“The Hook” not only picks up right where “Escape from Shit Mountain” left off, with Charlie in a Denver hospital and unaware that the man who’s tracked her for over a year is right outside, waiting for her to get better. But the answer to the question “Why would that protagonist be involved, even peripherally, with murders each week?” very much was a case of serialization. The idea of the protagonist being a human lie detector does not require serialization. I noted earlier in the season in the Stray Observations that it’s kind of funny how this show’s creator Rian Johnson said that Poker Face was episodic and not serialized, when its very concept bakes in some serialization. More pressing, the season concludes with Charlie facing the inevitability of perpetually being on the run, while interrogating the idea of someone choosing to walk the Earth. Where the series began by pointing out that Charlie Cale’s not a cop, it wraps with Charlie teasing someone else specifically for being one and having the chutzpah to try and convince her to join them. With “The Hook,” we have arrived at the end of the first, and thankfully not last, season of Poker Face.
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