Besides the third Knives Out movie, Rian Johnson is currently in the middle of the second season of Poker Face which stars Natasha Lyonne was a non-detective who can tell whenever someone is lying.
The show has managed to attract a number of stars and is getting rave reviews, and Lyonne says that the series originally scared several execs with the concept. Talking to Variety, she explains:
“I was doing backflips when I read it… I expected all the networks to feel the same, but a lot of people were scared by the idea that it wouldn’t be a completely serialized storyline. You know, Charlie Cale goes back into her childhood and tries to find a husband while she’s solving cases.”
If anything, the fact that Charlie is a woman on the run who isn’t tied down by a husband or boyfriend is what Lyonne considers a feminist theme for the series. “For a female character to be led by a philosophical concept, or an ethical soul journey, is a really bold act by one of our greatest living auteurs (i.e., show creator Rian Johnson), who happens to be a guy,” says Lyonne.
Admittedly, Poker Face does fall into this weird new web that Johnson has with the ‘whodunnit’ genre that also includes the Knives Out films; though Poker Face does have a different format in that the murders are revealed, but the real excitement is watching Charlie figure out how to catch the real perpetrators.
The second season is still ongoing, and after that, audiences will be primed for Johnson’s project with Netflix, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
For now, you can watch out for the second season of Poker Face now streaming on Peacock.
