Gratitude may be the word of the day, but can we talk for a moment about her underprivileged cousin at the dinner table? Satisfaction is that the hunger we seek on this holiday is not only through our mouth, but also through the sight of our eyes. Eating a good show along the side of the pie definitely helps land the occasion.
The new streaming series, “The Flight Attendant,” starring Cale Le Cuoco, after its first major live action role after “The Beat Bang Theory,” achieves the perfect balance between fear and lightness, with the kind of perfection that comes from live, nimble acting and remarkable shows. . Only a few shows can legally claim to find a mixture of good times, high anxiety and eager pain while confidently avoiding taking themselves too seriously.
Playwright Steve Yahya deserves credit as the architect of that realization, as he was the one who accepted the series from Chris Bozlian’s 2018 bestseller. Above all, indeed, this is Cuoco’s full and complete show – undoing the rendering of her perfect party girl is the main motivator of the mystery. In addition, she proves that her series extends far beyond the many sitcoms in which we have determined her career, with “Big Bang Bang” being the most recent in a string that simply stretches her child actor. Day. (She has also voiced the title character on the classic “Harley Quinn”, which, again, is a conscious choice to take a sledgehammer for hypotheses about her image.)
Cuoco’s “Flight Attendant” character is one of a kind from Casey Bowden and Penny’s “Big Bang,” yes. But Casey’s shadows let the audience know early on that his good-time personality is a front. As the story unfolds we turn to Casey’s gift to sniff out the best bars, parties and clubs at each destination. She is also very good at catching her vodka.
Despite her flaws, Cucoco also gives us a woman we can idealize, with a style and sexual confidence that makes everyone around her wow. It’s obviously wrecked, but one that flexes the admirable brewura.
So when Cassie flirts with a mysterious stranger in first class, her card and her name – Alex Sokolov (Michiel Huisman) – are all predictions among her colleagues that the pair will move on. Here, too, she does so with intellectual flair: about her choice to read “Crime and Punishment” on an international flight, she hung up on it and portrayed herself as a “Doctor Zivago” type of girl. Maybe he would have read it. Maybe he simply knows it’s the right response to bring him to the line. Whatever the truth, he bites, and tells her he finds “Zivago” awkward.
“What’s wrong with messing up?” She purges in response, and the dizziness begins.
Overnight in Bangkok their whirlwinds pass like a dream; A more honest reading of the situation would call him a charming vain blackout drunk. Wear it if you want, but then on an incomprehensible morning, Casey stood next to Alex’s bloody corpse, not remembering what had happened.
From here, things get trickier, and this is where the true ropes come in. Directed and sustained by Susanna Fogel, Twisty Energy speeds up “The Flight Attendant” in the first two episodes, while Casey jumps from one problem to another. Formation and deterioration with every illness-advised move it takes. If the scripts weren’t so smart, and the casinos weren’t cuckoos as guaranteed to sell masonry, we would scream and squeal on the screen.
Feel the compliment instead.
Written in this character is an extension of the inner conversation and conflict, and while at this beginning it plays out like a clever means of trying to gather the details of whatever details it may bring out in its chaotic intoxication, it soon becomes something more into that more adultery. Goes deep. Thus, while never diminishing the sharpness in his acting, Cassie’s dumb move earns him more risk.
Continuing his chaos by Rossi Perez and Xosia Memet is acting as Casey’s co-worker Megan Brisco and her best friend ie Mauridian, who is fortunately also a shark-like lawyer for Casey. The Deadpan personality given to her is a clever counter to the meme Kuoko’s mania and is more effective as an anti-weight than Casey’s long-suffering brother TR Knight Davy. (In fairness, within the four episodes provided to critics, Knight’s screen time is much shorter.) Perez, meanwhile, has a hard time with Peg, which makes things interesting. It’s also unclear what to make of its relatively muted presence in the beginning, though it has given it more complexity to work with as the series progresses. Soon he also has fun playing in the dark.
All of this gives “The Flight Attendant” a vague appeal, while inviting the audience to reflect on what leads the woman to the edge. The title character’s guide system is made up entirely of compulsive behavior, even if it can be self-destructive. Casey’s uncontrollable plea to reach the bottom of this mystery to save her own skin is matched only by the horrors of her alcohol abuse, and both are a glowing instrument, with an incapacitating shock, shaking an old darkness that she is medicating. With alcohol, flight and risk.
Viewers who aren’t inconsistent with seeing Cooco Made’s combination in Cuoco’s Spiritual Darkness and Freeze will experience something new from him in “Flight Attendant,” and whether it’s spread to another season or his eight-episode limited-range position remains true. It is more capable than light than traveling.
The first three episodes of “The Flight Attendant” on Thursday, November 26, on HBO Max.
