Warning: This assessment comprises spoilers for Poker Face season 2, episode 10.
One other Poker Face episode, one other nice visitor forged. Technique Man stars in “The Huge Pump” as a beefy health club proprietor named Brick, whereas Jason Ritter performs a buyer named Rodney, who desires to see some critical good points earlier than confronting his outdated bully at his highschool reunion. He asks Brick for a similar performance-enhancing complement he offers to different clients to get him in form quicker, so Brick asks his girlfriend Lil to come up with some extra of “the great things.” Because it seems, the great things isn’t steroids; it’s breast milk that Lil snags from the beginning heart the place she works.
In an ironic twist, it seems Rodney is a metropolis well being inspector. He’s keen to miss steroid use, however not the theft and resale of human breast milk, which he describes as a “well being code disaster.” When Rodney confronts Brick on the health club after hours, they get right into a combat that turns lethal when the kettlebells begin getting thrown across the room. Brick phases Rodney’s loss of life as a lifting accident and performs dumb when the morning exercises present up and discover his physique.
Natasha Leggero performs Brick’s girlfriend who steals breast milk from her job. Leggero is nice in her temporary look, however she’s massively underutilized in the identical method Carol Kane was in Poker Face’s baseball episode a number of weeks in the past. Leggero is a biting comic and a staple of Comedy Central Roasts; it looks like she ought to’ve been buying and selling comedic barbs with Natasha Lyonne, however they hardly share any display screen time.
Poker Face Settles In One Place For The First Time
Will Poker Face Develop into A New York Present Now?
Following on from last week’s Poker Face, “The Huge Pump” sees Charlie settled in a single place for the primary time. She’s nonetheless staying at Good Buddy’s dirty New York residence. Having her completely reside within the crime-ridden Huge Apple makes it slightly extra plausible that she would encounter a homicide sufferer all over the place she goes. She heads to Brick’s health club for a free spinal adjustment and will get a free week of health club membership. She makes a good friend known as Alex, performed by Patti Harrison, who’s equally lonely and equally searching for a extra steady social circle.
Having her completely reside within the crime-ridden Huge Apple makes it slightly extra plausible that she would encounter a homicide sufferer all over the place she goes.
On the health club, Charlie and Alex meet Rodney, who offers them some lifting recommendation. Rodney’s two golden guidelines of weightlifting are Charlie and Alex’s first clues that the circumstances of his loss of life are suspicious. He advised them to at all times have a spotter and at all times rotate which muscle teams they work out, so it doesn’t add up that he would die doing a bench press with out a spotter the day after he already labored out his chest muscle tissue.
However even after getting her first clues, for the primary time ever, Charlie isn’t too keen to research. She desires to simply go away issues alone and never intrude, however Alex is eager to research — and she or he wants Charlie’s reward as a human lie detector to do it — so Charlie reluctantly trains Alex within the artwork of novice sleuthing. She teaches her all the teachings she’s discovered from all of the errors she’s made in her years of unofficial crime-solving. I really like the old-school episodic nature of this present, nevertheless it’s additionally enjoyable to see some continuity as Charlie goes over the occasions of previous episodes.
“The Huge Pump” Provides Charlie A Crimefighting Associate
The Introduction Of Alex Utterly Shifts The Dynamic Of The Sequence
A health club was a terrific setting for a homicide thriller. Everybody there’s enormous and formidable, dozens of potential homicide weapons are lined up on racks across the constructing, and there’s a room designed to seal shut and get uncomfortably sizzling. On the episode’s climax, Brick locks Charlie within the sauna. She was already practically cremated in Poker Face’s three-episode season premiere. It is smart that Charlie would virtually get herself killed in her infinite quest to carry murderers to justice, however the present wants to make use of that form of life-threatening hazard sparingly for it to have the proper influence.
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Charlie continues to be hanging out with Alex by the tip of the episode, and I hope she sticks round for some time. Harrison is a good “straight man” foil for Lyonne, and it’s an attention-grabbing new dynamic to provide the solo detective a accomplice. The introduction of Alex builds on Charlie’s season-long efforts to attach with different folks and go away behind her lonely life as a one-woman wolfpack. To any extent further, Poker Face is likely to be a really totally different present.
Poker Face Season 2, Episode 10
8/10
- Launch Date
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January 26, 2023
- Community
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Peacock
- Administrators
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Fortunate McKee, Natasha Lyonne, Janicza Bravo, Ben Sinclair
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Natasha Lyonne
Charlie Cale
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Benjamin Bratt
Cliff Legrand
- Charlie’s new crimefighting accomplice radically modifications the dynamic of the present
- Technique Man and Jason Ritter give nice visitor turns
- A health club was a enjoyable setting for a homicide thriller
- Charlie could have escaped sure loss of life one too many instances
- Natasha Leggero is underutilized as a scene accomplice for Natasha Lyonne
