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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Poker Face' Brings TV's Best Mystery Back for Season 2
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." OUR FAVORITE HUMAN lie detector is back. More than two years after Poker Face's 10-episode first season wrapped up, Rian Johnson's brilliant whydunnit mystery series is back for an even-larger but still star-studded 12-episode second season. Of course, our drifter extraordinare Charlie Cale (the always vibrant Natasha Lyonne) is once again the connective tissue between episodes, finding her way into one situation or another—and always using her impressive ability to parse out the truth to figure out why one sinister plot or another went the way it did. And while season 2 is once again filled with brilliant guest stars—including Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo, John Mulaney, Giancarlo Esposito, Katie Holmes, and more—it's always going to be the time spent hanging out with Lyonne's Charlie, and seeing how she's going to solve each increasingly-funny or strange mystery, that keeps viewers coming back. "To me, the key to this kind of show is casting Natasha Lyonne," Johnson told Men's Health in an interview back in 2023. "Making the show with her. I think, ultimately, that's where the show places its chips, is the character of Charlie Cale, and having her be someone you're going to want to come back to every single week and see her win. With Poker Face now in its supersized second season, we don't want to miss a single episode—and know you won't want to either. Below, you can see the complete release schedule for Poker Face season 2 on Peacock. Shop Now New episodes of Poker Face season 2 release on Peacock on Thursdays. The next episode will be available on Thursday, May 15. Poker Face season 2 will be 12 episodes in total, bumped up from the 10 that were in season 1. After the three-episode premiere, the show is shifting to a weekly release schedule; That means that there's still nine weeks—and nine mystery-filled episodes—remaining in season 2 of Poker Face. Episode 1, "The Game is a Foot - Now streaming as of May 8Episode 2, "Last Looks"- Now streaming as of May 8Episode 3, "Whack-a-Mole"- Now streaming as of May 8 Episode 4, "The Taste of Human Blood"- Streaming on May 15Episode 5, "Hometown Hero"- Streaming on May 22Episode 6, "Sloppy Joseph"- Streaming on May 29Episode 7, "One Last Job"- Streaming on June 5Episode 8, "The Sleazy Georgian" - Streaming on June 12Episode 9, "A New Lease on Death" - Streaming on June 19Episode 10, "The Big Pump" - Streaming on June 26Episode 11, "Day of the Iguana" - Streaming on July 3Episode 12, "The End of the Road" - Streaming on July 10 You Might Also Like The Best Hair Growth Shampoos for Men to Buy Now 25 Vegetables That Are Surprising Sources of Protein
The Independent
30-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Rian Johnson reveals how Poker Face created multiple Cynthia Erivos without CGI
Rian Johnson has revealed the relatively low-tech way he was able to have Cynthia Erivo play multiple different characters in the opening episode of the new season of detective series Poker Face. Wicked star Erivo, 38, appears in 'The Game is a Foot' playing five identical siblings. Speaking at the PayleyFest television festival in Los Angeles following a screening of the episode, Knives Out director Johnson, 51, said no CGI was used to achieve the effect. 'We had a 10-day schedule to shoot that, which is a very fast schedule for the amount of script it was,' he explained. He continued: 'It's not like we were using high, crazy camera technology. It was literally leaving the camera there, Cynthia would do half of her scene, she would go and change and she somehow kept it all in her head and was the loveliest person in the world.' The new season premieres on Peacock in the US on May 8, before arriving in the UK on Sky and NOW on May 9. Poker Face season two sees Natasha Lyonne return as Charlie Cale, a human lie detector on the run across America who ends up investigating a new murder every episode. The season will feature a star-studded roster of guest appearances from the likes of Melanie Lynskey, John Mulaney, Giancarlo Esposito, John Cho, Haley Joel Osment and Kumail Nanjiani. Speaking at the same event, Nanjiani revealed he'll be playing a Florida cop known as Gator Joe and learned a Panhandle accent for the role. 'As soon as I started working on it, it was just too fun and too exciting to not fully commit to it,' he said. '[My episode is] set over a few years with a baby alligator who grows up to a full size alligator over the course of the episode. So I got to work with the best in the biz, like these folks who are absolutely amazing, and also these giant alligator animatronics.' The first season of Poker Face was widely acclaimed. In a four-star review for The Independent, television critic Nick Hilton wrote: 'In a way, Poker Face represents the perfect synthesis of Lyonne's chronology-busting masterpiece, Russian Doll, and the newly established appetite for murder mysteries conducted with the marching band rhythm of the Coen Brothers or Edgar Wright. 'The plots might wrap themselves up a little too conveniently at times... but the anarchic spirit of Poker Face carries it through.'
Yahoo
30-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Natasha Lyonne and director Rian Johnson reveal ‘magic trick' behind Cynthia Erivo playing quintuplets in ‘Poker Face' Season 2 premiere
The cast and crew of Peacock's Emmy-winning comedy Poker Face were laughing it up during a special PaleyFest premiere of Season 2 at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre on March 29. Lucky fans were shown the first episode, titled "The Game is a Foot," featuring Wicked star Cynthia Erivo as a set of troubled quintuplets. Reviews are under strict embargo for now — the episode premieres May 8 on Peacock — but we can report there were plenty of laughs, gasps, and rapturous applause from the audience in attendance. After the screening, Emmy nominee Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live, Shrill) hosted a fun Q&A panel featuring star, EP, director, and writer Natasha Lyonne, creator, writer, director, and EP Rian Johnson, director Clea DuVall, Season 1 guest star Judith Light (who won Peacock's first Emmy for her performance in 2023), and Season 2 guest stars GaTa, Haley Joel Osment, John Cho, Kumail Nanjiani, and Melanie Lynskey. More from GoldDerby 'It's saving lives': 'Adolescence' stars Stephen Graham and Owen Cooper on the series' stunning success Why Studio Ghibli is at the center of AI's latest controversy: A brief explainer Seth Rogen explains how 'The Studio' pulled off its one-shot episode Although Erivo wasn't in attendance, Bryant called out the Oscar nominee's "amazing" performance before introducing the all-star panel who will be featured throughout the rest of the season. They broke the ice with a quick round of "What's your favorite holiday?" (Thanksgiving edged out Christmas) before getting into all the juicy details about the upcoming season. "I wanted to do what we did in Season 1, just more of it," Johnson said. "The idea was not to see where Charlie (Lyonne) goes with some bigger arc — the idea was, 'Let's make some kick-ass, wonderful episodes.'" He revealed they shot the complicated Season 2 premiere in just 10 days, "which is a very fast schedule for the amount of script it was." Johnson, who directed the first episode, said there wasn't any "crazy camera technology" used to film Erivo's five characters (up to four appeared together in some scenes). "We would literally leave the camera, Cynthia would do half of her scene, she would go and change, and come back and do the other half. She somehow kept it all in her head and was the loveliest person in the world." Lyonne said Johnson was being humble. "I've never seen Rian so in his element," she shared. "'The Game is a Foot' episode is possibly the most Rian Johnson episode to ever Rian Johnson. It took like 87 screens within screens to figure out how the whole magic trick would work. It was a delight to behold." Johnson returned the love-fest, saying, "There's no recurring cast [in this show] except for Natasha. That means you get to have wonderful people coming in every episode, but it also means that to sustain that over the course of what it takes to shoot a TV season, and to be out there working every single week with a different cast, it's an incredible effort. The fact that she makes it look so effortless on screen, and creates a character that you want to travel across the United States with, is a massive [accomplishment]." In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Erivo said, 'I knew that my head would be split into many different spaces, but I was like, 'Well, if not now, then when?' I'm always open to trying things that I haven't done before, and I wanted to do this. I wanted to figure out what it would be like to compartmentalize and play different characters all at once, to challenge myself to see if it was possible...I'd play one side, and I'd have a lovely stand-in doing the other side. I would still have to remember what I did on one side so that my reaction would match the other way, so that it would make sense when speaking to each other.' Other secrets spilled during the 36-minute gabfest included Nanjiani's upcoming performance as "Gator Joe." The actor recounted, "I got a text from Natasha and I said, 'Yea, sure.' The next text was the script. It was this [guy] in the Florida panhandle with tattoos and frosted hair. I texted back, 'Did you send this one to me by mistake?' Then, I immediately called my dialect coach and said, 'I have six days. I want to try and learn a Florida panhandle accent. Can we try and see if we can do it and, if we can't, I'll just speak like a Pakistani guy who has been in America for 20 years. As soon as we started working on it, it was just too fun and too exciting to not fully commit to it." In what Lyonne describes as a "bonanza" episode based on David Mamet's 1987 film House of Games, Cho plays a "villainous swindler" opposite Lynskey. "It was a lot of dialogue," Lynskey recalls. "We had two days of talking, which is more fun than it sounds." Cho interjected, "It was such a treat to watch [Melanie] unpack it, dissect it, break it down into blocks, and meticulously attack each moment. It was one of the great thrills of my life." In another upcoming episode, Osment plays a social media influencer who is sponsoring his wedding with an energy drink. "It was a tough conversation with my fiancé," he laughed. "That energy drink is called 'Ball-Zilla.'" Closing out the event, Bryant joked that the number of guest stars on Season 2 of Poker Face would take her "four hours to list." Still, she wanted to know if there was a "wish list" of actors that Johnson and Lyonne could "level up with" next year. When Lyonne responded, "Aidy Bryant," the moderator quickly responded, "Finally we've gotten to where I wanted to start. I'm hurtin' bad for cash. I'm not being paid for this — they said I could take home some cookies." Poker Face is a mystery-of-the-week series following Lyonne's Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. This season, Charlie continues her cross-country odyssey, encountering a new cast of characters and investigating crimes along the way. Season 2 of Poker Face premieres May 8, 2025 with three episodes, followed by a new episode streaming every Thursday. SIGN UP for Gold Derby's free newsletter with latest predictions Best of GoldDerby Is 'SNL' new tonight? 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