Watching: Lie to Me

I just watched the pilot to this show.

This procedural's gimmick is kind of tame. Tim Roth (whom I always think of as his character from Pulp Fiction, just for larfs) has an incredible masterful superpower. He can, like, read people really well and stuff. But instead of just reading people, he has it down to a science, with screens of split second facial reactions becoming one of the show's many eccentricities.

Can't say I'm too impressed with it. Something stupid like Bones still strikes my fancy more than this. It's another show where a scientist guy starts solving crimes with the law, but this time it's pretty vanilla in both the subject matter as well as the set, which is a modern kind of all-white office reminiscent of the secret government hideout that Sydney Bristow and co. use later on in Alias.

All in all, it just kinda feels like a retread, a little bit. But it's not like the television industry is the last bastion of originality. It's serviceable enough for me to try the rest of the first season out.