![]() ![]() Christyne Berzsenyi, the author of Columbo: A Rhetoric of Inquiry with Resistant Responders, has noted that Link denied the show was making an intentional class commentary.īut in Link’s book with Columbo’s other co-creator, Richard Levison, “they talk about how they wanted the everyman, working-class cop going into these contrastive environments the super wealthy,” Berzsenyi says. “It’s such an iconic character that we’ve seen permutations on that idea for, I don’t know, probably seven decades now, whether it’s Humphrey Bogart or Elliott Gould or Jack Nicholson, and so many others-or Peter Falk.”įalk’s Columbo was, as Columbo co-creator William Link put it, “ a regular Joe.” Columbo is a true everyman: audiences can identify with him, and they like that. “There’s a whole bunch of shows from that era that are just the idea, really, of a case-of-the week puzzle box,” Lyonne told TIME. ![]() These are the shows that raised Johnson, and for which he and Lyonne share a mutual love. ![]() But differences abound, too, and Johnson has pointed to a whole host of older shows and characters-including Quantum Leap, Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) in Magnum P.I., and Jim Rockford (James Garner) in The Rockford Files-as Poker Face inspirations. ![]()
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