CinemaBlend With all eight of its episodes dropping in than a month, HBO Max's acclaimed thriller The Flight Attendant gave viewers a winter send-off with the TV equivalent of a summer beach read. Based on the actual book from author Chris Bohjalian, The Flight Attendant delivered plenty of drunken turbulence for Kaley Cuoco's Cassie Bowden and a variety of other characters ahead of the Season 1 finale. But it all came to an end (for now) with the episode "Arrivals and Departures," which tied up the storyline's loose threads in ways that practically begged for a second season to be ordered.