parodic

“Poker Face” doesn’t just take us to a cop conference, but makes sure we notice its cover band is called Yolo Tomassi, a parodic “L.A. Confidential” reference to a name that sparks one of the best poker face reactions in all of cinema.

Writer-director Alex Scharfman makes a worthy attempt at sketching the Leopolds as a parodic version of the real-life Sackler family, but never gets close to conjuring their cold-blooded, dark-hearted evil.

They even called themselves the “cabal,” in what seemed a parodic tribute to Strauss’ clique of wise men.

With its candy colors, canted camera angles and sound-effects balloons, the original series was witty, funny, parodic, satirical, deceptively smart and knowingly dumb and also a legitimate adventure story.

Nearly parodic in her feminine grace, she is also as hard as buffed, polished nails.