No person likes a liar.
Within the first teaser for Peacock’s Poker Face, premiering Jan. 26, Natasha Lyonne performs Charlie Cale, a girl with the power to at all times inform when someone is mendacity—which she places to good, albeit harmful, use.
“I solely know if one thing is a lie,” she says within the trailer. “The actual trick of it’s to determine why.”
Within the collection, the primary tv mission from Knives Out and Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Final Jedi director Rian Johnson, Charlie “hits the highway together with her Plymouth Barracuda,” in line with the streamer, “and with each cease encounters a brand new solid of characters and unusual crimes she will’t assist however clear up.”
The trailer additionally options appearances from Adrien Brody, Chloë Sevigny, Dascha Polanco, Ron Perlman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tim Meadows and Lil Rel Howery.
Rian and Natasha revealed that the mission all got here collectively in very natural and relatable style.
“By no means underestimate the ability of a great dinner dialog between buddies,” the pair shared in an announcement to E! Information. “What began as a dialogue over steak frites about detective reveals and what made them such a dependable pleasure—the exploration of little worlds inside every new setting, the visitor stars taking part in killers and victims, and most significantly, a scrappy protagonist you had been at all times able to relax with and see win—in the end resulted within the creation of Charlie, the driving power behind Poker Face.”