The Flight Attendant Season 2: Everything We Know (So Far)
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Asked about her hopes for Season 2 of The Flight Attendant, star and executive producer Kaley Cuoco told TVLine this spring, “We had such a great Season 1, but I want it to even be better
, even though that’s hard to do. And I want to come out swinging.”
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To date, the dark comedy’s freshman run — which was adapted from the 2018 Chris Bohjalian novel — has racked up a pair of Golden Globe nominations (for Cuoco and for Best Comedy/Musical), as well as two Screen Actors Guild nods and nine Primetime Emmy Award nominations (including for best comedy and Cuoco as lead actress. So, suffice it to say, Season 1 will be a tough act to follow.
Set for a Spring 2022 release, “All I can tell you is that we’re deep into it,” series creator Steve Yockey shared with TVLine in June.
In the list below, TVLine has rounded up everything we know thus far from Season 2, including Yockey’s latest updates on returning faces… and at least one hotly anticipated encore.
Want scoop on The Flight Attendant, or for any other show? Email InsideLine@tvline.com and your question may be answered via Matt’s Inside Line.
PREMIERE DATE
Season 2 of the HBO Max caper is set to premiere Thursday, April 21. Two episodes will drop on premiere day, followed by another two on April 28, and then weekly releases through its May 26 finale.
NOW DEPARTING… FROM LOS ANGELES
In sharing her wishes for Season 2, the West Coast-based Kaley Cuoco told TVLine in February, “I’d actually like for some of it to be filmed in L.A.” instead of having New York City serve as Cassie’s home base. “So I pitched that. I don’t know if they’re going to go for it, but I’d like some of it to be in L.A.” (Spoiler alert: They went for it, and Season 2 will indeed be filmed/partly set in Los Angeles, as well as in Berlin and Reykjavik.)
A NEW KILLER MYSTERY IS AFOOT
Per the official synopsis for Season 2, Cassie Bowden is living her best sober life in Los Angeles while moonlighting as a CIA asset in her spare time. But when an overseas assignment leads her to inadvertently witness a murder, she becomes entangled in another international intrigue.
As showrunner Steve Yockey previously ventured, whereas Season 1 was directly adapted from Chris Bohjalian’s novel, “a second adventure would look something like if there were a whole new book, another Cassie Bowden: Flight Attendant adventure. What new trouble can she kind of stumble into, like a male Hitchcock protagonist? How can she get caught up in something that’s bigger than herself?”
WHO IS RETURNING?
In addition to of course Cuoco, Zosia Mamet (as Annie), Griffin Matthews (Shane), Deniz Akdeniz (Max) and Rosie Perez (Megan) are set to return for the new season, along with recurring guest stars T.R. Knight (Davey), Yasha Jackson (Jada) and Audrey Grace Marshall (Young Cassie).
MEET THE NEW SERIES REGULARS
Mo McRae (Sons of Anarchy, Rebel), Callie Hernandez (Soundtrack, Graves) and JJ Soria (Army Wives, Animal Kingdom) have boarded the comedic caper as series regulars, playing Benjamin Berry, a career CIA officer who may have a bad habit of getting a little too involved with his assets… Gabrielle Diaz, a quick-tempered and calculating bounty hunter whose impulse control issues often get in the way of her job… and Esteban Diaz, Gabrielle’s partner and lover.
MEET THE NEW RECURRING PLAYERS
Santiago Cabrera (Salvation, Star Trek: Picard), Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Jessie Ennis (Mythic Quest), Mae Martin (Feel Good), Margaret Cho (Drop Dead Diva) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (The Expanse) will recur during Season 2, playing Marco, Dot Karlson, Jenny, Grace St. James, Utada and Brenda.
THE MIND PALACE SHALL RETURN! (BUT ALEX…? PROBABLY NOT)
The mind palace storytelling device — through which Cassie compared notes with brutally slain Alex — “would have to be present in some way, shape, or form” in Season 2, though “it would look different,” series creator Steve Yockey told TVLine back in December. “It’s really important for the show to be able to kind of literally get inside Cassie’s head to unpack some of these not-great decisions that she’s making, so that you can understand where she’s coming from.”
Just don’t expect Michiel Huisman’s dearly departed Alex to be waiting for Cassie the second time around. “In our finale, she has that beautiful moment where she walks through the mind palace and shuts it all down, basically, so I think that iteration of the mind palace is done,” Yockey said. “That one has to do with Alex, and she’s moved on from that.”
WOMEN STILL GETTING IT DONE
“We’re going to be seeing a lot of our favorites again” — Zosia Mamet’s Annie and Rose Perez’s Megan included, showrunner Steve Yockey told TVLine in June. “Just like in Season 1, it will be women driving the story.”
ONE STEP AT A TIME….
Cassie finally came to terms with her rampant alcoholism toward the close of Season 1, but it won’t magically disappear from her life. “She is going to be trying to live a sober life” in Season 2, Kaley Cuoco told TVLine in February. “But as we know, she’s very impatient, so she thinks that things are going to be super-easy, and she’s going to realize really fast that this is going to be a lifelong struggle for her…. She is going to realize really fast that this will not happen overnight.”
WILL THE MARVELOUS MIRANDA BE BACK?
Though it first appeared as if Alex’s killer had taken out Miranda in the finale, the hitwoman’s “lifeless” body disappeared from Cassie’s hotel room. Later, while at lunch with Annie, Cassie discovered that Alex’s book had been slipped into her jacket pocket — minus the page that contained clues leading to his hidden windfall. Meaning, Miranda is alive and well! “Our show has a much lower body count than the book, and we kept her alive for a reason — Michelle [Gomez] was fantastic in the role,” said showrunner Steve Yockey. “It would be great to have some more Miranda [in Season 2], absolutely.”
Alas, when we checked in with Yockey in mid-June — and in the wake of Gomez joining HBO Max’s Doom Patrol as a series regular — he had nothing to yet confirm: “I can’t say anything right now, sorry!”
Want scoop on The Flight Attendant, or for any other show? Email InsideLine@tvline.com and your question may be answered via Matt’s Inside Line.
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