It’s a relief to watch Poker Face, the new hit mystery series created by Rian Johnson of Knives Out and Glass Onion fame, currently airing on Peacock. Not just because it’s a delightful show, made at a time when creating delightful experiences for audiences is a less and less common practice in the entertainment industry, but because it takes such a consistent interest in the lives of working people.

This premise involves a casino hotel cocktail waitress named Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) who has an unusual gift for recognizing when people are lying, which is a lot of the time. Her automatic and earthy response to lying is “Bullshit,” and having such a reliable bullshit-detector is going to be a big help in solving murders once a week, as she’ll do Columbo-style in this ten-episode series.

“It’s not mystical,” she says of her astonishing gift. It’s just that she can tell “something’s off” when people lie. But it got her into big trouble once when she used her gift to win a series of poker games with middling-high rollers across the Midwest, bringing her to the attention of scary casino boss Sterling Frost Sr. (Ron Perlman). He got her blackballed from the poker circuit, but kept her on as a low-level employee. And because, as Charlie puts it, “I’m a dumbass,” without any major ambitions, who considers that she’s “doing just fine” living in a beat-up trailer in the desert, driving a crappy old car, drinking a lot of beer, and hanging out with coworkers in the friendliest, most casually bighearted fashion, she doesn’t mind being sidelined from her one shot at earning big money.