Natasha Lyonne is again within the driver’s seat as her Peacock procedural Poker Face begins manufacturing on Season 2.
Rian Johnson celebrated the the primary day of filming the sophomore season on Monday, sharing a photograph of the present’s clapboard, which listed Lyonne because the director for episode two.
“Day one season two,” wrote Johnson on his Instagram Story.
Impressed by the inverted detective format of Columbo and equally described by Johnson as a “howcatchem” (versus the “whodunit” construction of Knives Out and Glass Onion), Poker Face follows Vegas on line casino employee and human bullshit detector Charlie Cale (Lyonne) as she runs from the mob whereas fixing a string of murders alongside the way in which.
The star-studded sequence has featured such visitor stars as Adrien Brody, Ron Perlman, Chloë Sevigny, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stephanie Hsu, Clea DuVall, Dascha Polanco, Hong Chau, Megan Suri, Danielle Macdonald, Judith Mild, Ellen Barkin, Tim Meadows, Jameela Jamil, Charles Melton, Rowan Blanchard and Rhea Perlman.
Lyonne, who additionally serves as a author and government producer on the present, beforehand directed the Season 1 episode ‘The Orpheus Syndrome’, which featured Nick Nolte, Luis Guzmán and Cherry Jones. She was additionally nominated for a Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Greatest Actress.
Johnson teased what’s in retailer for Poker Face and his hopes to do the present “so long as we will” throughout Deadline’s TV Contender occasion final April.
“We wish to maintain doing it and I really feel like it is vitally a lot constructed so that there’s an overarching story however it’s form of just like the story of whether or not Sam goes to get residence on Quantum Leap,” he defined. “It form of doesn’t matter actually, it’s simply an engine to have the ability to maintain her on the street and maintain her shifting and maintain doing these little mysteries and having thrilling individuals in them. Our purpose is to only maintain doing that so long as we will.”