Once you tune in to observe the brand new HBO Max darkly comedic homicide thriller The Flight Attendant, and it is best to, it’s possible you’ll be stunned to see Kaley Cuoco enjoying a job markedly totally different from Penny on The Big Bang Theory. Cuoco’s option to play Cassie Bowden, the titular flight attendant who travels and events internationally, is a shrewd and surprising follow-up to the broad comedy that catapulted her to stardom.
Tailored from Chris Bohjalian’s best-selling novel of the identical title, the miniseries shortly attracts the viewer in as Cuoco works a flight to Bangkok and meets a sexy businessman, Alex Sokolov (Michiel Huisman), whom she chats with all through the flight. As soon as they land in Bangkok, Cassie tells her crewmate Megan (Rosie Perez) that she’s going to remain in that night, however she meets up with Alex for a date night time that entails dinner, ingesting, intercourse, ingesting, showering collectively, and extra ingesting. When Cassie wakes up the following morning hungover and hurting in Alex’s luxurious resort suite, she seems to be over on the man subsequent to her and, properly, he is useless (not a spoiler, it is within the trailer and it is the inciting incident that kicks off the story).
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Not simply useless, however murdered. A shocked and frightened Cassie tries to piece collectively what occurred the night time earlier than however the extreme ingesting makes it close to unattainable for her to recall particulars. And, as we shortly discover out, this is not the primary time Cassie has been drunk to the purpose of blacking out and forgetting what occurred, however it’s by no means concerned a dying earlier than and Cassie is freaked out to the extent that she begins making a string of unhealthy selections. With out revealing all these selections — as a result of it is simply an excessive amount of enjoyable watching her make them — it’s each oddly compelling and horrifying to observe Cassie react from her core of panic and worry of being accused of homicide or probably discovering Alex’s killer and being killed herself.
Again residence in New York Metropolis, Cassie confides in her high-powered legal professional good friend Annie (Zosia Mamet), and whereas Annie is outwardly cool and composed, she is aware of Cassie is totally out of her depth relating to coping with FBI interviews and being a homicide suspect. Mamet’s efficiency is dry, acerbic, and a sensible stability to Cassie’s frenzied power. Within the 4 episodes HBO Max launched early for evaluate, Cassie tries to determine who killed Alex and the search takes her to every kind of surprising locations. As Cassie does this stuff, she’s additionally having flashbacks, and a artistic storytelling system retraces a few of her steps and takes us again to her childhood.
Kaley Cuoco, The Flight Attendant
Steve Yockey (Supernatural) developed the collection for tv and he is carried out a sensible job of choosing what the viewer is proven in every episode. The episodes are additionally structured such that they go away the viewer wanting extra because the thriller deepens. The collection additionally boasts a powerful ensemble solid together with T.R. Knight as Cuoco’s brother, Bebe Neuwirth as Mamet’s boss, and Rosie Perez as Cassie’s coworker, who will get her personal juicy story.
If you happen to’re coming to The Flight Attendant to see the additional adventures of Penny, you are not going to get it. As an alternative, you may discover an lively, darkish comedy that doubles as a homicide thriller. And thru 4 episodes, it really works.
TV Information score: 4/5
The Flight Attendant premieres November 26 on HBO Max with the primary three episodes. Two new episodes might be launched every of the next Thursdays, with the finale airing on Dec. 17.