This special update episode seeks input from our listeners ahead of the launch of our new format. We need help choosing a theme song and two new shows to review. In this episode, Gerry and Iain share the candidates and ask for your votes!



















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The twenty-second episode of Poker Face was titled The End of the Road and was the final episode of the show’s second season. Charlie tries to get Alex to Beatrix Hasp before the Iguana gets to Alex. In this podcast Gerry and Iain look at the paving on the road to hell.

















This week, Charlie and Alex (Patti Harrison) head for the safe house where Beatrix Hasp (Rhea Perlman) is staying ahead of giving evidence against the Five Families, despite the strong warnings of Luca (Simon Hellberg) who thinks they’re leading the Iguana to his target.







After seeming to outwit their pursuer in a truckstop set-piece, Charlie is given a rude awakening when Luca’s warnings prove prescient and her thoughts must turn to avoiding arrest for the federal crimes she’s inadvertently committed.







This episode was directed by Natasha Lyonne. The writer was Laura Deeley.







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The End of the Road was released in 2025. It is 42 minutes long and originally aired on Peacock. Episodes continue to stream on Peacock internationally and on Sky in the UK.

The twenty-first episode of Poker Face was titled The Day of the Iguana and was the eleventh episode of the show’s second season. Charlie and Alex cater an exclusive wedding as a professional hitman targets the groom. In this podcast Gerry and Iain look at balloon animals.

















This week, a hitman kills and impersonates Todd (Justin Theroux), a guest at the garish wedding of Kirby (Haley Joel Osment) and Victoria (Emma Pfitzer Price), where his true target will be the groom, who is the son of Beatrix Hasp (Rhea Perlman).







Charlie and Alex (Patti Harrison) attend as oyster shuckers, catering to the guests in old-timey uniforms, but are surprised to see Agent Luca Clark (Simon Helberg) in the back row with a camera, live-streaming the event to Hasp’s witness protection location. Agents Milligan (Taylor Schilling) and Darville (Lili Taylor) are sceptical of Clark’s methods, but when Kirby is killed, word of the Iguana’s involvement spreads.







This episode was directed by Ti West. The writer was Andrew Sodroski.







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The Day of the Iguana was released in 2025. It is 43 minutes long and originally aired on Peacock. Episodes continue to stream on Peacock internationally and on Sky in the UK.

The twentieth episode of Poker Face was titled The Big Pump and was the tenth episode of the show’s second season. Charlie joins a gym and tries to avoid getting involved in other people’s business. In this podcast Gerry and Iain look at gym etiquette.

















This week, Charlie makes friends with Alex (Patti Harrison), who persuades her to join the local gym – The Brick House – owned and operated by Frank ‘Brick’ Bricatino (Method Man). When gym goer Rodney (Jason Ritter) is killed in an apparent accident, Charlie is reluctant to get involved despite noting some untruths in Brick’s account of the death.







It transpires Brick’s wife, Lily (Natasha Leggero), is supplying human milk, skimmed from a supply at the maternity centre where she works, which Brick sells to his members to improve their performance and results in the gym. As a city health inspector, Rodney could not tolerate this, but by digging into the matter, Charlie and Alex place themselves in danger.







This episode was directed by Clea DuVall. The writer was Raphie Cantor.







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The Big Pump was released in 2025. It is 42 minutes long and originally aired on Peacock. Episodes continue to stream on Peacock internationally and on Sky in the UK.

The nineteenth episode of Poker Face was titled A New Lease on Death and was the ninth episode of the show’s second season. Charlie finds a spot to settle in for a time and gets to know her new neighbours. In this podcast Gerry and Iain look at rent controls.

















This week, Charlie moves into an apartment in NYC courtesy of her Good Buddy (Steve Buscemi). In one of the neighbouring apartments are Anne (Lauren Tom) and her granddaughter Maddy (Awkwafina), who are plotting to maintain their rent-controlled benefits for another generation by formalising an adoption.







These plans are disrupted when Anne meets and falls for Kate Forster (Alia Shawkat), who also has designs on the apartment. After Maddy’s death, Charlie speaks with landlord Otto (David Alan Grier), neighbours Noreen (Myra Lucretia Taylor) and Mickey (Paul Douglas Anderson) and Maddy’s friend Ricardo (Angel Rosario Jr) as she tries to find the truth.







This episode was directed by Adamma Ebo. The writers were Tea Ho and Wyatt Cain.







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A New Lease on Death was released in 2025. It is 47 minutes long and originally aired on Peacock. Episodes continue to stream on Peacock internationally and on Sky in the UK.

The eighteenth episode of Poker Face was titled The Sleazy Georgian and was the eighth episode of the show’s second season. Charlie joins a gang of con artists as they prepare for a massive payday. In this podcast Gerry and Iain look at schadenfreude.

















This week, Charlie finds herself in cahoots with a gang of good-natured con-artists, led by a guy called Guy (John Cho). Charlie is particularly drawn to the ‘muscle’, Manny (Joel Marsh Garland).







After Charlie finds out about the consequences of a con played on charity worker Regina Gilvary (Melanie Lynskey), her misgivings grow, but when a sketchy mark (Brendan Sexton III) shows up, Guy tries to pull her in to one last gig.







This episode was directed by Mimi Cave. The writer was Megan Amram.







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The Sleazy Georgian was released in 2025. It is 48 minutes long and originally aired on Peacock. Episodes continue to stream on Peacock internationally and on Sky in the UK.

The seventeenth episode of Poker Face was titled One Last Job and was the seventh episode of the show’s second season. Charlie makes a connection as a movie buff lives out his own screenplay. In this podcast Gerry and Iain look at Christmas cheer.

















This week, Charlie makes a love connection with store manager Bill (Corey Hawkins). When Bill fires his friend Kendall (Sam Richardson) to encourage him to take a chance at a screenwriting career, Kendall tries to enact the heist from his last script.







Teaming up with a killer called Juice (James Ransone), Sam tries to make off with the store’s Black Friday takings, but when he double-crosses his partner in crime, things take a turn for the worse and Charlie’s life is put on the line.







This episode was again directed by Adam Arkin. The writer was Taofik Kolade.







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One Last Job was released in 2025. It is 44 minutes long and originally aired on Peacock. Episodes continue to stream on Peacock internationally and on Sky in the UK.

The sixteenth episode of Poker Face was titled Sloppy Joseph and was the sixth episode of the show’s second season. Charlie is working as a lunchlady at a private school and crosses swords with an ambitious child. In this podcast Gerry and Iain look at psychological reslilience.

















This week, Charlie is working as a dinner lady at an expensive elementary school, where a precocious youngster called Stephanie (Eva Jade Halford) is keen to outshine the rest of her peers in Ms. Dee’s (Adrienne C. Moore) class.







When Stephanie manipulates her classmate Elijah (Callum Vinson) into killing the class gerbil, Charlie must seek help from Elijah’s father JB (David Krumholtz), the school caretaker, and headmistress Dr. Hamm (Margo Martindale) – herself being manipulated by Stephanie on account of some compromising images.







This episode was directed by Adam Arkin. The writer was Kate Thulin, who is a co-executive producer on this season’s episodes.







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Sloppy Joseph was released in 2025. It is 44 minutes long and originally aired on Peacock. Episodes continue to stream on Peacock internationally and on Sky in the UK.

The fifteenth episode of Poker Face was titled Hometown Hero and was the fifth episode of the show’s second season. Charlie gets a job at a minor league baseball team and stumbles onto a match fixing scandal. In this podcast Gerry and Iain look at America’s game.

















This week, Charlie finds herself employed at a minor league baseball team owned by Lucille Lubinski (Carol Kane), a descendant of the team’s founder Hiram Lubinski (BJ Novak). When a match fixing scandal threatens to backfire, former top prospect Russ Waddell (Simon Rex), now a washed-up never-was, accidentally kills youngster Felix Domingo (Brandon Perea).







Russ’ teammates, Lew (Noah Segan), Goose (Ruffin Prentiss), Carl (Jacob Lynn) and Hunter (Anthony Carvello) revel in the success of their betting scheme, but when Charlie gets involved the whole thing threatens to collapse. Gil Birmingham (Skip Dooley) and Ego Nwodim (Gilda Deacon) also star.







This episode was directed by John Dahl. The writing credit goes to Tony Tost, who is also a producer on this season of the show.







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Hometown Hero was released in 2025. It is 45 minutes long and originally aired on Peacock. Episodes continue to stream on Peacock internationally and on Sky in the UK.

The fourteenth episode of Poker Face was titled The Taste of Human Blood and was the fourth episode of the show’s second season. Charlie joins a group of extremist animal welfare campaigners and tries to steal a gator from a celebrity cop. In this podcast Gerry and Iain look at ColumboTok.

















This week, Charlie is working with an animal conservation group led by a guy called Hutch (Shiloh Fernandez), looking to release a pet alligator from the control of celebrity cop Gator Joe (Kumail Nanjiani). When the group descends on the Flopacopa awards ceremony it seems the chance is there, but a gruesome turn of events leaves them shaken.







Gator Joe’s adversary for the top prize at the awards is by-the-book officer Fran Lamont (Gaby Hoffmann) who, initially dismissive of her boss, Chief Hal (John Sayles), pushing her forward for the awards, but after six years as a runner up has developed a more competitive spirit and an urge to harm her nemesis.







This episode was directed by Lucky McKee. The writing credit goes to Wyatt Cain, who also penned last week’s episode.







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The Taste of Human Blood was released in 2025. It is 50 minutes long and originally aired on Peacock. Episodes continue to stream on Peacock internationally and on Sky in the UK.

The thirteenth episode of Poker Face was titled Whack-a-Mole and was the third episode of the show’s second season. Charlie comes face-to-face with Beatrix Hasp and her dispute with the mob reaches a climax. In this podcast Gerry and Iain look at pursuit.

















This week, Charlie is taken hostage by Beatrix Hasp (Rhea Perlman) and brought to a motel to meet her husband Jeffrey (Richard Kind), who doesn’t go in for all the mob stuff. She’s worried about moles and rats and potentially even snakes in her organisation, despite having an FBI mole of her own in Daniel Clyde-Otis (John Mulaney)







In a dramatic showdown, Charlie’s friend Luca Clark (Simon Hellberg) shoots Jeffrey in an apparent set-up to shut down Hasp’s operation, but things take a tragic twist leaving FBI Chief Hooper (Chris Bauer) and Agent Clark in a tense standoff with their target.







This episode was directed by newcomer to the show Miguel Arteta. The writing credit goes to regular contributor Wyatt Cain, who penned The Stall and Time of the Monkey in Season 1.







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Whack-a-Mole was released in 2025. It is 40 minutes long and originally aired on Peacock. Episodes continue to stream on Peacock internationally and on Sky in the UK.

The twelfth episode of Poker Face was titled Last Looks and was the second episode of the show’s second season. Charlie spends time on a film set and meets a man with a macabre line of mementos. In this podcast Gerry and Iain look at death.

















This week, Charlie takes up work as an extra on a movie, a role that requires her to lie in a coffin and play dead. The setting for the film is a funeral parlour operated by married couple Fred (Giancarlo Esposito) and Greta (Katie Holmes) Finch. When Greta declares her intention to leave Fred and force him to sell the business he has invested his entire life and soul into, he reacts with violence.







After cremating his deceased wife and stashing her remains amongst the film props for removal, it seems Fred will be able to resume his life’s work, but Charlie, along with film worker Tommy Sullivan (Kevin Corrigan) are not persuaded that Greta left of her own volition and decide to dig a little deeper.







This episode was directed by star Natasha Lyonne. The writing credit goes to Lyonne and Alice Ju, who also collaborated on season 1’s The Orpheus Syndrome.







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Last Looks was released in 2025. It is 50 minutes long and originally aired on Peacock. Episodes continue to stream on Peacock internationally and on Sky in the UK.

The eleventh episode of Poker Face was titled The Game is a Foot and was the first episode of the show’s second season. Charlie’ encounters a group of sisters with a lot in common. In this podcast Gerry and Iain look at sibling rivalry.

















This week, Charlie, still under pursuit by the five families, befriends Delia Kazinksy (Cynthia Erivo) while working at a fruit picking farm. When Delia’s mother, Norma (Jasmine Guy), dies she returns to the family home along with her sisters Amber (Cynthia Erivo), Bebe (Cynthia Erivo) and Cece (Cynthia Erivo), but they are all shocked to learn about the existence of a fifth sister, Felicity Price (Cynthia Erivo) to whom lawyer Paul Fletcher (Jin Ha) reveals Norma has left her entire estate, most of which was accumulated by the sisters as child TV stars.







When Amber kills Felicity to assume her identity and claim the fortune, she hits a snag when the corpse is shown to have a missing leg. Staging an accident with a train, Amber looks to have pulled off the heist, but Charlie is on the case and she can tell something isn’t quite right about the new addition to the brood.







This episode was directed by creator Rian Johnson. The writing credit goes to Laura Deeley, the first of her two scripts for season 2.







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The Game is a Foot was released in 2025. It is 55 minutes long and originally aired on Peacock. Episodes continue to stream on Peacock internationally and on Sky in the UK.

The nineteenth episode of Matlock (2024) was titled Tricks of the Trade: Part 2 and was the final episode of the show’s first season. Sarah and Billy hunt for crucial exonerating evidence, while Olympia follows the money all the way to the bank. In this podcast Gerry and Iain consider cliffhangers.

















Sarah’s first court appearance threatens to escalate as Rob’s widow Tina (Felisha Terrell) testifies against Dino, but she has critical medical evidence to produce. Meanwhile, Olympia gets an answer to where the brownstone deposit came from and learns the truth about the missing Wellbrexa document.







This episode was directed by Kat Coiro, who also appeared as bank manager Denise. The writer was Nicki Renna.







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Tricks of the Trade: Part 2 was released in 2025. It is 41 minutes long and originally aired on CBS. Episodes continue to stream on Paramount+ internationally and on Sky in the UK.