A few quibbles but quite fun and Cuoco leverages our association of her as Penny to good advantage.
A few twists telegraphed, but some that surprised. I think one character was written thinking of Bill Hader.
My only criticism is the pointless Rosie Perez subplot. I like her character, but her story needed to tie in better to the main one.
That subplot could perhaps be the focus of a second season if they decide to do one.
Which character are you thinking of?
I could perhaps have done without the “conversations” with the dead Alex. And the whole unreliable narrator aspect to the main character was weird but interesting. Perhaps it helped not to know upfront just how unpleasant her childhood was.
The possibility that she was the actual killer is one of the things that kept me watching.
Felix/Buckly just screams Barry to me.
The unreliable narrator portion in terms of her childhood (which is the portion I consider “unreliable narrator”, not the lack of memories due to alcohol), what actually happened during her childhood, what dead Alex represented in her mind including his changes from bloody mess to idealized and back, was the more interesting mystery to me. Who killed Alex and why? Whether or not he was a crook or a hero or just a fool? Not as much so.
That was far more interesting than who killed him to me. Like why should we care of he was killed? Which the main character was also thinking.
And yes, the Rosie Perez plot seems like it will feature in S2
It’s good! I’m hooked! But in Small doses for me, mini bar sized please, I like the pace the dialogue is crisp and witty. Fun ride so far, but glad Alex cleaned up later 
That was very enjoyable. Worked on all the right levels for me. Conceptually it was far from original, but execution-wise it was really well done. Great cast, too.
I watched the whole thing, but only because there isn’t much else new on TV right now. Otherwise I probably would have stopped after the fourth episode, which is when I needed to take a break because Cassie Bowden was so annoying. She is now #3 on my list of Most Annoying TV Characters, behind Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) and Gwen Cooper (Torchwood).
That said, I’ll watch at least the first episode of S2. If she stays sober, maybe it will make her less annoying.
I didn’t know Rosie Perez was in the show until I watched the first episode, and earlier the same day I’d watched Do The Right Thing (for the first time). It was kind of fun to see her in back-to-back roles 30+ years apart!
I enjoy seeing Cuoco take on a role that she can sink her teeth into. After 127 years(?) sitting on that damn couch with a half-smirk in BBT, she is making the right moves careerwise.
She has more to do, but isn’t she basically playing the same character?
I’m no airline expert, but I don’t think flight attendants have relationships with each other like that. Each flight attendant (and flight crew person) bids on each flight independently. They don’t work together every day. You might work with someone one day and not see him/her ever again. They don’t stay together enough to form workplace relationships like in other jobs. Working on a commercial airplane has always struck me as a lonely life. I can, however, see that leading to the random hookups that we see from Cassie.
Anyone with real airline experience care to chime in?
I’m on episode 6 right now and forcing myself to watch for my girlfriend. By about episode 2 I was rooting for Cassie to get murdered.
Season two has started. It is great so far.
I don’t work for an airline, but am pretty sure you’re right. But from what I remember Megan kept calling Cassie her “bid buddy” or something like that, which I assume meant they agreed to always bid on the same flights. Of course that doesn’t mean they’d always be guaranteed to actually get the flights they bid on, but since they’re awarded in order of seniority if they were both very senior I guess it’s plausible that they would usually get their first choice and could arrange their bids such that they were always working together.
Although that doesn’t explain why Shane also seemed to be always on the same crew with them. So just chalk it up to artistic license. For storytelling purposes it works better for all of them to be working together all the time, so they are.
Hence the joke about all flight crews having AIDS – Aviation Induced Divorce Syndrome.