The Beautiful American Loneliness of Poker Face

Rian Johnson's eye for the old and weird

In the introduction interview for Written In the West, a collection of photographs taken while researching locations for Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders tells Alain Bergala that melancholy is “an integral part of the American West.” That western melancholy is also what makes Poker Face so hard to stop watching. That’s not to say the new streaming show on Peac…