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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x2NzusLAqk Poker Face is a new mystery series on Peacock created by acclaimed filmmaker who has definitely never made a divisive movie ever no sir Rian Johnson, recently responsible for the Benoit Blanc flicks, and starring Natasha Lyonne as Johnson's pedigree and the fact they only have to do one episode means the ten-episode first season has a pretty wild array of guest stars, such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chloe Sevigny, Adrien Brody, Hong Chau, Ron Perlman, RHEA Perlman, Tim Meadows, Jameela Jamil, Nick Nolte, Clea DuVall, Tim Blake Nelson, Ellen Barkin, Luis Guzman, Stephenie Hsu, and many more!!!!! The first four episodes of Poker Face are available on Peacock now, with a new episode dropping every Thursday (what a concept).
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I figure for this first week we should use spoiler tags and specify which episode you’re talking about beforehand, but from next week onwards just treat it like a normal weekly thread and lose the tags. Episode 1: a slow but real good start with some fantastic shots (Steve Yedlin GOAT) and really fun lines. The main point is, of course, to introduce us to Charlie as a character, and she’s great! Definitely someone who I want to follow through various hijinks. The actual storyline isn’t so hot and perhaps too focused on making sure we understand Charlie’s ability, becoming a little over-expository, but it does the job of setting the series as a whole up nicely and the climactic moments are fuckin great, especially that excellent Brody suicide shot. I enjoyed the more measured pacing and hope that continues. Gonna try and spread these episodes out a little but we’ll see how that pans out.
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Jan 26, 2023 21:47
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Oh wow this show is incredible, just finished E01 and E02, didn't realise four dropped at once, can't wait to watch the rest, really hope this show does well. I love the extended run times and the throwback to episode of the week TV. The format really lets the characters and stories breathe and its all filmed so beautifully and with great character actors I could watch this forever. I could do without the serialised aspect at all, I presume at some point she becomes a full time PI, randomly running into murders seems like it would quickly get old. Smallest of griped for E01/E02: Some of the clues are a bit too heavy-handed. I'm thinking the thing with the gun and the metal detector would have been better if the camera didn't focus on both the gun being taken away and the metal detector for so long, and similarly the scratch-card serial number bit was way over explained, I'd prefer a bit cleverer solutions. But overall I love this show. I enjoyed the Knives Out films but this is by far my favourite thing from him, much prefer the smaller more realistic slice of life scale to this than Knives Out's campy larger than life-ness. After that and this I'm craving some good classic detective stuff and I've never seen anything, any suggestions? I know Colombo is the main influence and the first one I'll check out.
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Jan 27, 2023 04:16
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Escobarbarian posted:RHEA Perlman I guess we are getting a bit of a Cheers re--union with Ratzenberger in Ep 2. He was great in his part, I wouldn't have recognised him these days if not for the voice.
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Jan 27, 2023 04:19
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This was really good! I caught up on all the episodes that released today, but it's episode three that was my favorite, mainly because it works around Texas barbeque and I got so hungry, I actually got to eat Texas barbeque right after. Episode four has Chloe Sevigne and she looks perfect as an aged rock star has-been. I don't know if it was her voice for Sucker Punch and Staplehead, but it was catchy as hell!
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Jan 27, 2023 05:35
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Yea 3 was my favorite. It was also the most hilarious. Everything with the dog was comedy gold.
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Jan 27, 2023 06:15
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lmao okja
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Jan 27, 2023 07:23
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fez_machine posted:lmao okja I haven't seen that, but I have seen the other references Babe and Charlotte's Web so I got what they were heading towards thematically for the character.
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Jan 27, 2023 08:34
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Episode 2: again, good stuff. I wasn’t so interested in the pre-Charlie stuff, but I imagine that’ll vary episode to episode. Small-scale story but very well-told and a very enjoyable set of side characters plus Charlie being a wonderful fuckup. Laughed out loud a good amount of times. Again the actual storyline is somewhat thin but the characters are so fun that I minded less. I’m hoping as the series goes on and Charlie recognises the pattern and settles into this kinda-detective role the sleuthing will take up more of the episodes, but I understand why that isn’t the case right now.
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Jan 27, 2023 08:56
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Episode one is a stunning hell of a pilot.
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Jan 27, 2023 11:11
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Episode 3 good as hell. Probably my favourite so far. Lil Rel Howery is great. I like how Charlie calling bullshit when she hears a lie is almost like a tic. I really enjoy the small scale of this show compared to the Benoit Blanc movies, and Lyonne is constantly proving that everyone was right to assume she would kill this.
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Jan 27, 2023 12:47
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I got half way through ep 3, loving the running gag of presumably increasingly showing why this dog was a piece of poo poo and not to feel bad for it being bludgeoned to death.
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Jan 27, 2023 13:56
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got home late and watched the first ep and half of the second one and I love it. story telling is great, character actors are great and the cheesy 70s/80s detective vibe is perfect. somehow she's doing columbo but better.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:34
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Episode 4: still excellent and the best guest cast so far. John Darnielle!!!!!!! The one criticism I have is that I think they should ease up on the “btw Charlie was there the whole time!” thing, I’m somewhat bored of it already. But other than that I still absolutely love it.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:51
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Watched the first episode last night and enjoyed the hell out of it. A minor detail at the beginning confused me. After the opening Natalie is talking about using an Apple TV (dick cloud), but they had a CRT in their living room which makes no dang sense. Mixing that with the time jump made me rewind to check that she was the same character. Good Columbo reference, too. This Old Man played in the Casino.
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Jan 27, 2023 18:26
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After seeing Knives Out, Glass Onion, and the first episode of this, I feel like I’ve finally nailed Johnson’s particular sub-subgenre of neonoir: retro pastiche postmodern camp. There’s something very calming about how predictable the story is even as the narrative’s presentation swerves all over the map. His mysteries are ultimately howdunnits focused on the fun of the performance and the elegance of the solution, just as Columbo was, and I find that somehow very comforting, even if its simplicity doesn’t necessarily dazzle me or break the mold. Looking forward to more after a long workday or night out. 😊
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Jan 28, 2023 08:40
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Rian Johnson: Characters Welcome hell he references burn notice directly
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Jan 28, 2023 11:01
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Combed Thunderclap posted:After seeing Knives Out, Glass Onion, and the first episode of this, I feel like I’ve finally nailed Johnson’s particular sub-subgenre of neonoir: retro pastiche postmodern camp. You should also watch Brick.
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Jan 28, 2023 13:20
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lmao @ lady trucker goon in episode 2.
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Jan 28, 2023 14:22
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Annabel Pee posted:I got half way through ep 3, loving the running gag of presumably increasingly showing why this dog was a piece of poo poo and not to feel bad for it being bludgeoned to death. agreed when the dog lunges at her when she tries to change the radio station and the various times she yells at it "gently caress you, you racist fascist dog!"
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Jan 28, 2023 20:48
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Is this show really like Columbo? I'm about to check it out and you all better be right 
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Jan 28, 2023 21:45
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Jose Oquendo posted:Is this show really like Columbo? I'm about to check it out and you all better be right imho columbo but better it's like prestige camp(?)
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Jose Oquendo posted:Is this show really like Columbo? I'm about to check it out and you all better be right Having just finished watching the entirety of Columbo a month or so ago, this is absolutely very much like classic Columbo before the revival.
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Jan 29, 2023 01:46
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I was a little iffy after episode two but three and four knocked it out of the park. The payoff at the end of episode four was fantastic. Looking forward to the rest of the season.
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Jan 29, 2023 03:31
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(ep 4)Recognizing the Suckerpunch song as the Benson theme made a lot of the scenes really funny. I wonder if that made it funnier than getting it as a reveal at the end would have
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Jan 29, 2023 03:40
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A general observation: My only complaint so far is not enough rich assholes as the murderers.
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Jan 29, 2023 04:06
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Heh, when I heard Natasha Lyonne was going to be in a murder mystery series, my immediate thought was “holy poo poo, she was born to be a lady Columbo” and clearly Rian Johnson agreed. This is a fantastic show. I was a bit thrown early on as coming off the Knives Out movies I expected a subversion of what I’d expect from these mysteries, but instead they are relatively straightforward, with some clues extremely obviously highlighted as being important (oh, hey, let me show you my tiny GoPro recording my feet during the performance, sure this won’t come up later). But that lack of pretension kind of adds to its charm, and of course contributes to the Columbo/general 70s TV pastiche. I wonder how much of that rests on Lyonne though. The guest stars have been uniformly great, but I feel like it would get tiring if it wasn’t just so drat fun to watch Charlie bumble through everything. I really love the running joke of her being secretly present through the whole murder setup. I feel like Natasha Lyonne could somehow be on the periphery of any story trying to bum a smoke off someone. I have a personal theory that Rian is an outright Marxist and got to say, so far the show isn’t proving me wrong, which is cool!
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Jan 29, 2023 05:08
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Watched episode one tonight and it ruled.
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Love it so far. I'm already pissed we have to wait a week in between new episodes moving forward. Natasha Lyonne is always delightful, and the rest of you should watch any of her late-night interviews on Youtube to tide you over in the meantime, especially the ones with Conan and Seth Meyers.
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Jan 29, 2023 16:44
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God, the gag with the Nissan Leaf in episode 3 killed me.
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Jan 29, 2023 20:14
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John Hodgman and John Darnielle were great
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This show is a blast, I haven’t had this much fun with a series in a while. Just firing on all cylinders, well made and enjoyable to watch. I hope the rest of the run lives up to the first four, if so this will be a great first season.
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Jan 30, 2023 06:17
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I just watched the first two episodes. First one had some rough patches (the drive to work scene is really clunky, the suicide looked pretty bad, etc. etc.) but the second one flow a lot better and made me laugh more. Hope the next two keep up that trend.Luvcow posted:imho columbo but better this is just unhinged
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Jan 30, 2023 08:35
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I might just be slow, but I'm unclear on episode 2. I get that the dashcam footage freed Marge. but why didn't Jed just take the winning scratcher and run? Was the scratcher somehow not good and that's why he burned it? Why wait for the cops?
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Jan 30, 2023 11:22
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ep 2 It still has the serial number, they would be able to trace it whenever he tried to cash in, and the cops would tell whatever company that that number is connected to a murder
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Jan 30, 2023 12:17
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ah, got it! Need to watch this earlier in the night and not when I'm about to pop a sleeping pill.
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Jan 30, 2023 19:37
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I'll be honest, I'm mostly here for the Great Comet joke in the thread title  I definitely want to check this out. Lyonne was SO GOOD in Russian Doll
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I just watched the first episode and though some of the writing was a little contrived in places, it was a real fun watch, especially since Lyonne's delivery and general scruffiness make me keep mentally projecting Peter Falk into her place
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There are some really great gags in this, e2: I was rolling my eyes at 'Charlie can't remember the word for something' popping up for the third time in two episodes, but the cut to her playing pictionary with a gaggle of truckers made me laugh. I kinda wish she didn't have her lie detector super power, she's always picked up enough other clues to figure it out anyway and it's a bit stupid to have a scene in every episode like: Natasha Columbo: Wow it sure sucks that the one person in the episode I liked was killed The Murderer: Yeah it sure is a shame that they died in a way that I had nothing to do with Natasha Columbo: Oh my god, you murdered them! Although I did like in e3 where Charlie told the wife about the lie detecting and in every scene afterwards you can tell that she's choosing her words very carefully to be technically true
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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I like that so far, all the murders have revolved around money in some way . I wonder if that theme will continue. I love the gag of her being in the story the whole time and not knowing it until later, I wonder if you go back and rewatch if you can find her in the background. Also, like every murder mystery show, the sheer number of murders this woman runs into is astounding! Don't hang out with her, or visit Cabot Cove, or go to Santa Barbara to visit Shawn and Gus. The murders are everywhere!
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