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A flight attendant's life gets turned upside down after she wakes up in a hotel room with a dead man but with no memory of what happened.

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Kaley Cuoco shines as a hot mess in The Flight Attendant, an addictively intriguing slice of stylish pulp that will bring mystery aficionados to Cloud Nine.

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The Flight Attendant: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Katie Rosseinsky London Evening Standard Prestige TV has started taking itself ponderously seriously, but The Flight Attendant does precisely the opposite and is all the more enjoyable for it. Expertly teetering between black comedy and pulpy thriller, this is a hell of a ride. Rated: 4/5 Mar 19, 2021 Full Review The Flight Attendant: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Doreen St. Felix The New Yorker Cassie moves through the world like a flesh-and-blood cartoon, careening from drunkenness to lucidity. Cuoco gives this physical recklessness some meaning, thereby humanizing a trope. Dec 28, 2020 Full Review The Flight Attendant: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times At times "The Flight Attendant" is a little too zippy and visually self-indulgent for its own good, but it's a wickedly funny black comedy with some poignant domestic drama, and Cuoco is a marvel to watch every second she's onscreen. Rated: 3/4 Dec 22, 2020 Full Review The Flight Attendant: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Bill Brioux Brioux.tv The story is intriguing if you don’t think about it too much; the way it is told will sweep you along and the twists will keep you glued. Oct 11, 2022 Full Review The Flight Attendant: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Zoë Rose Bryant Loud and Clear Reviews The Flight Attendant is a terrifically twisty murder mystery that shows audiences a striking new side to star Kaley Cuoco. Rated: 4/5 Sep 1, 2022 Full Review The Flight Attendant: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Sarah Ward Concrete Playground There's darkness, weirdness, pathos and plenty of twisty comedy on offer here as well. It's easy to get immersed in, and to be entertained by. Jul 8, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Ted C this show manages to both glorify messiness and mistakes, and be very structured. you see things in the first episode that you don't fully understand until the last episode Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/12/24 Full Review John W Come for the murder mystery stay for the show about the effects of alcoholism. Hard to believe this show is classified as a "thriller." Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/19/24 Full Review J C Yikes. This show had a lot of potential, but I quickly lost interest and struggled to finish the first season. The story is about as lazy as it gets. The mystery revolves around the flight attendant losing her memories because she drinks too much. I had to suffer through this trope with girl on the train and it was horrible then too. Then she works out the mystery in her head with a dead man she knew for less than 24 hours. The amount of times we have to go into her head with this guy is just way too much. She's building a relationship with the idea of a guy. I like shows that take risks and think outside the box but it needs to kind of make sense and be done in an interesting way. As always, the critic scores being much higher than audience scores should scare you away. We know by now they don't care about the same things we do, like an interesting story, cohesive plot and characters that have depth. Speaking of which, her best friend is absolutely insufferable. She's the best lawyer anyone knows. Do we get to see how good she is? Nah. But they say it over and over again so you should definitely believe it. Why would all the characters say she's an incredible lawyer if it wasn't true right? She talks like she just graduated highschool and her "tough talk" isn't enough to convince me that she actually does anything impressive. Overall you should avoid this one. If you want to get preached at a few times then you're in for a treat. If you want a well written story with an intriguing mystery then you'll be left wanting. Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/18/24 Full Review Nashville I Season 1 of the flight attendant is one of the better mysteries of the past 10-15 years.A lot like Scream, Flight Attendant is good because it's very entertaining- not just suspenseful. The mystery really does have a lot of thoughtful, fascinating plot twists. It introduces characters and developments for GOOD and clever reasons- not just introducing things for the sake of forcing a twist. 100% addictive, and a must-watch. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/08/24 Full Review beth B Had its positives but the flashbacks and melodrama was just too much. I don’t know if they were trying to get away from her character on the Big Bang Theory by showing Kaley Cuoco constantly drunk, crying or losing her mind on someone got old quickly. At one point we were rooting for the bad guys to go ahead and find her to put us out of our misery from her constant whining! The supporting cast made this show! Won’t be watching the next season! Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 04/20/24 Full Review Tibor F Season 1: a bit too much alcohol related problems, but overall it was entertaining. Season 2: way too much alcohol related drama (80-90% of episode!), that nobody cares about, and consequently the actual story was pretty flat and incoherent. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/03/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Cast & Crew

Kaley Cuoco Cassandra Bowden Michiel Huisman Alex Zosia Mamet Annie T.R. Knight Davey Michelle Gomez Miranda Colin Woodell Buckley
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Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Nov 26, 2020 In Case of Emergency When flight attendant Cassie Bowden meets handsome passenger Alex Sokolov on the way to Bangkok, she decides to spend a drunken night with him; then she wakes up the next morning beside a dead body -- and with no memory of what happened. Details Episode 2 Aired Nov 26, 2020 Rabbits Rattled by her own lies and under pressure from the FBI, Cassie goes against Annie's advice to lay low and tries to find some answers by digging into Alex Sokolov's work life. Details Episode 3 Aired Nov 26, 2020 Funeralia Upon landing in Rome, Cassie deals with her sudden feelings of loss, and Megan confesses that she has secrets of her own; back in New York, Cassie doubles down on finding Miranda by unceremoniously crashing Alex's memorial service. Details Episode 4 Aired Dec 3, 2020 Conspiracy Theories After piecing together evidence with help from Max, Cassie follows the paper trail to an empty private jet manned by Nate; Megan attempts to hide her shady dealings from her family; Annie faces a reprimand from her boss, Diana. Details Episode 5 Aired Dec 3, 2020 Other People's Houses With Miranda on her tail and the FBI closing in, Cassie enlists Max in a plan that involves breaking and entering, computer fraud and too much vodka; Annie is forced to repay an ominous favor to a client; Megan's secrets threaten to come to light. Details Episode 6 Aired Dec 10, 2020 After Dark Reeling from a fallout with Annie, Cassie brings Buckley along for an alcohol-fueled escapade that ends in a meltdown; Megan embarks on a clandestine mission; amid mounting pressure from her co-conspirators, Miranda continues to hunt Cassie down. Details Episode 7 Aired Dec 10, 2020 Hitchcock Double Cassie is forced to work with a surprising new ally as she reconsiders all that's happened since Bangkok; Megan's life begins to implode when her husband faces consequences for her actions. Details Episode 8 Aired Dec 17, 2020 Arrivals and Departures Cassie comes face to face with Alex's killer; Annie works with the FBI; Megan comes clean. Details

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Director
Susanna Fogel

Executive Producer
Greg Berlanti, Kaley Cuoco, Marcie Ulin, Meredith Lavender, Sarah Schechter, Steve Yockey, Susanna Fogel

Screenwriter
Ryan Jennifer Jones, Ian Weinreich, Ticona Joy, Steve Yockey

Network
Max

Rating
TV-MA

Genre
Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Thriller

Original Language
English

Release Date
Nov 26, 2020
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