) projects to the world as she travels it. She hops from one blurry night out to the next, trading cities and men with practiced abandon. But when she wakes up in Bangkok after a blurry one-night stand to find her date horribly murdered, she does what most every rational human would do: she panics. Thousands of miles from home, with no memory of the end of her night, Cassie doesn’t know what else to do but clean up what she can and tear the hell out of there.
That characterization, to “The Flight Attendant”‘s intriguing credit, ends up being both true and false. In the four episodes screened for critics , creator Steve Yockey writes Cassie as a believable mess in the aftermath. She can barely sleep without spiraling into panic, and her attempts to figure out just what the hell happened are…well, as her flabbergasted lawyer friend Annie sputters, to say they’re “misguided” would be an incredible understatement.
So, no, “The Flight Attendant” isn’t about some supernaturally smart woman who witnesses a crime and gets spurred into action. It’s about a wildly messy person who stumbles into something truly horrific and has to deal with it, a combination that threatens to bring down the carefree persona she’s so carefully crafted over the years. The story, based on Chris Bohjalian’s novel, is pitch black, especially when Cassie has to confront the dark corners of her memory she’s long suppressed.
Cassie’s story would be more than enough to keep the show moving, but almost no one on “The Flight Attendant” — not even Annie or Cassie’s nervous coworker Megan — is exactly what they seem. Everyone’s so shady, in fact, that tallying up all the salacious details can make the show seem flat-out ridiculous.
With slick directing from Susanna Fogel, a jazzy score from Blake Neely, and sporadic flashes to Cassie’s terrified subconscious, the show quickly becomes a surreal noir with a solid screwball performance at its center. It’s just swapped the traditional hardboiled, probably alcoholic detective for a scatterbrained, probably alcoholic flight attendant.
carolineframke Is the girl from the pic in the story? 😜
carolineframke Love this show
Here is my two pence -
It's watchable... i've seen a lot worse, but i've also seen a lot better ...
If it was just drama would be great, the comedy is annoying
Probably alcoholic
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