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Critic Reviews for The Flight Attendant Miniseries
All Critics (61) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (60) | Rotten (1)
A nice reboot, without heaviness. Flighty and fun, with a little suspense...
Writer/producer Yockey (adapting Chris Bohjalian's 2018 book) gives Cassie enough history to make her feel real, even when she's living through goofy, surreal circumstances. Plus, Cuoco nails every beat of the genre-shifting script.
The Flight Attendant is funny and dark and surprising, and it successfully walks the knife edge of making a central character both a rootable protagonist and kind of a garbage person some of the time.
Like the best of all such genre-melding stories, it's a lot more complicated ... thanks in no small part to a career-best performance from Kaley Cuoco.
It's a lot of fun, if you're willing to go along for a ride that doesn't always track but almost always entertains. It's a thriller, and it's a drama, but it's also almost a comedy, with a brisk pace and a playful tone.
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.
The first episode of The Flight Attendant just flies by (sorry again!). It's a glossy, pulpy, propulsive mystery, peppered with black humour.
Touching down somewhere between guilty pleasure and smartly crafted murder-mystery, The Flight Attendant is a delight.
Twisted and clever and truly suspenseful.
Slick 'n' saucy, this HBO MAX mini-series treats its heroine's compulsive alcoholism as amusing which - as anyone who has ever dealt with an alcoholic knows - it isn't.
The Flight Attendant... unravels a mystery through its protagonist's internalizations and guilty conscience, all the while being darkly clever, and highly entertaining.
The Flight Attendant is darkly funny, bitingly smart, and wonderfully acted.
Audience Reviews for The Flight Attendant: Miniseries
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6h agoThis show was the perfect example of a perfect first season. It was different genres at different times throughout the show it kept us on our toes. I watched it with my 55 year old and we both absolutely loved it. Kaley Cuoco was an amazing lead. I can't wait for the next season.
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2d agoI'm obsessed with it. Obsessed with every episode. Cannot stop rewatching over and over. Fun, thrilling and sexy. Zosia Mamet rules.
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2d agoOh God I can't believe the critics gave this such high ratings! She needs to stick to comedy! I wish I had my wasted time back to watch something else!
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4d agoThe writing is just as messy as the protagonist's life, but not quite as charming, as it adds useless characters to serve questionable plots and forces a lot of cliches into the narrative - ultimately, it allows the viewers to see a new range from Kaley Cuoco, even if it does not resonate loud enough to impress.
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5d agoKaley gives this role her everything, but the plot is a narrative mess littered plot holes and treats alcoholism as a gimmick. It lacks any substance or insight into substance abuse problems and the character motives and actions are annoyingly obtuse. Watch it on your own discretion.
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5d agoNot exactly how this show is at 98% critic rating. I watched 4 episodes which were mildly entertaining. The worst part of the show is her conversations with a dead guy. Not sure of that was in the book but it makes for really bad tv. HBO hasnt had a good show since Chernobyl. Skip this and watch the newly acquired Banshee from Cinemax instead.
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5d agoI adore this fun, fresh, new unexpected comedy! So glad it's finally available to watch, been waiting for it for a while and it's worth the wait!
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Mar 13, 2021After achieving great international fame in the hit show The Big Bang Theory, but fading more and more into the background in later seasons, Kaley Cuoco has made an impressive comeback with her new HBO Max thriller series The Flight Attendant. A carefree stewardess is caught in the crossfire of the FBI after a tragic event in Thailand, but just about keeps her head above water with constant lies. She sets out to find answers to prove her innocence and is constantly confronted with her problematic private life and incidents from her childhood. Such a diverse and ambivalent performance has never been seen from Kaley Cuoco in this form before. While in other productions she plays almost exclusively the pretty and dim-witted blonde, her character Cassie is also often an object of desire, but brings with her an enormous amount of complexity. She is an alcoholic, but doesn't want to admit her addiction to herself. In the course of this, she repeatedly gets herself into situations whose devastating consequences she escapes at the last moment. Particularly interesting are the flashbacks to her childhood, in which she perceives some events in a blurred or completely wrong way due to regular alcohol consumption at a young age, which she shared with her father. The real-life events have a big impact on Cassie and cause her to relapse. This also affects her interpersonal relationships. For example with her best friend Annie (Zosia Mamet), who actually wants to help Cassie as her lawyer, but is always conflicted by her unfortunate decisions. Similarly, Cassie's brother Davey (T.R. Knight) finds it difficult to relate to his sister because of their traumatic childhood. Michiel Huisman's character Alex is responsible for the main plot of the first season. Cassie shares particularly intimate and emotional scenes with him, which makes the chemistry between Huisman and Cuoco very authentic. Rosie Perez, as fellow-flight attendant Megan, has her own character arc as one of the few supporting characters, but even she doesn't get by exclusively without Cassie. Cuoco manages to completely pull the story together across all eight episodes. The series also only really works when she is directly involved. The supporting characters all have their relevance, but their storylines often feel forced and out of place. Nevertheless, the cast is one of the great strengths of The Flight Attendant, because together they carry and tell a very entertaining and involving story. The camera work and music are very much focused on building tension, which is adequate given the gripping structure of the episodes. In terms of wit and comedy, the series has its bright spots, but sometimes tries too hard to bring in this track, although the thriller and drama elements clearly predominate. The series thrives on a lot of clichés that, while not in the least resembling the excess of older comedies, seem nevertheless absurd for today's times. The Flight Attendant is not perfect, but it offers great entertainment value and an unexpectedly mature performance by Cuoco.
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Mar 13, 2021I think the reviews about it being too surface-y aren't really seeing the bigger picture here. This is a show about PTSD, severe alcoholism, childhood abuse, true friendship, and redemption more than it's a show about a murder mystery. It's actually quite deep, even down the bunny's metaphor as an animal of fear and running away. This series works very well on a psychological level, which definitely includes the power of grief, and how sometimes it takes epic situations (like seeing a guy you just slept with with his throat sliced open) to come full circle with the horrific issues of your own past. The only thing I disliked (because I've endured alcoholism myself), is that a girl drinking that much every day would have periods of sleeping (for hours and hours), vomiting, and an awful looking face. I think they did a good job of capturing that in The Queen's Gambit though. I don't think a real-life Cassy would be able to fly constantly as a hardcore daily alcoholic. And by "the end" of the mystery, she'd have needed a hardcore detox in a hospital or detox center. But the hallucinations she was experiencing would definitely be a symptom. The parts that I didn't quite link though were the Miranda bits and the inclusion of the Meghan story--but perhaps that's all for season 2...
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Mar 12, 2021This show is fantastic!!! I really enjoyed it as it had a well written script with a story that kept my interest.
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