"Rian Johnson is in his murder era. The Last Jedi director launched the Knives Out film series, starring Daniel Craig as drawling detective Benoit Blanc, then followed that up with a TV show starring Natasha Lyonne as lie-detecting nomad Charlie Cale. The show harkened back to Columbo and other procedurals of old, but it was just canceled by Peacock after its two-season run."
"That doesn't, however, mean that Season 3 will never see the light of day, only that it might come back in a completely different form. Poker Face isn't a whodunit like Knives Out and its sequels. Instead, it's a so-called howcatchem, where the audience knows the culprit but not how they'll be caught. Peacock's announcement appeared to be the end of this throwback format, but according to , Rian Johnson plans to shop the series to other streamers in the hopes of a two-season deal."
Peacock canceled Poker Face after two seasons, but Rian Johnson intends to shop the series to other streamers in pursuit of a two-season deal. Poker Face functions as a howcatchem, revealing culprits early while focusing on the protagonist's methods of exposing them. Johnson is reportedly proposing a revival that might replace Natasha Lyonne's Charlie Cale with Peter Dinklage, though details about continuity or explanation remain unclear. The show prioritized episodic mystery-of-the-week storytelling over a serialized arc, and Season 2 concluded with a partial cliffhanger. Other canceled streaming series have successfully moved to new platforms.
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