Originally posted by: return_to_hades
The Flight Attendant S1
As much as I love TBBT, I am glad it ended so we can enjoy Kaley Cuoco being a hot mess as the Flight Attendant.
The alcoholic hot mess is one of the new female stock characters in suspense thrillers. It's even being parodied. But the Flight Attendant shows why this character can be so compelling and entertaining.
Cassie Bowden is erratic, impulsive, selfish, and a raging alcoholic. Her alcoholic behavior leads her to a one-night stand where she gets blackout drunk and wakes up next to the bloody corpse of her hookup. No matter what she does she keeps getting herself deeper into trouble.
She's unlikeable but her trauma both from her abusive childhood and the more recent trauma of waking next to a dead date makes her compelling and sympathetic. The show starts of slow, but once it gets going, it's a wild ride sucking you in.
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