![]() Kaley Cuoco is doing an incredible job bringing Cassie’s frustrations to light. The Flight Attendant is nailing this season is the concept of struggle in early sobriety and cataloging all the painful realizations and changes that come with true recovery. Addiction and substance abuse don’t exist in bubbles they’re symptoms of something wrong. This is such a powerful realization and one that comes up very often in recovery. Through an ocean of tears, Cassie trembles, “I thought if I quit drinking, all my problems would go away, but they’re still here!” Wow. Max scoots out to get coffee, and Ani scoops Cassie up. At the top of the episode, Ani and Max find her passed out on the floor of her trashed apartment. Speaking of going back to family, Cassie is also headed to the East Coast. Seriously, girl?! Your actions completely shattered this man’s life. She hugs her sweet son a few times, but once she sees her husband Bill, he tells her he’s turning her in. On the East Coast, Megan tries to reconnect with her family, and it’s a total fail. They even have Cassie’s flight itinerary to New Jersey! Ruh-roh. Of course, they’re part of a shadowy group that has its eye on Cassie. But my money is still on Dot, mostly because she didn’t even ask Cassie about the one million drunk dials from the night before.Īni and Max are still sort of talking about the ring and their future and whatnot, but Max is distracting himself from the situation by throwing himself into finding out who the Diazes really are. During my fight with the pause button on my remote, it occurred to me that she might not even be a she! The double could certainly be a petite guy in a trench coat and a wig. We get a tantalizing glimpse of her face, but given her thick blonde wig and giant shades, there’s not much to go on. (She shoots him in the eye!) The doppelgänger is barefoot and puts out a cigarette with her toe, just so you know how badass she is.Įarlier, we see the doppelgänger sneak into Cassie’s house to plant the knife that she used to kill the two CIA operatives at Echo Park. At the conclusion of the episode, we see the doppelgänger head to a boat and straight-up murder the milky eye dude collaborating with Benjamin. ![]() Later, we see Benjamin calling Shane for intel on Cassie and then stalking Dot in a parking garage, so none of this seems great for ol’ Benji. Thus far, Dot has been openly hostile and rude to Benjamin, who is a subordinate, and here she calls Cassie to warn her about Benjamin’s motives. But the trip itself - specifically Cassie’s showdown with her rage-filled mother - is the real star of the show.īut let’s check in with everyone else before we dive into the glorious Sharon Stone of it all.īenjamin and Dot are kind of doing their thing in CIA land. This episode is almost like an exposition sandwich, serving up bits of the doppelgänger mystery (and a quick check in with Megan) on the periphery of Cassie’s trip back home with Davey. Given that these two characters aren’t really baked into the rest of the narrative, whenever the show pops in on them, it feels more like an interstitial from another crime-focused TV series like NCIS or Law & Order rather than part of a cohesive whole.Ĭassie’s messy personal life makes for the more compelling plotline so far, and it’s very effective. For the last few episodes, the heft of telling the murderous espionage story has mostly been placed on short snippets of Dot and Benjamin chatting cryptically at the CIA. Sure, Cassie has been doing some sketchy stuff to solve the mystery, but those behaviors are more of an indicator that she’s not doing well in her recovery. Throughout the second season of The Flight Attendant, the international mystery plotline and the Cassie-is-a-hot-mess plotlines have been almost like two separate shows merged into one. (And I’m still waiting on that Miranda Croft spinoff announcement. Is it weird to say that I don’t really care about the doppelgänger mystery anymore? Instead, I want a million more minutes of Mama Bowden and Cassie working their shit out in therapy.
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