Poker Face Episode 7 Recap

Poker Face Episode 7 Recap: Alright, I see you as you are and accept you for that. As much as I’ve liked the show’s case-of-the-week format so far, I’ve learned that Peacock’s drama is best when I don’t expect a link between each episode. So what if Cliff, played by Benjamin Bratt, hasn’t been seen since episode 4, when he chased Charlie, played by Natasha Lyonne, after she solved the murder of drummer Gavin, played by Nicholas Cirillo? He’s probably gone out to find her, but we don’t need to see that until they meet again: I think it will happen in the finale, which will bring Sterling Sr., played by Ron Perlman, into the mix, but it doesn’t matter.

Until that happens—whenever that is—the whole point of Poker Face is for Charlie to go from town to town, make friends with strangers, and use her “bullshit metre” to figure out what happened to people who died in strange ways around her. It’s a great, funny cop show, but there aren’t any cops on it (except for Simon Helberg in episode five). And what do you know? Overall, it’s a pretty great deal. In the most recent episode, Lyonne nails her dry sense of humour (but at this point, who’s surprised? Tim Blake Nelson and Charles Melton have fun roles as bad guys, though I wish Tim Blake Nelson had more to do.

This week’s mystery is top-notch, and PF once again breaks its own rules. It’s not a simple case like when Natalie (Dascha Polanco), Damian (Brandon Michael Hall), or George (Larry Brown) died in the first few episodes and the killer was shown in the first act. Yes, we still know who did it, but there are plenty of surprises along the way for Charlie to find and for us to enjoy.

Writer Joe Lawson and director Iain B. Macdonald keep us on our toes with “Future of the Sport.” In this episode, Nelson and Melton play race car drivers who compete against each other, Keith Owens and Davis McDowell. The actors are very good at using each other’s anger by just giving each other angry looks. Keith, who is the older of the two, is proud of his family’s history in sports and his own skills. So much so that he won’t let his strong-willed daughter Katy (Jasmine Garvin) take his place. On the other hand, Davis is a rebellious teenager who wants to beat Keith at his game.

They want to be known in their neighbourhood but don’t know that it’s not a NASCAR race like they think it is. They race around what looks like a small town while Davis helps his mother, Jean (Angel Desai), at the arcade where she works. Oh, it’s the same arcade where Charlie found her next job as a cleaner and helper. Again, it doesn’t matter how she got there. But of course, she quickly got to know where she was and made friends with the McDowells. She hangs out with Davis and his friend Randy (Jack Alcott), but she doesn’t know that she will soon kill one of them.

Keith is sick of Davis making him angry, so he decides to kill his rival. He breaks into the McDowell house at midnight, changes Davis’ car with a fish hook, and leaves for the race the next day, thinking it will be Davis’ last. We’re so close to winning. Only Keith doesn’t know that he was seen. Davis saw him doing it the night before, but instead of telling him to stop, he switches seats with Katy right before the race we see in the first few minutes. The reveal that Davis wasn’t in the accident we saw at the beginning of the episode is made better by Nelson’s slightly sneaky facial expressions and his heartbreaking realisation that his daughter is behind the seat.

PF reveals these twists slowly instead of all at once, and Charlie sees them as she goes about her daily life after Katy’s crash. Davis acts like he “figures out” how Keith tried to kill him in front of her. And this is despite the fact that she told him she could tell when someone was lying. This is what happens when men like Davis think they are better than everyone else. Charlie figures out that Keith did mess with the car, but that he is guilty enough to admit it, say sorry, and hopefully pay for what he did.

On the other hand, Davis still doesn’t care that he might kill Katy, who is in a coma. When Charlie finds out the truth, she is pretty upset. [As a side question, do her skills have a range? She is pretty far away from Davis when she hears him tell a child that Katy’s seat belt doesn’t work. What are the limits of her “bullshit metre,” and does anyone care? Anyway, as always, our girl goes up to the bad guy by herself. It leads to a chase in a car, and Charlie barely gets away. When she comes back the next day to talk to Davis, it’s good that she does it in public during the day. Charlie is smart to use mental gymnastics instead of calling the police, which is what she usually does. This works well on people like Davis who are insecure and emotionally fragile. I also liked this last twist.

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