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Poker Face Recap: Ashes to Ashes
Only Natasha Lyonne could direct an episode so dedicated to the beauty and horror of moviemaking.
One of the movie’s makeup artists has offered to help her find work in Miami, and she needs out from this “depressing haunted shithole.” Fred, who is a fourth-generation funeral director, doesn’t see a path for either of them outside of the death-centric lives they’re leading. She also has a semi-captive audience in a young child who’s sort of listening as she explains that it’s been three months since she last heard anything from Beatrix Hasp or the five families, and she’s on a self-improvement kick, switching out her cigarettes for a cotton candy-flavored vape. As director, Lyonne turns this into a thrilling horror sequence — and then a slow-motion action movie set piece, once Charlie remembers the rule about batteries in the furnace and tosses her vape in.
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