PokerFace's Charlie Cale is hands-down our new favorite TV detective:
Rian Johnson’s Poker Face has been in many ways a conscious and deliberate blast from the past: a callback to the time before Netflix started dropping entire seasons in one fell swoop, when TV episodes were usually self-contained and the audience wouldn’t be lost if they missed the episode in any given week.
The appeal of Charlie Cale as a character is difficult to specify, mostly because it ultimately comes from several different aspects. On the one hand, Charlie is an atypical character in the murder mystery medium, as she doesn’t exactly fit the hard-bitten cop or sly Private Investigator type; on the other hand, though, her characterization is riddled with callouts and references to classic shows and TV sleuths.
Admittedly, part of the novelty of the character also has to do with the setup of the show in the first place. Murder mysteries and crime dramas almost always focus on police and/or special investigators. After all, those are the types of characters who could reasonably be expected to deal with criminal activity on a regular basis and can form the foundation for the concept of a TV series.
There is really no simpler way of saying it than that. Of course the show itself is chock-full of references to Peter Falk’s Columbo, rising beyond the level of Easter eggs and forming the structure of each and every episode. Poker Face, just as Columbo before it, opens each episode with a first act that follows not the detective but the murderer, as the execution of the crime is played out in front of the audience.
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