A woman wakes up after a night of partying and realizes something is very, very wrong.

That's the premise of the HBO Max series The Flight Attendant.

It's a talk, darkly funny thriller starring Kaylee Cuoco of the Big Bang Theory as a woman

in search of some answers about the present, but might also shed light on the past.

The show recently returned for a second season, so we thought we'd revisit our episode

about the first season. I'm Linda Holmes, and in this encore episode of NPR's Top Culture

Happy Hour, we're talking about The Flight Attendant.

Welcome back, also with us from his home in Baltimore, is our Eric Thomas. He's a senior

staff writer with L.com. Hello!

Hi, Linda. I'm so excited to talk about this show.

I am so excited that you're here and that you're here to talk about this.

The Flight Attendant is based on a novel by Chris Pajalian. The showrunners are Steve

Yackey, a playwright who's also worked on Awkward and Supernatural, and also Marcy

Ulan and Meredith Lavender, who have worked on, among other things, Nashville.

One of the executive producers is Greg Berlanti, who makes basically all of television

now, including the superhero shows on the CW. I think that's just the law.

I think spoiling the premise is probably okay.

It happens in the first 10 minutes, but if you want nothing, then go watch this show,

which Eric and I both really like, and then come back, or at least watch the first episode.

But, so what happens at the beginning of this show is Kaley Cuoco is this kind of

partying flight attendant who goes out one night. She hooks up with this guy, and when she

wakes up in the morning, she is next to him in bed, but he is extremely dead.

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