{"id":241583,"date":"2025-07-06T02:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T02:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/241583\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T02:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T02:20:10","slug":"patti-harrison-says-poker-face-stands-out-among-tv-cash-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/241583\/","title":{"rendered":"Patti Harrison Says ‘Poker Face’ Stands Out Among TV “Cash Grabs”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILERS: This post contains details about the Poker Face, Season 2 penultimate episode \u2018Day of the Iguana\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWith the season finale of Poker Face<\/a> coming next week to Peacock<\/a>, Patti Harrison<\/a> has enjoyed making some quality television.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe comedian, who plays Alex in Season 2 of Rian Johnson<\/a>\u2018s mystery-of-the-week series, spoke to Deadline about being part of the rare \u2018howcatchem\u2019 procedural that stands out among a television landscape that mostly \u201cjust feels like cash grabs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think the show is a love letter in a lot of ways to all sorts of TV shows and movies, and everyone involved, they\u2019re all film, TV junkies, and it just really felt invigorating to be like, \u2018Oh we\u2019re telling a story that is moving\u2014’\u201d she explained. \u201cEverything feels so alive, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHarrison continued, \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve watched some stuff recently that just feels like cash grabs, or it doesn\u2019t really matter if the characters have chemistry, it doesn\u2019t matter if the story is exciting or whatnot. They\u2019re just like, \u2018Let\u2019s put this movie out cause we know people will go see it.\u2019 Or \u2018Let\u2019s put this TV show out because it\u2019s a franchise, or people will just watch it no matter what.\u2019 And it does feel cool to get to work on something where everyone was so excited to talk about the references, and the planning for the shots, and why the camera moves make sense for the story and the characters\u2019 emotional world and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNoting in the interview that it was \u201cmy dream to work with Rian Johnson<\/a>,\u201d Harrison joined Poker Face in the back half of the sophomore season as the quirky new friend of Natasha Lyonne<\/a>\u2018s Charlie Cale, who quickly develops a bond with the human lie detector as Charlie considers putting down roots after months of being on the run from the mafia.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPatti Harrison as Alex in \u2018Poker Face\u2019 (Ralph Bavaro\/Peacock)<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the penultimate \u2018Day of the Iguana\u2019, directed by Ti West<\/a>, an assassin (Justin Theroux<\/a>) frames Alex for murdering the groom (Haley Joel Osment<\/a>) at a wedding she and Charlie are catering. The Lyonne-helmed finale \u2018The End of the Road\u2019, available to stream July 10 on Peacock, sees the duo on the run from the FBI and the mob as they get to the shocking truth behind who placed the hit and framed Alex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILERS: This post contains details about the Poker Face, Season 2 penultimate episode \u2018Day of the Iguana\u2019 With…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,40597,93954,26364,40598,93955,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-241583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-natasha-lyonne","11":"tag-patti-harrison","12":"tag-peacock","13":"tag-poker-face","14":"tag-rian-johnson","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114803902013206210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}