TV Review: The Flight Attendant Season 1 🛄🐇🇹🇭

The Flight Attendant is a stylish thriller dramedy that is about addiction, trauma and espionage.

Kaley Cuoco stars as Cassie Bowden in The Flight Attendant.

Kaley Cuoco stars as Cassie Bowden in The Flight Attendant. CREDIT: HBO Max

This post for The Flight Attendant Season 1 is spoiler-free.

The Flight Attendant (2020, created by Steve Yockey) follows Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco), a flight attendant for Imperial Atlantic, who gets stuck in a messy situation after waking up next to a very dead Alex Sokolov (Michiel Huisman) in a hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand. The drama also explores Cassie’s addiction and haunting childhood trauma, as she investigates the incriminating situation that she has got herself into.

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TV Review: Euphoria Season 1 🌈

Euphoria uses visuals, layered characters and music to create one of the most stunning television series I’ve ever watched.

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Zendaya stars as Rue in Euphoria. CREDIT: HBO

This post for Euphoria Season 1 contains spoilers.

Euphoria’s (2019, created by Sam Levinson) main theme isn’t anything out of the ordinary, as many television networks have done shows about teenagers before; but what makes Euphoria unique is its tone, visuals, sound and characters. The series follows a group of Gen Z-ers and their complex relationships with high school, identity, sexuality and society.

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TV Review: Big Little Lies S02E07 “I Want to Know” 🚔

Big Little Lies Season 2, sadly, does not end with a bang.

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Nicole Kidman stars as Celeste Wright in Big Little Lies. CREDIT: HBO

This post for Big Little Lies “I Want to Know” contains spoilers.

Big Little Lies is and will always be one of the greatest television shows ever made, especially in the #MeToo and #TimesUp era; but I would have preferred for the series to end in Season 1, had I known how the writers intended to end Season 2.

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TV Review: Big Little Lies S02E06 “The Bad Mother” 👩🏼‍⚖️

One thing’s for sure—there are no bad mother in Big Little Lies.

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Nicole Kidman stars as Celeste Wright in Big Little Lies. CREDIT: HBO

This post for Big Little Lies “The Bad Mother” contains spoilers.

Despite all the lies and dishonesty surrounding Season 2 of Big Little Lies, you can’t say that Celeste (Nicole Kidman), Madeline (Reese Witherspoon), Jane (Shailene Woodley), Renata (Laura Dern) and Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz) are not good mothers because no matter what the circumstances are, they put their children in first priority.

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TV Review: Big Little Lies S02E05 “Kill Me” 🛶

It seems like at least one of the Monterey Five is headed to an undesirable end no matter what.

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Shailene Woodley stars as Jane in Big Little Lies. CREDIT: HBO

This post for Big Little Lies “Kill Me” contains spoilers.

Is “Kill Me” (2019, directed by Andrea Arnold) a metaphor for how the Monterey Five are feeling in this week’s episode of Big Little Lies? Because it certainly seems like it.

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TV Review: Big Little Lies S02E04 “She Knows” 🤫

The Monterey Five all have one thing in common now apart from the lies—they’re all powerless.

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Reese Witherspoon stars as Madeline in Big Little Lies. CREDIT: HBO

This post for Big Little Lies “She Knows” contains spoilers.

Who would have thought that one man’s death would cause so much trouble for the Monterey Five? Celeste (Nicole Kidman), Madeline (Reese Witherspoon), Jane (Shailene Woodley), Renata (Laura Dern) and Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz) all come face-to-face with major issues in their lives in “She Knows” (2019, directed by Andrea Arnold).

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