Poker Face has always seemed like Rian Johnson’s big experiment.
The filmmaker is no stranger to the mystery genre: his directorial debut was the dazzling neo-noir Brick, and he’s now getting ready to release his third Knives Out movie starring Daniel Craig as the drawling Benoit Blanc. But Poker Face was something different, a case-of-the-week show that wasn’t a whodunit like his other stories, but a “howcatchem,” a story that begins by showing the crime being committed before the detective even appears.
