This post contains spoilers for the Season Two finale of Poker Face, now streaming on Peacock. The second season of Poker Face nearly ends on a cliffhanger. Towards the end of the finale —appropriately titled “The End of the Road” — the show’s human lie detector heroine, Charlie Cale(Natasha Lyonne), …
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This post contains spoilers for the first three episodes of Poker Face Season Two, now streaming on Peacock. The first season of Poker Face had a fairly straightforward premise and structure. Each week, Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie Cale would drive into a new locale, discover that a murder had taken place, …
Read More »Natasha Lyonne Bets on AI With Directorial Debut 'Uncanny Valley'
From the Slums of Beverly Hills to the heart of Silicon Valley: actress, writer, and director Natasha Lyonne isn’t shying away from artificial intelligence, even as fellow creatives in Hollywood fret over what the tech means for their industry. As revealed by The Hollywood Reporter, Lyonne is teaming up with …
Read More »Sister Act: Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon on 'His Three Daughters'
“That’s gonna be the fuckin’ headline for this piece, isn’t it?” Natasha Lyonne asks, in the most Natasha Lyonne way imaginable. “‘Natasha Lyonne Does Not Slide Into Directors’ DMs.’ Which, y’know, trust me — you’re going to get a lot of people writing in to say that isn’t true!” The …
Read More »'His Three Daughters' Turns a Familiar Family Drama Into the Best Movie of the Year
You may love your family, though you might not like them very much, and just because you’re kin doesn’t mean you have anything in common. Take, for example, the three grown siblings who find themselves forced to share the same air in His Three Daughters. There is Katie (Carrie Coon), …
Read More »Chloë Sevigny Is So Over NYC's Women Walking Their Dogs in Athleisure
W ho better to play a New York high society socialite than Chloë Sevigny, the former club kid turned fashionista who was profiled by Jay McInerney for The New Yorker at 19? In 1995, one year after that infamous piece hit newsstands, Sevigny would star as a Manhattan teen who …
Read More »Natasha Lyonne on Quitting Cigs, Being in Her 40s: 'It's so Much Cooler, It's so Much Sexier'
When many think of the perennially-cool Natasha Lyonne — her take-no-bullshit attitude, her wonderfully deep, raspy voice that flavors several of the quirky characters she has played, her New York accent — her penchant for smoking has gone hand-in-hand (it even spawned an Instagram account featuring Lyonne relishing cigarettes in …
Read More »Natasha Lyonne on That Accent and How Acid Made Her See Things Clearer
During the course of reporting a feature on Peacock’s delightful upcoming mystery series Poker Face, we got far more material from creator Rian Johnson and star Natasha Lyonne than could comfortably fit. So as a bonus, we’re giving you some highlights from the rest of our conversations. Last week, we …
Read More »'Poker Face' Is a Star-Studded, Highly-Addictive Case-of-the-Week Series
Once upon a time, most of television was like Poker Face, the new Peacock drama created by Glass Onion’s Rian Johnson and starring Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne. It is a purely episodic, case-of-the-week show. Each episode sets up its own specific story, which Lyonne’s Charlie Cale finds a way to …
Read More »'Glass Onion' Director Rian Johnson Is Giving Us a 'Knives Out'-Style Mystery Every Week
During the course of reporting a feature on Peacock’s delightful upcoming mystery series Poker Face, we got far more material from creator Rian Johnson and star Natasha Lyonne than could comfortably fit. So as a bonus, we’re giving you some highlights from the rest of our conversations. First up is …
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