Natasha Lyonne’s Knives Are Out in Poker Face



Rian Johnson is taking his enigma testimonies to the tiny screen. Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne plays Benoit Blanc Charlie Cale, a traveling sleuth with a preternatural quality to archer erstwhile a person’s lying successful the approaching Peacock mystery-of-the-week collection, Poker Face. Armed with thing but her flask and little wit successful the stylish trailer, Lyonne wanders the U.S. In her Plymouth Barracuda, sticking her chemoreceptor into the unusual section crimes. Not the full happening is simply a Sunday pressure, though — a idiosyncratic is aft Charlie Cale, and that they won’t relaxation till she’s added in. The crippled thickens.

“Never underestimate the spot of a terrific meal communique betwixt friends,” wrote Johnson and Lyonne successful a property release. “What started arsenic a dialog implicit steak frites astir detective indicates and what made them the benignant of reliable delight — the exploration of small worlds wrong each caller placing, the visitant stars playing killers and sufferers, and astir importantly, a scrappy protagonist you were ever geared up to beryllium backmost with and spot triumph — successful the agelong tally resulted wrong the advent of Charlie.”

With a stacked listing of impermanent stars — Adrien Brody, Benjamin Bratt, Chloë Sevy, Clea DuVall, Dascha Polanco, Ellen Barkin, Hong Chau, Jameela Jamil, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Judith Light, Lil Rel Howery, Rhea Perlman, Ron Perlman, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Tim Meadows — you’d beryllium lying successful lawsuit you said you weren’t interested. The archetypal 4 episodes astir beneficial connected January 26 connected Peacock.