Lie To Me (FOX)
(2009-2011)
Lie To Me starred Tim Roth playing a brilliant, snarky psychologist who could tell if a person was lying or not depending on their body language and facial expressions. There isn’t much more to say. It’s Tim Roth being an intelligent jerk to people. Awesome! It was fun, sharp witted, and smartly cast. It didn’t treat it’s viewers like they were morons. The writing and dialogue were tight and the characters were complex with their actions falling into a moral gray area a lot of the time. Even though the show was great and received good reviews, FOX decided the ratings weren’t high enough (even with 8 million viewers) so it was canceled. I really hate FOX. A lot. Seriously.
We were just complaining about this being cancelled the other day too. At the time we were cracking up watching him pull the Bad Mother F***er wallet out of the bag in Pulp Fiction.
Tim Roth was perfect on this show. He was epic in Pulp Fiction. That was the first movie I remember seeing him in. After that, I was hooked.