HBO Max ‘The Flight Attendant’ Season 2: TV Review

Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco), whom we met early on Flight attendantThe second season (on HBO Max) is not the one we know. The disposable vodka bottles and drunken dark notes are gone; This Cassie is sober (she comes all year!), enjoying a steady relationship with a good brother (Santiago Cabrera), and tearing him apart in dual jobs as a flight attendant and undercover CIA civilian asset.

But as anyone who’s come back knows, your whole idea is to lie. Casey may stop drinking, but she realizes that she is still impulsive and scheming. similarly, Flight attendant It might start with fresh material (used in the first season story of Chris Bohjalian’s novel), but it’s still a delicious mix of heart-pounding emotions, sharp comedy, and incredibly meaty psychological drama.

It takes less than an episode for Kess to see what BFF Annie (Zosia Mamet) describes as her “perfect, I’ve got vegetables in the fridge.” Literally: In line with a target in Berlin, Casey watches his death in a fire explosion officially attributed to a faulty gas pipeline, but Casey is convinced it was the result of a bomb. Even more disturbing is that it appears to have been planted by a woman who bears a strong resemblance to Kess, with a tattoo on her shoulder blades. Naturally, the incident leads Case to solve the case before he’s framed (or worse), which in turn threatens his alcohol-free life balance.

Just like in the first season, Flight attendant It’s a pleasure to see how you can approach chaos without losing full control. The intensity of the story is picked up early and left there as Casey flies to Los Angeles or flies to Reykjavik to seek information and try to avoid the CIA, its air crew, AA members and their overprotectiveness. Brother, Dave (TR Knight). Meanwhile, the stress of the mission forces him to find demons, even surveillance can’t be avoided: here are other versions of Kess being seduced, cursed, or mocked from the imaginary hotel lobby in Kess’s mind.

The tension is resolved with the sense of humor conveyed by the dialogue that arises with the person. Her comedic secret weapon remains the Mammoth lingo, responding to everything from Kess announcing she was at the CIA to questioning a job interviewer about her quirky duties in her previous position with the same mild distaste. Like any real New Yorker, Annie keeps some of her best sticks in Cassie’s new hometown: “LA is like painting someone in a happy coffin,” recalls her fiancé Max (Denise Akdeniz), who is an Angelina and wants to move. . . Behind.

The show’s other gags are directed at him even as he calls out the God-ex-car that spins around until the viewer has time to sigh about it. The season’s central secret is a matter of life and death for Casey, who is forced to drop boxes of hot tamales like booze bottles, but Flight attendant He doesn’t take himself too seriously. If it’s better to send Kess on a stealth mission in a big bright red coat than on rough rugs, or if it’s more convenient for Kess to reject common sense to carry out her own fancy plans, this is the way. Flight attendant He will go to hell with rationality or “realism”.

Taking into account the number of dishes. Flight attendant He flips in midair at any moment, no wonder his balance slips from time to time. Some of his current conspiracies are often lost in the shuffle, most notably a North Korean spy conspiracy involving Megan (Rosie Perez), which finds itself even more on the sidelines in season two than in season one. (Ironically, as he explains that he did what he did because he wanted to “see.”) Her arc is positioned as an odd twist to the main story rather than its integral component, across at least six episodes (eight). ) were sent to critics.

And maybe this is really a confirmation Flight attendantThe writing team, led by Steve Yok and Natalie Chaidez, was disappointed that I didn’t spend more time with their new supporting characters, like Jesse Ann’s AA associate Jenny or disaster-prone AA patron Brenda. Brenda. As for the season’s most impressive new actress: Sharon Stone appears to be Casey’s mother in just one episode I’ve watched, but the display of her complex and conflicting emotions turns all the food into limited screen time.

Whatever the show’s flaws, they far outweigh its strengths, including boss Cuoco, who has to delve not just into Kess’s state of mind minute by minute, but every other Kess who forces him to do so. His ability to distinguish them and keep them in the same person is a hit and he puts it there. destiny patrolDiana Guerreiro and black orphanTatiana Maslan in the pantheon of actors who have intriguing chemistry with themselves.

Their conversations become Kess’s internal monologue. so dumb and dumb Flight attendant You can agree, it’s completely sincere to explore Kess’ emotional baggage, and her conversation with herself becomes increasingly tense as her journey continues: “While you’re here, why don’t you do something useful and dig a hole? ? ” Someone whispers when Casey is in the grave at the end of the season. Flight attendantlike this spring lonely drunk womanHe recognizes that the end of Cassie Drinking Days was just the beginning of her journey and that the lowest moments can come after the calming haze of alcohol has passed.

At end Flight attendantIn the show’s first season, he appeared to have been a victim of his own success. The show’s addictive and enjoyable features made it feel like an update, but the season was also so satisfying that other extensions felt hardly necessary or even convenient – its chances of reaching the same heights seemed questionable. The best. But the show’s most impressive gimmick is the same in both seasons. As Casey loses power, his series never does.