Lie to Me

The idea of solving a mystery just by studying people’s faces may seem boring but it isn’t.

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.30 The Big Bang Theory 07.00 CSI 08.00 Greek 09.00 The Closer 10.00 Lie To Me Everything else sucked! As gripping an hour of TV as you are ever likely to see. This is superb stuff. Lie To Me. Episode 2. "Moral Waiver" The gimmick is good, Tim Roth is fantastic but the stories are awful. Both of the stories in this second episode are stock tales from other crime dramas, with nothing added to make the retelling worth it. In each case it is obvious from the moment the story starts what the outcome will be. Watching this is torture. Tim Roth is not enough to save this pile of manure. I want to like this show, but it's pure rubbish. Highlight? The Closer (clever) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog   [read the full post]

Lie To Me's "lie-catcher" premise and flashes of visual wit put a twist on the detective-show genre. Whether it can stay fresh remains to be seen.

By screenwriterguy Medium, House, The Closer, The Mentalist, Ghost Whisperer… and now Lie to Me.  All are procedurals about a key central character with a superhuman (or at least almost superhuman) ability to solve mysteries.  The adage that Hollywood likes to see new projects that are, “the same… but diffe...

The best new show on TV... honestly.

By Rick Porter The measure of a good TV procedural, for me, lies in the way it handles its exposition. Every case-of-the-week crime show medical drama has to handle it somehow, but there's an art to making it seem like a natural part of the story. Put FOX's new series Lie to Me in the category of shows that do it...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 NCIS 06.30 Damages 07.30 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 08.30 Lie To Me 09.30 The Mentalist 03.00 Night Court Damages. Season 2, Episode 1. "I Lied, Too" A month has passed, Ellen and Patty are both trying - in the own way - to deal with the events of Season One. Lie To Me. Episode 1. "Pilot" A standard cop show, with a great lead actor and a nice gimmick. The rest of the cast are bland, except Brendan Hines who is wasted in a support role. He should be the one partnered with Lightman out in the field. The Mentalist. Episode 2. "Red Hair and Silver Tape" I'm trying to like it, honest, but it's still coming across as a bit too pedestrian for me.   [read the full post]

Actually, human lie detector doesn't seem like much of a stretch. The science part of it is based on pyschology professor Paul Ekman's research in emotions and nonverbal communication. It's not hard to believe that people could teach themselves to tell whether people are lying or not. Ther...