‘Poker Face’: ‘Endless Possibilities’ for Natasha Lyonne’s Human BS Detective to Continue to Solve Crimes in Season 1

poker face, Rian Johnson’s drama series starring Natasha Lyonne as a human nonsense detective was not intended to be a limited series and the knife out The filmmaker said there are “endless possibilities” to continue the success.

Lyonne plays Charlie, an effortlessly cool, cheap beer drinker with a supernatural ability to solve crimes. After a casino boss seeks her out to use her skills for nefarious purposes, Charlie goes on the run and becomes involved in more crimes.

Johnson says it’s more of a “how to catch them” than a murder mystery because crime is the focus of each episode.

But while there is one storyline running through the ten-episode season, one involving Benjamin Bratt’s security expert, it is believed to be a procedural one.

Lyonne said she loves characters like Peter Falk’s columbusPhillip Marlowe by Elliott Gould The long goodbye and Andy Sipowicz by Dennis Franz NYPD blue.

Johnson added that he was inspired by series like Columbo, Magnum PI, Rockford files and quantum leap, episodic case of the week stories centered around a “charismatic character”.

Speaking at NBCUniversal’s TCA press tour, Lyonne said Charlie “floats over a situation as he tries to solve a mystery, but is also a regular guy with his nose to the grindstone trying to hear the sounds of the street decipher.”

Johnson has previously directed television episodes including terrier and break badbut that it was “my first rodeo” doing a series and he had a blast’ and especially enjoyed the pace of the storytelling.

With success, he wants it to continue. “It’s certainly not designed as a limited range, but as something that the architecture has to go through. We will post this step by step to see if people like it. There are endless stories to tell. As people watch more and realize how different each episode is… it’s a hodgepodge of possibilities from different worlds for us to delve into each episode, and brand new mysteries in each episode. For me, the possibilities are endless.”

Lyonne was more cautious, but added that her character is “timeless” and “we love working together. I think we’re just having fun before the show comes out. We’re enjoying the ride,” she added.

The series, whose first four episodes premiere on January 26 on Peacock, features a group of assassins with guest appearances including Adrien Brody, Angel Desai, Audrey Corsa, Benjamin Bratt, Brandon Michael Hall, Charles Melton, Chelsea Frei, Cherry Jones and Chloë Sevigny, Clea DuVall, Colton Ryan, Danielle MacDonald, Dascha Polanco, David Castañeda, Ellen Barkin, Hong Chau, Jasmine Aiyana Garvin, Jameela Jamil, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Judith Light, Leslie Silva, Luis Guzmán, Megan Suri, Niall Cunningham, Nicholas Cirillo, Nick Nolte, Reed Birney, Rhea Perlman, Ron Perlman, Rowan Blanchard, S. Epatha Merkerson, Shane Paul McGhie, Simon Helberg, Stephanie Hsu, Tim Blake Nelson and Tim Meadows.

Johnson and Lyonne are executive producers on Poker Face along with Ram Bergman, Nora Zuckerman, Lilla Zuckerman, Nena Rodrigue and Iain B. Macdonald. The Zuckermans serve as showrunners, and Maya Rudolph and Danielle Renfrew Behrens are co-executive producers. The series comes from T-Street and MRC Television.