Smart, funny and an absolute blast: Poker Face and Patricia Arquette’s High Desert are making offbeat mystery shows into television’s hottest trend. Here’s to the noir-ish caper!
on air. He has a Picasso on the wall and a long-missing wife, and Peggy is not buying whatever cock and bull story he is selling. She talks her way into a job as the assistant to a private investigator, and uses his resources to start tackling the big mystery behind Bob and his art collection. But there are also family dramas to contend with, including the death of her mother, her frosty sister and her imprisoned ex-husband .
Fun is at the heart of Poker Face, too, which has a much more robust approach to cracking heads and cases. Lyonne is Charlie Cale, who starts the series as a waitress in a budget Las Vegas casino, owing to past dealings and trade-offs that don’t quite become clear until the end of the opening episode. It finds its own surreal streak in Charlie’s innate ability to tell when someone is lying – she is, as her targets have it, a “human lie detector”, who coughs “bullshit” whenever she hears a fib.
have been plentiful and apt, but its case-of-the-week set-up reminded me of Quantum Leap, too. Either way, it has the feel of a TV classic to it already., it delights in showing us the puzzle pieces of a murder, usually pointing out who did it at the very start, before dropping Charlie into the action and letting us watch as she figures out what happened, when, where and why, using her bullshit-monitor to guide her.
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