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How Long Can Poker Face Keep Doing This?
“This” being “emotionally devastating Charlie.”
Season two’s final episodes call into question Poker Face ’s long-term potential, both in terms of how it treats Charlie (Natasha Lyonne) as a human being and the increasingly fraught situations in which it places her. So it’s a little odd and unnecessary that Poker Face trips over itself in season finale “The End of the Road” by trying to justify why the assassin known as the Iguana (Patti Harrison) was able to lie to Charlie by pretending to be her friend Alex. Poker Face is now adept enough at building tension that it doesn’t need the shortcuts of assassins tracking down Charlie in parking lots or orchards or a traumatic loss driving her out of town.
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