The recreation of poker, or at the very least a tv present that includes some features of the sport, acquired some mainstream headlines final week with the Peacock community’s Poker Face incomes the present’s star a Golden Globe nomination.
The 10-episode first season of the crime drama debuted in 2023 and options Natasha Lyonne taking part in a former poker participant. After a pal is murdered, she makes use of her expertise at studying individuals to find out doable suspects. Lyonne acquired a nomination for greatest efficiency by a feminine actor in a tv sequence (musical or comedy).
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Despite not taking residence the win, the nomination comes after the sequence has usually acquired constructive critiques. Poker Face is rated 98% amongst critics on Rotten Tomatoes and 81% with viewers reviewers.
Set in Laughlin, Nevada, Lyonne performs a on line casino cocktail waitress named Charlie who’s blackballed from the world’s poker video games. When her pal’s homicide is unjustly categorised as a suicide, she units out to assist crack the case by utilizing her distinctive expertise to find out if somebody is mendacity.
The present was created by Knives Out and Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, and is a little bit of a throwback to classic detective shows. It additionally options cameos from Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody, in addition to Benjamin Bratt, Simon Helberg, Ron Perlman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chloe Sevigny, Tim Blake Nelson, and Ellen Barkin.
“(Charlie) follows in the footsteps of classic investigators like Lieutenant Columbo, played by Peter Falk, or Philip Marlowe, played by Elliott Gould or Humphrey Bogart,” the Wall Street Journal notes. “Like them, she has a shaggy energy and a compulsion to set things right.”
Viewers might acknowledge Lyonne from movies and sequence like American Pie, Slums of Beverly Hills, Orange is the New Black, and Russian Doll. No phrase if Lyonne is definitely a poker participant herself, however the present has scored with viewers. Peacock has already introduced that Poker Face will return for a second season.
This wasn’t the one poker highlight within the media just lately. TED-Ed, from the group behind the favored TED Talks sequence, just lately launched a brand new animation taking a fast take a look at the historical past of the sport. James McManus, writer of Positively Fifth Street and Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, wrote the script for the manufacturing.
