The Flight Attendant Season 2 Review: Kaley Cuoco Has A New Case To Solve And Hooks!
Stars: Kaley Cuoco, Zosia Mamet, Rosie Perez
Director: Susanna Fogel
Streaming Platform: HBO Max
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4/5 (four stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
The Flight Attendant Season 2 Review: So that later they say that second parts were never good… If the first season of The Flight Attendant blew your mind, we have something to announce: the second brings us back to Kaley Cuoco and her minions in perfect health to embark on new and turbulent flights. The series takes off on HBO Max with the broadcast of the first two episodes on April 22, the next two and the remaining four will be broadcast on April 29 at a rate of one per week. The final resolution will therefore arrive on May 27, so we are going to have a busy spring.
We say this because the authorial stamp of The Flight Attendant remains intact: the credit titles, which this time appear in the middle of the first episode, once again play with the primary colors, silhouettes and objects that will be essential throughout the season: the engagement ring, the Ferris wheel, a gun, pills, books… And our protagonist falling into that spiral of chaos. The Flight Attendant served to raise Kaley Cuoco, who many had reviled as a mediocre actress for her work in ‘ The Big Bang Theory ‘. However, she proved that she can walk the fine line between drama and comedy and that, if she puts her mind to it, she can become one of the best actresses on television. If she was the best of the first season, in this second, which opens on April 21 on HBO Max, she remains her main interest.
The Flight Attendant Season 2 Review: The Story
At the start of The Flight Attendant Season 2 we see Cassie Bowden in the process of regaining control of her life: she has been sober for a year and regularly attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. She is in a steady relationship with photographer Marcus and continues to work as a flight attendant, although she also does some work for the CIA in her spare time. Precisely in the last mission entrusted to him, he travels to Berlin with the aim of tracking down an enigmatic man. After chasing him and seeing him exchange an envelope for a briefcase with a strikingly similar blonde woman, her car is blown up in a spectacular explosion.
To her despair, when she returns to her hotel, her belongings are gone, except for her stewardess uniform. Back at her new home in Los Angeles, she is visited by her sister and her partner… who soon realize that her behavior is erratic and even paranoid. The reason is that her suitcase has turned up… with a bloody wig inside. Cassie has overcome her addiction to alcohol and has been sober for a year now. However, she combines her work as a stewardess with that of a CIA agent. It is her last mission, located in Berlin, which causes the trigger for this second round. The man she was keeping an eye on has been murdered shortly after she saw him in her hotel room with a woman very much like her and another mysterious man hot on his trail. Who is who? Why are they posing as her? ‘The Flight Attendant’ has already started his game.
In the first season, Cassie did not remember if she had killed the man she had woken up with, while in this second she is certain that she is not the culprit. It is true that she could not repeat that situation, but the comparisons are hateful and, in this case even more so, because that trigger was so interesting, associated with the problem of alcoholism, that the memory of her still weighs on her. Moreover, speaking of Cassie’s addiction, the fact that she has already overcome it helps us to see another perspective of the character, but it is inevitable to feel sorry for this as a viewer, because it was very interesting how she dealt with it. Perhaps the series could have been set a little earlier in time to learn about her first days of sobriety.
The Flight Attendant Season 2 Review And Analysis
Despite all this, it must be made clear that ‘The Flight Attendant’ maintains its essence in the first episode of the second season. The espionage is still present and that black comedy is also kept in the scripts. In addition, the madness of feeling that you are in a puzzle in which you must collect the pieces to discover what has happened helps to involve the viewer. Especially when you must pay close attention to the details since everything in this series has a reason.
However, too many questions are opened and too many secondary ones are given rise that end up causing a feeling of dizziness and incomprehension after seeing the episode. This has a double face that can either generate the desire to continue knowing, or it keeps the viewer from continuing with the viewing, since there are many elements that could have been cut and everything would have the same meaning. The espionage plot is clear and so is Cassie’s path, but around her there are too many satellites that cloud the objective.
New characters that are not fully exploited, others that appear without further explanation or even some already known, such as Megan (Rosie Perez), whose plot is completely lost. ‘The Flight Attendant’ should have sifted through what she wanted to tell this season and see how she did it to make sense. If the most powerful thing is the espionage plot and the double and triple personalities that arise around Cassie, the focus should have been placed more there and dispense with other issues. The best of ‘The Flight Attendant’ in its second season is still Kaley Cuoco, especially because of the nuances that she gives to her dual personality and that contrasts with the real Cassie. The actress knows how to take advantage of black comedy in a character full of expressiveness that she always places at the perfect point. However, the series passes the feeling that she should have stayed in a miniseries that, despite having her pluses and minuses, she gladly saved the roles.
One of the strengths of this series is its unbridled rhythm that is constantly fueled by the urgent and syncopated soundtrack by Blake Neely and also by the montage that does not give a single breath and with which each filming location is aesthetically squeezed. On this occasion, the corners of Los Angeles, Berlin and Reykjavik shine with their own light. The visual richness of the shots, the superimposed perspectives thanks to the split screens and the explosion of colors are a delightful constant.
It is often Cassie’s chases and hallucinatory mind games that are the greatest pleasures of the series because they put curiosity and mystery into our bodies and allow us to explore the spaces from many different perspectives and even see her having dialogues with her wicked “I”, which tempts her to go back to her old ways. The cast is another real joy. Although Cuoco is the main star it is very nice to bring back the familiar faces of Zosia Mamet, Griffin Matthews, Deniz Akdeniz and Rosie Perez.
But the second season of The Flight Attendant also has its new part with the inclusion of new members to the series such as Mo McRae, Callie Hernandez and JJ Soria, as well as new guest stars Alanna Ubach, Cheryl Hines, Jessie Ennis, Mae Martin, Margaret Cho, Santiago Cabrera, Sharon Stone and Shohreh Aghdashloo. From what we have been able to see in this start of The Flight Attendant Season 2, the two main plot planes will continue to be combined: Cassie’s staff, struggling with herself to stay sober and whole, and the espionage plane that is well defined in the first episode and will go around many times.
The Flight Attendant Season 2: The Last Words
Another refreshing dose of mystery, humor and fast-paced chases: The Flight Attendant has a second season that will not disappoint fans of the series. It is uplifting to reconnect with the characters and the tone of the series, so casual and dynamic thanks to the split screens, the OST and its rhythm. Taking into account that the first season squeezed the novel of the same name on which the series was based, by the New York Times bestselling author, Chris Bohjalian, it must be recognized that they have been able to give it a twist to reinvest the fiction and offer a more than worthy entertainment.
