«Poker Face» is an American television series created by Rian Johnson for the streaming service Peacock.
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- Poker Face is an American television series.
- It was created by Rian Johnson for the streaming service Peacock.
- I was stylized as a “case-of-the-week” murder mystery series.
- It stars Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, a casino worker on the run who entangles herself into several mysterious deaths of strangers along the way.
- Peacock announced the series in March 2021.
- Lyonne was attached and Johnson as director.
- Nora Zuckerman and Lilla Zuckerman were named as co-showrunners.
- Poker Face consists of 10 episodes.
- It debuted on January 26, 2023.
- The series has received critical acclaim.
- Charlie drives a fastback 1967 Plymouth Barracuda.
- Rian Johnson’s first TV series that he created. Johnson previously directed episodes of Breaking Bad (2008) and Terriers (2010).
- Dascha Polcano and Natasha Lyonne both starred in Orange is The New Black (2013) and Russian Doll (2019)
- The font used for the credits in this series is the same used for The NBC Tuesday Mystery Movie (1971) and especially Columbo (1971), which is fitting seeing as the main character Charlie Cale Natasha Lyonne uses many of the “just one more thing” tricks to questioning suspects, similar to Columbo.
- Adrien Brody and Rian Johnson previously worked on The Brothers Bloom (2008) together.
- Noah Segan played Trooper Wagner in Knives Out (2020), also directed by Rian Johnson
- Natasha Lyonne and Chloë Sevigny starred together on the Netflix show Russian Doll where Sevigny plays Lyonne’s mother. The 2 actresses are known to be long time friends and have worked on a few projects together.
- S. Epatha Merkerson and Natasha Lyonne worked together on Pee Wee’s Playhouse, 37 years prior.
- The project was announced in March 2021, with Rian Johnson serving as creator, writer, director and executive producer.
- Johnson stated that the series would delve into “the type of fun, character driven, case-of-the-week mystery goodness I grew up watching.”
- The series was inspired by Columbo, being referred as a “howcatchem”.
- Johnson was interested in “doing that Columbo or even Quantum Leap thing of having every episode be an anthropological deep dive into a little corner of America that you might not otherwise see.”
- According to the director of the Hudson Valley Film Commission, filming was based in Newburgh, New York, and ran from April through October 2022, in locations throughout the mid-Hudson Valley.
- At least one episode of the series was filmed in late August 2022 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Outdoor scenes were filmed in Laughlin, Nevada, in September 2022, with the Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino depicting the fictional Frost Casino.
- Poker Face was met with critical acclaim upon release.
- The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 99% approval rating with an average rating of 8.6/10, based on 67 critic reviews.
- The website’s critics consensus reads, “With the incomparable Natasha Lyonne as an ace up its sleeve, Poker Face is a puzzle box of modest ambitions working with a full deck.
- “Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 85 out of 100 based on 36 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”.
- Outdoor scenes were filmed in Laughlin, Nevada, in September 2022, with the Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino depicting the fictional Frost Casino.
