![]() ![]() Knowing the drill is this show’s modus operandi. She has a beat-up car, and a plucky attitude. She’s on the run, the series kicks off properly. Charlie works her way through a murder case involving her friend (played by Dascha Polanco, always welcome) but in the process pisses off some people you wouldn’t want to piss off. In Episode 1, “Dead’s Man’s Hands”, we find Charlie waitressing at a casino run by slimy, slimy Adrien Brody and scary, scary Benjamin Bratt. As one Gen-Z shop assistant tells Charlie after she attempts an explanation about her condition: “It’s fine, I don’t care.” The point is, she can, and she keeps stumbling into murder. That’s a useful skill for an amateur detective, if not a wholly original one ( Daredevil, Monk, The Mentalist and many more rely on variations of this trope). In Poker Face, Natasha Lyonne’s frazzled sleuth Charlie Cale can always tell when someone is lying to her. A series which has been designed to be dipped into? Johnson has played a winning hand. That is an incredibly attractive prospect for anyone whose inbox is filled with news about TV: there are reboots and revivals and spin-offs and American versions of English versions of Dutch shows. All these, the Knives Out writer-director says, are “high-quality shows that you didn’t need to binge an entire season of to enjoy”. Of the influences on his new detective show, Poker Face, Johnson namechecked Murder, She Wrote, The A-Team, and Quantum Leap. Rian Johnson sure knows how to sell a project. ![]()
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