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In its second season, 'The Flight Attendant' charts a new course — and it works

Lots of shows come back for a second season without a clear purpose. The Flight Attendant finds one.
Kaley Cuoco as Cassie in the second season of <em>The Flight Attendant.</em>

This review contains spoilers for the first season of The Flight Attendant.


I loved the first season of The Flight Attendant on HBO Max.

Based on Chris Bohjalian's book, it starred Kaley Cuoco as Cassie, the titular flight attendant who woke up one morning after a wild night of partying and found a dead guy in bed with her. She spent the rest of the season not just trying to figure out what happened, but wrestling with her addiction to alcohol, the trauma in her past, and her troubled relationships with her best

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