![]() And based on the first four episodes of The Flight Attendant that were made available for critics, she was right. She might not have been someone else's choice for the messed-up mess that is Cassie, but since Cuoco optioned the book in 2017 before it was published, it seems that she was her own choice. ![]() The Flight Attendant is the first live-action project out of her production company (which has also co-produced the animated Harley Quinn, where Cuoco voices the lead). Penny gradually transformed from the object of a couple of nerds' desire to the closest thing to an audience surrogate: the person observing all these dudes with an affectionate but baffled remove. As I wrote ten years ago now, back on The Big Bang Theory, it took a little while for the writing and the show's perspective to begin to catch up with her talent. Pop Culture Happy Hour How A Thorough De-Gazing Saved CBS's 'The Big Bang Theory'Ĭuoco is a deft comic actress. (This happens ten minutes into the first of eight episodes it is more premise than spoiler.) From here, her Long Night becomes a general Rough Time, full of intrigue, mystery, confusion, fear, recriminations, and a desperate effort to piece together what just happened - since, as luck would have it, she blacked out. But following this particular night, she wakes up with a dead body. ![]() Cassie is a heavy drinker, an indiscriminate hookupper, and a woman with a general tendency to skid into work on a waft of booze breath and mouthwash after spending her nights singing karaoke or visiting strip clubs or generally enjoying the hospitality of the great cities of the world. She is a flight attendant (you're with me so far!), and she's played by Kaley Cuoco, who just came off 12 seasons on the blockbuster sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Maybe the police are chasing them, maybe criminals are maybe it's just going to be a long time before they emerge, squinting and blinking, into the sun, probably looking a mess, maybe still wearing the Long Night outfit.Īt the beginning of The Flight Attendant, based on Chris Bohjalian's novel, Cassie has had a Long Night. Our central character goes out and does something foolish, or perhaps just stumbles into the wrong place at the wrong time, and suddenly, everything is a mess. There is a whole genre of comedy-thriller that you might call the Long Night story. Kaley Cuoco plays the flight attendant in The Flight Attendant, a darkly funny thriller from HBO MAX. ![]()
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