Poker Faceseason 2 now has an official teaser and release date. The Peacock series, which premiered in 2023, was created byKnives OutandGlass Onionwriter-director Rian Johnson and stars Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, a woman who is on the run and solves various murder mysteries while evading detection. The show featured a cavalcade of major guest stars, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Oscar winner Adrien Brody, and Chloë Sevigny, and proved to be quite popular, to the point thatPoker Faceseason 2was renewed midway through the run of season 1.
Peacockhas nowunveiled the official teaser forPoker Faceseason 2. The teaser opens with Charlie Cale on the run, seemingly feeling somewhat lonely as she asks if anybody is out there on her radio. It then spends most of the rest of the run time rapidly introducing its roster of guest star suspects, which includes Cynthia Erivo, Kumail Nanjiani, John Mulaney, Katie Holmes, Giancarlo Esposito, Awkwafina, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Justin Theroux, Taylor Schilling, and Melanie Lynskey.
The end of the video then highlights why Charlie is on the run with a comic sequence where enforcers take a potshot at her during a relaxing moment, before revealing thatthe new season will premiere on Peacock on May 8. Check out the teaser below:
What This Means For Poker Face Season 2
The New Season Could Be Even Bigger
WhilePoker Faceseason 1 was a star-studded affair, this new teaser shows thatseason 2 will be upping the ante considerably. Some of the most in-demand modern stars have joined the cast of the series, including Melanie Lynskey, who has recently appeared in the smash hit seriesYellowjacketsandThe Last of Us, Cynthia Erivo, who was just nominated for an Oscar, and comedy icon Kumail Nanjiani, who is fresh off a prominent guest performance in Hulu’sOnly Murders in the Buildingseason 4.
Cynthia Erivo earned a Best Actress Oscar nod for her performance as Elphaba inWicked.
This speaks to the fact thatPoker Faceseason 1was a roaring success, as the show seems to have drawn interest from an even wider pool of talent. This is hardly a surprise, considering the fact thatcritics and audiences both lovedPoker Face, giving it scores of 98% and 81% respectively on Rotten Tomatoes. The show also won a Primetime Emmy award for Judith Light’s guest performance in addition to earning three other Emmy nominations, two Critics Choice Award nods, and a Golden Globe nomination for Natasha Lyonne.
Our Take On The Poker Face Season 2 Trailer
The New Season Is Staying On The Same Track
In addition to showcasing the star-studded cast ofPoker Faceseason 2, the teaser hints thatthe show will maintain most of the aspects that made season 1 such a success. This includes the episodic format where Charlie encounters new casts of characters every episode, the dry sarcasm that Lyonne brings to the role, and the fact that some of the guest stars will play old friends of Charlie’s, as seems to be the case with Cynthia Erivo’s character, who is featured the most in the new teaser.
