Kaley Cuoco‘s thriller has formally been grounded. The Max unique sequence The Flight Attendant has been canceled after two seasons on the Warner Bros. Discovery streamer.
“What started out as an attention-grabbing book cover quickly evolved into an extraordinary flight of a lifetime. I always envisioned TFA as a limited series, and thanks to an incredible creative team, we were able to deliver two thrilling seasons,” Cuoco, who additionally served as an govt producer, stated in a press release Friday. “Personally, playing Cassie has been a dream come true and I am so grateful for everyone who played a part in bringing this extremely original series to life.”
Collection creator Steve Yockey added, “The Flight Attendant was a true passion project, and the reception from viewers and critics alike was pretty stunning. Our unorthodox spectacle of a show really found people. As we all move on to new projects, those two seasons of television and the incredible team of professionals behind them will always stay at the top of my list.”
Yockey served as showrunner and govt producer alongside co-showrunner and govt producer Natalie Chaidez. Greg Berlanti, Cuoco, Sarah Schechter, David Madden, Suzanne McCormack and Silver Tree had been govt producers. Jess Meyer served as co-executive producer, and Bonnie Munoz as producer.
Tailored from Chris Bohjalian’s 2018 novel, The Flight Attendant was initially set as a restricted sequence and aired two seasons on the streamer, with the second installment ending in Could 2022.
Cuoco starred alongside sequence regulars Zosia Mamet, Griffin Matthews, Deniz Akdeniz, Rosie Perez, Mo McRae, Callie Hernandez and JJ Soria. Over two seasons, the sequence featured appearances by T.R. Knight, Yasha Jackson, Audrey Grace Marshall, Alanna Ubach, Cheryl Hines, Jessie Ennis, Mae Martin, Margaret Cho, Santiago Cabrera, Sharon Stone and Shohreh Aghdashloo.
Season 1 of the thriller follows Cassie Bowden (Cuoco) after she wakes up in a lodge room subsequent to a lifeless man, Alex Sokolov (Michiel Huisman), with no recollection of what occurred. All through eight episodes, Cassie goes on a messy, chaotic journey in her determined try to hunt the reality and discover out who killed Alex. All of it culminated dramatically when it is revealed within the last two episodes that it was her boy toy Buckley Ware (Colin Woodell), aka Felix, who slit Alex’s throat.
The second installment exhibits Cassie lastly accepting each sliver of her imperfect self — the edges she had been working from this whole time — whereas additionally placing to mattress the large thriller plaguing her all season. It seems CIA boss Dot (Cheryl Hines) was the murderous doppelganger wreaking havoc on Cassie’s life! With Dot dropped at justice for her two-faced crimes, Cassie additionally got here to find that Jenny, the unassuming crime podcaster from Alcoholics Nameless, was something however — simply somebody who was obsessive about Felix, the season 1 killer, and able to go to bat for the jailed assassin. In fact, Cassie had her revenge and eradicated Jenny for good.
And all was properly elsewhere within the Flight Attendant universe, too. Annie and Max lastly had their wedding ceremony within the finale — Las Vegas model, full with “Elvis” — and Megan might search the closure she wanted after spending a lot of the season on the lam, going into witness safety by the tip of the season.
Cuoco appeared glad with the season’s finale appearing because the present’s last word when she advised Folks she wasn’t prepared for one more season after final Could.
“Now I’m like, ‘We did two. We should probably be done.’ And I think I’ve been outnumbered with that thought,” Cuoco, who earned her first Emmy nomination for the function, shared. “There’s definitely interest in doing a third season. I think for me, at this moment, the plane has landed.”
She added, “I mean, we’ve done so much this season. Even in the eight episodes, we’ve done so much story that I’m thinking, ‘Well, what could we do next?’ So, it’s going to take a lot of thought to make sure if we go back that it’s better than the last two, which is very hard to do.”
One of the best half about season 2’s finale, Cuoco advised the outlet, is that it might be performed however that it additionally leaves room for the present to proceed. “I think the writers and the team did a really beautiful job in tying it up in a pretty bow,” she famous. “But if you had to open the bow, it would be okay.”
In the meantime, the actress is selling her newest challenge, her movie Position Play, and having fun with life as a mother after giving start to her daughter Matilda, whom she shares with companion Tom Pelphrey, in March 2023.
The movie, out Jan. 12 solely on Prime Video, additionally stars David Oyelowo as Cuoco’s husband.
“We were best buds from the start,” Cuoco gushed of her co-star to ET on the movie’s Los Angeles premiere. “We had like a lunch where we met each other, it was like a blind actor date, and I actually created a 20 questions game with him so that we could get to know each other quickly. I mean, they’re very simple questions like favorite color, favorite animal, but it was fun. It kind of just broke the ice right away.”
As for her discretion in actual life, the actress joked that she can’t maintain a secret very properly.
“I am an open book, heart on my sleeve. It’s just who I am,” she stated. “Even when I try to keep something quiet or I’m not supposed to say anything, I am blurting it out. In fact, I’m the one that’s giving Christmas gifts in October.”