A Poker-Faced Russian Doll

Today's blip is another TV recommendation. I've just started watching Poker Face on Sky. It's an anthology mystery series written and directed by Rian Johnson and starring Natasha Lyonne and I love it!
It breaks the first rule of detective fiction, as initiated by Columbo in 1968, in that rather than withholding the identity of the killer, it gives the audience the knowledge upfront with the pleasure coming from the main character unravelling the mystery at the viewers' leisure.
The premise is simple, but with a twist, in Poker Face. Charlie (Lyonne) is a human lie detector banned from card games across America due to her unique talent, so she is gainfully employed as a cocktail waitress in a casino bar, staying out of trouble and making beer money but she still cannot fail to spot when someone is lying.
So when her best friend, Nat, is found dead in an apparent murder/suicide alongside her degenerate boyfriend, she goes for a crusade for the truth but finding it will guarantee her drifter fate, with Charlie condemned to a perpetual crime-solving road trip.
Lyonne is a 44 year-old actor, writer and director with a vocally distinctive rasp - one critic has memorably described it as "imagine the love child child of Joe Pesci and a New York City steam grate" - who early in her career was rather dismissed as Hollywood's foremost misfit after appearing in teen blockbusters and indie films without ever hitting the A-list.
Her big break came in 2013 after starring in the prison set comedy-drama Orange Is The New Black (which I still haven't seen yet) and her career took off. 
I first became aware of her when my brother said he'd heard about another series called Russian Doll (which we never got around to watching either - there's a theme emerging here!) that was supposed to be fantastic - which she created and starred in in 2019. It's been described as a "surrealist exercise in Jewish ennui and big-city melancholy" in which she plays a character who dies over and over again when her doomed 36th birthday party keeps repeating itself. I'm certainly going to seek it out to enjoy more of the work of this wonderfully expressive and characterful actor.
So of course for today's image I just happened to have at hand a Russian doll and a set of miniature playing cards!