The Poker Face season 2 trailer sticks with a winning formula

Natasha Lyonne is back to solve more crimes and crack more wise in Rian Johnson’s case-of-the-week classic.

Poker Face is evidence that TV achieved its perfect form decades ago. Everything since then has been nothing but pointless elaborations. The Pitt just proved that people really like nothing better than a good medical drama. Poker Face proves the only exception to that might be a case-of-the-week mystery show with a real weirdo in the lead.

Created by Knives Out guy Rian Johnson, Poker Face sees Natasha Lyonne‘s Charlie Cale travel America’s highways and byways, helping people out with her one weird superpower. Charlie can always tell when someone is lying to her. No explanation is ever offered – it’s just a thing. Armed with that, a keen sense of justice, and an idiosyncratic approach to life, Charlie stays a step ahead of various bad guys while helping various nominal good guys along the way. That’s your lot. Let’s go to the trailer.

Aw yeah, that looks like fun.

Carrying on in the tradition of the first season, Poker Face season 2 boasts a ridiculous number of guest stars. Johnson has stated that he’s trying to replicate the number of famous faces he used to see cropping up in series inspiration Columbo. To that end he’s recruited Alia Shawkat, Adrienne C. Moore, Awkwafina, Ben Marshall, BJ Novak, Carol Kane, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Corey Hawkins, Cynthia Erivo, ​David Krumholtz, David Alan Grier, Davionte “GaTa” Ganter, Ego Nwodim, Gaby Hoffmann, Giancarlo Esposito, Haley Joel Osment, Jason Ritter, John Cho, John Mulaney, Justin Theroux, Kathrine Narducci, Katie Holmes, Kevin Corrigan, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Tom, Lili Taylor, Margo Martindale, Melanie Lynskey, Natasha Leggero, Patti Harrison, Richard Kind, Sam Richardson, Sherry Cola, Simon Rex, and Taylor Schilling to fill out this season’s roster of corpses and corpse-makers, witnesses and red herrings.

Poker Face season 2 is streaming in Australia exclusively on Stan from May 8. The first three eps drop concurrently, which should deal with any withdrawal symptoms nicely, and later episodes landing every Thursday.