The Flight Attendant

Spoiler Alert. Jennifer Rose Clasen/HBO Max. [Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Flight Attendant Season 2, Episodes 1 “Seeing Double” ...

“I think she’s afraid of taking the plunge, not even necessarily of committing to Max because she loves him and doesn’t want to be with anyone else, but I think she’s just afraid of letting something in and letting her guard down entirely, so she’s wearing the ring, but she refuses to say they’re actually engaged. “I think Cassie knows there’s something up but is just trying to figure out what it is. But when she follows Grace then snoops in her home, she learns that Grace doesn’t have the tattoo and is helping those in need without access with medical-grade fentanyl lollipops. On Day 1, she was like, ‘I’ve been thinking doubles,’ and I was like, ‘I’m thinking we should run that into the ground. “Last season, Cassie was really trying to figure out what happened during her blackout, and it started with ‘Oh, there was someone else in the room. In the first two episodes of The Flight Attendant Season 2, which dropped on April 21, Cassie, a year sober, is only supposed to observe a target at a hotel, only to instead follow him, watch him have sex with a blonde woman with the same tattoo she has on her back, then witness him being blown up.

RECAP: In the first episode of "Flight Attendant" Season 2, Cassie witnesses a car bombing -- which kinda appears to have been done by her!

Suspicious about Cassie’s behavior, Max and Annie try to get the truth out, but Cassie is able to deflect by blaming it on the Berlin explosion. A friendly housekeeper lets Cassie in, where she gets a call from Benjamin. But before she can answer, she is transported back to the dreamlike lobby. Cassie answers the call from Benjamin but does not tell him she followed Courier and was at the scene of the explosion. As the friends embrace, Cassie notices the massive rock on Annie’s hand and proceeds to appropriately freak out. The reunion is interrupted by the CIA, who summon Cassie down to the field office. Cassie rushes out to follow Courier but is interrupted by a call from Megan, who appears to be hiding out in some sort of dive bar. Cassie frantically tries to get photos of it all, but is spotted by the men in the higher room, who quickly close their curtains to conceal their operation. While two of the four faces are hidden, teenage Cassie and the pre-Season 1 Cassie are present, complete with the gold dress she wore the night she met ill-fated Alex. Cassie of course proceeds to follow the mysterious man all across Berlin to his pick-up point, where he retrieves a manilla envelope. She has a house (with throw pillows!), a stable, sexy boyfriend named Marco (Star Trek: Picard’s Santiago Cabrera), and she is nearly a year sober with the help of her sponsor Brenda (The Expanse’s Shohreh Aghdashloo). On top of that, she gets to work for the spy agency with her secretive handler Benjamin (Pitch’s Mo McRae), which provides her the excitement that was lost when she gave up alcohol. She then disobeys Benjamin’s orders and interacts with her mark at the bar, discovering that he, too, is recovering alcoholic, and works as a courier. Only now, she is also serving as a civilian asset for the CIA, keeping tabs on the agency’s marks.

Mixing espionage into a sobriety struggle and a friendship comedy is quite a load to handle, but it mostly works.

I am not in recovery, but a person doesn't have to be to recognize that Cassie follows a long-established TV pattern of fresh sobriety as many TV writing rooms map it out. If a person hasn't seen shows that get closer to a more realistic take on new sobriety, like the tightly crafted "Single Drunk Female," this may not bother them. The convolutions involved in this combo of whodunit and "who is it," while interesting, carry far less weight than the more substantial show crouching behind all the excitement. All of them magnify the character's profound self-loathing, a bitter and degenerating feeling that slowly pulls apart her outward self over the course of the six episodes made available for review. (In addition to those aforementioned names, Margaret Cho pops up in a charming if morally murky role.) Cassie tends to be a wreck. "The Flight Attendant" is at its sharpest when it fulfills this purpose – especially this season, which trades Cassie's externalized interior conversations with last year's dead lover (played by Michiel Huisman) for increasingly sweaty sparring with various versions of herself. In the second season of "The Flight Attendant," however, she utilizes some version of it to explain behavior she cannot, whether for reasons of national security or her own safety. But sober life, like idle hands, proves to be the Devil's playground. But Cassie is "a lot" too, as the first season establishes. But she's not the only one in her circle with secrets. Generally someone or something being "a lot" merely implies a complicated but navigable situation.

She eventually took the gig after a lot of begging from her co-star Kaley Cuoco.

“I’m glad that I said yes,” Perez says. “I need to get in front of her face and do whatever I can. But the flying thing really was an issue,” Perez tells Noah. “The final deciding factor was when we talked about work ethics. I hate flying.” “When I first read it, I said, ‘This is a weird show,’” Perez says. In an interview on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, the actor shared that she actually turned down the role at first due to her hatred of flying.

Wondering where to stream The Flight Attendant season two? Here's how to watch Kaley Cuoco's show on HBO Max in time for its second season.

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Just because Kaley Cuoco's character is sober in the show's second season doesn't mean she'll be much less of a hot mess. “We very much have a similar ...

She didn’t want us to say, ‘Oh, Cassie’s sober, and therefore she’s trying really hard,’ says Yockey. “She wanted to still have Cassie be flawed. Yockey says that Cuoco, an executive producer who optioned the Chris Bohjalian novel on which the first season was based, was very clear about wanting one thing in season two: “Cassie to still be able to make mistakes. And also, how are we going to be as honest as possible in telling a story about sobriety and how that’s a journey and a fight that people have on a daily basis?”

EW spoke with showrunners Steve Yockey and Natalie Chaidez about those first episodes and what's to come in the rest of the second season. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: ...

She moved across the country, she started a new relationship with someone else in the program, she got a new job, so she's making all these big life moves and then all of a sudden she finds herself in another international intrigue, and that only increases the anxiety. CHAIDEZ: I love [episode 5] because it's going to be a pivotal episode in Cassie's journey of sobriety and her recovery. That led to the idea of doubles, which then of course became a theme this season as well as part of the plot, and Steve took and made into this crazy multiverse in the mind-verse. Just like her alcoholism was fueled to become much worse than it already was by the events of season 1, these events in season 2 add extra stress on top of the fact that she's already done everything that you're not supposed to do in your first year of sobriety. [Laughs] The hardest part of doing a season 2 of this show is, what is the emotional damage that Cassie is unpacking? So she's feeling a little helpless, and she channels that energy of needing to do something into a really hard left turn and decides to head for Iceland. CHAIDEZ: Megan has been on the run since the end of season 1. YOCKEY: I guess it depends if you listen to Cassie. In the first two episodes, she sure is telling everyone that she's better at handling it. I was particularly obsessed with the idea of maintaining the mind palace in some form and continuing the emotional journeys for our characters because you're going to have a whole new mystery, but those emotional journeys are the grounding force of the show. I was really interested in exploring the idea of Cassie in recovery and what a rocky road that can be. I was thinking about Cassie's character and her discovery and admission of this other part of herself, this alcoholic part. and the fact that a very questionable couple just moved in across from her.

We meet Grace (Mae Martin), a fellow flight attendant who Cassie (Kaley Cuoco) meets for the first time. We also meet Cassie's new beau, Marco (Santiago Cabrera) ...

In The Flight Attendant, Grace wears the typically male uniform for flight attendants instead of the dress that Cassie wears. They began their stand-up comedy career at the age of only 13, which is how they were introduced to sex and drugs at such a young age. But when Cassie does go over to Grace’s apartment, she discovers that Grace doesn’t have the back tattoo that the mysterious woman had. In addition, Grace was wearing a scarf around their neck on the plane ride back to LAX, which Cassie thinks is hiding scars from being choked, which Cassie witnessed the night before. And we’re not wrong to believe this — Cassie is immediately suspicious of Grace, thinking that Grace could even be the person impersonating Cassie. So is it true, and what else do we know about Grace? Regardless, Cassie makes a list that she shares with her best friend, Annie ( Zosia Mamet), as to why she thinks Grace is impersonating her.

Season 2 of The Flight Attendant premiered on Thursday, April 21st. Stream all-new episodes today with an HBO Max subscription.

The Flight Attendant season 2 finds Cassie in Los Angeles. Now sober, she spends her spare time as a CIA asset. Season one was based on the novel of the same name by New York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian." - HBO Max Racing to uncover the truth before the authorities catch up with her, Cassie embarks on a darkly hilarious investigation of her slain one night stand.

Ahead of the HBO Max drama's premiere on April 21, the 36-year-old actress joined her fellow Flight Attendant cast members in Los Angeles to toast the next ...

For months now, Kaley has teased fans with sneak peeks from behind the scenes of season 2. After The Flight Attendant season 2 premiere event, the lead star shared nearly a dozen snaps. While The Big Bang Theory alum went minimal with her accessorizes, her hair was a showstopper.