Yes, it was.

I only caught it by mistake! It was new, and the listing said first airing 11/30/09, but for some reason it wasn't going to record it on its own. It was supposed to air a couple weeks ago--maybe that was the source of the confusion.

There was, like, no science in this one at all. Maybe two mentions of facial expressions.

It seems like Lie To Me has been off time-wise in the past couple of episodes. The Black Friday episode and the Christmas party one.

The show isn't really great, but god, Tim Roth is.

I think they moved this Vegas one out of order and that made those two timed ones even earlier. But the next episode is in only two weeks, so they're back before Christmas anyway.

I appreciate what Shawn Ryan is trying to do with the increased edginess, and lord knows I like seeing Tim Roth on the knife edge, but I do miss the micro-analyzing of every move. They're falling away from that.

re Lie to Me--you mean they do even more analyzing of every gesture on that show? I knew there was a reason I changed the channel after House. But I did like Poppy.

you mean they do even more analyzing of every gesture on that show?

More than what? They do less than last season. I liked it. In fact I even read the blog of the guy whose science it was based on--he deconstructs all their claims for veracity. It's pretty decently done given inflation for drama, just done less.

Who's Poppy?

I also found a blog of a law enforcement guy who picks apart the police errors on Castle. WTF? Why would you pick on a fluffy show like that? Oh, he mocks and he tears.

That's weird. Why not pick on L&O or csi?

Castle is all about the pretty guy with the twelve-year-old's soul. And Beckett desperately trying to ride herd on her swarm of juvenile delinquents.

I love that show.

Here are his reviews. He says it's because he likes the show but doesn't want anyone else to make the errors. I dunno. He seems to enjoy finding errors, especially with the female ME character, who he blames almost independently of the writers. But he loves Castle and Beckett.

Last night's Castle made me think of what happened when David Simon asked the murder police about the time that he followed them around. It wasn't like Castle. The squad voted on it...the nos won, like 12-2.(The chief wanted it, so it happened--that is like Castle.) And even years later, Simon went to one of his BPD BFF's and said "What do you mean, you didn't want me there? Tilghman was all for it?" The cop said "The Chief had a brain tumor...he wasn't in his right mind." Ah, cop love... but maybe DS wasn't as natty as NF."What the fuck is he *wearing*?" is kind of a staple question in profiles of my fake spouse and I have to say I say it when I see him on my TV machine. I think he keeps things till they, like, used to be a shirt, then gets into hand-to-hand fights on the way to Charlie Rose, or whatever. It's sad because I think he is a genius. But he seems to conflate "keepin' it real" with "looking like shit."