I don't know if you want a good TV program standard, which is English or Chinese for me. Is the way it handles the presentation. Every "Weekly Crime Case" medical drama has to deal with it in some way, but there is an art that can make it look like a natural part of the story, but not every play can handle it well. Fox's new play Lie to Me is one of the well-handled plays. After "American Idol", the premiere on Wednesday (1 February 2/day) must lay the foundation for its case, and at the same time introduce us to the highly specialized field of its protagonist, Dr. Carl Letterman, a human polygraph. It managed to achieve these two points without losing its storytelling momentum. It also provides a fascinating new role of Letterman, and the play seems ready to join House and Bones in the network's bright and interesting program lineup. The first time we met Letterman-played by the brilliant Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs, Hulk), his eyes sparkled-he was in the interrogation room with a skinhead who planted a bomb in the church. The FBI is outside, eager to take action, and this guy's lawyer is urging his client not to say anything. "I don't believe in words myself," Lightman replied, but in less than a minute, he found out where the bomb was. We soon learned that he did this by studying "micro-expressions". Micro-expressions are tiny, unconscious convulsions that all of us have. They reveal our true feelings, even if we try to cover them up. He rents out services to government agencies, law enforcement agencies and other clients through his own company, Lightman Group (by the way, Lightman's work is based on the real work of psychologist paul ekman). Letterman's team was joined by psychologist Gillian Foster (kelli williams, intern) and researcher Eli Locar (Brendan Hines). Their work made him pursue the policy of "complete honesty"-that is, telling the truth under any circumstances, no matter how uncomfortable. The premiere followed two cases-a high school teacher was murdered, among which a student with poor social skills was the main suspect, and the other was a congressman involved in a sex scandal. In these two programs, the program uses a lot of close-ups, slow motion and scenes of Karl and his companions decomposing videos to illustrate the stories of various players. Their expressions are sometimes accompanied by interesting photos of famous people, from Kato Carlin to Dick Qiu Chen to simon cowell. Visual skills, introduction of characters-including Letterman's new employee, US Transportation Security Administration agent and "natural" cheating observer Rhea Torres (monica raymund)-and these two cases constitute a rather busy and even chaotic TV hour. Now that we have understood this concept, the future series Lie to Me may reduce the editing and relax the concern about the scope of interpretation they must cover. But as I pointed out, writer Sam Baum handled all these statements well. The dialogue "What's going on" doesn't feel clumsy (which also proves the ability of Ross and Williams, who handled most of the dialogue), so this episode won't fall into explanation. A lot of things that make Lie to Me look interesting come from Ross, who is obviously happy to play a person who may know more than anyone even if he is not the smartest person in the room. Letterman likes to take advantage of others, and he is not afraid to use this to make profits for himself or prove his point, but you can also see that it is not always a pleasure for him to put up with everyone's lies, almost all the time. Williams handled her role as a good policeman and Letterman's occasionally inexperienced bad policeman well, but you can also feel that although Carl started a job in their field, she was equal to him in other aspects. Hynes and Torres have been given enough roles in the pilot, and they are likely to become mature roles as the series progresses. If the play is affected in any way, it may be compared with the first year's hit "Psychologist" by CBS, which tells another person what ordinary people can't see. Although no one seems to talk about how similar the concept of spiritualist is to that of American psychology. In my opinion, these characters are different enough, and the canvas of Lie to Me can cover more than just crime. Setting the play in Washington, one of the prevaricated capitals in the world, may allow the story to involve government and politics without losing the high risks naturally involved in crime stories. Fox obviously believes in the potential of Lie to Me, which makes it the biggest TV series. Early evidence shows that the trust of the TV network in this TV series will be rewarded. Occasionally, I saw the name of this American TV series in the newspaper and found that the first episode gave people a very pleasant surprise. If I just say that the drama is about people's expressions when they lie, you may not feel anything, but when you see the protagonist casting a disdainful glance at the suspect, if he tells the truth accurately, you will be shocked. This kind of TV play is the first one that can tell whether we are lying or not only from our little actions that are usually unnoticed. The play is based on a true story and is based on the research of an American psychologist. Most of the theories in the play can be applied to real life. If you pay a little attention to the dialogue between the characters in the play, maybe you can easily see through the truth. The Chinese names of this play are Don't Lie to me and Lie to me. The latter is easy to understand, but it is strange at first sight to see the former, and it is not "don't lie to me". I think the translation should be like this: try to tell me a lie! The play is starring Tim Roth, the actor of 1900 in the famous movie 1900 Legend. Lightman with a typical British accent and his partner Foster led his team around major federal agencies and companies in the United States, which was also quite interesting. The four protagonists in this drama all have their own obvious personalities: Cal Lightman: founder of Lightman Lightman team, divorced from his ex-wife, and have a daughter, age 15. He has a high skill in distinguishing whether he is lying or not, and is good at using traps to get suspects to tell the truth, but sometimes he is not very good at controlling his temper. Capable people are always strange. They once studied suicide, but after an accident, they turned to micro-expression. Gillian Foster: Carl's partner, a former psychologist, is good at cajoling suspects or witnesses into telling the truth. "People talk nonsense as soon as they speak." When Carl loses his temper or can't handle it, Foster can guide the suspect to break through the psychological barrier and tell the truth. She is an understanding woman, but the relationship with her husband seems to be not as good as expected. Ria Torres: A woman who is very talented in observing people's expressions, worked in airport security before. Because of her obvious talent, Lightman discovered her. Although she has no relevant training, she can easily distinguish lies, and she is outspoken, and sometimes she feels uneasy or jealous of Letterman. However, due to lack of experience, she is always worse than Letterman. I believe that the contest between them will be more exciting later. Eli locker: A mathematical genius, he mainly produces and provides various lie detectors for Letterman's team, such as studying sounds. He is an "urban pioneer" who can only tell the truth, although sometimes his words are not very nice and some people hate him, so he almost got into the trouble of being fired. From the first episode, I was completely attracted. Except for one question, these polygraph experts can easily know whether people have lied to them at any time. Even in the face of their relatives, friends or lovers, this may not be what they want, but they just know, just like Ria refused her boyfriend at first, for fear of being easily seen through his lies. This is the trouble for polygraph experts.