in the new show poker face, a woman named Charlie has an uncanny sixth sense for telling lies. Played with Natasha Lyonne’s nervous and immediately iconic energy, Charlie goes from a lucrative gambling career to working as a casino waitress in Las Vegas until she finds herself in a criminal rat’s nest and hits the road. She takes on odd jobs and encounters various murders along the way, but as a human lie detector, she can’t help but think.like a dark comedy take colombo, the series is a refreshing spin on the old formula.Features a deep bench of guest stars as killers and victims, from Adrien Brody and Judith Wright to recent Oscar nominees Hong Chau and Stephanie Su goat leader John Darniel.
Darniel appears poker face‘s fourth episode, titled ‘Rest in Metal’, is currently streaming on Peacock. Charlie gets a gig handling the goodies table on tour with one-hit wonder metal band Dockxology, led by no-nonsense Ruby Luin.Played by the bubbly Chloe Sevigny, Ruby, sporting her bleached eyebrows and a sharp tip on her shoulder, lives up to the band’s glory days by cooking up her new hits on the bus between shows. Sevigny has many experience in the world of music, sonic youth When smogDarnielle brings clumsy honesty to Doxxxology.
While the prolific singer-songwriter enriches his hand-crafted indie rock with intricate stories about often-overlooked people, Mountain Goats fans rely solely on his lyrical allusions to Darniel’s music. You may recognize your love for metal.he has that particular expertise poker face, teamed up with Jamey Jasta of metalcore group Hatebreed to create “Staple Head”, a fictional chart-topper for Doxxxology from the early 2000s. (He also wrote Hokey, the band’s comeback attempt, fully titled “Merch Girl”, named after Charlie. Even if
We’ve caught up with the musicians currently preparing for the simplified Mountain Goats tripplaying opposite Leon and Sevigny in his first acting gig, meeting Rian Johnson via a Mountain Goats fanzine in the 2000s, and Lacuna Coil for Docks Soology’s Hot Topic Core. Talk about being inspired by bands like
Pitchfork: As a musician, what were your thoughts when you first heard the plot of the episode?
John Darnielle: I’m a metal fan so I had a lot of reservations. When people play heavy metal, they often play it strictly for parody. I know metal is funny, but so is everyone involved in metal, right? There is laughter and laughter, but I am usually not into the latter. So I was a little worried, but I love the way it played because it looked really believable, a small club band made up of people whose vacation was to go on tour. That’s what they’re trying to do, too, but they’re doing a lousy job. [laughs] That’s how I went on tour. I used up all my holiday touring. Then there’s the metal side, which is really like a rock band with metal iconography, and that’s not uncommon either.