Poker Face Season 2 Cast Adds Guest Stars Giancarlo Esposito, Kumail Nanjiani And Katie Holmes

Another day, another bit of buzzy casting news for a hotly anticipated murder mystery project! Now that cameras are rolling on Rian Johnson's starry Knives Out threequel Wake Up Dead Man and Netflix's upcoming Richard Osman adaptation The Thursday Murder Club has just about filled its own stacked cast to bursting, Johnson's other ace sleuthing series — Natasha Lyonne starring anthology offering Poker Face — is enjoying its own casting spree. Per Deadline's reporting, the first wave of guest stars for the show's currently in production second series includes Giancarlo Esposito (Captain America: Brave New World), Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), Katie Holmes (Logan Lucky), and Gaby Hoffmann (Eric).

A whocatchem in the Columbo mould rather than the more customary whodunit, Poker Face's Emmy award-winning first series adopted a case-of-the-week format as viewers met Natasha Lyonne's Charlie, an aviator-and-cap wearing casino worker and gambler who hits the road to solve crimes following the murder of her best friend. Armed with an in-built bullshit detector (she doesn't always know the truth, but she does always know when she isn't being told it) and her trusty Plymouth Barracuda, the series — whose all-star guest ensemble included the likes of Hong Chau, Adrien Brody, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stephanie Hsu, and an award-winning Judith Light — saw Charlie rock up in a new town each week, meet the eccentric locals, crack the case, and move onto the next one. There is an overarching narrative involving shadowy syndicates and Rhea Perlman-headed crime families, but it's mostly just rollicking one-shot fun all the way.

Who the new guest stars are set to play in the series ahead is, aptly, a mystery at this point. As is when we can expect to see Poker Face Season 2 hitting our screens. But with cameras already rolling on the new series, Natasha Lyonne — who also writes on the show — excitingly set to head back behind the camera once more to direct its second episode, and Johnson still aboard and overseeing the whole creative endeavour, we have plenty of reason to suspect this second run of episodes will be another set of wall-to-wall bangers. And that's no lie!