The Flight Attendant season 2 review

When Flight attendant dropped on HBO Max in 2020, this is Kaley Cuoco’s first major project since The Big Bang Theory released a year ago. For her role as Cassie, she earned her first Emmy Award nomination in her 20-year career and reached new heights of creative engagement – she’s involved in all aspects of the show, from choosing to produce to joining the show in a lead role that allows her to combine her comedic stories with a more dramatic edge.

“Can I reinvent myself overnight, and they have completely forgotten about everything else?” she told Variety. “If they’re willing to see me like that, I’m just laughing in the corner.”

This underappreciation has perhaps worked in Cuoco’s favor, with a few people actually looking forward to his transformation from a short sitcom girl to the female lead of a comedy-horror drama. It reflects her character’s journey, and she takes it out of the park. Now, Flight attendant is back and season 2 is pushing Cassie’s story even further.

Who is behind The Flight Attendant season 2?

Based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian, Flight attendant was selected by Cuoco’s own production company, Yes, Norman Productions, in 2017 prior to the book’s publication.

“One night, I was flipping through the upcoming books on Amazon and saw Flight attendant,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “I read a sentence and called my lawyer: ‘Have you heard of this book? And, if you have, is Reese Witherspoon entitled to? ‘”

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Producer Greg Berlanti (Riverdale and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrinato name a few of his projects) started in 2019, together with Susanna Fogel (The Spy Who Dumped Me, Smart book), who directed the pilot.

Originally conceived as a limited series, the immediate success of the first season – which premiered over Thanksgiving weekend in 2020 and sustained many of us through the first dismal pandemic winter – led the producers to explore a possible second part. Season 2 (quickly ordered after the first season finale) starts from the source material that the first season has been paying close attention to.

Join first season host Steve Yockey (Shy, Supernatural) is Natalie Chaidez (Terminator: Sarah Connor Chroniclesshowrunner’s Queen of the South) following the passing of season 1 co-presenters Meredith Lavender and Marcie Ulin. “They’d only been on contract for a year, not realizing exactly how crazy it was going to be with COVID and the pandemic halting production, as they like to call it on set,” Yockey told The Hollywood Reporter’s TV’s top year audio file.

What is it about?

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The first season begins with a bang: Cassie wakes up in a Bangkok hotel next to the dead body of Alex (Michiel Huisman), a guy she dated the night before. Not remembering what happened and what role she might have played in his death, she cleans up the crime scene and gets on a plane to leave and get back to work – before getting caught up in one hand. international spy.

At the beginning of season 2, she’s a sober year, has a photographer boyfriend who loves Marco (Star Trek Picard‘s Santiago Cabrera), a sponsor supporting Brenda (Shohreh Aghdashloo’s) The Expanse), and her brother Davey (TR Knight) and friends Annie (Zosia Mamet) and Max (Deniz Akdeniz) visit her in the Golden State… all while she also flirts as human provide information to the CIA (for her sake, of course).

Although she seems cheerful and gets along well with those around her, the spying job isn’t done yet to put her in the whirlpool. Someone is impersonating her, and her friend and former flight attendant Megan (Rosie Perez) is on the run and in danger. Plus, Sharon Stone is there as Cassie’s estranged mother. What fun!

What is it really? About?

With the Alex storyline seemingly resolved and Cassie coming to her senses, it will always be interesting to see how the mind palace, a key plot element that Alex is central to, transitions into a second season.

I’m happy to say that the plot device has reached new heights, using different versions of Cassie throughout her life – traumatized teenage Cassie; season 1 Cassie in her yellow dress from that life-changing night in Bangkok; Cassie rock bottom; Cassie lives-her-best-life, etc. – in place of Alex, who has acted as a guide to a real and clueless Cassie. Now that she’s a little more certain of herself and her faction of agents hustling (at least on the surface), she takes steps to realize that it’s been inside her for a long time.

Photo: Julia Terjung / HBO Max

These doppelgängers seem to act as a form of therapy for Cassie, while also reflecting really doppelgängers Cassie faced in the real world. The Orphan Black It all led to a sort of identity crisis for Cassie. She’s always been good at forging a life that others thought was flashy – after all, what got Megan into trouble in the first place was wanting to be more like Cassie. Cassie thinks she can get away with it all by moving to a new city, where everyone looks flashy and happy on the surface, but there’s a darkness lurking underneath. As the seasons often remind us, things are not always as they appear.

Is it good?

It’s really interesting to watch Cassie take her cosmopolitan mystery woman between Los Angeles, Berlin, and Reykjavík trying to figure out who’s impersonating her and what the outcome is. Fashion, too, makes LA stylish while still serving up Cassie’s flawless coats from season 1.

But what’s dominant in this part is Cuoco’s character as Cassie – not just like all the alternate versions of her in the mind palace, but also the real-world version of herself, who are dealing with trauma, addiction, and self-destructive tendencies.

Season 1 spent a lot of time focusing on Cassie’s abusive, alcoholic father and how her upbringing influenced her actions. With the introduction of Cassie’s mother this season, who seems to be fine without Cassie in her life, Cassie takes a different look at how her life might turn out: nothing out of the ordinary, but already done. reaches a level of satisfaction by eliminating toxic people (like her daughter) from her life.

Photo: Jennifer Rose Clasen / HBO Max

Photo: Jennifer Rose Clasen / HBO Max

Cassie’s journey is transcontinental, yes, but it’s also a journey of self-discovery and healing. She does some really deplorable things (not quite as bad as season 1, but it’s Cassie, so take that as a grain of salt); However, Cuoco plays her so empathically that it’s hard not to empathize with her as she tries to put her things together. The actress’s more than two decades of industry experience is on display here, as she easily straddles the drama that burns through her personal life and the more traditional comedic elements of real life. How terrible her wild becomes. Multiple versions of Cassie in the mind palace give the character more dimensions than we’ve likely seen, but no matter where you pause an episode, you can see Cuoco’s expressive face come to life perfectly. .

Should I seduce Flight Attendants?

With the way season 1 snowballed into a hit, is it worth it for you to be at the top Flight attendant Twist from week to week?

HBO Max seems to have two minds on spin-off theory, dropping double episodes for the first two weeks to attract viewers, then moving to weekly releases for the remaining four episodes. I’m a huge fan, watched the first season over Christmas after everyone else raved about it, and hooked on all the episodes that were available to watch again (mostly excluding the last two). I guess I’ll be forced to see how the tracking model works for me and really Flight attendantwhen the last two episodes of season 2 aired on May 19 and May 26, respectively.

So far, it seems to be a mystery that viewers never really have to give too much thought to. The return of beloved characters like Annie, Max, and Megan laid the groundwork for the series in what initially drew viewers to it, while new characters (with honorary mentions) to Alanna Ubach, who’s really going through a renaissance right now) shakes things up, doing Flight attendant season 2 an enjoyable weekend afternoon. That way, you won’t have to wait long for an answer to Cassie’s mystery.

Where can I watch The Flight Attendant part 2?

Flight attendant season 2 premieres on HBO Max on April 21. New episodes drop every Thursday.