Poker Face

With their twist on Columbo's murder-of-the-week format, the Peacock series' creator Rian Johnson and star Natasha Lyonne have attracted one of the most impressive guest-star rosters on TV Poker Face pulled off many things in its debut season. Among the usual Johnson players who were cast are Noah Segan (Brick), who has cameoed in every Johnson project and continued his run by appearing in the pilot as a cop investigating the murder of Charlie's friend (Dascha Polanco, a frequent collaborator of Lyonne's, having starred with her on Orange Is the New Black and Russian Doll); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who guest-starred as the bad guy in the season's penultimate episode, "Escape From Shit Mountain"; and Brody, who helped set the tone of the series as the villainous son of an equally villainous casino owner (Perlman) who jumps to his death after Charlie catches him in an epic lie. (Don't be surprised if either shows up in season two.) When acting opposite close friends and regular collaborators, Lyonne says there is a "baked-in bond" viewers can see in the final edit. Other examples include perennial best friend Lil Rel Howery (The Carmichael Show) and Danielle Macdonald (The Tourist) playing co-conspirators to murder in episode three's barbecue fratricide, "The Stall."