“Poker Face” is an “on the highway” sequence within the vein of “Kung Fu,” “The A-Group,” “The Unimaginable Hulk,” “The Fugitive,” and so on. Charlie, a drifter, travels all throughout the US and encounters totally different murders in several cities. However after “The Sleazy Georgian,” she would not go away the Massive Apple such as you’d count on. As an alternative, she settles in and the following episodes resulting in the finale happen in NYC.
In episode 9, “A New Lease on Demise,” Charlie crosses paths with Alex (Patti Harrison) at a New York espresso store and so they develop into associates. Within the subsequent episode, “The Massive Pump,” Alex helps Charlie crack a thriller at their native fitness center and produce the killer to justice. Since “Poker Face” and Charlie have planted their roots within the metropolis, is there room for one more recurring character, a sidekick, a Watson to Charlie’s Sherlock?
Nope, as a result of the season finale blows that up. In episode 11, “Day of the Iguana,” an murderer carrying a latex masks disguise (Justin Theroux) frames Alex for the episode’s homicide. The sufferer (Haley Joel Osment) is the son of flipped mob boss Beatrix Hasp (Rhea Perlman), who Charlie helped again in season 2 episode 3, “Whack-A-Mole.”
Whereas Charlie is out to show Alex’s innocence and save her from mob hitmen, the FBI understand that is the work of the Iguana, a ruthless murderer and grasp of disguise. The Iguana is looking for Hasp, who’s disappeared into witness safety, and has devised a fancy scheme to get Charlie to do the exhausting work of discovering Hasp so the Iguana can merely comply with Charlie to the goal and take Hasp out.
In “The Finish of the Street,” “Poker Face” season 2 pulls its ultimate twist. The earlier murderer wasn’t really the Iguana, simply one other pawn of the actual Iguana: Alex. Charlie solely items that collectively as soon as Hasp is already lifeless. “Alex” had heard of Charlie’s repute and needed to see if she might idiot Charlie’s BS detector; seems she’s the one one to ever do it. Because the episode itself spells out, Alex is not Charlie’s Watson, she’s her Moriarty.
The episode even consists of flashbacks to the earlier three episodes to recontextualize Alex’s scenes along with her true intentions. These kinds of exposition denouements are frequent in whodunnits, however “Poker Face” is often not that type of homicide thriller present. If somebody is a killer, we often already comprehend it by the point they meet Charlie. Perhaps in one other detective present we might’ve suspected Alex, however not this one. “Poker Face” is a present with out twists in regards to the killer’s identities, so this shock grew to become each a structural twist and a plot-based one.
“Poker Face” season 2 ends with Charlie on the run from the FBI, who maintain her accountable for Hasp’s demise. This may annoy followers who thought the overarching story of Charlie operating from the mob was the largest downside with “Poker Face” season 1, nevertheless it places our heroine again on the highway with (Peacock keen) extra mysteries forward. If “Poker Face” returns, and because the writers hopefully hold experimenting, we’ll know not all murders on this present are what they initially seem.
“Poker Face” is streaming on Peacock.
