Lie to Me: Season 1

This is a very interesting series and I was enjoying it very much until they just in the past few days took it off Prime. Now if I want to finish watching the series I have to pay $2.99 an episode. Heck, I can buy a whole season used for not much than that.....what the heck Prime!! Way to lose customers. Can't understand why you had something available to watch with the membership and then suddenly switch and make members pay to watch the series. Will rethink renewing my membership if this continues.

I love this series. I have read other reviews of this show and do not understand some of the negative reviews. I am a professional fire investigator, working in the field of forensic science. I have worked with and have friends who work in the behavioral science field, both for the government and in the private sector. I will submit, some of the micro expression science in this show is treated as accepted science rather than a work in progress. If you watch the show, you will learn that the star had always had the ability to determine if someone was lying and utilized the science to explain how he accomplished this gift. This is a TV show not a documentary. I enjoyed the show very much.

I have enjoyed shows Tim Roth was in, but he never stood out of the cast, to me. In this case, he has come into his own brilliantly. Not only is this one of the best scripted, most educational and most entertaining shows I have seen, it encourage me to buy some books on the subject. How it only ran 3 seasons with that much story potential was beyond me.Roth fits the part as if it were designed for him. He embodies feisty intellectual status in this show. The others in the cast are amazingly believable and integrate into a portrayal of an intellectual world behind the scene that most of us do not think about. I had to buy the series, and the books it is based on are a good exercise in rational but somewhat defensive living. My compliments to the cast and crew for a 3-season mind-blowing trip.

When the show Lie to Me came out on television, I was really intrigued with the show. Tim Roth plays his character very well. I enjoyed his performances on the show.Lie to Me lasted 3 seasons. And, it was shown on FOX.Tim Roth plays Cal Lightman who runs a private company that is contracted by law enforcement agencies for his services. He is the world's leading deception expert. The Lightman Group accept assignments from third parties and assist in investigations reaching the truth through applied psychology such as interpreting micro-expressions.He has the ability to identify if someone is lying or if there is something not totally accurate by involuntary body language and by eye contact to find the truth behind the lies. The show evolves around his abilities working with the FBI and the local police to solve mysteries and to gather information and clue into the truth.It is a very interesting show, and one easily gets drawn into the stories and wanting to see more.I recommend this show. Unfortunately, the show only lasted three seasons from 2009 to 2011. But, it is long enough to get deep into the series and enjoy three seasons of intriguing mystery.

It's an incredibly predictable show as far as the "who dun it" aspect, but the characters are rather fascinating. This is why I've given Season 1 such high marks. (4-Stars out of 5.) The lack of the fifth star is due to the utter lack of mystery as far as the plot goes. These characters though, I feel others would find just as interesting as I do!The Series Premise:The lead is a man who runs a company that "reads" micro expressions. As this has been done a great many times, some might find it to be far too predictable, but this series presents it in a far different manner compared to any of the other shows that have already been on air.Other Characters:Besides the man who leads the company, he has his main assistant who deals with the emotional side of Truth and Lies. Of course this character is a woman. (Stereo-typically women "deal" with emotions, after all!)Other than these two main characters are two others who are the "second tier characters" or side characters, depending on what episode it is as far as season 1 goes. There is a man (of course) who deals with the scientific side like their boss. A woman who is "naturally" or intuitively able to "read" people, but bad at really understanding what she reads, and isn't very good at real world reading. Their boss is a little disdainful in the beginning.These obvious characterizations of the characters isn't what makes them good, it is the way they are both written and played by the actors on the show.

I'd watch Tim Roth read the phone book but this, sadly short-lived, series is one I keep going back to while waiting for 'Tin Star' to return. As Cal Lightman, founder of The Lightman Group, Tim Roth is a human lie detector reading facial expressions and body language to solve crimes. The chemistry of the cast is exceptional with the relationship between Cal and his daughter being the best. This show is everything I expect from Tim Roth, nothing short of brilliant.

A friend of mine recommended this as I study body language and emotions... I never imagined these series would be so good. The stories are enhanced by the interesting research done by Dr. Paul Ekman, American psychologist who's been a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions, a fascinating world.Each episode has a good dose of humor, Tim Roth is an terrific actor, I would give this 10 stars if I could!.

This was one of my favourite series. I regret it did not last long, but I also noticed that already during the second series it was starting to deteriorate.Based on the idea that it is possible to detect when people are lying from non-verbal communication, the first series developped a series of simple stories based on the uneasy cooperation of Dr. Lightman, the Roth character (based on a real-life scientist) with the police. Dr. Lightman is an extravagant man, grumpy enough, but not on the manic level of House MD.Lightman is divorced and his relations are conflicted, especially with a young male colleague. He has a soft side and is very protective of his adolescent daughter. This sideplot (the daughter getting mixed up with dad's work) started to get annoying, maybe also because the actress playing the daughter was quite annoying.I am sorry the series did not developped better, because I really liked the idea of studying non-verbal communication and the opening credits were really good.

I'd only ever seen this advertised on tv when it was aired on Sky, but never actually watched it back then. However, I did see a couple of episodes at a friends house a few weeks back and I liked what I saw so decided to purchase it. Tim Roth gives a brilliant performance and the rest of the cast blend well with him. However, I know there was a focus of a Cal/Gillian sexual tension, but after viewing more episodes I thought it was more of Cal/Ria tension, especially in Depraved Heart and Blinded.

have not known tim roth before.. hmm quite an interesting fella.. love the series.. i have watched people's body movements an facial expressions over my years.. just cuz i did.. ha.. if this had been a course in school i would have taken it.. haha cheers hmac..

Reminded me of 'House' - in other words each episode follows a very set formula, but it's worth watching for the lead character.