Poker Face Season 2 Ending Explained: Does It Set Up Season 3?

This nonfiction contains spoilers for the Poker Face Season 2 finale, “End Of The Road.”

With this week’s finale of Poker Face, Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) has uttered her last “bullshit” – astatine slightest for the clip being. The Season 2 finale “End of the Road” was a chaotic occurrence of the Peacock bid that revealed the Moriarty to Charlie’s Sherlock Holmes, included a bonkers cliffhanger that instantly resolved itself, and past changed everything for the bid going into a imaginable Season 3.

There’s a batch to unpack here, including the twists topped connected twists topped connected twists that spell backmost to not conscionable past week’s episode, “Day of the Iguana,” but person been teased successful the inheritance since Charlie deed up New York successful Episode 9, “A New Lease connected Death.”

You ready? Here’s the large shocker: Alex (Patti Harrison), isn’t a regular woman who made friends with Charlie and is starting an oyster shucking concern called Yippee Kay Yay Oystershucker… She’s the world’s top assassin, The Iguana. And she’s been lying to Charlie this full time.

Poker Face Season 2 Ending Explained

To laic this each retired successful order, Alex – oregon rather, The Iguana – was hired to termination a CEO who was hidden successful a panic country 300 feet nether the Alaskan tundra. And erstwhile she did, she realized that it was excessively easy, and she was bored. The Iguana was acceptable to springiness up wholly until her cause offered her the occupation sidesplitting mob brag Beatrix Hasp (Rhea Perlman), who was astatine the clip successful protective custody aft making a woody with Charlie successful Episode 3, “Whack-a-Mole.” And what intrigued The Iguana was that it’s intolerable to prevarication to Charlie.

“When I realized my kryptonite mightiness exist, I couldn’t hold to conscionable you,” the Iguana explains. That leads america to the infinitesimal wherever she gave the incorrect java bid to Charlie successful Episode 9 – and acknowledgment to superhuman power of her sweat glands, adrenaline, voice, body, etc… She was capable to successfully prevarication to Charlie. And past kept lying to her passim the consequent episodes… Which she loved, due to the fact that it was a “herculean effort” each time.

Knowing that Charlie is simply a compulsive do-gooder, she discovered that Beatrix’s lad (played by Haley Joel Osment) was getting married. She hired the world’s 2nd top assassin to termination a teacher invited to the wedding, past the son, and framework her (meaning The Iguana). Slightly complicating things, the 2nd top assassin is simply a maestro of disguise, truthful Justin Theroux played some the teacher and the assassin. Anyway, The Iguana killed Assassin #2 and dumped him successful the water, knowing that if Charlie saw “Alex” with the assemblage of the dormant son, she would effort to assistance wide her sanction and instrumentality her close to Beatrix Hasp – which is precisely what happened.

There are immoderate different twists and turns on the way, but the abbreviated mentation is that with each this retired successful the unfastened and immoderate speedy reasoning from Charlie, the FBI closes successful connected the duo, who extremity up going implicit a cliff Thelma & Louise-style to their deaths successful Charlie’s vintage Barracuda. OR DO THEY?? No, they don’t. Despite a “To Be Continued” rubric card, the cliffhanger is resolved immediately. Charlie throws herself retired of the car astatine the past second… And erstwhile the FBI checks the fiery remains of the conveyance astatine the bottommost of a cliff, there’s nary body. So The Iguana lives to plague Charlie different day, too.

The full happening is extremely Sherlock and Moriarty to the constituent that the Iguana says that retired loud. But it’s besides a riff connected the classical combat betwixt the detective and villain duo astatine the Reichenbach Falls successful “The Final Problem.” In that case, Holmes and Moriarty seemingly died; successful “End of the Road,” Charlie is decidedly alive, and the Iguana seems apt to person survived, arsenic well.

That brings america to the extremity of the episode. Luca Clark (Simon Helberg), Charlie’s person and FBI contact, rescues her from falling implicit the cliff, lone to supply a punch successful the gut: Charlie has to spell backmost connected the run.

“You conscionable aided and abetted a serial killer, you got a national witnesser killed, you revealed the determination of a WITSEC harmless house, if I support listing the national crimes you committed they’ll beryllium here,” Clark explains. “You’ve officially wanted by the FBI.”

He gives her a caput start, but not earlier the sobbing Charlie gets a overgarment from him to support her lukewarm until she gets to a work roadworthy connected the highway.

“Next time, Charlie, I volition apprehension you,” Clark says. “I mean I person to astatine this point.”

The last scene, to the tune of “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” by Bob Dylan, finds Charlie trying to hitchhike connected the highway, portion a stray canine (credited arsenic “the scamp” and played by a canine named Rootbeer) tags along. She yet is picked up by a large rig operator (played by Steve Earle) – who confusingly is not Steve Buscemi, the motortruck operator she’s been communicating with via CB vigor each play long.

“So, wherever ya headed?” the operator asks.

“Oh, well, I conjecture that’s a deceptively profound question,” Charlie shoots back. He’s heading to Wichita, and truthful Charlie and the stray tag along.

To instrumentality a measurement backmost here, Season 1 of Poker Face recovered Charlie connected the tally from the mob, a plotline that was somewhat amazingly resolved backmost successful Episode 3 of Season 2. Most of the remainder of this play has been spent with her trying to fig retired what’s next, inactive moving from municipality to municipality but trying to find a caller home… Only to alternatively beryllium presented with the worst of humanity each time. The debased constituent came successful Episode 7, “One Last Job,” which presented Charlie with a saccharine romance with Bill Jackson (Corey Hawkins), lone to find him murdered by his champion person and person his assemblage propped up arsenic a show Santa successful a large container store.

When Charlie cries astatine the extremity of the episode, it isn’t conscionable astir losing her state erstwhile again, it’s that aft the decease of Bill, “Alex” was her salvation – oregon astatine slightest thing dependable and mean successful the mediate of murders-of-the-week. As the Iguana explains it, she was playing Watson to Charlie’s Holmes, erstwhile truly she was Moriarty the full time. Now, aft reasoning she’s yet figured it each out, Charlie’s connected the roadworthy again without a friend, without her car, without thing but the apparel connected her backmost and a mangy mutt.

Will There Be A Poker Face Season 3?

As of this writing, Poker Face hasn’t been picked up for Season 3, but don’t panic! Season 2 was announced astir a period aft Season 1 premiered. And portion much clip has passed since Season 2 premiered connected May 8, we’re besides successful a precise antithetic streaming satellite successful presumption of renewals and cancellations. The 2nd play debuted powerfully connected Nielsen’s Top 10 for streaming originals, truthful there’s each crushed to deliberation that Peacock would similar to enactment successful concern with some Natasha Lyonne and shaper Rian Johnson. Will it get renewed, though? We’ll person to hold and see.

How Does The Finale Set Up Season 3?

So assuming determination is a Poker Face Season 3, determination are a mates of things we cognize would apt happen. First there’s the dynamic flip that the FBI is present aft Charlie, versus the mob. That puts her successful the absorbing concern of not having Luca determination to assistance her, arsenic helium antecedently has. And it besides puts her connected the incorrect broadside of the instrumentality erstwhile it comes to solving mysteries.

To beryllium clear, there’s zero accidental the amusement volition ditch its done-in-one enigma format. But with Season 2 having a clearer affectional arc for Charlie, offering her a beingness earlier snatching it away, Season 3 could perchance play with whether she wants a beingness astatine all. Does she delve much into The Iguana’s satellite and effort to disregard mysteries? Or origin crime, alternatively than solving it? Charlie is inactive a bully person, truthful apt not. But it could beryllium an absorbing thread for co-showrunners Nora and Lily Zuckerman to play with.

As for returning characters, the amusement has killed disconnected a lot of the cast. But it’s apt Luca would instrumentality arsenic a recurring, reluctant antagonist. And we could decidedly get Patti Harrison backmost arsenic The Iguana, arsenic well. On that note, the amusement introduced immoderate wildly weird spy/sci-fi elements successful these past 2 episodes, acknowledgment to Assassin #2 melting a dude down to goop and past dressing up arsenic him, arsenic good arsenic everything with The Iguana. Would Poker Face spell afloat Bond successful Season 3? Maybe, though it excels by focusing connected the mean folks astir the edges of society, truthful that mightiness beryllium a measurement successful the incorrect direction.

There’s besides the question of transportation… Charlie’s car is gone, and they could surely conscionable get her a caller Barracuda. But fixed she bonded with Steve Buscemi’s mysterious trucker, and Season 2 ended with a trucker taking her to Wichita, could we spot much of a large rig driving theme? And yet conscionable Buscemi’s Good Buddy? And possibly astir importantly of all, is Rootbeer the canine present a imperishable portion of the cast? He seems beauteous cute, and the thought of Natasha Lyonne hanging retired with a mutt for 10 episodes is simply a delightful one. Whatever happens, fingers crossed the amusement does get picked up for Season 3 due to the fact that cancelling this fantastic, critically acclaimed bid would beryllium – to punctuation Charlie Cale – bullshit.