The Flight Attendant: What the Must Watch reviewers think

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:02

Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.

This week Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan share their thoughts on The Flight Attendant on Sky One.

Kaley Cuoco stars as a flight attendant who wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened.

Have you been watching it? What did you think? Leave your comments below...

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Scott says "A well paced, really interesting thriller"

“I really enjoyed this. The plot is ludicrous, but that's very much its appeal. The heart of the story is about what happens if someone has been murdered whilst you were asleep next to them, but you have no idea how. What follows is panic, as flight attendant Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco) flees the scene and the country. She also does everything wrong, taking vital evidence with her. I know that sounds like quite a dark premise for a show, but it's a dark comedy.

“I think it is a really well paced, really interesting thriller. There are quite a lot of dark jokes too. The alarm that goes off shortly before she realises that the person lying next to her has been killed? It's the song ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go Go’.

Also this drama makes me feel nostalgic for international travel. It really has been a while."

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Hayley says: "Nonsense fast-paced fun"

“I agree. I think it’s a really silly, cartoony whodunnit. What I like is how unseriously it takes itself. It doesn’t set out to be realistic or say anything about our lives or how we live them, it’s essentially just a nonsense show about a murder and it doesn’t pretend to be anything else.

Kaley Cuoco gives a great performance, I thought she was really funny in this. She doesn’t play the smart savvy protagonist who gets herself into trouble and then knows how to get out of it. She’s clumsy and rash and everything she does makes it so much worse and you’re sitting there going ‘why are you doing that? It’s going to look bad!’ She’s a train-wreck and everyone around her expects nothing more of her, but then this happens. She has to try and get herself together enough to be not charged with murder and she’s not entirely sure she had any part in it, because she was blackout drunk.

I like the premise and I like how they’ve done it. It can be clever and also completely absurd. It is nonsense, fast-paced fun.”