The premise established in Season 1 has Charlie fleeing from the mob, which is another reason for her transient life on the road. But “Poker Face” doesn’t actually need a Big Bad to justify her meandering existence,

Killers and victims are played by a line-up of committed guest stars: Cynthia Erivo as identical quintuplets fighting over an inheritance; John Mulaney as an ulcer-afflicted FBI mole; Katie Holmes as a woman trapped in a loveless marriage.

Poker Face is a murder-of-the-week procedural in an overtly Columbo vein. Yet Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne ‘s modern-day all-star throwback loves movies almost as much as it adores TV, peppering its action with so many references and homages to classic films that it’s surprising each entry isn’t preceded by the Criterion Collection logo.