Good news: “Poker Face” is renewed

Here’s good news for TV viewers: “Poker Face” will have a second season.
The show is still wrapping up its first season, with new episodes – terrific ones, mostly – each Thursday on Peacock, through March 9. It has received near-unanimous raves from critics.
That approval comes as no real surprise. The show pairs producer-director-writer Rian Johnson – who has Oscar nominations for both of his “Knives Out” scripts – and Natasha Lyonne (shown here), who seizes attention whenever she’s on the screen. It also revives the mystery-of-the-week format, with Charlie (Lyonne) solving crimes while she’s on the lam.re’s some g
Peacock, a srreamer, has been renewing other shows for second seasons, including “Bel-sir,” “Wolf Like Me,” “Killing It,” “Dr. Death,” “We Are Lady Parts” and “Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin.”
Still, nothing matches “Poker Face.” The Feb. 9 episode (Ellen Barkin and Tim Meadows as washed-up actors) may have been a bit excessive, but the season’s final four are first-rate:
— Feb. 16: Tim Blake Nelson and Charles Melton as dueling stock-car racers. This has a unique ending.
— Feb. 23: Cherry Jones as a movie producer and Nick Nolte as her former set sculptor. It’s a dazzler, directed and co-written by Lyonne.
— March 2: Perhaps the best episode of all. This changes the usual style to put Charlie in danger, in a remote winter mountain. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Stephanie Hsu star.
— March 9: The season-finale suddenly puts Charlie in the grip of the casino security guy (Benjamin Bratt) who began chasing her in the first episode. It wraps up that story neatly – then propels us toward what we now learn will be a second season.