![]() If you have not yet watched Columbo, a) you should, because it’s amazing and b) the show’s full run is conveniently available to stream on Peacock. But Peacock is also home to a fair few old-fashioned detective series from The Rockford Files to Murder, She Wrote to the show that serves as a partial template for this one: Columbo. Yes, the streamer is the home of various sporting events, new-ish Universal Pictures titles, and myriad Hallmark Channel films. ![]() Starring the motormouthed and ebullient Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face very much fits into a specific subset of the offerings on Peacock. Now we have Johnson’s latest project, the Peacock case-of-the-week detective series Poker Face. And most recently, Johnson waded very definitively into the detective genre with his two Agatha Christie-inspired Benoit Blanc mysteries, Knives Out and Glass Onion, with a third one on the way. His debut film Brick transposed old-fashioned film noir tropes and dialogue in the middle of a California high school at the turn of the 21st century, as a dogged young man delved into his hometown’s seedy underground to figure out who killed his ex-girlfriend. ![]() ![]() Rian Johnson excels at telling detective stories that exist outside the police force. ![]()
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