There are some decisions that are impossible to understand. And Peacock canceling Poker Face, one of its most-watched series, after two seasons is one of them. Yes, the show is expensive and the ratings had dropped a bit, but even so, the cost was similar to other series. So it doesn’t make sense, no matter how hard we try to find it. And that’s not the worst part.
What is Next for Poker Face?
According to Deadline, Natasha Lyonne, the show’s lead, along with series creator Rian Johnson, his T-Street partner Ram Bergman, and MRC believe that Charlie Cale still has a lot of stories to tell. And we agree. Poker Face Season 2 clearly ended with thoughts of a Season 3. If we remember, Charlie ended Season 2 on the run and wanted by the FBI because her nemesis framed her for murder. So yeah, we need to know how the story continues!
With that in mind, the next logical step would be to find a new home for the show. But nothing about this makes sense. Because they intend to replace Lyonne as Charlie with Peter Dinklage. And if you’re speechless, that’s not all.
The idea is to sell the show for a two-season commitment. And Johnson hopes the franchise will evolve with a new actor to play the lead character every two years. This way, Lyonne would take a step back and only remain on the project as an Executive Producer. Meanwhile, it’s unclear whether Tony Tost will continue as showrunner, but Johnson would remain at the helm of writing and directing in whatever way is necessary to sell this sort of revamped Poker Face.
Is This for Real?
And yes, we’re just like you. In shock. We don’t even know how to begin to wrap our heads around this. But Lyonne and Johnson’s words somehow make it worse when they say they’ve been “germinating this next move together since writing the season two finale. We love our Poker Face and this is the perfect way to keep it rolling. Give us a beat and we may just see Charlie Cale again down that open highway.”
Excuse me, but WHAT?! Honestly, we feel like a complete mockery of the fans. If this was the idea from the beginning—and not some desperate, bizarre attempt to save the show—why did they make that season finale? The fans deserved better. We deserved, at the very least, to be able to say goodbye to our Charlie Cale. Not an unfinished ending to her story, clearly a hook for the next season. They played us. It’s disrespectful. And we’re disappointed.
As if that weren’t enough, another detective show led by a man? Nope, thank you. Poker Face was different for many reasons, and one of them was having a woman as the show’s undisputed leader. We see a man at the helm of this type of show quite often, but a woman? Not so much. Now they intend to make the series just another one.
And this madness of changing the lead every two years? Worst idea ever! Sometimes you have to let things go, and if those behind the scenes needed something to change, they should have planned the show’s ending in Season 2, not this kind of television Frankenstein. We could have understood that, but not this.
So don’t count us in for this revamped Poker Face. We said what we said.
Poker Face Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on Peacock.
