Natasha Lyonne goes on a murder-filled road trip in the Poker Face trailer
Natasha Lyonne stars in the new case-of-the-week mystery series from Knives Out writer/director Rian Johnson
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Hot on the heels of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery arriving on Netflix, another hilarious Rian Johnson whodunnit is on its way—this time, as a series on Peacock. Following a first look at Poker Face last fall, the streamer has shared a full trailer for the Natasha Lyonne vehicle. (She is buddies with Benoit Blanc, after all.)
The Russian Doll actor stars as Charlie Cale, a woman whose uncanny ability to detect lying lands her in hot water. Pursued by bad guys played by Ron Perlman and Benjamin Bratt, she’s forced to go into hiding and hit the road. Of course, going off the grid doesn’t last for long when a whole bunch of murders start happening everywhere Charlie goes.
“I have been kind of a death magnet,” she says.
The Columbo-inspired series follows Charlie as she dodges the “wolves on [her] fender” and uses her unique power to solve mysteries along the way. Following a case of the week format, it looks like her vintage Plymouth Barracuda will be making stops at a race car track, retirement home, dinner theater, and a roadhouse bar where Chloë Sevigny is a singer, amongst other hijinks-friendly locations.
Poker Face will also feature appearances from writer/director Johnson’s previous collaborators Adrien Brody and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Other guest stars include Cherry Jones, Hong Chau, Rhea Perlman, David Castañeda, Ellen Barkin, Jameela Jamil, Judith Light, Dascha Polanco, Lil Rel Howery, Nick Nolte, Simon Helberg, Stephanie Hsu, Megan Suri, Charles Melton, Clea DuVall, Brandon Micheal Hall, Luis Guzmán, and Tim Blake Nelson.
Poker Face premieres on Peacock on January 26. The first four of the 10 hour-long episodes will be available immediately, followed by weekly installments.
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LOL, Ron Perlman practically needs a walker at this point. I love the dude, but he’s not exactly menacing at his age.
I think that’s where Bratt comes in.
As long as this doesn’t interfere with her making more Russian Doll, I’m in.
Yup. I’m in.
“Yeah, and Natasha Lyonne is playing…”
“…A junky!”
“Uh, yeah, how’d you know?”
I enjoy Rian when he sticks to these types of stories. I loved Russian Doll so will definitely want to see Natasha’s next show.
Dangit. I was excited about this show when it was being characterized as “Natasha Lyonne is basically Columbo, but they don’t have the rights, so it’s a new character instead.” I don’t love the idea that it’s actually about a woman with some dumb fucking investigative superpower, which is about as far from Columbo as you can get.
The whole point is that Columbo is a regular guy who slaved away in an unglamorous job for years and got really good at it, and he wins out against people who think they’re smarter and more special than he is. I can imagine him taking on a murderer who got famous by claiming he was a “human lie detector” before I can imagine him being anything of the sort!
“It’s not something mystical or anything, I can just tell.”
While “human lie-detector” isn’t a thing (except in that actual ‘lie detectors’ aren’t particularly accurate), being able to detect deception through non-verbal cues, consciously or unconsciously, absolutely is. I don’t know if they’re going to go there, but it’s a possibility.
Dean Pelton: “Oh, Adrian Brody’s in this?”
Maybe he’ll do his Peaky Blinders Brando impression.
oh cool. still not subscribing to peacock though.
I’ve seen some impressive guest-star lists and that is an impressive guest-star list
The trailer got me interested. I mean, not enough to subscribe Peacock, but…Yet, I have to ask: what kind of shitty hitman is Benjamin Bratt playing that he missed the easiest shot in history, at 0:16 in the video?????
Benjamin Bratt is ageing like a fine wine, and I do mean fine.
Is this a discarded USA show?
They need Tom Waits in this series somewhere, hopefully in a scene with Perlman or as a mentor to Charlie, but I imagine that’s why Nolte is here.