With showrunners Nora and Lilla Zuckerman, the Glass Onion director said he was in the writers room through the entire process and that the howcatchem format of the series (hearkening back to the ’80s and ’90s detective shows he and Lyonne grew up watching) helped attract the show’s top-notch roster of guest stars.Įach episode opens with a near-perfect murder, which provided meaty parts for stars like Adrien Brody, Lil Rel Howery, Judith Light, Chloë Sevigny, Ellen Barkin, Tim Meadows, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nick Nolte, Cherry Jones, Ron Perlman and more. Poker Facemarked Johnson’s first TV series, as the Knives Out and Star Wars: The Last Jedi filmmaker has previously only directed episodes of television. Each episode functions as a stand-alone murder mystery - complete with a new location and cast - with Charlie (Lyonne) anchoring the series as it follows her on the run after the events of the first episode.
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