The killing danish series
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Kaley Cuoco stars as Cassie Bowden, the titular flight attendant and party girl, who flirts with a “scruffy-but rich” stranger (Michiel Huisman) on a red-eye to Bangkok, only to wake up the next morning, after an alcohol-induced blackout, in a hotel room, next to his bloody corpse. Summer came early to Sky One with the arrival of The Flight Attendant – a “lively” HBO thriller that’s “the TV equivalent of a beach read”, said Daniel Fienberg in The Hollywood Reporter.
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Still, the plot – which is too slow to start – does get going, and Winslet aces a role that could have seemed clichéd in less skilled hands.
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The series reminded me of BBC One’s Happy Valley, said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph, but I didn’t think it was in the same league as that top-notch drama. Everything and everyone feels “real”, and you care about “every tiny part” – not least Mare’s new relationship with an author and college lecturer, played by Guy Pearce, whom she picks up in a bar. Written by Pennsylvania native Brad Ingelsby, this is “a perfectly conjured study of a community”, said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian, focusing as much on how the locals endure these terrible events as on the process of finding the culprits. And then the body of another teenager, a young mother, is found. At the outset, she’s working on the case of a 19-year-old woman who disappeared a year ago. Make-up-free and “permanently sour-faced”, she plays Mare Sheehan, an “unhappy, junk-food-eating” detective in a small Pennsylvania town that “reeks of poverty and dead ends”. Kate Winslet is mesmerising in the new HBO crime drama Mare of Easttown, said Carol Midgley in The Times.