A few months late Poker face eventually landed in Spain with the help of Sky Show Time. This production, considered by many as one of the best TV series of the year, gives us back those old tastes. old television classics for a lifetime, updating. A mix between Colombo, Wanted And wrote crime which has no pretensions other than to make you enjoy a well-told cop story. The same platform brought us back to classic television with Star Trek Strange New Worlds, another of the best games in the catalogue.
Its creators include a filmmaker Ryan Johnson. Johnson’s mastery of television has been highly remembered in recent weeks, a decade after it aired. OzymandiasIt’s one of the episodes he directed for Breaking Bad, marking the beginning and end of his adventures. Walter White like top scorer. This episode is considered one of the best in television history on many portals. There was no such unanimity in the hotly debated Star Wars saga Between advocates and detractors . There are those who think that the galactic saga is full of many things. the last jedi Some see this as an aberration, while others see it as a revival that opens the series up new paths. A new trilogy was projected based on the storylines opened at Disney. Chapter VIIIBut the truth is that it has not seen the light of day yet, and studio executives seem to be more interested in the series than new productions for the big screen. While they were deciding, Johnson managed to avoid this thorn in his side with the film. daggers in the back and its sequel netflixA refreshing parody of the mysterious classics Christie Agatha. With Poker Face, Johnson now turns his gaze to the long-running crime series, which features a charismatic hero tasked with solving a new case every week.
The main character, Charlie Cale, is a woman. travels the United States on the run from the mafia behind the wheel of a car blue Plymouth Barracudaand has the rare ability to tell when someone is lying to him. highway and desert landscapes They give the plot a certain road movie flavor, with no shortage of characters living in caravans. Performed by Natasha LyonneSince Orange is the New Black he seems to be in his own style playing rebellious, cynical characters outside the system. There was a lot of Nicky Nichols in Russian Doll’s Nadia Volvokov. And we almost seem to see both in the character of Charlie, so there’s no shortage of comedic situations in each episode. He encounters a murder in every town he comes to.
As in Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) related to He wrote a crime. His unique abilities will place him in a privileged position to solve this problem. In its purest style ColomboEach episode of the series, which is another classic of the genre and is also available on this platform, begins with the murder of the week. We know from the beginning who is guilty and why. This presentation is followed by another section that explains how Charlie relates to those involved. Sometimes the victim may be someone with whom you have a certain friendship or an acquaintance who has been wrongly accused. Given the environment in which Charlie operates, these fake criminals are often very disadvantaged and vulnerable people, cannon fodder for the preparation of the system with these. It’s all about seeing how Charlie solves the case. He has always had a secret past and avoids any contact with the authorities to prevent his followers from finding him. No matter how hard he tries to avoid problems, they always find him in the end.
Poker Face takes us back to long-running series where it is not necessary to see all the episodes to follow the plot. Charlie comes to a new place with new characters every week. The only thing going on is the mafia chase, but the progression of this plot is reserved for the season’s most special moments. This escape leads us to another oddity of the small screen. Wanted. How nice it would be for Doctor Richard Kimble (David Jansen) meet Charlie to prove it He was the one-armed man who killed his wife.
Even the credits have a retro touch of the seventies that can connect very well with the most nostalgic. Each episode is shot with the same care as a movie that lasts more than an hour on the big screen. Johnson appeared behind the cameras in many episodes of the first season, including the first two. Also featuring a cast of A-list actors as special guests: Adrian Brody, Nick Nolte, Chloë Sevigny or Ron Perlman. Despite delays in its arrival in Spain and the fact that the United States aired the entire first season months ago, Skyshowtime is airing it at the rate of one episode per week every Friday. As I was writing these lines, it was already on the fourth list out of a total of ten. So at this rate, we wouldn’t have to wait long for the second season episodes.
Platforms are already considering returning to broadcasts with ads. The sudden disappearance of series from their catalogs has caused some viewers to turn to physical formats. Anyway, it looks like we’re returning to traditional television. As we look back on those times, why not recapture what we really loved about it?