Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie Cale is back for a second season on the run in the Peacock hit Poker Face — with a laundry list of guest stars joining her along the way.
Katie Holmes and John Mulaney headline the star-studded cast list that Charlie will encounter as she continues across the country, sniffing out lies and solving mysteries in her Plymouth Barracuda.
“From minor league baseball to big box retail, from funeral homes to alligator farms and even a grade school talent show, Charlie navigates her crime solving existential road-trip with deadpan wit, human empathy, and her signature uncanny lie-detecting ability,” show creator Rian Johnson and Lyonne teased in a letter to fans.
“To bring Season 2 to life, we pulled visual inspiration from American ‘70s cinema, all the stuff we love like Robert Altman, Bob Rafelson, Peter Bogdanovich. But the backbone of this show is TV — the kind of TV we grew up watching, episodic case-of-the-week gems like Columbo and The Rockford Files, and Quantum Leap,” the letter continued.
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The first season included guest appearances from Chloë Sevigny, Nick Nolte, Tim Meadows, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and more. After its 2023 release, Poker Face received critical acclaim and has reloaded its guest list for its upcoming 12-episode installment.
The new season will continue with the series’ Columbo-like reverse detective format, referred to as a “howcatchem” rather than a “whodunit,” with the crime depicted early in the episode and the perpetrator often revealed immediately.
“Each episode is a mini movie, existing in its own world with a unique tone and vibe, featuring an eccentric lot of characters played by a truly gonzo parade of guest stars,” Johnson and Lyonne added. “We still can’t believe we got to work with rockstars like Cynthia Erivo, Katie Holmes, John Mulaney, and Awkwafina (and many many more, the list is kinda dizzying) who all dove into the game with joy and came ready to play.”
Other guests include Adrienne C. Moore, Alia Shawkat, Ben Marshall, B.J. Novack, Carole Kane, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Corey Hawkins, David Alan Grier, David Krumholtz, Davionte “GaTa” Ganter, Ego Nwodim, Gabby Hoffman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Giancarlo Esposito, Haley Joel Osment, Jason Ritter, John Cho, Justin Theroux, Kathrine Narducci, Kevin Corrigan, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Tom, Lili Taylor, Margo Martindale, Melanie Lynskey, Natasha Leggero, Patti Harrison, Rhea Pearlman, Richard Kind, Sam Richardson, Sherry Cola, Simon Helberg, Simon Rex and Taylor Schilling.
The new season of Poker Face will premiere May 8 with the first three hour-long episodes dropping simultaneously, followed by a new episode each Thursday.
