Lies, Damned Lies: Lie to Me
After a hectic week away from television, I finally found my way back home (I invoke Homer Simpson: “television: teacher, mother, secret lover!”), and have been catching up on DVR treats. Included in this mix was the premier to FOX’s new show with Tim Roth, Lie to Me.
The premise is gimmicky – a guy has super skills to tell when someone’s lying, and thus is called upon to solve crimes, cut through politicians’ crap, and so forth. Tim Roth is the guy. He’s aided by a woman who thinks he’s too cynical and needs to lighten up, and by the lying clinic equivalent of a CSI lab monkey whose quirk is “radical honesty,” meaning that he says whatever he’s thinking. The premier sees Roth trying to solve a murder of a teacher, in which a Jehovah’s Witness kid is the prime suspect, and trying to get to the bottom of a politician who is lying about his time with a call girl. What did I think?
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