No lies detected here. Rian Johnson‘s Poker Face has been renewed for a second season at Peacock.
26.01.2023 - 20:35 / deadline.com
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the first four episodes of Peacock’s Poker Face.
Natasha Lyonne is a casino waitress with an uncanny ability to tell when people are lying in her latest collaboration with Rian Johnson, Peacock’s Poker Face.
She’s not reading their faces or their body language. It’s “just a feeling,” her character Charlie explains in the first episode, which debuted Thursday along with three additional episodes.
As the premiere unfolds, Charlie agrees to help her boss take down a high profile gambler, only to realize that he had previously been responsible for murdering her co-worker to keep her silent about the sins of that very same gambler. Rather than stick around and meet her own demise, Charlie goes on the lamb. Along the way, the finds herself embroiled in a series of small town murder mysteries in each place she stops.
“I’ve learned that this is a character who just really can’t stand bullshit. She just really doesn’t like it, doesn’t get it and can’t stand for injustice. We really enjoyed that aspect of her as somebody who was gonna right a wrong, even if it meant putting herself at risk. She just saw no other way to live,” Lyonne, who also executive produces the series, told Deadline.
Lyonne spoke with Deadline ahead of the series debut about how she and Johnson built the series by paying homage to case-of-the-week mysteries like Columbo, what she brought with her from two seasons as the creator/star/showrunner of Russian Doll, and where Charlie is going to find herself at the end of the 10 episodes.
DEADLINE: So, Rian came to you with the idea for this series fairly early on. How did you develop it with him into Poker Face?
NATASHA LYONNE: We became pals through his brilliant
No lies detected here. Rian Johnson‘s Poker Face has been renewed for a second season at Peacock.
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