Because of @catrinity and @Ghulgrube, I watched the first episodes of #pokerfaceTvShow by #RianJohnson starring #NatashaLyonne (so many hashtags!), available for streaming via Amazon Prime.
It's a road trip case of the week mystery show where the viewer starts out knowing who did it and the main character also quickly gets an idea of who did it due to being a human lie detector, but because of her low social status and a justice system not accepting "Trust me, buddy!" as valid evidence, most of her time is spent figuring out how to prove what she already knows. I really like the characters, both Natasha Lyonne's Charlie and the people she meets - the virtuous, the villainous and the beautifully weird. And it scratches the mystery itch without being copaganda, which is always a plus in my book. I hope the series stays as strong as it started!

(CN: A dog gets hurt in the third episode.)

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Poker Face, is an utterly superb TV show!

(That's it, that's the toot!)

#PokerFace #PokerFaceTVShow #NatashaLyonne #RianJohnson #Peacock #scriptwriters #Writing #television

Can we talk about how useless in the real world Charlie’s superpower in #PokerFaceTVShow would be?

She would suffer from alert fatigue and then learn to tune it out.

A more useful superpower is telling when someone is being truthful because everyone fucking lies all the time.

Now that #Columbo has been, essentially, rebooted as #PokerFaceTVShow , it’s time to consider rebooting #TheRockfordFiles.

It could be relevant to today: pardoned/exonerated ex-con PI living quasi-legally in a trailer in a parking lot by the beach. A blue collar guy in a world that’s changed while he was inside.

You can change gender, change racial background, change the coastal location, change whatever else is needed to help the writers room connect their own experience to it… 1/2

“I just want you to know, Spooky and the Cop made me choose a career in law enforcement.”

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that.”

#PokerFaceTVShow