Poker Face season two ends with human lie detector Charlie (Natasha Lyonne) hitching a ride to Wichita, Kansas, but are viewers going to be able to join her? Despite being one of its buzziest originals, the series has not yet been renewed by network Peacock for a third season. Created by Knives Out’s Rian Johnson, the show has unique sets and locations for every episode — not to mention it guest stars everybody from Cynthia Erivo to Kumail Nanjiani to Melanie Lynskey — so it’s definitely not cheap. All that would be fine if ratings were great. Poker Face has done well enough in the ratings this season — appearing in the Nielsen top 10 streaming for three weeks in May. But it didn’t hit the heights of the first season, which, in its second week, hit a series high of no. 2 on Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart.
Still, the season finale leaves fans with lots to anticipate. It caps off with a literal fake-out cliffhanger, when Patti Harrison’s Alex threatens to drive both herself and Charlie off into the Grand Canyon Canyon after revealing that she’s been lying to Charlie about her identity (which shouldn’t be possible, given the whole “human lie detector” thing). Then, the show freeze-frames, Thelma & Louise style, as the car rockets off the cliff before backing up to show how Charlie survives by barrel rolling out of the car at the last moment, while Alex plummets to her presumed death. Charlie hitchhikes to Wichita, but then, when Taylor Schilling’s Agent Annie looks at the car, hoping to find the now on-the-run Charlie, there’s nobody there. No matter the ratings, if a show has the potential to have more Patti Harrison, then the people deserve to see more Patti Harrison. Give us another season of Alex!
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the amount of weeks that Poker Face season two was in the Nielsen top 10.