Is The Flight Attendant Based On A Book? Is The Flight Attendant On Netflix Any Good?

The Flight Attendant is based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian. It was optioned by Cuoco’s own production company, Norman Productions, in 2017 prior to the book’s publication.

The Flight Attendant is a slick, stylish, pitch-black comedy that hooks you early and has more than enough intrigue and mystery in its eight parts to ensure its binge worthiness. The Flight Attendant can’t help but come over as plain infuriating.

The movie is about a flight attendant’s life that gets turned upside down after she wakes up in a hotel room with a dead man but with no memory of what happened.

The first season kicks off with a bang: Cassie wakes up in a Bangkok hotel next to the dead body of Alex (Michiel Huisman), a guy she’d partied with the night before.

Not remembering what happened and what role she might have played in his death, she cleans up the crime scene and hops on a plane out of there and back to work — before getting embroiled in an international spy caper.

At the start of season 2, she’s a year sober, has a loving photographer boyfriend Marco (Star Trek Picard’s Santiago Cabrera), a supportive sponsor Brenda (Shohreh Aghdashloo of The Expanse), and her brother Davey (T.R. Knight) and friends Annie (Zosia Mamet) and Max (Deniz Akdeniz) come to visit her in the Golden State … all while she’s also moonlighting as a CIA informant (because of course she is).

Though she seems happy and settled to those around her, espionage work isn’t done putting her through the wringer.

Someone is impersonating her, and her former flight attendant colleague and friend Megan (Rosie Perez) is on the run and in danger. Plus Sharon Stone is there as Cassie’s caustic, estranged mother.