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POKER FACE S1 REVIEW 🤩

Remember COLUMBO? Well, this is a modern remake of the excellent detective series from the 1970s starring Peter Falk. Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie pretty much channels Peter’s Columbo as the perennially rumpled, good-natured cocktail waitress on the run from the Vegas mob, who is most excellent at solving murders but with a twist – she can tell when anyone is lying. Handy, huh?  Creator Rian Johnson takes all his murder-mystery chops from his popular KNIVES OUT movies and front-loads this one-hour…

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POKER FACE S1E5 TIME OF THE MONKEY 😊

We’ve been spoiled by four terrific episodes of Rian Johnson’s POKER FACE. So it’s kind of self-entitled to hate on a perfectly serviceable episode for not being just a smidge less than its predecessors. And to be clear, I’m not hating on it. It’s good. It’s just there’s a big glaring wasted opportunity with this episode that I had issues with. TIME OF THE MONKEY brings Charlie to a nursing home, where she meets two sparkplug residents that love rebelling…

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