She doesn’t wear a rumpled raincoat or drive a smoking Peugeot, but the persistent detective on Peacock’s “Poker Face” does everything else that “Columbo” did.
The series, which premieres with four episodes on Thursday, was created by Rian Johnson. He’s the architect of the very hot “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion: a Knives Out Mystery” and was greatly influenced by the TV detectives of his youth.
“The intention with this show, the thing that got me really excited about it at the start, was the idea of doing a truly episodic case‑of‑the‑week mystery show, like the kind of stuff I used to watch constantly when I was sitting in front of the TV as a kid,” Johnson says.
