Game Of Poker Gets Featured At Golden Globe AwardsNatasha Lyonne Earns Nomination For ‘Poker Face’ |
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The game of poker, or at least a television show featuring some aspects of the game, received some mainstream headlines last week with the Peacock network’s Poker Face earning the show’s star a Golden Globe nomination.
The 10-episode first season of the crime drama debuted in 2023 and features Natasha Lyonne playing a former poker player. After a friend is murdered, she uses her skills at reading people to determine possible suspects. Lyonne received a nomination for best performance by a female actor in a television series (musical or comedy).
Poker-Playing Crime Solver
Despite not taking home the win, the nomination comes after the series has generally received positive reviews. Poker Face is rated 98% among critics on Rotten Tomatoes and 81% with audience reviewers.
Set in Laughlin, Nevada, Lyonne plays a casino cocktail waitress named Charlie who is blackballed from the area’s poker games. When her friend’s murder is unjustly classified as a suicide, she sets out to help crack the case by using her unique skills to determine if someone is lying.
The show was created by Knives Out and Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, and is a bit of a throwback to classic detective shows. It also features cameos from Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody, as well as Benjamin Bratt, Simon Helberg, Ron Perlman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chloe Sevigny, Tim Blake Nelson, and Ellen Barkin.
“(Charlie) follows in the footsteps of classic investigators like Lieutenant Columbo, played by Peter Falk, or Philip Marlowe, played by Elliott Gould or Humphrey Bogart,” the Wall Street Journal notes. “Like them, she has a shaggy energy and a compulsion to set things right.”
Viewers may recognize Lyonne from films and series like American Pie, Slums of Beverly Hills, Orange is the New Black, and Russian Doll. No word if Lyonne is actually a poker player herself, but the show has scored with viewers. Peacock has already announced that Poker Face will return for a second season.
This wasn’t the only poker spotlight in the media recently. TED-Ed, from the team behind the popular TED Talks series, recently released a new animation taking a quick look at the history of the game. James McManus, author of Positively Fifth Street and Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, wrote the script for the production.
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