I was praised for the new American TV series Pokerface, 2023-..., created by Ryan Johnson, who directed Get Knives. It is compared with the series about Colombo - this is the so-called "inverted detective" - we first see the story as if from the outside, and then the same story we see with the participation of the main character -
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I was praised for the new American TV series Pokerface, 2023-..., created by Ryan Johnson, who directed Get Knives. It is compared with the series about Colombo - this is the so-called "inverted detective" - we first see the story as if from the outside, and then the same story we see with the participation of the main character - Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne), which because of the peculiarities of her character each time manages to get into a criminal history with a murder and, thanks to the peculiarities of her character, unravels this story, sometimes with great danger to herself. She's so naive about bringing killers out, almost always telling them to their faces, that she's always walking on the razor blade. At the very beginning, we learn her story, she once earned good money, traveling from one casino to another, winning enough money for a good life, and she did this not because she knew how, as it happens, “count cards”, but simply by figuring out which of the players was bluffing, she could always unmistakably guess who was lying and who was telling the truth. For her, this ended in failure, and then a tragic story, after which she had to go on the run, because the owner of a large casino chain at all costs wanted to catch her, despite the fact that he at one time put her out of the casino and forbade her to let. She decided he wanted to kill her. And so we see history after history happening to her during her wanderings. The end of the season does not bode well for the future, and the next casino chain owner is in battle. The series is filmed with a very large share of sarcasm and irony, the lead actress is very colorful, so those interested in a “freak” detective, though with quite serious crimes, can watch.
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