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22-03-2025 Vol 19

‘Poker Face’ throws David Alan Grier, Richard Kind and more in Season 2

“Poker Face” has added a handful of several guest stars to his upcoming second season: David Alan Grier, Lauren Tom, Lili Taylor, Natasha Leggero and Richard Kind.

Rian Johnson’s mystery-of-the-week series, playing Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, a de facto-detective with an extraordinary ability to tell when someone is lying, will return to Peacock sometime this spring.

Earlier this week, the streamer released first look images from the upcoming season 12-episod, which contains previously announced guest stars including (take a great breath): Alia Shawkat, Awkwafina, Ben Marshall, BJ Novak, Carol Kane, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Corey Hawkins, Cynthia erivo, David Krumholtz, Davionte “Gata” Gantle, ogo, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ogo, ego “Gantle, Eganter, Ogo” Gantle, Eganter. Nwodim, Gaby Hoffmann, Giancarlo Esposito, Haley Joel Osment, Jason Ritter, John Cho, John Mulaney, Justin Theroux, Kathrine Narducci, Katie Holmes, Kevin Corrigan, Kumail Nanjiani, Margo Martindale, Menalie Lynsey, Patti Harrison, Sam Simon Rex.

Tony Tost is the showrunner of “Poker Face”, performing producing with Ram Bergman, Nena Rodrigue, Adam Arkin, Nora Zuckerman and Lilla Zuckerman. T-Street and MRC are the studies. T-Street and Animal Pictures are Manufacturers.

Season 1 of “Poker Face” premiered at Peacock in 2023 and earned four Emmy nominations, including a win (peacock’s first!) For the guest star Judith Light.

“Charlie Cale is back on the run, and in Season 2 we have taken her journey to the next level one murder mystery at a time,” Johnson and Lyonne wrote in a joint statement teasing the new season. “From smaller League Baseball to Big Box Retail, from funeral houses to alligator holdings and even a class school talent show, Charlie navigates her crime resolution of existential road-trip with deadpan-wide, human empathy and her signature eerie ferocious ability.”

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