This is quickly becoming one of my favorite shows.  It's like a combination of House and private detective shows. 

IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235099/

Tim Roth plays Dr. Cal Lightman, a guy who really understands nonverbal gestures.  He doesn't really care what people are saying, only how they are saying it and what they're doing as they're saying it.  Because of this, he can detect when people are lying.  He gets hired by organizations that need to determine whether an employee, inmate, etc. is telling the truth about something.  Whenever a character makes a particularly important gesture, it shows pictures of famous people who made the same gesture in similar circumstances (they like to show Bill Clinton a lot). 

So far, most episodes are Tim Roth's character investigating one thing while his lackeys investigate something else. 

Maybe I'm biased because I've taken several courses on nonverbal communication, and the subject fascinates me, but this show has been awesome so far.  It has about the same amount of plot arc as House does, but it makes sense that way.

Has anyone else been watching this show?  If you're not watching it, I highly recommend seeing at least the first episode. 

Whenever a character makes a particularly important gesture, it shows pictures of famous people who made the same gesture in similar circumstances (they like to show Bill Clinton a lot).

I don't know why but this sounds like this would be really stupid to me!  I've not seen the show so maybe it's not as bad as it sounds but it sounds like they're throwing in a dumb montage to try make themselves more relevant.

it's a dumb show and not really worth watching but what's cool is I've read Ekman's book, which is the system these guys use, and it's a way cool book. now at the next gw meet i'll know...everything. for real though I dedicated shame in my friend's face and realized "he's about to go do something he knows iw on't approve of" a second before he said "i'm going to see mc chris".

you can even download the FACS, there are bootleg versions online.

I just watched the first ep based on this recommendation xanqui and I'm not happy. I saw a documentary about the cia dudes who use these techniques once (he was also using bill clinton as a powerpoint for explaining microexpressions yawn). The format of this show was pretty boring. Also why did they set up their watch-people's-faces headquarters inside a macbook

seriously though pick up paul ekman's book, it actually works and freaked me the fuck out...

which book? it'd be neat to have a trick at parties when people ask me to analyse them

i could only get emotions revealed. you can also download the computer system he uses, like i said.

I just watched the first ep based on this recommendation xanqui and I'm not happy.

gee, sorry

id be way more interested in using these things to train myself to be completely unpredictable.

for that one in a bajillion chance you meet someone who cares enough to watch out for your micro expressions 

One of the worst series on TV. It just happens to have a budget. It's really pretty terrible.

One of the worst series on TV. It just happens to have a budget. It's really pretty terrible.

What makes it so terrible? 

I'm not arguing it's the best series ever, but so far I've found the episodes enjoyable and interesting. 

It can't be even close to the worst series on TV because Prison Break is still running.

oh wow this is crazy: in one of th emost recent eps, lightman is watching some woman who is his mom and he fails to see a microexpression. that entire thing, other than it being his mom, was based on ekman's real experience! like the interview and the microexpression, all that shit happened. they really based a lot of this on his stuff.

edit: ekman's research is really fascinating and i wish one of you dorks was more interested in this stuff than HEROES: WHO WILL BLOW UP THE SUN.

seriously ekman teaches people to do this in 35 MINUTES, you can be a superguy in 35 minutes. his mentor, this guy named sylvan, is basically a legend who used to go on that gameshow called to tell the truth and he would figure it out in seconds before they said anything. all those cheesy cuts in the show, they actually can do it in their heads. like he called bill clinton's infidelity before the guy was president. they didn't listen though because it would look bad if someone found out a lying expert was talking to a candidate.

Sounds good. Reminds me of that show, The Mentalist. I think I'll torrent the shit outta this later. One question though: Does Tim Roth put on an American accent? That shit bugs the SHIT outta me! Okay, Hugh Laurie's accent is brilliant, but I don't get the IDEA behind it. WHY does everyone in these shows/films have to be American?

But aye, I'll give it a shot. I like this psychological stuff. you should give Law & Order Criminal Intent a shot. The mind games Detective Goren gets up to with those dastardly criminals are excellent to watch.

Sounds good. Reminds me of that show, The Mentalist. I think I'll torrent the shit outta this later. One question though: Does Tim Roth put on an American accent? That shit bugs the SHIT outta me! Okay, Hugh Laurie's accent is brilliant, but I don't get the IDEA behind it. WHY does everyone in these shows/films have to be American?

while a niche audience would have probably prefered hugh laurie to be british or something, it's a show quite obviously aiming for the american mainstream audience and i bet quite a bit of house's audience doesnt even know hugh laurie is english. aka they get more viewers.

why do you think world cinema does so shitty, for a start?

WHY does everyone in these shows/films have to be American?

because the show is set in america and if your main character is british you have to rewrite the plot to accomodate that. so rather than mess with that detail, House speaks American accented English.

did you really not figure that out? anyways this guy speaks with a british accent so moot point.

television is getting pretty awful