![]() ![]() It's in that spirit that Rian Johnson has given us “Poker Face” (⭐ ⭐ ⭐), a wryly conscious throwback to 1970s anthology shows like “ The NBC Mystery of the Week ,” from the boilerplate opening credits on down. ![]() A film critic of my acquaintance has copped to a ritual end-of-week cool down with Peter Falk’s shambling detective, just an episode or two to remind him that there’s order in the universe and them’s that transgress will always - always - be caught by them’s who think. Maybe it’s the pandemic and maybe it’s streaming video – the totality of our lifetime of TV habits, available at the press of a finger – but I know a lot of people these days who watch old “ Columbo ” episodes as comfort food. ![]()
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