TV Review: I had high hopes for The Flight Attendant

— It's like a romcom crossed with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Kaley Cuoco in The Flight Attendant

I had high hopes for The Flight Attendant (Sky One, 9pm March 19 and Now TV). It wasn’t that the premise was promising — flight attendant wakes up in bed with a corpse after big night out in Bangkok (we’ve all been there). But then a show about an advertising agency in 1960s New York didn’t offer much, until we saw that they could do with it in Mad Men.

I was encouraged by the 98% rating that The Flight Attendant earned on Rotten Tomatoes. That, and to a lesser extent, imdb.com are the two places I’d check before plunging in for a new show. So we sat down to enjoy a certain hit in our place. Five minutes later we were doom-scrolling Covid news stories. They were still funnier than The Flight Attendant.