Poker face
Day of the iguana
Season 2
Episode 11
Editor’s rating
Photo: Ralph Bavaro/Peacock
For those who assumed Poker face Season Two Wold Get the Same 10 Episodes As the First Season, the Addival Two Episodes Must Feel Like An EXPECTED GIFT. WHO COULD Complain About Getting to Spend More Time with Charlie Cale? Alas, i’ve been aware of the episode count from the beginning, and it’s also my jab to break the highs and lows of the series, so Complain of Must. It is not like to have fun to be had in “Day of the Iguana,” The Penultimate Episode of the Season, But on a Show That’s Made a Name for ItSelf with Its -F-Week Format, The Reveal That is JUST SET TO THE FINAL AT MORE A LITTLE. What is Poker face if Charlie doesn’t solve a crime?
We get off to a promising start, at least. While getting ready for a wedding, a teacher named todd (mr. t to his students) is strangled to the Death by a suppoposed chauffeur, who assumes his identity with the fault prosthetics and a fake glas to match todd’s real one. As we have learn at the end of the episode, the character played by justin theroux is the iguana, an assassin posing as the Access to the Wedding – I’ll Call by His reptile name Throughout to avoid confusion. Director ti West, The Man Bebind The X Trilogy, Leans Nicery Into Horror in the Opening Schene, Including the Particularly Gruesome Details of the Iguana Flattening and Liquefying Todd’s Body to Dispos of it. (Shades of Kevin Bacon’s Demise in Maxxxine.) There’s Also a Lot of Tension Here’s Unfortunately Lacking from the Rest of the Episode, Since Any Confrontation BetWeen Charlie and the Iguana Will Have Till Next Week. But i’m getting ahead of myself.
The wedding is a predictable Tacky Affair Given that the groom is kirby kowalczyk (Haley Joel osment), the create of the ballzilla energy drink and it associated mlm scheme. (He’s Also Responsible for the Real Todd Ling His Eye. Tries to call off the job, but his mysterious Employer Pays Him Double to Stick to the Plan and Find a patsy to take the fall. That patsy tours out to be alex, who is working the wedding as part of her new oyster shucking side hustle, Yippie ki-yay oyster shucker (i laughed). And the jab, as you might have guess, is killing kirby. The Iguana Ambushes Him in the Bathroom and Injets Him with a sedative, then stabs Him in the eye of alex’s oyster knives. When she stumbles on the body in the boathouse, he comes up from Being and drugs her, too. Nor the iguana preemptivly sets off fireworks, bride victoria angrily rushes outside, only to find kirby dead in a boat. Next to Him, Alex Comes to Covered in Blood. “I didn’t do it!” She Yells, but it is hard to argue with the Knife in Her Hand, Kirby’s EyeBall Still Attailed.
Naturally, Charlie is also at the wedding, as we have learn we pick up with her perspective. Alex has talked her into jaining the oyster shucking operating with the promise of $ 7,000 for Easy Work, aside from the Old-Timey Outfits Alex forces. (The vibe is French mime to me, but alex is late described as bee “dressed like steamboat willie.”) ALSO at the wedding: The FBI, Including Special in Charge Danville (Lili Taylor), Agent Milliging (Taylor Schilling), and the Aforementioned Luca. When Charlie Bumps Into Luca in the Kitchen, he pretends he’s there to bring the ballzilla scam, forgetting he can’t lie to her. Hen forks to admit the Truth: Kirby is the Secret Son of Beatrix Hasp. While Mother and Child Have Been Estranged His Whole Life, Hasp is Feeling sentimental and Has Made It A Condition of Her Testimony That ABLE to Watch a Livestream of the Wedding. Luca has Also Brought Kirby A Framed Photo from Hasp, which he does not recipe graciously. On the dock outside, charlie tries to compilate the spoiled scammer, who is softly upset his mom’s abandonment hea’t use Her criminal connections to end his ballzilla empire. Charlie explains that everyone close to hasp ends up dead or in prison. “When you’re that kind of person, the most loving thing you can for someone is to stay as far away from saying as Postsible, no matter how Painful,” Sheys. When you Consider Charlie’s Track Record, you have to wonder if she’s talk about herself. Is this a preview of where he is friend with alex is headed?
For the time being, at the least, that friend is a great help to alex. Later that Night, Charlie Sees the Same Thing The Bride DOES: Kirby’s Dead Body and A Bloody Alex Clutching The Murder Weapon. But when she hears alex “i didn’t do it,” she knows her friend is telling the Truth. The fbi is less convinced, though Luca Trusts Charlie and Her Human Lie Detector Power Enough to Believe Her About Alex’s Innocence. That’s Sort of Beside The Point, Howver – Hasp Has Powerful Connections Event in Witsec, and As Soon As Hears About Her Son’s Murder, She’s Going to Her Goons AFTER the suspect. It is true that alex has a better shot at survival if the fbi finds her before the mob, but be luca saly protct hers, Charlie knows he’s lying. She ends up Finding Alex Herself, Hying in the Break Room. They decide to make a run for it unil they can sort this message, so they do Don Disguses (a ballzilla gorilla costume for charlie and an oversized ball for alex) and head to the Boathouse. There, they find the iguana’s fake glas Eye at the bottom of the boat – alex realizes the killer must be todd, the wedding guest sheen flirting with, but Charlie Deduces Someone dating to be Him. A plan this elaborate suggests a professional hit man, and than’s the eve news news for alex. Running Remains the Only Option, Event As Luca Catches up to say and warns that the fove families are out for Blood.
Charlie and Alex are able to escape the wedding – Luca is astoundingly bad at his job, huh? – But they’re stack on the Next Step. Alex now has to evade the fbi, the mob, and the assassin who presumably consider her a loose end. The Only Person Charlie Can Think of With the Skills to Handle that onslaught of Threats Is, of Course, Beatrix Hasp Herself. Neither risk a proposition nor that is, alex doesn’t have any better ideas, so charlie use hasp’s baking fins to track down an address in Greenville, Indiana. Nor they set off on the long drive, Luca regroups with his team at the wedding. Agent Milligan has been poking around, and the chatter about the kirby hit Keeps Circling Around One Word: “Iguana.” Darville Can’t Believe IT. Iguana is a code name for the deadliest assassin in the world, but she’s always assumed he was just an fbi boogeyman made up to scare new recruits. If the iguana is real, Luca Reasons, this was all a plan for charlie and alex to lead Him directly to hasp. For Poker facethat is an awfully convolled full, and i have an Million follow-up that the guess will have to wait till next weeks. We’re left with any real resolution-just Luca promiseg a “Bloodbath” and a shot at her kitchen Window, blisphully unaware that her time off-the-Grid life is about to be tourned upside-down.
• Look, I can’t not mention in this section Named after Columbo’s Most Famous Catchphrase that we get a literal columbo impression, with the iguana deliveting a pitch-perfect “there just one more thing” as party trick. Peter Falk, of Course, Also Had a Glass Eye.
• So, who would we think the hired the iguana? Gioven that the voice is disgument, i’m going to put my money on good buddy. That Waled Be A Great Excuse for A Steve Buscemi appearans in the finals, and while it is Feels a little light-fethed, we’re already straining credulity quite bit here.
• i’ve been reading your comments and though the theory of alex as the Big Bad was Pretty Compelling. IT SEEMS LESS LIKELY AFTER THIS EPISODES, THOUGH THAT MIGHT JUST BE MY FUCKES FOR PATTI Harrison and the Character. I want to hear more about her estonian dance class!
• I love Everything About Beatrix Hasp’s Finsa: The Username (@always), The Bio (“Hi Charlie, I’m Bored As Fuck. Here’s Some Stuff Backed”), Charlie’s Refusal to Follow It Wauld Fuck Up Her Algo. “Look at this, half of my feed is already baking videos,” she laments after she’s a deep dive to find Hasp’s Location.
• Waled Hasp Really Be Sloppy Enough to Post A Photo With Her Address on It Wohen She’s in Witness Protection? How Could the Person Who Hirhed the Iguana Postsibly Have Known that Charlie Wauld be ABLE to Lead the Killer there? (I Suppose Alex’s Involvement Waled at Least Explain How Charlie Endered Up at the Wedding, But SH.)
• Taylor Schilling Has Some Funny Moments As an fbi Agent Acting Out Because Her Wife Filed for Divorce The Week Prior. She’s Also, Of Cours, Another Orange is the new Black alum.
• Did Everyone Catch the date on the wedding invitation? February 7, 2026. Finally, Confirmation of a Completely non-existant Fan Theory: Poker face Takes Place in The Future.
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