straight-faced

When Bonner weighed in, the usually straight-faced ex-jurist openly laughed at County Counsel’s suggestion that the oversight commissioners should ask the Board of Supervisors for permission to file a brief, and then have the county’s lawyers file it for them.

Taking a page from the straight-faced awkward Aubrey Plaza playbook, Monterroso Mejia leaned into her weirdness, sexualizing a tongue-twister activity through the literal sense of wiggling her tongue around her mouth in an unnaturally gross manner — ironically a fit for the show’s tongue-in-cheek comedy.

This five-performance power punch ends as every performance should — with Charli XCX, who’s straight-faced and hidden behind straight-edged sunglasses, giving a nod of approval.

Instead, it’s just a very good Amin Joseph playing his scenes straight-faced.

Leigh Whannell, who co-wrote the script with his wife, Corbett Tuck, is into straight-faced psychological trauma over spook-show theatrics.