The nominal hook for the series is Charlie's seemingly infallible gift for smelling out intentionally deceptive utterances. She keeps stumbling into obstacles or solutions without knowing how or if she can master or learn from the experience. Like Columbo she is usually an apologetic and unthreatening interrogator, but unlike Columbo you know that sometimes she is not just PLAYING dumb.
Charlie then hits the road, but finds herself poking around the apparent wrongful arrest of a helpful trucker she meets at a remote rest stop.Ĭharlie is played by Natasha Lyonne as a Columbo-type sleuth who is also a self-described dumbass. (Ep 1 'Dead Man's Hand' + Ep 2 'The Night Shift')Ī waitress named Charlie with a gift for detecting deception gets recruited by a casino boss to exploit a high-roller's poker game, while she deals with her friend's violent murder.
