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Ashlie D. Stevens

On "Poker Face," takeout gets intimate

In an era of ghost kitchens and gig app anonymity, it’s easy to forget that food delivery used to be, well, kind of intimate. You had a place. You had a person. Maybe they knew your usual order. Maybe they handed you your bag with a little eye contact and a smile. It wasn’t groundbreaking — just human. Which is exactly what makes the new episode of “Poker Face,” titled “One Last Job,” feel so unexpectedly tender: it sneaks a quiet love story into the middle of a heist, starring a delivery girl, a lonely man and a very well-timed order of samosas.

Set just days before Black Friday in a big-box appliance store called SuperSave, the episode follows Kendall, an action movie-obsessed employee with dreams of Hollywood, and Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne), the show’s signature sleuth, who stumbles into a murder while working as a delivery driver at a local Indian restaurant.

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