Natasha Lyonne revealed her talent for solving crimes with little more than intuition in the first trailer for her upcoming detective series Poker Face.
In the video, released Thursday, the star plays a former casino worker who goes on the run while using her incredible deductive skills to solve crimes.
The series, which is created and partially written and directed by Knives Out mastermind , bit.ly features a bevy of famous faces, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, , Chloë Sevigny and , among many others.
The series will take a mystery-of-the-week approach, and Johnson is on hand to write and direct multiple episodes, while Lyonne will direct one herself and Zola director Janicza Bravo will helm the final episode of the first season.
‘What’s it like, always knowing the truth?’ a smooth-talking Brody quizzes Lyonne’s character Charlie Cale at the start of the trailer.
‘There’s nothing mystical about it — I could just tell,’ Charlie explains in her scratchy voice as she’s seen puzzling over something.
Brody’s character clarifies that she can tell when ‘anyone is lying.’
But then Benjamin Bratt, who plays the head of security at the casino where Charlie works, intrudes on the conversation and adds a sinister element.
Suave: ‘What’s it like, always knowing the truth?’ a smooth-talking Brody quizzes Lyonne’s character Charlie Cale at the start of the trailer
Figuring it out: ‘There’s nothing mystical about it — I could just tell,’ Charlie explains in her scratchy voice as she’s seen puzzling over something’There’s nothing mystical about it — I could just tell,’ Charlie explains in her scratchy voice as she’s seen puzzling over something
Bad guy: But then Benjamin Bratt, who plays the head of security at the casino where Charlie works, intrudes on the conversation and adds a sinister element
Charlie is clearly in danger, as she’s next seen running down a hall and dodging a bullet from an armed gunman.
Hellboy star Ron Perlman is seen talking to Bratt as he tells him: ‘You’re gonna find Charlie Cale, and you’re gonna bring her to me.’
The danger sends Lyonne’s character on a cross-country road trip as she tries to flees the men chasing her.
Heavy: Hellboy star Ron Perlman is seen talking to Bratt as he tells him: ‘You’re gonna find Charlie Cale, and you’re gonna bring her to me.’
On the road: The danger sends Lyonne’s character on a cross-country road trip as she tries to flees the men chasing her
She realizes that her truth-determining abilities could help solve crimes and not just capture card cheats after she sees a body wheeled away.
‘It wasn’t an accident!’ she says.’I think there’s been a murder.’
Then Everything Everywhere All At Once star Stephanie Hsu is seen as she picks up a dagger, only to drop it while shrieking as she realizes it is covered in blood.
‘You watch too much Dateline,’ jokes guest Ellen Barkin while her hair is tamped down for a wig.
Something’s amiss: She realizes that her truth-determining abilities could help solve crimes and not just capture card cheats after she sees a body wheeled away
Aha! ‘It wasn’t an accident!’ she says.’I think there’s been a murder.’
Deadly present: Then Everything Everywhere All At Once star Stephanie Hsu is seen as she picks up a dagger, only to drop it while shrieking as she realizes it is covered in blood
Getting over her skis: ‘You watch too much Dateline,’ jokes guest Ellen Barkin while her hair is tamped down for a wig
‘I could tell she was lying,’ Charlie says in a scene with Luis Guzmán.
‘So what is this, a woman’s intuition?’ he quizzes her.
‘No!It’s not like a tampon commercial, OK. It’s a real thing,’ she says, annoyed.
Guess work: ‘I could tell she was lying,’ Charlie says in a scene with Luis Guzmán. ‘So what is this, a woman’s intuition?’ he quizzes her
Defensive: ‘No!It’s not like a tampon commercial, OK. It’s a real thing,’ she says, annoyed
Bratt then increases the sinister factor when he tells Charlie she’s coming with him, either in the front seat or the trunk.
She comically responds by turning around and running.
The final scene shows a conversation in which another woman can’t get over her being a ‘human lie detector.’
‘You ever gamble?’Cause you could make a killing,’ she says, not knowing that Charlie used to work at a casino.
Poker Face premieres on Peacock on January 26 with its first four episodes, followed by a weekly schedule.
