This premise is so silly that a different development process might have taken the project to CBS. On her new show, “Poker Face” (Peacock), a murder-of-the-week series created by the film director Rian Johnson, she plays a human lie detector: her Spidey sense goes off when someone’s not telling the truth. On Natasha Lyonne’s series “Russian Doll,” her character was closer to the former: a woman laden with familial tragedy trying to suss out why she keeps dying and then being resurrected on her thirty-sixth birthday.
TV sleuths tend to come tortured (“True Detective”) or brilliant bordering on clairvoyant (“Sherlock”).
