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POKER FACE SEASON 2 REVIEW
Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne are back with another season of Poker Face, their acclaimed murder-of-the-week mystery series. Charlie Cale (Lyonne) has an unusual talent, she’s a human bullshit detector who instantly knows whenever someone is lying. When her gift gets her into trouble with a Las Vegas crime family, she goes on the lam, moving from town to town, looking for work and a hiding place from the hitmen on her trail. Unfortunately for Charlie, people have a way of getting killed whenever she’s around, and given her freaky ability, she inevitably finds herself solving a new murder in a new town every week. Inspired by past shows such as The Fugitive and Columbo, Poker Face is a throwback to classic episodic television that’s built on a tried and true narrative template, anchored by a charismatic leading actor, and boasts more celebrity guest stars than a marathon of Hollywood Squares reruns. But is that enough to sustain the show’s momentum? Must the show change up its formula or should it lean harder into what made it work in the first place? To solve those mysteries, Jordan, Kim, and Marco hit the road, hit their vape pens, and hit the record button. Together, they’ll review the evidence, question the motives, and list their suspects for favorite (and least favorite) episodes of this new season.
CREATED BY: Rian Johnson
STARRING: Natasha Lyonne, Simon Helberg, Rhea Perlman, Steve Buscemi, Patti Harrison, Cynthia Erivo, Jin Ha, Jasmine Guy, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Corrigan, Katie Holmes, John Mulaney, Richard Kind, Chris Bauer, Gaby Hoffmann, Kumail Nanjiani, John Sayles, Simon Rex, Brandon Perea, Gil Birmingham, Carol Kane, Ego Nwodim, B.J. Novak, Noah Segan, Eva Jade Halford, Callum Vinson, David Krumholtz, Margo Martindale, Sam Richardson, Corey Hawkins, James Ransone, Geraldine Viswanathan, Melanie Lynskey, John Cho, Awkwafina, Alia Shawkat, Lauren Tom, David Alan Grier, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Jason Ritter, Natasha Leggero, Justin Theroux, Lili Taylor, Haley Joel Osment, Taylor Schilling
YOUR REVIEWERS
Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)
By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.
“I’m not a film critic. I just play one on the Internet.”
Kimberly Brown (Highly Suspect Reviews)
Kimberly wants to live in a world filled with blue telephone boxes, speedsters, and ice dragons but through an ironic twist of fate, she’s stuck in this reality where these wondrous things only exist on page or film. Kim’s perpetual desire to consume sci-fi and fantasy media as a teen led her to the study of illustration/design at university to better understand its creation. Currently an Austin transplant, when she’s not wearing her critic hat you can find her pretending to like hiking, fielding questions about her hair or maybe even enjoying a local brew at the nearest dive bar.
Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)
Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism, journalism, and years of podcasting experience. On any given day, her ADHD riddled brain bounces focus from film to pro wrestling to TV to superheroes to noir to video games to espionage and yes, even to sports. She played little league you know. For more of this eccentric nerd, you can follow her on Twitter here and read her original writings on Deepest Corners of My Notebook.
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