Max grounds dark comedy series The Flight Attendant after two seasons

The curse of the second season strikes again as Max won’t be making more episodes of the Kaley Cuoco thriller

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For TV fans, the scariest thing in the world isn’t one of the infected fromThe Last of Usor the chilly atmosphere inTrue Detective: Night Country. It’s the time after you binge the second season of your favorite show and wonder if that means the ax is going to fall before there’s ever a season three. Again and again we’ve seen shows bumped off after a second season, and the latest member of that club is Max’sThe Flight Attendant.

The Flight Attendantis a dark comedy thriller that follows Cassie Bowden, played by Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory), an alcoholic air hostess, who wakes up after a one-night stand to discover a dead body beside her. Rather than call the cops, she cleans up the crime scene and tries to pretend that nothing happened.

If that plan had worked, we wouldn’t have two seasons of the show to stream. But sadly, there won’t be a third, which means there’s even less of a chance that it will be added to our roundup of thebest Max showsto watch.

Why Max canceled The Flight Attendant

It looks like this time the cancellation wasn’t due to viewing numbers. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, star and executive producer Kaley Cuoco decided not to return to the role. In a statement, Cuoco said: “I always envisionedTFAas a limited series and thanks to an incredible creative team, we were able to deliver two thrilling seasons. 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."

Cuoco has been busy since the second season ofThe Flight Attendantwrapped. She’s the voice of Harley Quinn in Max’s animated series about the DC villain we love to hate, and she’s also the star and executive producer ofPeacock’sBased On A True Story. That’s been renewed for a second season.

As forThe Flight Attendant, don’t let the lack of a third season stop you from streaming it: Season one has a very healthy 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, withStuffsaying that it is “a slick, stylish, pitch black comedy that hooks you early and has more than enough intrigue and mystery in its eight-parts to ensure its binge worthiness”.The New Yorkersays that “Cassie moves through the world like a flesh-and-blood cartoon, careening from drunkenness to lucidity”, whileFilm Mafiaclaims that “if Alfred Hitchcock had created a spin-off series for Samantha fromSex and the City,it might have been this”.

Seasons one and two ofThe Flight Attendantare streaming onMax.

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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