Poker Face Season 2 Review: Quirkier, Sillier, Funnier

Natasha Lyonne is back for the second season of Peacock’s series Poker face. The inverted stories of detectives, scattered in the same way popular by Columbo, continue with the same formative style, the case of the week 2. Lyonne’s Charlie is on the run from a mafia chief intrigued by her special talent as a detector of human lies. Excited to live as a nomad while avoiding crowds, Charlie spruce through America, lowers strange work, meets special people and accidentally caught in a murder every time.

A procedural-drama-drama of crime with a twist and an extraordinary list of invited stars (even more than in season 1), Poker face It’s a cute clock. Created by Rian Johnson, best known for knife films, appearance and tone are remembering his other work. Lyonne puts its signature stamp in series, creating a special mystery sauce of the killing killings.

Charlie cases are even more funny this season

Charlie is not a detective, but she continues to find a way to put herself in the middle of the family drama, the rivalries of the collaborators and the teasers of the school. With any other main character, it may be impossible to believe that this person would befriend people wherever he goes (we will give a whole repeated things of murder). But Charlie has a unique personality. It is a serial optimistic that approaches every person and every situation with a smile. Her ego attitude and genuine interest in knowing more about her surroundings instinctly attract people to her. Happens again and again.

Charlie also has no problem finding a job as a parking companion, a wandering home, an apple choice, a zoo and a ball girl for the local baseball team. Situation situation starts positively, with Charlie to enter its groove. Like the clock, someone inside her orbit is killed. She could easily leave and stay out of drama. But her uncontrollable ability to call people in their bulls results in Charlie’s conscience by not allowing her to morally ignore facts that do not add or someone who clearly hides something. Charlie is an amateur model with a strong moral compass and a deep desire to do the right thing.

Season 2 is even better than season 1

Poker face Season 2 is like season 1 in its formula style. The first third of each episode presents the issue and the killer, and the last two -thirds show how Charlie plays in history and eventually identifies the killer. But season 2 is softer and easier. Some episodes have fun in stereotypes, ordinary film tropes and even known memes online.

Puzzles Charlie pieces together this season are varied, including people, animals and, yes, even children. The methods of murder are different from everything you have seen in the first season, even more funny and funny. While each episode has a dead body, the situations are not as cut and dry as in season 1.

The characters continue to be dominant, cartoon and absurd. Think that Kumail Nanjiani plays a Florida detective dependent on energy drinks with a blonde mule and a pet alligator. Rhea Perlman is a dangerous chief of mafia, and Cliff “Method” Smith describes a fitness owner of meathead. Cynthia Erivo even plays many characters in an episode, indicating that she can really do it all.

Lyonne is undoubtedly not everyone’s tea tea. She has a certain style – a harsh character Bronx girl – that she turns on and off. But there is something magnetic about its energy on the screen. You can understand why people are attracted to the character and want to be her friend. Even when Charlie is not talking to anyone in particular and deceiving the words under her spirit, you can not help, but capture her quick ingenuity and sarcasm. I laughed aloud in some cases throughout the season – the sixth episode, where she runs in a “demon child”, is one of the highlights.

This season, Charlie gets more a background for many stars invited to funny roles. Along with those mentioned, Poker face Season 2 Contains Alia Shawkat, Awkwafina, Carol Kane, David Alan Gray, Gaby Hoffman, Giancarlo Esposito, Jason Rinal, John Cho, John Mulaney, Katie Holmes, Margo Martindale, Melanie Lynskey, Richard Kind, Sam Richards, and Simon Schichard, and Simon Schichard, and Simon Schichard. More. The guest cast list is like reading the call sheet for a great Hollywood event, and each actor’s unique aroma melts beautifully opposite Lyonne’s.

Charlie’s exploration

The last half of episodes (up to episode 10) are probably weaker than the first half, but they push the narrative ahead when it comes to the personal growth of Charlie. In each place, she learns something new about herself and explores the roads she did not make in season 1, including her first romantic meeting on screen. Entering herself, Charlie is learning to live with her gift, even if she gets her way from time to time. Ok, a lot of time. But finally we have to see a little more than who Charlie is, not just what he can do.

However, Charlie remains the same young woman with wild voices, with funny, charming bite, who is not afraid to stick her nose, where she does not belong, try anything once and use her gift to be able to smell the lies for good. She is roaming in the US, going nowhere and everywhere quickly. You will like to go together for travel and get acquainted with the eclectic mix of people you meet along the way. Although there is a satisfactory closure at the end of every episode of good show, you will be excited to move on and see what the other adventure of Charlie will be. Who will die, how and why? Where will Charlie end?

The first three episodes of Poker face Premiere of Season 2 on Thursday, May 8, in Pallua, followed by new weekly episodes. Digital trends were given an early approach to the first 10 episodes of the 12th Episode season.