The Flight Attendant was released on HBO Max in 2020, this was Kaley Cuoco’s first major project as The Big Bang Theory was on telecast The Big Bang Theory went off the air a year preceding. Cassie’s this character, made her earn her first Emmy nomination 20 years into her career and now she have made new heights of creative involvement.
She’s involved in every aspects of the show, from optioning to producing to fronting the show in a lead role which allows her to meld her comedic chops with a more dramatic edge.
In one interview she told, “Was I able to reinvent myself overnight, and they’ve totally forgotten about everything else?”
“If they’re willing to see me like that, I’m just laughing in the corner.”
This miscalculate have worked in Cuoco’s favor, having few really expecting her move from lowbrow sitcom girl to the lead of a drama, comedy, thriller series. This showed her character’s journey, and she knocked it out of the park. As The Flight Attendant is back with amazing second season, and it is even pushing Cassie’s story even further.
Story relates on the 2018 novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian, and The Flight Attendant was optioned by Cuoco’s own production company Norman Productions, in 2017 to the book’s publication.
Cuoco told, “One night, I was swiping through upcoming books on Amazon and saw The Flight Attendant,”
“I read one sentence and called my attorney: ‘Have you heard of this book? And, if you have, did Reese Witherspoon get the rights?’”
Some hit projects names came on board like producer Greg Berlanti , along with Susanna Fogel who directed the pilot.
It is basically conceived as a limited series, the runaway success of the first season which was premiered for Thanksgiving weekend 2020 and remained many of us through the first bleak pandemic winter the main producers to explore a possible second season. Season 2 deviates from the source material, which the first season hewed pretty closely to.
Joining first season showrunner Steve Yockey is Natalie Chaidez, showrunner of Queen of the South and after the departures of first season co-showrunners Meredith Lavender and Marcie Ulin.
Yocky told, “They had only signed on for a year, not realizing exactly how insane it was going to get with COVID and the pandemic pause in production, as they like to call it at the studio.”
And at the second season’s start, she’s a year sober, have loving photographer boyfriend Marco, supportive sponsor Brenda, and also her brother Davey, along with friends Annie and Max, While she’s also moonlighting as a CIA informant all come to visit her in the Golden State.
Though she looks happy and settled to those around her, espionage work isn’t done involving her through the wringer.
Having Alex storyline seemingly solved and Cassie getting sober, it was always going to be interesting to see how the mind palace, a critical plot element which Alex was at the center of, transitioned into the second season.
It is fun to watch Cassie get her international woman of mystery on as she flick between Los Angeles, Berlin, and Reykjavík trying to figure out who’s impersonating her and to what end.
Season 1 spent most of time focusing on Cassie’s destructive, alcoholic father and how her upbringing influenced her actions. Introduction of Cassie’s mom in this season, who appears to be doing fine without Cassie in her life, Cassie gets another glance into how her life could play out, their is nothing fancy, but having reached a level of contentment by eliminating toxic people from her life.
Her journey is intercontinental, it’s also one of self-knowing and healing. She does some truly reprehensible things hence, Cuoco plays her so empathetically that it’s hard not to sympathize with her as she tries to get her s**t together.