Lie to me, vague spoilers up to 1x06

[noelia_g]

Is anyone else (apart from juana_a, of course) watching it? I need someone to squee with, and I need someone to tell me if I'm reading some thing right, because right now I'm not sure whether I have rose tinted glasses on or not...

I hadn't had a single moment of wanting to throw things at the screen yet, the issues that are normally triggering (they had rape in the army in the second episode for god's sake) are handled in a way I might not find perfect, but they're helluva better than most of the things I watch. And there are PoCs in supporting roles that on many other shows would be played by Caucasian actors: just in the recent episode we had Walter and his family, we had Heather, the detective, the journalists. It didn't have any kind of attention called to it, as well as it shouldn't, and yet some issues weren't glossied over when the detective mentioned different approaches to the cases of disappearances of Samantha and Heather.

The other thing I've been thinking about is, how fucked up every single relationship on the show is/is going to be. Knowing when people lie is not presented as a great gift at all.

Lightman hates liars, has learned and studied the expressions because he has issues with lies, and yet he lies to Gillian constantly. Eli practices radical honestly, and yet lies to Torres when it's about his feelings, and flat out admits it unapologetically. Torres (in a previous episode) is reluctant to go on a date because she expects problems connected to her talent, the man lying and resenting her for knowing when he does. Eli in this episode admitting he doesn't go on dates at all because of this, because soon he discovers that everybody is a lie (there's a lot of issues in him too, something pushing him towards that cheerful truthfulness that is bound to be ugly.) Lightman's divorce and his relationship with his daughter, staggering and awkward. Gillian refusing to see the lies of her husband, or ignoring them... The ensemble is majorly fucked up, and on a train bound to crash, and I love it immensely.

Also, briefly noted, I'm never going to tire of Lightman being an absolute asshole. Especially since usually he's an asshole for a reason (unlike, say, House, for whom it's a full time job), but he is still emotionally stunted and fucked up and can be an even bigger asshole to the people he cares about. It's fantastic.

In conclusion: WATCH. Tim Roth is made of sheer awesome.

Comments

[idrilka.livejournal.com]

Nie czytam notki, ale chcę tylko powiedzieć, że mnie zachęciłaś w sobotę i dzisiaj ściągnęłam wszystkie odcinki. I będę oglądać, jak tylko skończę Sarę Connor. :D

[noelia-g.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[juana-a.livejournal.com]

(apart from juana_a, of course)

hej, to sprawia, że nawet nie moge powiedzieć "ja", żebyś mogła powiedzieć "wiem" XD

I ten dzisiejszy odcinek to najlepszy odcinek tygodnia jak na razie, a biorąc pod uwagę, że zostały mi jeszcze SPN, Sarah Connor, Dollhouse, to ten odcinek wygrywa ten tydzień.

A w odcinku wygrywa telefon od Emily i Eli, który kłamie.

A do tego ulubionego serialu. To jest tak, że w tej chwili to chyba najlepszy serial, przynajmniej dla mnie, ale bohaterów dalej kocham bardziej tych z CSI: NY, so chyba nadal CSI: NY wygrywa.

[ivy-warlord08.livejournal.com]

*nods head in agreement* Tim Roth does rock. It doesn't help with my obsessive-fangirl nature that him and Gary Oldman are buddy-buddy, because sometimes I get a double whammy when searching for things related to one of them.

And the situation revolving between Gillian, her husband, and Lightman? --> going to blow-up OR big reveal/fashback at some later point. Ever since the episode with the Korean diplomat, that relationship has been freaking me out because everyone knows it will have to blow up at some point. Lightman seems to know more than the fact that Gillian's husband is lying (perhaps who the person on the other line is?)

Do you know if anyone created a LJ for the show, yet?

[noelia-g.livejournal.com]

If you mean for episodes, I don't know, but there's lietome_tv for discussion and icons and stuff, and lietome_fic for, well, duh.

I'm probably going to end up writing fic for it sometime soon, because I think about the show a great deal, and squee obsessively ;D

And Gary/Tim Real Life OTP. :D

[echoelee.livejournal.com]

I haven't posted here before (hi!), but I'm really excited to see someone else into Lie To Me. I feel like the characters are deep enough to be interesting but no one is approaching melodrama level. The show itself seems to deal with issues and situations in a way much closer to how real and relatively functional adults would deal with those situations.
It's much like real life; everyone is screwed up but they all still go to work and talk to their families and do their thing.
I just hope they don't start pushing a love triangle or anything similar. That usually just creates the melodrama I can't handle. This weeks episode was so good I just turned around and watched it again on hulu.com. The cast is just amazing.

[mjls.livejournal.com]

MOAR LIE TO ME PLZ




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