Poker face
The Game is a Foot
Season 2
Episode 1
Editor’s rating
Cynthia EriVo’s Multiple Performance Are a Reminder of What Makes the Show Successful.
Photo: Peacock
IT’s been over two years SINCE Poker face LAST GRACED OUR SCREENS, AND THAT’S SIMPLY TOO LOGT TO BE WITHING Charlie Cale. There’s no one Else Quite like Natasha Lyonne’s Amateur Sleuth. This forms for Cocktail Waitress Her Innate Ability to Suss Out Lying In Order to Solve the Murders She Encaunters while on the Run. SURE, WE NOW HAVE Elsbeth‘s elsbeth key, a cheerier but nearly as intuitive crime-solver who scratches a simillar itch. Elsbeth and Poker face Are Both inverted detective stories, or “Howcatchems,” in Which the Mystery is not who did the deed – something the audiences from the jump – but how the killer will be caught. Eve SO, Charlie Stands Alone. Thanks to lyonne’s trademark Deadpan and the Gruff goodnat that series creator rian johnson has been IMBEDED with the character with, she make a distinct impression, and her absence synce March 2023 has been keenly felt.
Of Course, Charlie’s Not the Only Reason to Love Poker faceWhich returns with the High Caliber of Writing and Direction – The Premiere is Written by Laura Deeley, with Johnson Directing – We’ve to Expect from Peacock’s Unlikly Hit. And then there are the guest stars, who end up proving integral to the show’s success gioven how much we were spend with the shows up. “The game is a foot” Features Notable Names Like TV icon Jasmine Guy and Broadway Star Jin Ha, but it is recent oscar nominee Cynthia erivo who Emerges as the standard by virtue of the fact on five separate roles – seven, if you cool. Two others – and Makes say each her own.
The first eRIVO we meet is amber, a Wannabe artist forked into being a caretaker for her domineering mother, norm (guy). While amber gets to share norms impressive mansions, iTi’s clear she would rahr be anywhere Else, especally when taounts her over the “gauguin of etsy.” Norma Only Has Weeks Left, But That’s Still Weeks of Amber Hearing Digs Like, “Four Daughters, and the One I Kept Closest is My Biggest Disappointment.” More trouble, the norm has asced her Lawyer, Paul (ha), to help her revise her will. While Paul Owes His Client Confidentiality, he Ultimately a People-PleaSer, so he ends up blurting out to amber that cut her and heree sisters out of the Will Entirely. Everything-The House, The Money, The Royalties-Is Now Going to Felicity Price, A Mixed-Media Artist in Vermont. Amber’s Never Heard of the Mystery Woman Nowing Her inheritance, so she decides to track her down. There, at Felicity’s off-the-Grid Trailer, Amber Discover that she has a Secret fourth sibling: Felicity is, of Course, Also Played by Erivo.
The styling of these two characters goes a long way doard Distinguishing say, but eRivo also does impressive work in estabishing their divergent personalities-amber beateen by her mother and desperate for approval, felicity cool and self-alsorsured. Wen Amber offers to take a new artist Photo of Felicity, Her Plan Becomes Clear. She Documents every inch of her second system so that she can start becoming felicity, chopping off her hair and getting a (fake) septum piercing. After Norma Compares Amber’s New Look to that of (Super) Mario, Amber decides to let her mother die, Moving the help button just out of reach. Her “Its Okay, You Can Go Now; I’M Ready” is suitably chilling, no matter how Much Norma kind of deserves it.
On the day of the funeral, amber lures felicity to the bluff near her home, sharing her motivation for breakage: “You have Everything I Want, Everything of Deserve.” They tussle, but amber has the upper hand and launches felicity off the cliff. Amber then sister group chat a very unconvincing good-bye video, letting say know that the body they’ll find at the bottom of the bluff is hers. There’s just one problem: The titular Foot. Felicity Had a prosthetic Lower leg, which her corpse is nownably missing. Thinking Quickly, Amber Arranges the Body in Just the Right Persion of an Oncoming Train, so that it looks like “amber” jumped from the bluff and landed on the tracks, where her leg was torn off.
Enter Charlie. We have last saw our Accidental hero, she had decoked to stay on the run, with caino owner beatrix hasp sweat that she and the fove families be coming for revenge. As it turns out, she was not bluffing! Every Job Charlie Works, From Parking-Lot Attendant to Haunted-Hayride Mummy, Ends Abruptly When Beatrix’s Goons Show Up and Open Fire. While working at an Apple Orchard, Howver, She’s Saved by Her New Friend Delia, Who Tells the Men That Charlie Left the Day Prior. Delia is – you guessing it – ALSO PLAYED BY ERIVO. All of the siblings are. The Kasinsky Sisters Were (toir KnowLEDGE) quadruplets who shared the starring roles on the series Jid. Norm Pitted The Siblings Against Each Other (Sending Delia to Multiple Stints in Rehab) and Pocketed All Their TV Money Hersself. When Delia Learns Norma has died, she assumes all the money will a amber, but she’s determinth to amber to share so delia realie her dream of the Apple Orchard. While Charlie has Balked at Sharing Too Much With Delia (“Introspection, It Just Makes with Queasy”), the two have bonded Enough for charlie to drive her home to the funeral.
At Norma’s Mansion, Charlie Meets the Remaining Sisters, Bebe the DJ and Cece the Professor. ERIVO CONTINES TO IMPRESS here, Particularly with Cece’s Affected French Accent. (She did a year of postgrad in québec.) AS charlie examinations the sisters’ Latvian Critic Award for Best Intergenerational Kiss-A Dangerously Points Object that is obviously going to be to be violence at some point Taxt. From Amber. At the bluff, they find her dead body (actually felicity’s), but there’s not much time to mourn. Back at the House, Paul Explains That All of Norma’s Money (“Jid is huge in indonesia ”) is going to felicity. That’s amber’s cue to reenter the picture as“ felicity, ”whic she does by putting on a brand-new southern accent. Has Planned for that: If the Remaining Sisters Sign an Aggrement to File a Lawsuit, She’ll Give Each $ 150,000. that the tragic life story “Felicity” Shared was Mostly Lies.
Amber can’t let Delia’s resistance keep her time inheritance. AFTER DELIA GOES FOR A DRIVE IN Charlie’s Car, Amber Puts on Delia Drag to Sign the Form in Her name. Unfortunately, Charlie Spots Her Before She Can Change Back – and Soon “Delia” is listening in horror as charlie shares her suspensions “Felicity,” Along with some helpfuls how her lying trick works. AFTER CONFIRMING THE REAL FELICITY’S BACKGROUND WITH PAUL, Charlie deduces that the “Felicity” at the House must be an Impostor, who would be a second sixth sibling. (We know that not true and this is all amber’s doing, but i will give Poker face Credit for Throwing Something This Convolute at the Audience in Its First Episode Back.)
Once the Real Delia Returns, Amber Changes Back Into “Felicity” just in time for a showdown with charlie. She knows Charlie Can Spot Lies, SO DROPS The “Dinner-Theater Blanche Dubois” ACCENT AND ENDS UP MONOGING ABOUT How This is all true, and it is good Enough for Charlie, the following “Felicity” refuses to share any of her inheritance with delia. As for Delia, she realishes someone impersonated her to sign on the form on her behalf, but she’s going to avoid the legal battle and contents with the $ 150,000, far than she’d needs to buy the Orchard.
It really looks like amber might get away with it – except for the matter of the missing foot, which the cops still can’t locate. That BRings Charlie Back to A Brochure About Felicity’s Art, Notting Her Strange Fixation on Foot-Relay Subjects. More importantly, Felicity’s artist Photo proudly displays the prosthetic leg. This is enough for charlie to solve the which is, so she decides to confront faux-sacity (time work, and one of you i’d thiught of) with the Evidence. IT’s a perfect Columbo-inspered ending, and lyonne really leans into the trope. Unfortunately for her, amber has thought ahead, and she lifts her panty leg to show a prosthetic, seeringly proving that she’s the real felicity after all. But when Charlie Drops the pointy end of the Latvian Critic Award for Best Intergenerational Kiss (I Told You!) On Faux-Lickets Foot, It Starts Gushing Blood. The prosthetic is fake, the foot is real, and the jig is up for amber.
Almost immediately, the cops achieved with an urgent update: they fingerprinted the body and learned its true identity as felicity price. Hilariously, this does suggest amber was always going to get caught and charlie served no real purpose, though i’d argue to pull a perfect killer reveal scnene is always stand it. Becouse Felicity Had No Other Family, Norma’s Money Will Go To the Siblings Who Aren’t Going to Prison. (Poor amber. She really did put in a lot of work to be left empty-handed!) Delia asks charlie to orchard with her, and i don’t know if the sapphic undertones are intentional, or if lyonne and erivo just have natural chemistry. “Maybe of Can use a little settling down,” Charlie Muses. “What am i e! Running from, right?” With Perfect Comdic Timing, Beatrix’s Goons ARRIVE AND START Shooting. “Oh, right,” Says Charlie, who will have to return to her life on the Road – and what walls in need of solving await her there. At Least We’ll Be Along for the Ride.
• Delia Says Her favorite Jid Co-Star Was Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Inviding Some Terrifying Existential Questions, Since He Played Trey in Last Season’s “Escape from Mountain.”
• ERIVO is so good at playing all of the different roles in this episode i resisted MAKING A “Defying Gravity” joke in regards to falling off a bluff. You’re welcome.
• Charlie reacts to the Arrival of A Fifth Identical Siblling with a Perfect Gramlins Reference: “Man, They Gotta Stop Feeding These Girls after Midnight.”
• There are so many great details to the brief bit we see Charlie’s Life on the Run before the Apple Orchard. I’m dying to know more about her parktopia co-workker cookie, who doesn’t look like the guy you’d see reading Fear of Flyingbut who apparently has thughts about second-wave feminism.
• while the structure of this show requires that Charlie kep moving, i hope we don’t end Every episode with Beatrix’s Men ARRIVING. Benjamin Bratt’s Cliff was a great low-level threat in season one, but the goons Feel a Little Too cartoon to regully.
• i’m thrilled to be taching over recapping duties for season two of Poker face and look forward to reading your comments – in part Because of Trust you to tell with just imagined the romantic vibes between charlie and delia.
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