Poker Face has always seemed like Rian Johnson’s big experiment.

The filmmaker is no stranger to the mystery genre: his directorial debut was the dazzling neo-noir Brick, and he’s now getting ready to release his third Knives Out movie starring Daniel Craig as the drawling Benoit Blanc. But Poker Face was something different, a case-of-the-week show that wasn’t a whodunit like his other stories, but a “howcatchem,” a story that begins by showing the crime being committed before the detective even appears.

The format was a risk, but everything else was a selling point. At the center of Poker Face was Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, the no-nonsense drifter with an uncanny ability to sense when people are lying, and in each episode she’s surrounded by a host of one-off guest stars.

While Season 1 was a proof of concept, Season 2 stretches the potential of this unique show, wrapping up the season-long arc of Season 1 and starting a new era that proves it has the legs to stand amongst the giants in the case-of-the-week genre.

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When you cast Nic Cage in a role, you’re gonna get Nic Cage. And Lorcan Finnegan’s sun-soaked psychedelic thriller, The Surfer, makes no bones about that. Cage is as big as Cage can get, starring as a nameless man who gets slowly broken down mentally by a group of alpha-male surfers who rule a “locals only” beach on the coast of Australia.

But Cage doesn’t just see his role in The Surfer as part of a long line of over-the-top performances that have turned him into a cinematic icon. There’s an arc to this nameless Surfer, who starts the film as a suited businessman and ends as a foaming-at-the-mouth vandal.

“There is a transformation going on here,” Cage tells Inverse. “The character starts off as a fairly normal man and then slowly through a process of humiliations and degradations, he becomes the inner caveman.”