Rian Johnson is Releasing a Case-of-the-Week Murder Mystery TV Series
Natasha Lyonne stars in it and it looks very old-school and groovy
Yes, that’s right, mystery fans! The great director Rian Johnson, who masterminded Knives Out and its soon-to-be-released sequel Glass Onion, has made a murder mystery TV show, to be released on Peacock on January 26th. It’s called… Poker Face. For the first time in my life, I can’t wait for January!
The project is a collaboration between Johnson and Natasha Lyonne, who plays a PI named Charlie Cale, who can always tell when people are lying (a very good quality to have in a PI). It is a ten-part, case-of-the-week murder mystery show and appears to also feature Adrien Brody, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lil Rey Howery, and Ron Perlman. (In case you missed the carousel of famous faces in the fast-paced teaser, the far reaches of its IMDB page notes that Poker Face also features, Stephanie Hsu, Tim Blake Nelson, Hong Chau, Nick Nolte, Ellen Barkin, Megan Suri, Judith Light, Jameela Jamil, Tim Meadows, Clea DuVall, Chloë Sevigny, and Benjamin Bratt, so… wow!)
It is Johnson’s first TV show, and he tweeted out the teaser trailer today. Take a look and start looking for tells!
For the past year I’ve been making my first tv show with my friend @nlyonne & a ton of talented people. It’s an old school case-of-the-week mystery series called POKER FACE, it premieres January 26th on @peacock, and I’m VERY excited about it. BEHOLD A TEASER! #PokerFacePeacock pic.twitter.com/56fbAenjfM
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) October 26, 2022
Olivia Rutigliano
Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and CrimeReads. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, AirMail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. She hosts the podcasst "Culture Schlock" at Lit Hub Radio. She is on instagram at @oldebean, twitter at @oldrutigliano, and bluesky at @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social.
