History Series / TheFlightAttendant

* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:Feliks/Buckley has been following Cassie for the entire show]].

* FakeMemories: Many of Cassandra's happy memories of her childhood turn out to be much more disturbing than 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.

* EntertainginglyWrong: In Season 2, Megan is shocked when Cassie shows up in Reykjavik with the key to a lockbox full of evidence. Cassie relates she figured out Megan's emoji code that she was meant to bring the key "to the Queen of Long Island." A disbelieving Megan relates the message was for Cassie to bring the key to their friend Cherri, who works at the ''Queens strip club'' in Long Island.

* EntertainglyWrong: In Season 2, Megan is shocked when Cassie shows up in Reykjavik with the key to a lockbox full of evidence. Cassie relates she figured out Megan's emoji code that she was meant to bring the key "to the Queen of Long Island." A disbelieving Megan relates the message was for Cassie to bring the key to their friend Cherri, who works at the ''Queens strip club'' in Long Island.

* EntertainginglyWrong: In Season 2, Megan is shocked when Cassie shows up in Reykjavik with the key to a lockbox full of evidence. Cassie relates she figured out Megan's emoji code that she was meant to bring the key "to the Queen of Long Island." A disbelieving Megan relates the message was for Cassie to bring the key to their friend Cherri, who works at the ''Queens strip club'' in Long Island.

Creator/RosiePerez, Creator/ZosiaMamet (''Series/{{Girls}}''), Creator/BebeNeuwirth, Creator/TRKnight (''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. 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. The program's second season premieres on April 21, 2022. In the second season, Cassie Bowden is living her best sober life, while moonlighting as a civilian CIA asset. She once again finds herself drawn into international intrigue after inadvertently witnessing a murder while on the job.

* BaitAndSwitchComment: In "Blue Sincerely Reunion," when Esteban Diaz moves to hit Max in the face to try to get information out of him, Gabrielle Diaz tells him "Baby, stop," making it seem like she thinks he's going to far. Then...

Creator/RosiePerez, Creator/ZosiaMamet (''Series/{{Girls}}''), Creator/BebeNeuwirth, Creator/TRKnight (''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. 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.

* 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]].

** Cassie deconstructs the HardPartyDrinkingGirl. Yes, she may enjoy drinking lots of alcohol and having great sex while not working flights, but that type of behavior is incredibly self-destructive and makes it difficult for many of her friends and family to take her seriously. Her casual dismissal of her friends outside of simple pleasures or quick favors also does little to sway her to their side, with Ani, Megan and Shane ghosting her at some point during the series.

* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler: Victor, the de facto BigBad and the one who ordered Alex's death,]] is killed in the penultimate episode of Season 1. The finale instead has Cassie contending with [[spoiler: PsychoForHire Feliks.]]

** 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.

''The Flight Attendant'' is a 2020 thriller series based on the novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian, developed for Creator/HBOMax by Steve Yockey.

* 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.

** 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.

** 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.]]

* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: The Trans-Atlantic Airlines crew ends up being involved in two apparently unrelated conspiracies: [[spoiler: Victor's weapons smuggling rings and the North Korean government's corporate espionage.]] This ends up being beneficial, as [[spoiler: Shane's pursuit of the North Koreans puts him in the right place at the right time to bail Cassie out of her own perilous situation.]]

* 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.

* StraightGay: Cassie's brother Davey is married to a man but neither he nor his husband show any stereotypical traits

* TheUnfavourite: Davey to Mr. Bowden, who called Cassie "the son I never had."

* FreezeFrameBonus: If you look closely at the switchblade that kills Agent Schavez, you can see it looks quite different from Miranda Croft's butterfly knife, foreshadowing that she isn't the one responsible for his murder. [[spoiler: Sure enough, it belongs to Feliks, who uses the exact same knife later on to try to break into Annie's apartment and to intimidate Cassie when he corners her in Rome.]]

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. 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* DaddysLittleGirl: Ends up being deconstructed. Cassie was very close to her father growing up, and he seemed to prefer spending time with her [[TheUnfavorite over Davey]]. As it turns out Cassie was treated as her father's drinking buddy, and she blamed herself for the car accident that took his life. She also came to realize how horrible Davey was treated, and she called him in tears to apologize. He readily forgave her, saying how their father treated her was not right either.

* RealityEnsues:
** 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 latter 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.