If You Liked Cynthia Erivo’s Poker Face Appearance, You Have to Check Out The Outsider

Poker Face is back on Peacock, and its season two premiere features a gangbusters guest-star turn by Cynthia Erivo—playing multiple identical siblings caught up in the latest murder puzzle to cross paths with Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne). While fans now immediately associate Erivo with her Oscar-nominated turn as Elphaba in Wicked, one of her first big showcases came on another crime-infused TV series: HBO’s The Outsider. The Outsider ran in early 2020, concurrent with Erivo’s first Oscar nomination (for 2019’s Harriet), but its airing on such a popular, mainstream platform meant that it was many viewers’ first time seeing her perform. That it was based on the 2018 Stephen King novel of the same name also helped draw interest, as did the rest of the cast: Jason Bateman, Ben Mendelsohn, Paddy Considine (pre-House of the Dragon), and Yul Vasquez (pre-Severance), among others. But if you watched it—and if you didn’t, now would be a fantastic time to start!—the then-emerging star Erivo l ... Read full article.