So...television
Jul. 7th, 2010 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumThe show 'Lie to Me' is streamable via Netflix, so I was watching it yesterday and I am hooked. I vaguely thought I'd like it anyway - it falls into that 'uber-clever observer of human nature' category that I enjoy, but I was pleased at how much I really like the show.
The writing is good - the pilot, which is always hard because you have to establish the characters, the relationships, and the point of the show, but they managed to do it without too much info dumping.
Also, as a fangirl of Richard Wiseman I enjoyed the whole 'how to tell from body language that people are lying' thing, as he has a whole section in his Quirkology book about that. Thanks to that book I actually knew some of the stuff they mentioned on the show regarding how to tell when someone is lying, so I think the science is pretty sound on the show overall.
One thing they mentioned on the show was that liars can't tell the story backwards. If you say 'I was at the gym, then I went home, had some dinner, watched television, and went to bed' and you are telling the truth, you can say, bed, television, dinner, gym, but if you were lying, you'd not be able to do it. At least not smoothly. I hope that's actually true, 'cause it's kind of neat.
And now, since it is 4 billion degrees outside and Charlie is with my parents all week, I'm sort of planning on going home, getting comfy, and watching as many episodes as I can so I can catch up. Because it is being that kind of a day.
The writing is good - the pilot, which is always hard because you have to establish the characters, the relationships, and the point of the show, but they managed to do it without too much info dumping.
Also, as a fangirl of Richard Wiseman I enjoyed the whole 'how to tell from body language that people are lying' thing, as he has a whole section in his Quirkology book about that. Thanks to that book I actually knew some of the stuff they mentioned on the show regarding how to tell when someone is lying, so I think the science is pretty sound on the show overall.
One thing they mentioned on the show was that liars can't tell the story backwards. If you say 'I was at the gym, then I went home, had some dinner, watched television, and went to bed' and you are telling the truth, you can say, bed, television, dinner, gym, but if you were lying, you'd not be able to do it. At least not smoothly. I hope that's actually true, 'cause it's kind of neat.
And now, since it is 4 billion degrees outside and Charlie is with my parents all week, I'm sort of planning on going home, getting comfy, and watching as many episodes as I can so I can catch up. Because it is being that kind of a day.