If someone tells you something that you know is a lie and you counter them with “I think you are lying”, what would you expect back? If you said “the truth”, you obviously have never been through a breakup, bought a car, or truly experienced internal dialogue. You live in a fantasy world, full of unicorns and you need to get a job so you can pay rent because it really only takes one conversation with a landlord before you realize that Lie To Me is some of the funniest pseudo science in television.
Looking at someone and saying “you’re nose twitched, you think the victim smelled bad” doesn’t mean a damn thing. If anything people clam up more when you harass them about their lies. No amount of micro-expression interpretation will cause someone to tell completely incriminating information about themselves, period.
rawr
But then there is Tim Roth… I have to say, if he was interrogating me I would probably spill my guts. The show is barely able to hold onto him. It is obvious that he showed up for the shoot twenty minutes late in the suit he was out drinking and banging chicks (or dudes, dolphins, whatever) in the night before. I bet they just staple his lines to the back of his co-stars and run a quick take before he lights up a cigarette and goes back to his trailer to play checkers with his pet monkey. YO, go watch the first thirty minutes of Rob Roy.
That’s all this show is. All of the Lightman Project is just a front to put Tim Roth in your grill. Screw waterboarding. All that micro-expression stuff is just smoke and mirrors to give him the premise to get uncomfortably close to your face. You know what they are thinking is, “Whoa, is that Tim Roth? Why is no one acting like they know it’s him?”
“I did not burn down my house.” Followed by crazy Tim Roth Rape Eyes. “OK, I admit I’m getting tons of insurance off of this. Oh, I also cheat on my taxes, have sex with little boys…did I mention I burned down my house?” Awesome. Well done Tim.
Oh yeah, there are other characters too. Occasionally they do stuff, like walk around and talk.
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mroconnell // April 24, 2009 at 3:19 pm |
Seriously, man. I cannot wait to do blow by blow episode summaries about this show. There are a lot of forensic dramas with specialists or experts…and a lot of them unfold in worlds that are pretty unrealistic. But Lie to Me is transcendent in its absurdity.