious hotel room with a splash of blood on her hand. A glance over her shoulder finds Alex dead in the bed, his throat slit.
Cassie panics and cleans up the scene, making a run for it, memories of Amanda Knox’s Italian prison sojourn hanging over her desire to not be arrested in a foreign country.
She has few memories of the night before, certainly none where she may have turned into a murderess.
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While that plot sounds kind of like The Sinner, The Flight Attendant has more in common tone-wise with Why Women Kill and Search Party, where everything is heightened and asks you to suspend your disbelief.
Cassie’s propensity for making the wrong choice in every situation – her sense of self-preservation on the fritz – evokes the early, less homicidal, seasons of Search Party when Dory kept doing dumb, frustrating things.
While the viewer’s perspective is with Cassie, we only know as much as she does, and by the third episode, the show starts to feel like maybe it’s gaslighting us. Cassie, with her alcoholism and black-outs, is not what you would call a reliable narrator.
Watching her down glass after glass of champagne like it’s sparkling water makes you question whether she’s the “fun, nudie run” drunk she claims to be, rather than the violent kind.
The Flight Attendant is a great role for Cuoco who brings a sharp but loveable zaniness to a character in the middle of a spiral, trying to figure out who may have killed her one-time lover while desperately trying to dodge the FBI agents on the case.
There’s darkness in the character – hints at a childhood trauma flashes up – but Cassie is mostly a likeable, relatable protagonist who stumbled into something much, much bigger than her.
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There’s a great supporting cast led by Zosia Mamet as Annie, Cassie’s bestie and a mob lawyer, plus T.R. Knight, Michelle Gomez, Rosie Perez and Bebe Neuwirth.
The eight-part miniseries was adapted from Chris Bohjalian’s frothy airport novel of the same name with Susannah Fogel directing the first couple of episodes.
Fogel helmed Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon espionage adventure The Spy Who Dumped Me and was one of the screenwriters of the very excellent Booksmart, and she brings that same screwball charm and lightness of touch to The Flight Attendant.
The Flight Attendant isn’t a masterpiece and it’s not trying to be “serious” television, but it’s a playful romp that goes down very easily.
The Flight Attendant is streaming now on Binge
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