![]() She forgets words, flails around, can pull off a neat reveal but often at the expense of her safety. She wastes time firing off angry replies on Twitter. Her Charlie has a savant’s ability for calling bullshit, but she’s winningly not a pro – she has a penchant for befriending people in their final hours and for explaining her hunches to the culprits’ faces. The structure puts an extra burden on Lyonne to make finding out what we already know entertaining, and she rises to it. The bar for interest is much higher when we already know what Charlie has to find, which can make Poker Face’s leisurely pace and Charlie’s clue-finding feel too easy, at times a bit boring. Poker Face’s riff on the episodic formula, a structure familiar to broadcast sitcoms and procedurals but less common on streaming platforms, and rarely with the sense of play evident here, is the show’s chief comfort and biggest limitation. The show tinkers with the whodunnit formula by removing the who each 45-to-60-minute episode opens with a murder – bloody but not gruesome, clever-ish but never hard to unravel – on to which Charlie stumbles and is, despite herself, compelled to sniff out the truth. (Johnson wrote and directed the pilot the subsequent nine episodes are written and directed by numerous others, including one episode by Lyonne.) The six episodes made available for review are assured, stylish television that delivers on a near-unending string of scene-chewing guest performances, a reliable mystery-of-the-week structure and a magnetic Columbo update in Lyonne’s Charlie Cale. If last year’s Glass Onion got bigger, more explosive and ludicrous than Johnson’s theatrical hit Knives Out, Poker Face represents ambition steadying out. But fun, as in well-structured, confidently filmed visual treats with the aim of delivering pure, non-binged enjoyment? Hard to come by, and suavely delivered by Poker Face’s comfortable rhythm and Natasha Lyonne’s charismatic, bumbling detective. ![]() Plenty of TV shows aim for it – fun via competency porn, addictiveness, skewering societal critique, sexiness, suspense or brain numbness. CTI can also assist on the production requirements for Tim Meadows, when needed.Poker Face, writer-director Rian Johnson’s whodunnit series for Peacock, is the rare show to deliver on the elusive promise of fun. CTI agency will help book Tim Meadows if the buyer has the budget and if they are interested in the event. Be advised that the Tim Meadows booking price may drastically change based where spokesperson campaigns, speeches, fairs and festivals and even a shoutout, birthday party, or private concert is located when factoring domestic or international travel. Choose CTI as your booking agency for Tim Meadows to hire at corporate events, conventions, trade shows, business retreats or for television and radio commercials, voice overs, and charity events. CTI will contact the Tim Meadows agent, manager or representative on your behalf to inquire about the current Tim Meadows booking fee and availability, while negotiating the lowest cost on your behalf. For complete information on booking Tim Meadows for projects like branding and promotional marketing, product or service launches, print advertising campaigns, media events, fundraisers, social marketing campaigns, and a guest appearance on TV/Movie specials including, documentaries, infomercials or voice over in video games, please call us at (725) 228-5100. With almost 30 years of industry experience working with professional event planners and talent buyers like you, we can successfully work to hire Tim Meadows for a corporate event, personal appearance, corporate entertainment, speaking engagement, endorsement, private party, or wedding.
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