![]() Of course, Charlie wasn’t wrong to think her life was in jeopardy. And while each episode of Poker Face built its own internal suspense, this big reveal left me feeling a little hollow. For example, if henchman Cliff had just nabbed Charlie after the Doxxology show in episode four, she might already be rich. All these weeks, we’ve not been watching the show we thought we were watching - the one about a woman so good to the bone she can’t help herself, she’s compelled to right wrongs at great risk to her personal safety. ![]() But when we find out that Charlie was not on the run for her life but - unbeknownst to her - on the run from a lucrative business opportunity, North immediately sprang forth from the recesses of my bewildered mind. Poker Face is a good, fun show, and putting Janicza Bravo ( Zola) in the director’s chair for the finale was a good, fun choice. I wasn’t even watching the bad movie I thought I had been watching. That premise is terrible, but it gets even worse. But they all suck, I guess, because all parents suck a little, so he ends up going home. (Spoilers ahead for the movie North, or at least what I remember of it.) Wood plays North, a kid who divorces his neglectful parents and travels the U.S. Does anyone remember the Rob Reiner movie North? It starred a teenage Elijah Wood, cost millions to make, and was so bad that even I, a child at the time, believed viewing it to be a waste of my time, which, as a child, was worth nothing.
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