I binged the entire series, and came to appreciate it in so many ways as an adult. Growing up, I was very aware of the show, but I really got into it, like a lot of people, over lockdown in 2020. First up is Johnson, who produced Poker Face Season One - including writing and/or directing multiple episodes - at the same time he was in post-production on Glass Onion.īelow, Johnson talks about why every detective show is secretly a hangout show, the challenges of writing a mystery series where the main character (Lyonne’s Charlie Cale) has the superhuman ability to recognize when someone is lying, the importance of crafting standalone TV episodes even in an increasingly serialized era of TV and a lot more.īecause Poker Face is an “open mystery” - i.e., we start out each episode by seeing who did it, how, and why, before Charlie begins to investigate - we of course had to start off by talking about the best and most famous open mystery TV show of all time, Columbo. So as a bonus, we’re giving you some highlights from the rest of our conversations. During the course of reporting a feature on Peacock’s delightful upcoming mystery series Poker Face, we got far more material from creator Rian Johnson and star Natasha Lyonne than could comfortably fit.
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