Poker Face is again in full kind on Peacock, and the crime comedy drama is simply as humorous in season two because it was in season one. Natasha Lyonne stars as Charlie, a girl with a particular reward: she will have a look at or hear somebody and instantly inform in the event that they’re mendacity. Utilizing this human lie detector expertise helps Charlie in loads of methods, but it surely additionally will get her into bother.
Occurring the run from a mafia boss demanding she work for her, Charlie travels from metropolis to metropolis, state to state, taking odd jobs and serving to resolve murders. In Season 2, Episode 4, “The Style of Human Blood,” Charlie makes a brand new buddy. It’s one who is simply heard, not seen, and the voice is immediately recognizable.
Poker Face
- Launch Date
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January 26, 2023
- Community
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Peacock
- Showrunner
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Lilla Zuckerman
Charlie Meets “Good Buddy” on the Radio
In Season 2, Episode 4, Charlie is enjoyable in her automotive, toes up, tinkering with a radio. She’s switching channels, making an attempt to see if there’s anybody on the market she will speak to. She lastly hears a voice on the opposite finish. It’s a truck driver who’s all the time on the street like her. They strike up a dialog when he quotes a line from the 1980 film Out of the Blue, believing she was doing the identical. “Punk isn’t sexual, it’s simply aggression,” he says. The movie is about Cindy “Cebe” Barnes (Linda Manz), a rebellious tomboy who goes on the run to attempt to escape her problematic house life, a becoming comparability to Charlie.
“At all times good to listen to from a fellow Hopper-head,” Charlie replies, referring to Dennis Hopper being the director of and starring in that film. She instantly provides him the identify “good buddy” and asks about his scenario. He drives a rig, touring by one mile marker at a time. He asks about her location, and she or he notes that she’s in a spot that “feels just like the ending, but it surely’s nonetheless the center.”
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“Good buddy” continues his dialog with Charlie as they dive into extra philosophical matters about life, the journey, and the vacation spot. “There isn’t a vacation spot,” he says. “There may be solely the freeway.” The dialog is brief as “good buddy” must get again to work and take note of the street. However his invitation for Charlie to seek out him on that channel most anytime suggests this won’t be the final that viewers, and Charlie, hear from her new touring buddy.
Who Is the Voice of “Good Buddy”?
Who’s that voice? It’s none apart from Steve Buscemi, a shock cameo on the present. He wasn’t initially introduced as being among the many solid, and he technically isn’t, since he’s solely heard. Would possibly Charlie ever meet his character in particular person? Followers should wait and see. For now, “good buddy” might be one fixed in Charlie’s nomadic way of life. As she travels, meets and befriends new individuals, then leaves to do it another time, Charlie doesn’t actually have anybody to speak to all through her journey.
Whereas she has pals like Luca (Simon Helberg), with whom she reconnected in Season 2, Episode 3, “Whack-A-Mole,” he’s busy along with his personal job. And so they solely speak once they occur to cross paths. In episode three, Luca struck a deal to place Beatrix Hasp (Rhea Perlman) in witness safety in trade for her testimony, and he requested that she cancel the hit on Charlie. Whereas he’ll go to bat for her, they aren’t the kind of pals who would chit-chat about life over a radio and even meet for espresso, although he will surely love to take action.
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Nonetheless, due to Luca, Charlie is now free to roam as she pleases with out fear of being hunted down, and that additionally means being much less paranoid about speaking to random strangers whereas she drives. There aren’t any extra males in black fits (who’re horrible pictures) chasing her down at each flip. For the primary time, she’s fully free. And like “good buddy,” she chooses this life on the street. He may accomplish that to pay the payments, however she does it as a result of it provides her a way of function.
For somebody like Charlie, who’s on the run, he might be a viable sounding board, somebody to regale the loopy tales of the brand new jobs she has taken on, individuals she has met, and the murders she has grow to be embroiled with. Will she reveal her secret superpower to “good buddy”? That continues to be to be seen. For now, he’s a voice of cause, a philosophical soul to achieve out to when Charlie wants readability, reassurance, or just somebody to pay attention.
Stream Poker Face on Peacock.