Poker Face has been canceled by Peacock. After two seasons, the Columbo-inspired thriller sequence created by Rian Johnson has presumably met its finish, regardless of robust critiques from critics. However that’s not the half that’s going to make you say, “Bullshit.”
Reasonably, it’s the attention-grabbing concept that Johnson has for the way forward for the sequence. In line with Deadline, Johnson isn’t deterred and plans to buy the sequence to different networks. “We’ve been germinating this subsequent transfer collectively since writing the season two finale. We love our Poker Face and that is the proper strategy to preserve it rolling,” he stated.” Give us a beat and we could see Charlie Cale once more down that open freeway.” However Johnson stated that if we do see Charlie once more, she gained’t be performed by Natasha Lyonne. As a substitute, Johnson plans to recast the human lie detector with Peter Dinklage.
Poker Face premiered on Peacock in 2023, introducing us to Charlie Cale, a rumpled lady with the flexibility to acknowledge any lie. Each time somebody lies to Cale, she can not assist however reply by saying, “Bullshit.” The flexibility will get her job working for the mob at one among their casinos, however when the gangster’s son (Adrien Brody) goes too far, Charlie has to inform the reality, which sends her on the run from the mob all through the primary season and a lot of the second.
Regardless of that overarching narrative, most episodes of Poker Face adopted their inspiration Columbo and instructed stand-alone “Howshecatchem” tales. Every episode opened by introducing completely new characters, performed by visitor stars starting from Chloë Sevigny and Cynthia Erivo to Tim Russ and Justin Theroux, and exhibits how one among them kills the opposite. Then, the episode exhibits how Charlie got here to search out herself amongst these characters, finally recognizing a lie after which confronting the assassin.
