Review: Poker Face, "The Taste of Human Blood" | Season 2, Episode 4
Disco sucks! Kill all hippies!
“But where does one begin when they’re looking at a blank slate the size of a country? Not sure what the stakes are here.”
What is the life of Charlie Cale if she is not on the run? The three-episode second-season premiere of Poker Face decided to blow up at least part of the premise of the show as established in the pilot episode. Yes, Charlie has a remarkable bullshit detector, but she doesn’t always use it in the most careful of ways, which got her in trouble with the Mafia. For now, at least, that problem no longer exists. One Mob leader died last year, and the head of the Five Families that stood in opposition to the dead man has agreed to call off a hit against our heroine. So what now?
I asked that question last week, and it feels worth wondering anew because Charlie herself, as quoted above, is basically asking herself the same thing. What are the stakes of Charlie’s life if no one’s breathing down her neck? It’s a good thing and a bad thing, depending on who you a…
