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* MotorMouth: Sometimes Cassie gets going on a subject and won't stop talking. This has actually proven to be an advantage, as she is able to talk fast enough to hold on people's attention and her blunt line-of-thought monologues are [[UnrealisticDictionIsUnrealistic so obviously unscripted]] that people tend to take her at her word.
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* MotorMouth: Sometimes Cassie gets going on a subject and won't stop talking. This has actually proven to be an advantage, as she is able to talk fast enough to hold on people's attention and her blunt line-of-thought monologues are [[UnrealisticDictionIsUnrealistic [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic so obviously unscripted]] that people tend to take her at her word.
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: Cassie is so single-minded on trying to [[ClearMyName clear her name]] that she inadvertently unravels the conspiracy surrounding Alex's murder before anyone else could. Miranda had such a hard time keeping track of her movements and behavior she was certain she had to be in on the conspiracy, but she was "just a flight attendant."
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* HiddenDepths: A flight attendant is maybe not the more respected career but Cassie proves to have a knack with talking her way out of situations, recognizing faces and is really good with numbers (she has to remember her flight schedules for weeks at a time). She seems like she is spiraling out of control, and she is, but is able to keep on top of the story through persistence and quick thinking.
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* WhatHappenedLastNight: The core premise of the series is that Cassie barely remembers anything from her night with Alex, and over time is able to reconstruct bits of events and conversations that help resolve the mystery. As a character, Cassie experiences this on a regular basis [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl due to heavy drinking and partying]], she is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first seen waking up in a subway car]]. She later realizes that she has entire blocks of her LIFE missing due to her lifestyle.
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* WhatHappenedLastNight: WhatDidIDoLastNight: The core premise of the series is that Cassie barely remembers anything from her night with Alex, and over time is able to reconstruct bits of events and conversations that help resolve the mystery. As a character, Cassie experiences this on a regular basis [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl due to heavy drinking and partying]], she is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first seen waking up in a subway car]]. She later realizes that she has entire blocks of her LIFE missing due to her lifestyle.
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* DeadPersonConversation / SpiritAdvisor: Alex becomes something of a conscience to Cassie after his death, at times helping her remember the the events that led to his death.
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* DeadPersonConversation / SpiritAdvisor: Alex becomes something of a conscience to Cassie after his death, at times helping her remember the the events that led to his death. She has to remind herself several times that he doesn't know anything more than she does, and she barely remembers anything from the night they spent together.
* FreakOut: Cassie is, understandably, very upset and disoriented after waking up in bed next to a graphically murdered Alex. This feeds into the overall story, she is not making decisions with a clear head and has regular hallucinations of Alex in an attempt to piece together what happened.
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* MetaCasting: Creator/KaleyCuoco spent 12 years on ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' as Penny, a HardDrinkingPartyGirl with [[WaitingForABreak unrealistic acting aspirations]] who falls in with a group of nerdy friends who help keep her grounded. As Cassie, she feels like a progression of Penny if she never had that support network and progressively spiraled out of control.
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* MsFanservice: Hardly 10 minutes goes by without seeing Cassie in some state of undress or otherwise in revealing attire.
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* MasterOfDisguise: [[spoiler:Buckley Ware / Feliks has been stalking Cassie in various disguises since the start of the series and killed Alex while heavily disguised.]]
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* ChekhovsClassroom: After Cassie and "Buckley" sleep together for the first time at his house, the latter briefly goes on a somewhat disturbing story about how he used to adopt multiple cats, and even took care of them after they died, becoming known as the "dead cat guy". [[spoiler: When Miranda tells Cassie a similar story about what Feliks used to do, she immediately realizes who Feliks really is]].
* ChekovsGunman:
** Buckley Ware, a boy Cassie picks up while bar-hopping, [[spoiler: turns out to be Feliks, the man who's responsible for both Cassie and Miranda's problems throughout the entire show.]]
** Shane Evans, one of Cassie's coworkers at Trans-Atlantic airlines, [[spoiler: is revealed to be an undercover CIA agent in the Season 1 finale.]]
* ChekovsGunman:
** Buckley Ware, a boy Cassie picks up while bar-hopping, [[spoiler: turns out to be Feliks, the man who's responsible for both Cassie and Miranda's problems throughout the entire show.]]
** Shane Evans, one of Cassie's coworkers at Trans-Atlantic airlines, [[spoiler: is revealed to be an undercover CIA agent in the Season 1 finale.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Downplayed with Miranda Croft. While she's still a self-serving spy at the end of the first season, she definitely cares much more about Cassie than she did at the beginning of the show.
* EvilBrit:
** Zig-zagged with Miranda Croft. She's established as being a very self-serving and cold ProfessionalKiller who feels a need to fix any mistakes that she makes, and admits to have stolen identities and murdered people in her life as a spy. However, after getting to know Cassie for a little bit, Miranda starts to warm up to her and genuinely wants to help her out, though she still steals Alex's money and leaves her at the end of the show.
** Played straight with Feliks, aka [[spoiler: Buckley Ware]]. He's responsible for Alexander Sokolov's death, and he's revealed to have been stalking Cassandra since the very beginning of the show. He's a much more shocking example of this trope, as his real identity is only revealed in the last couple of episodes, meaning that hearing his true voice is quite the ShockingSwerve.
** Zig-zagged with Miranda Croft. She's established as being a very self-serving and cold ProfessionalKiller who feels a need to fix any mistakes that she makes, and admits to have stolen identities and murdered people in her life as a spy. However, after getting to know Cassie for a little bit, Miranda starts to warm up to her and genuinely wants to help her out, though she still steals Alex's money and leaves her at the end of the show.
** Played straight with Feliks, aka [[spoiler: Buckley Ware]]. He's responsible for Alexander Sokolov's death, and he's revealed to have been stalking Cassandra since the very beginning of the show. He's a much more shocking example of this trope, as his real identity is only revealed in the last couple of episodes, meaning that hearing his true voice is quite the ShockingSwerve.
* FireForgedFriends: Max and Cassie become this as they work together to break into Alex's apartment and a nearby warehouse. After a heartfelt moment with Ani when he wakes up from his coma, Max's first thought is to ask how Cassie is doing.
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* FakeMemories: Many of Cassandra's happy memories of her childhood turn out to be much more disturbing then she thinks. At one point, Cassie sees her family happily celebrating Davey's birthday which is what she thinks she remembers. In reality, Mr. Bowden and Cassie were making Davey completely miserable by verbally abusing him and digging into his cake with their bare hands before he gets so much as a slice.
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** Jumping from roof to roof to evade someone is ''not'' as easy as it looks in most action movies. Cassie and Miranda only manages to do this once by sheer luck in Episode 7, and the former almost doesn’t make it.
** There's only so much shit you can pile on top of someone before they eventually get sick of you and stop wanting to help. Max getting hit by a car and being brought to a hospital due to Cassie bringing him along to break into Alex’s apartment and an abandoned warehouse is the straw that breaks the camel's back for Ani, which causes her to throw Cassie out of her house and refuse to help with her problems any longer.
** Van White is capable of being a rough-and-tumble CowboyCop FBI agent because of his white privilege. Kim Hammond points out that if she, an African-American woman, did anything even close to what White suggests, she would almost assuredly be forced to resign.
* SanitySlippage: Cassie grows increasingly paranoid as the seriesprogresses.progresses, and her hallucinations start entering MindScrew more and more as she finds out more about Alex Sokolov.
** Jumping from roof to roof to evade someone is ''not'' as easy as it looks in most action movies. Cassie and Miranda only manages to do this once by sheer luck in Episode 7, and the former almost doesn’t make it.
** There's only so much shit you can pile on top of someone before they eventually get sick of you and stop wanting to help. Max getting hit by a car and being brought to a hospital due to Cassie bringing him along to break into Alex’s apartment and an abandoned warehouse is the straw that breaks the camel's back for Ani, which causes her to throw Cassie out of her house and refuse to help with her problems any longer.
** Van White is capable of being a rough-and-tumble CowboyCop FBI agent because of his white privilege. Kim Hammond points out that if she, an African-American woman, did anything even close to what White suggests, she would almost assuredly be forced to resign.
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* AdaptationalNationality: Miranda in the book is Russian, but here she's portrayed by Creator/MichelleGomez, with her Scottish accent very much intact.
* AgentPeacock: [[spoiler:It turns out that Shane was an undercover CIA agent the whole time]].
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* AdaptationExpansion: AdaptationExpansion / OvertookTheSeries: [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/12/the-flight-attendant-season-1-spoilers The second season onwards]], now that the series has overtaken the book it's based on.
*AdaptationalNationality: AdaptationalMundanity: Inverted with the "mind palace" scenes, which aren't from the book and were created for the series, which gives it a more surreal and fantastical feel than the source material.
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2020. Though initially intended as a mini-series, [[https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/flight-attendant-renewed-hbo-max-1234866413/ a second season was ordered]] soon after the first finished airing, with Cuoco set to return.
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* AdaptationalNationality: Miranda in the book is Russian, but here she's portrayed by Creator/MichelleGomez, with her Scottish accent very much intact.
* AgentPeacock: [[spoiler:It turns out that Shane was an undercover CIA agent the whole time]].
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* AgentPeacock: [[spoiler:It turns out that Shane was an undercover CIA agent the whole time]].
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:In the book, Cassie becomes an informant for the CIA after everything that happens, but Chris Bohjalian has yet to write a follow-up. The first season of the series, however, ends with the implication of this happening, and will likely be seen in the confirmed second season]].
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* StraightGay: Cassie's brother Davey is married to a man but neither he nor his husband show any stereotypical traits.
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* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:Felix/Buckley has been following Cassie for the entire show]].
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* ItsAllMyFault: Cassie blames herself for the crash that killed her father because she was his "drinking buddy," even though it was his drunk-driving that caused the crash.
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* AbusiveParents: Cassie and Davey's father, Mr. Bowden, was highly verbally abusive to Davey, often referring to him with insults such as "sissy" and "fag." He was also physically abusive at times as well and was just generally mean, not even allowing the boy to enjoy a birthday party without it just being more misery for him.
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* TheAlcoholic: It becomes increasingly clear as the series progresses that Cassie is an alcoholic and her father was too, having introduced Cassie to beer at an early age. She later progressed to the hard stuff.
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* RansackedRoom: Miranda Croft ransacks Cassie's apartment and is troubled when she finds among other things multiple passports, convinced that Cassie is much more than just a simple flight attendant.
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* {{Nephewism}}: When Cassie and Max are trying to get into Alex's apartment, she passes herself off as his sister with the very creative name, Alessandra.
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* PragmaticAdaptation /A daptationExpansion: The book is a more straightforward case-of-mistaken-identity chase-based thriller. The series adaptation is a darkly comic and satirical thriller with the added SpiritAdvisor ImagineSpots that also deconstructs the BrokenBird type of character.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} A deadly mystery with a turbulent descent]].]]
''The Flight Attendant'' is a 2020 thriller {{miniseries}} based on the novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian, developed for Creator/HBOMax by Steve Yockey.
Cassie Bowden (Creator/KaleyCuoco) is a flight attendant who quickly hits it off with Alex Sokolov (Creator/MichielHuisman), a handsome passenger on her plane, while en route to UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}. After a drunken night together, Cassie is horrified to find his dead, bloodied body laying beside her, unable to recall the events that led up to his apparent murder — or worse yet, if ''she'' is the one who killed him. Making matters worse, the UsefulNotes/{{FBI}} quickly opens an investigation about the circumstances surrounding his death, and her paranoia threatens to get the best of her.
Creator/RosiePerez, Zosia Mamet (''Series/{{Girls}}''), Creator/BebeNeuwirth, T.R. Knight (''Series/GreysAnatomy''), Creator/MichelleGomez, and Merle Dandridge (''VideoGame/HalfLife'') also appear in supporting roles. The series, co-executive produced by Cuoco herself along with Creator/GregBerlanti and Susanna Fogel (''Film/TheSpyWhoDumpedMe''), premiered on November 26th, 2020.
[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP_WC5oOCe8 Trailer]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxODwzYf22s Pilot episode]].
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!!''The Flight Attendant'' contains examples of:
* BlackComedy / {{Thriller}}: The series is a darkly comedic thriller with plenty of moments of levity, such as Cassie's alarm ("Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Music/{{Wham}}) going off right as she discovers Alex's dead body.
* DeadStarWalking: Creator/MichielHuisman (best known internationally for his role in ''Series/GameOfThrones'') is introduced as Cassie's love interest, but is killed off a third of the way into the pilot.
* DeadPersonConversation / SpiritAdvisor: Alex becomes something of a conscience to Cassie after his death, at times helping her remember the the events that led to his death.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment / HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Viewers are introduced to Cassie through a montage of her partying all around the world, culminating with her waking up hungover in a subway car. She's frequently seen drinking thereafter, signaling that it's a regular habit of hers.
* InterrogationMontage: The UsefulNotes/{{FBI}} agents working on the murder case question Cassie along with her fellow flight attendants through a cross-cut montage.
* MileHighClub: It doesn't take long for Cassie and Alex to meet in the airplane bathroom, though it doesn't appear they go beyond making out.
* SanitySlippage: Cassie grows increasingly paranoid as the series progresses.
* SiblingYinYang: Cassie is the messy, aimless counterpart to her brother Davey, a clean-cut father of two, as seen through their phone conversation in the pilot.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Alex spends much of his screen time (pre ''and'' post-mortem) shirtless, as he was half-naked when he died, though [[FanDisservice he's covered in blood and light gore for some of it]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} A deadly mystery with a turbulent descent]].]]
''The Flight Attendant'' is a 2020 thriller {{miniseries}} based on the novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian, developed for Creator/HBOMax by Steve Yockey.
Cassie Bowden (Creator/KaleyCuoco) is a flight attendant who quickly hits it off with Alex Sokolov (Creator/MichielHuisman), a handsome passenger on her plane, while en route to UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}. After a drunken night together, Cassie is horrified to find his dead, bloodied body laying beside her, unable to recall the events that led up to his apparent murder — or worse yet, if ''she'' is the one who killed him. Making matters worse, the UsefulNotes/{{FBI}} quickly opens an investigation about the circumstances surrounding his death, and her paranoia threatens to get the best of her.
Creator/RosiePerez, Zosia Mamet (''Series/{{Girls}}''), Creator/BebeNeuwirth, T.R. Knight (''Series/GreysAnatomy''), Creator/MichelleGomez, and Merle Dandridge (''VideoGame/HalfLife'') also appear in supporting roles. The series, co-executive produced by Cuoco herself along with Creator/GregBerlanti and Susanna Fogel (''Film/TheSpyWhoDumpedMe''), premiered on November 26th, 2020.
[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP_WC5oOCe8 Trailer]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxODwzYf22s Pilot episode]].
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!!''The Flight Attendant'' contains examples of:
* BlackComedy / {{Thriller}}: The series is a darkly comedic thriller with plenty of moments of levity, such as Cassie's alarm ("Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Music/{{Wham}}) going off right as she discovers Alex's dead body.
* DeadStarWalking: Creator/MichielHuisman (best known internationally for his role in ''Series/GameOfThrones'') is introduced as Cassie's love interest, but is killed off a third of the way into the pilot.
* DeadPersonConversation / SpiritAdvisor: Alex becomes something of a conscience to Cassie after his death, at times helping her remember the the events that led to his death.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment / HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Viewers are introduced to Cassie through a montage of her partying all around the world, culminating with her waking up hungover in a subway car. She's frequently seen drinking thereafter, signaling that it's a regular habit of hers.
* InterrogationMontage: The UsefulNotes/{{FBI}} agents working on the murder case question Cassie along with her fellow flight attendants through a cross-cut montage.
* MileHighClub: It doesn't take long for Cassie and Alex to meet in the airplane bathroom, though it doesn't appear they go beyond making out.
* SanitySlippage: Cassie grows increasingly paranoid as the series progresses.
* SiblingYinYang: Cassie is the messy, aimless counterpart to her brother Davey, a clean-cut father of two, as seen through their phone conversation in the pilot.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Alex spends much of his screen time (pre ''and'' post-mortem) shirtless, as he was half-naked when he died, though [[FanDisservice he's covered in blood and light gore for some of it]].
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