There is no dearth of women-led crime thrillers and police procedurals out there. But the Veronica Mars-shaped hole left in our hearts in the early aughts was never properly filled. Not even a Hulu revival could do the underrated gem justice, as they dropped it after only one season. Mars (played by Kristen Bell) had a spunk that appealed to the Millennial soul that grew up on Nancy Drew, Secret Seven, and Hardy Boys.

The HBO show, The Flight Attendant, developed by Steve Yockey and based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian, has come very close to filling that space, which is why it absolutely needs to come back for a third season. With the second season, the show – starring Kaley Cuoco, Zosia Mamet, and Deniz Akdeniz in lead roles – seemed to have found its footing better. And a third season would be great because fans are not yet done with Cuoco’s trysts with murder, mystery, and mayhem.

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What The Flight Attendant Is All About

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Kaley Cuoco of The Big Bang Theory fame plays protagonist Cassandra “Cassie” Bowden in The Flight Attendant. Cassie is the titular flight attendant who also happens to be a functional alcoholic. Her reckless, hedonistic lifestyle lands her bang in the middle of an international murder conspiracy when she wakes up in a Bangkok hotel room beside the dead body of Alex Sokolov (Michiel Huisman), a man she slept with the night before.

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Armed with a patchy memory and a penchant for getting into trouble – the latter being a quintessential trait of any good fictional detective – Cassie has to solve the case and clear her name. Her best friend and lawyer to the mobs, Annie Mouradian (Mamet), and her partner, hacker extraordinaire Max Park (Akdeniz), come to her rescue. The trio is engaging to watch as they approach the situation in their own ways while navigating the do-or-die scenarios with their bumbling and sometimes amateurish enthusiasm.

The second season saw the trio shift from the chilly locales of New York City to the sunny lanes of Los Angeles, where Cassie is coming to terms with her newfound sobriety and her dual role of being a CIA operative. Annie is all set to start a fresh new chapter in her career with a clean slate. But of course, life brings in more murderous adventure in their path.

At the end of the first season, there was a throwaway line from Annie, where she says that Max and she were thinking of opening a private detective agency. And to be honest, that sounded like an amazing idea. Together the trio has done a tremendous job-solving crime, and playing detectives comes naturally to all of them. A shift away from Cassie always being somehow directly involved in all the crimes could actually be a refreshing change for the show. Being the prime suspect of your case once is charming as a plot device; twice it’s a bit ‘eh,’ but thrice would be stretching the trope too thin.

How Likely Is a Third Season?

After the second season concluded in May, Kaley Cuoco mentioned how she would be happy to wrap things up and move on to another project because “at this moment, the plane has landed." However, it wasn’t a hard “no,” and she did mention later how it was shortsighted of her to make that statement.

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But she is in no rush, saying:

Even though Cuoco is onboard a new comedic thriller for Peacock, she is “definitely open to a season three for Flight Attendant. She told Variety:

She further dangled hope by continuing:

Cuoco also added:

She also mentioned that most of the main cast is up for a third run as well. Here’s hoping the creators utilise their time in building an even better mystery for the third season because fans sure aren’t done with the show.