ha! yeah, I can't get into Psych - but I'm not much for comedies except 30 Rock.

BTW, L&O has been firing on all cylinders lately. I liked this week's ep also, especially the last 5-10 minutes.

Yeah, L&O has been excellent.

(BTW, I thought Jack's dad was a NY cop - but now he was Chicago cop. Huh.)

On House this week: Foreman is a lying liar who lies. Not cool. He seems to keep jumping back and forth over the "don't want to be like House" line, and lying to Thirteen about changing the appointment times is definitely on the wrong side of it.

Turns out Lie to Me is educational!

It's ripped directly from Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink, down to the Kato Kailin footage, the scorn look in marriage...even the lead character's name...Lightman, versus Gottman (the scientist who studies facial expression and truth).

eta: 2 more things. I'm grateful that Roth is using his own accent and I'm wondering how rigorous the casting for this show will have to be. Being able to mimic specific micro-expressions can't be a universal skill.

Despite my rampant Simon Baker love, The Mentalist has sort of lost me...what with the crummy writing and cliches. I like the sciency aspect of LtM. It's less magical and handwavey.

Plus. It's DC. And cool music. And moral amiguity-a-mundo.

Okay. Going on record with: I like it.

Oh man. I had just started to like Knight Rider...much against my own better judgement. Then, this last episode? Defined the shark jump on a level the Fonz could never have imagined. I was quite actually squinting at the screen with a whattheeverlovingfuck expression that frightened my poor dog.

Pass the brain bleach and a judgment upgrade chip. I am so ashamed.

Wait. Is KR more appropriate in Boxed Set?

damn you bonny, like I needed another show to watch! But I share your disappointment with The Mentalist, so caved and checked out Lie To Me.

Really really liked it. Instantly liked all the characters, the pace, the dialogue, the relationships, Brendan Hines! (*misses Middleman) Tim Guinee! (be squishable like Tobin, please? and not nefarious) the fabulous sets (lots of clean whites and funky lines), the fact that there is in fact a character that proclaimedly always tells the truth. Loved how the various truths bounced around who the killer might be.

Sorry Julie, I feel your overload pain in re tv.

Oddly, the show is saying Paul Ekman is their inspiration, rather than Gottman. I'm stunned by how similar their work and terminology is. The only difference I can see so far is 'thin slicing' vs. 'micro-expression'.

Ha. I just watched a public tv piece on Ekman where he says straight out that a baby's smile is what 'makes us put up with their crap.'

Plus, they talk about the quantifiability of emotion, which is something I'm trying to push to businesses. Popular culture seems to be catching up with what I'm all about.

eta: I was conflating the Gladwell stuff on Ekman and Gottman. On re-read, I see that Gottman was expanding on Ekman's stuff.

I love it when tv inspires me to dig more deeply into something interesting. Not that I don't love me some eye candy, but the brain candy is my aphrodisiac.

disclaimer: this is probably hogwash.

I was at the imdb page because I hadn't caught all the characters names (specifically Tim Roths!) and they struck my eye funny. Especially "Eli Loker". It looks like "Loki", which I thought was interesting given his characters penchant for "radical honesty".

Cal Lightman. What is Cal short for? Looked up "Callum" and it means "dove". Dove and a man of light. Sounds like a bringer of truth to me.

Gillian Foster: "Young Forest" Flexible, macrofocused? Naive? Earthy?

Ria Torres, Ria is short for Maria, which means "bitter sea" and Torres means a tower. Lighthouse, much? Shining the light of truth on the bitter rocks and keeping people safe.

Ron, Gillians's husband: Ronald means "advisor to the King", it'll be interesting to find out what his job is that supposedly keeps him late at work.

Again, my brain is probably making shit up, but I had to share. And of course, if we presume that Cal's full first name is Calvin, then the meaning changes to "Little Bald One".

Two hours of Bones tonight! Yay!

Opposite of NCIS! Boo!

TV on the Net! Yay!

When I tuned in to NCIS, it was an episode of CSI! I'm not sure where the screw up is coming from, it might not be that way where you are, but you may be safe from having to watch online.