SPOILER WARNING: The next article offers away a number of key particulars from Poker Face Season 2, together with from the season finale. When you’ve got not been maintaining with the collection’ newest mysteries along with your Peacock subscription, I truthfully suggest you proceed with warning in the event you proceed to learn on.
I couldn’t wait to see extra from the adventures of human lie detector on the run, Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne), when Poker Face Season 2 returned. General, I’d say I want Season 1 to this in any other case enjoyable new batch of wierd mysteries (which may have branched out past homicide tales extra typically), however I believe Season 2 completely sticks the touchdown with its finale… OK, truly, that final remark is, as Charlie would say, “bullshit,” however solely to some extent.
The Poker Face Season 2 ending is, like several of the perfect Poker Face episodes, a enjoyable, brain-teasing thrill experience that serves as an ideal strategy to conclude the season. Nonetheless, there may be one facet of the very final scene that left me a bit dissatisfied. Enable me to elucidate…
The Trucker At The Finish Ought to Have Been Good Buddy
For a number of episodes throughout Poker Face Season 2, Charlie chats over CB radio with a trucker solely known as “Good Buddy,” who’s voiced by Steve Buscemi, who was initially approached to direct an episode this season, in accordance with TVLine. On the very finish of the finale, when she is picked up by a trucker on the facet of the street, I excitedly anticipated that we might lastly get to see Charlie cross paths together with her unseen pal.
Nonetheless, the trucker turned out to be some dude named Lou, performed by Steve Earle. Now, do not get me flawed: seeing the singer-songwriter make a cameo was fairly cool. But, I can not assist however really feel that this specific second appeared like such an ideal alternative for Buscemi to make his grand entrance as an immediate supporting character favourite.
On The Flip Facet, The Ultimate Scene Does Preserve The Ending’s Foreboding Tone
Within the second season, Charlie goes via quite a lot of ridiculous hassle, together with one weird story involving an evil elementary college pupil. Nonetheless, issues take a extra somber flip on the very finish when she discovers Alex (Patti Harrison), a pal she tried to assist away from homicide, truly is a infamous murderer and, in consequence, is pressured to go on the run once more, however from the FBI this time. To not point out, this “Moriarty to her Holmes” seems to be nonetheless alive and can very seemingly make some try at revenge.
Charlie was lastly free to roam at her personal tempo after the episode with John Mulaney, however now her future is unsure, and, based mostly on her tearful goodbye to Agent Luca Clark (Simon Helberg) after he offers her a head begin, she is clearly terrified by the forces in opposition to her, on prime of what different hassle she could inevitably encounter. In that regard, if the trucker on the finish was “Good Buddy,” it will have ended the season on a extra uplifting be aware, which might undercut the extra ominous tone it goes for. Admittedly, nevertheless, the awful cliffhanger makes me much more desperate to see her subsequent adventures.
I suppose that, generally, the factor you wish to see most in a TV present will not be essentially what’s finest for it. With or with out an official Steve Buscemi cameo as “Good Buddy,” the Poker Face Season 2 finale has me excited for Charlie Cale’s return and, maybe, even a crossover with Knives Out in some unspecified time in the future? Whaddya say, Rian Johsnon?