The Flight Attendant’s showrunners and marketing department also bear some responsibility for the confusion. So is her sloppy drinking that different from her predecessors cheerfully enthusiastic alcohol consumption? Cassie mugs and double-takes and jokes in somewhat similar ways to Penny. Cuoco is most famous for her role as fun party girl Penny on The Big Bang Theory, and it’s easy to see her performance as Cassie in The Flight Attendant as a just slightly more mature continuation. The Flight Attendant is silly and exciting, rather than bleak and nightmarish, in part because the lead is played by Kaley Cuoco. Subscribe to Observer’s Keeping Watch Newsletter Why are the darker elements of addiction and mental illness so much easier to see when it’s Bradley Cooper rather than Kaley Cuoco drinking themselves to death? But reviewers didn’t refer to it as “a shot of love with a chaser of music!” because that would obviously be horrible. So, what happened? Why on earth would a reviewer refer to a show as a “fizzy cocktail” when the protagonist is very clearly in the throes of devastating alcohol addiction? A Star Is Born certainly has upbeat moments.
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