Four months later, reinforcements have arrived in the informal campaign to preserve classical TV structure. A collaboration between “Glass Onion” filmmaker Rian Johnson and “Russian Doll” co-creator and star Natasha Lyonne,

As Poker Face returns with a new batch of even-more-self-contained mysteries for Natasha Lyonne's Charlie Cale to solve, Johnson talks Columbo, the whodunit vs. the “howcatchem,” and how Steven Sondheim influenced the next Knives Out movie.

For Rian Johnson, the fun of Poker Face season 2 was figuring out how to give its lie-detecting lead new relationships.