AFTER AN EXCITING START, The Peacock Mystery’s Latest Episode Becomes Disappointingly Straightforward – ryan

Warning: This Review contains spoilers for Poker face Season 2, episode 5.Charlie Cale Takes on a Has-Been Small-Town Baseball Pitcher with a Deadly FastBall in a Fun But Predictable (Ultimately Disappointing) Episode of Poker face. Poker face Season 2, Episode 5, “Hometown Hero,” is the First Major Let-Down of the Season. It’s not a bad episode – it has a handful of laughs and some terrific guest stars – But IT Falls Short of the High Standard The Series Has Set for Itself.

Simon Rex, Best Known for His Leading Role in Sean Baker’s Red RocketGuest-Stars as Washed-UP Minor League Pitcher RUSS WADDEll. AFTER LOING HIS Legendary Fastball, Rocket is About to Be Demoted to Groundskeeper, so he coma up with a scheme to be against His own failing team, the cheesemongers, in the few games he has left. A Spanner is thrown in the works will a young up-and-comer is brought in to replace Him on the Mound in His Last Game, Threatetening His $ 3.1 Million Gambling Yield.

Ling Baseball Games on Purpos is a Great Setup for Comedy, and Rex has a lot of fun with it. It was used to hilarius effect in the endlessly rewatchable South park Episode “The Loising Edge.” The way the game is set up, it taxes as much strategy and effhority to loose as it does to win. After a lucrative five-game Ling Streak, when his newfound rival catches on to the scheme and demands all the winnings, rocks kills with a fast to the head and stages of the Accident.

“Hometown Hero” is Poker Face Season 2’s Weakest Episode SO Far

It doesn’t will enough with the great carol Kane

It ‘always fun to see how charlie gets tangled up in these murders, especally when it reveals that she was around for the first and we just see her. In “Hometown Hero,” she’s Hirhed As a Ball Girl after Getting Knocked Down by A Fly Ball. IT’s a joy to see Natasha lyonne Share the Screen with Fellow Icon CaneWho Play the Owner of the Team, Lucille, but the episode doesn’t will enough with that promising comic pairing.

Charlie’s Animated Acid Trip is Similar to the Cosmic Voyage Through the Eyes of the Meti Gator in Last Week’s Poker face episodes. The Series Shouldn’t Overdo The Moments of SurrealismBecause they detract from the dinner mysteries that make this show so Compelling and Threateten to turn it into a cartoon. The Extended Trip SEQUENCE ON FOR WAY TOO LONG, IT’S NOT REPORTS FUNNY, AND WORTS OF ALL, IT DOESN’t anything substantive to the story.

Poker face season 2, episode 5 doesn’t have Enough twists

IT”S DISAPPOINtingly Straightforward In Its Execution

As soon as the coroner’s report comes in with the revelation that the deadly fast was going over 100mp, much faste than the clunky OLD Pitching Machine can say, Charlie Instantly deduces that rocket is the killer. Thatn, when she confronts Him, she gets in his heads a little too. When she tells Him there’s a Big-League Scout in the stands, he laughs becase he knows she’s lying to trick hym demonstrating his fast and revealing himself as the murder. But he still goes out there and throws a 101mph pitch, attracting the cops’ attention.

CA MOST Poker face Episodes continually escalate their mysteries with new twists to keep us Engaged, forth after charlie is onto the killer. But in “Hometown Hero,” Once She Determines that Rocket is The Killer, The rest of the episode plays out in a Very Straightforward, Unurpring Way. There are none of the extra twists and turns usually make -up to the shows so thrillingly unredictable. I usually have no idea where each Poker face Episode is going – iTi’s why i love this series – but be charlie read that coroner’s report, I knew exactly how it was going to shake.

Poker Face Season 2, Episode 5

6/10

Release Date

January 26, 2023

NETWORKS

Peacock

Directors

Lucky McKee, Natasha Lyonne, Janicza Bravo, Ben Sinclair

Wriers

Wyatt cain, alice you

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  Natasha lyonne

  Charlie Cale

• Benjamin Bratt

  Cliff Legrand

Pros & Cons

• Simon Rex Give a Great Guest Turn As a Washed-Up Baseball Player

• The Murder Mystery Wraps Up A Bit too Easily
• The Second and Third Acts Don’t Have the Show’s USUAL ESCALATION OF TWISTS