Series · Peacock · 2023
Poker Face
61Watch it awake.
A detective who takes the side of the person already dead. Old-fashioned, and good.
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The review
Charlie is not a cop and not a superhero. She is a person who cannot abide the smooth story, and she has a gift that makes the smooth story itch. Each town is a closed room with a powerful person and a nobody. She picks the nobody, after the nobody is dead.
The cases are cases. The violence is the crime, not the dessert. A teenager can watch most of them with you. The lesson is not 'trust your vibe.' It is that a lie told by a charming person is still a lie, and someone ought to be rude about it.
Journal
Keep Poker Face in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
80 instead of 61
Signed, Sealed, Delivered is still a mystery show, and it scores 80 instead of 61. What you gain is piety: Faith is the engine, not the punchline.
The eight
- 6Industry
She works a case the way a mechanic works a noise. Town by town.
- 4Household
No house of her own. She keeps faith with strangers.
- 4Piety
Conscience is the engine. A creed is not named.
- 7Courage
She stays when leaving would be safer and easier.
- 6Republic
Each town has a boss, a worker, and a story the boss would prefer.
- 7Temperance
The show likes the puzzle more than the gore.
- 9Truth
Hearing the lie is the premise, and she does not let it go.
- 6Stewardship
She leaves the town slightly more honest, then she leaves.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Poker Face · 61IMDb
