A Plymouth Barracuda and an uncanny knack for spotting lies drive Poker Face, a 2023 mystery series that sends its lead cross-country into a new puzzle almost every episode.
What is Poker Face about?
Natasha Lyonne stars as a woman with an unusual gift: she can always tell when someone is lying to her. That talent pulls her into other people's trouble wherever she stops, and each stretch of road brings a fresh set of suspects, motives, and small-town secrets she can't simply walk away from. Rather than building one case across a full season, the show resets its setting and supporting cast from episode to episode, following a case-of-the-week structure that lets each installment stand on its own, while the same restless traveler stays at the center throughout.
About the cast
Alongside Natasha Lyonne in the lead role, the series features Benjamin Bratt, Adrien Brody, Dascha Polanco, Laurence Brown, Lil Rel Howery, and Shane Paul, with the show drawing on a rotating guest cast to populate its episode-by-episode mysteries.
Context & significance
Poker Face comes from Rian Johnson, whose feature mysteries built a reputation for fair-play puzzles that hand viewers real clues alongside the detective rather than withholding them for a final twist. The series carries that same instinct into a serialized, roughly hour-long format, with episodes built around a single self-contained crime instead of one mystery stretched across a whole season — a structure that rewards viewers who enjoy working out the how before the reveal arrives, episode after episode.
Watching Poker Face on Ktime
Poker Face is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow each episode's mystery without relying on the English track. A free K-Time account login is needed to start watching, though the show's page itself can be read without signing in first.