Digital Trends explains the ending to PokerFace season one, the hit Peacock series from director Rian Johnson and star Natasha Lyonne.
Not since Columbo have we seen an inverted detective story, a structure known as “howcatchem,” told in such an exciting fashion. The inaugural season of the murder mystery series Poker Face, which has already been renewed for a second season, kicked off with a fast-paced story that set the stage for an eventful journey across the U.S. Charlie has an incredible talent: she’s a human lie detector.
The events go from Charlie using lottery ticket serial numbers to catch a murderous young man named Jed in a lie to performing her own Keyser Soze moment to figure out that the young drummer who mysteriously died had actually penned the track his has-been band was trying to pass off as theirs . In most cases, it’s not difficult to spot the clues along the way that point Charlie in exactly the direction she needs to go to solve the whodunit. But it’s also fun to play along with the sleuthing.
As the episodes continue, there’s less of Charlie and more of the “before” stories about the guest stars, while the stories also seem to get darker and far more intense. The show starts like Columbo but ends up being, at times, something more akin to Black Mirror. But there’s a silver lining: realizing that the police think her new friend “Mortimer” was her, Charlie is on top of the world, convinced she’s presumed dead and can stop living in fear. That is until, in the season finale episode The Hook, she is told her hospital bills have already been paid in full. Puzzled, she finds Cliff waiting patiently outside for her discharge. There’s nowhere to run anymore.
How does Poker Face season 1 end? Charlie knows she didn’t kill Sterling, but the evidence against her is substantial, including her fingerprints on the gun and video showing her pointing it at him right before the lights go off. Thankfully, Charlie still has the number for Agent Luca , the FBI agent she met at the retirement home. He had taken a liking to her , grateful that her information helped him solve several cases and raise his profile at the bureau.
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