Lie To Me begins well and Season 1 deserves a rating of 10. But I had to give the series a score of 6, so you can do the math and figure out how bad the next two seasons were.
The first season is focused on the idea of face-reading as a way of figuring out whether someone is lying, but that focus is lost the second season onwards and "Lie To Me" quickly becomes a substandard crime drama.
Tim Roth plays Lightman well initially and he is an interesting character. Then, somewhere in the middle of Season 2, he gives the character a whole lot of irritating in-you-face mannersisms that make him quite obnoxious. I guess it was intentional, though I can't figutre out why the producers would want to make the lead character so dislikeable. Must be some wierd market research. They even have Lightman's partner say "you're so irritating" to him a couple of times!
The first season is focused on the idea of face-reading as a way of figuring out whether someone is lying, but that focus is lost the second season onwards and "Lie To Me" quickly becomes a substandard crime drama.
Tim Roth plays Lightman well initially and he is an interesting character. Then, somewhere in the middle of Season 2, he gives the character a whole lot of irritating in-you-face mannersisms that make him quite obnoxious. I guess it was intentional, though I can't figutre out why the producers would want to make the lead character so dislikeable. Must be some wierd market research. They even have Lightman's partner say "you're so irritating" to him a couple of times!