Peacock has revealed a new trailer for the upcoming mystery seriesPoker Face.Created ByGlass Oniondirector Rian Johnson,Poker Facestars Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cole, a casino worker who can always tell when someone is lying.
Poker Faceis described as a 10-episode “mystery-of-the-week” series following Lyonne’s character Charlie as she hits the road in her Plymouth Barracuda. With every stop, she encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve. According to Johnson,Poker Facewill be a character-driven, case-of-the-week mystery comedy-drama. The series will also follow the structure of an inverted detective story, also known as a “howcatchem,” where the initial crime and its perpetrator are shown at the beginning rather than revealed at the end.
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The newPoker Facetraileropens with Charlie explaining that there is nothing mystical about her gift, she can just tell when people are lying. However, it looks like she accuses the wrong person of murder and is forced to flee her life in Las Vegas. As she hits the road in her 1970s Plymouth Barracuda, Charlie finds herself involved in solving murders as she evades her would-be-killers. Her cross-country detective journey puts her in the line of numerous eccentric characters, all played by phenomenal guest stars, including, but not limited to, Adrien Brody, Benjamin Bratt, Chloe Sevigny, Jameela Jamil, Nick Nolte, Ron Perlman, Luis Guzman, andfrequent Johnson collaborator Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Johnson is best known for his murder mystery filmKnives Outandthe recent Netflix-released sequelGlass Onion.Similar toPoker Face,both films feature an eclectic cast of characters played by big-name actors. However, while theKnives Outfilms follow closer in the footsteps of an Agatha Christie novel,Poker Facehas more in common with the long-running popular NBC mystery seriesColumbo, starring Peter Falk as the titular police lieutenant.
BothPoker FaceandColumboare “howcatchem” detective stories, where murder and the murderer are revealed at the beginning of the episode, and the viewer watches as the detective solves the crime.Columbowas at its most popular in the 1970s, and based on the aesthetic of the new trailer,Poker Faceseems to be drawing a lot of inspiration from the era through its soundtrack and visual style.
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