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Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne’s ‘Poker Face’ Is Still Quite the Card Trick in Season 2: TV Review
Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne's Peacock procedural remains quite the card trick in Season 2.
A collaboration between “Glass Onion” filmmaker Rian Johnson and “Russian Doll” co-creator and star Natasha Lyonne, the Peacock series “ Poker Face ” won acclaim in Season 1 for reviving not just the episodically contained investigation, but a specific strain of it: the “howcatchem,” an inversion of the whodunit that depicts a crime first, followed by the hunt for the criminal, “Columbo” style. She’s also a custom-built outlet for Lyonne’s doe-eyed, frizzy-curled, throaty-voiced charms, and is our Virgil through America’s obscure corners, which Charlie tours in her Plymouth Barracuda as she attempts to out-hustle the Hasp organization. What Season 2 adds to this inherent advantage — besides a couple more episodes, bringing the total count up to an abundant-for-streaming 12, and a new showrunner in Tony Tost (“Damnation”) — is a willingness to toy with the show’s baseline.
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