Did my DVR...Lie to Me?

You'll have to analyze its micro-expressions to find out for sure.

They do less than last season. I liked it.

I like it, too. It's what makes the show different. I don't care that much about any of the characters; I almost dropped it this season, but my DVR kept recording it, so...

No, they showed the season opener again.

Paul Ekman's Lie To Me blog. Not sure why it's unformatted. I only read it through RSS.

Magical DNA and fingerprint results are a staple of practically all the crime shows.

That's something I like about Criminal Minds; they don't get instant results on DNA and fingerprints found on the scene. They're always like, "The results will take days! We don't have that kind of time!" But they make up for it with Garcia and her Magic Computer that can pluck information directly from the fabric of the space-time continuum itself.

Ed Bernero has said he's proud that CM solves crimes without forensics. But I can think of Machismo off the top of my head where they sent the glasses back from Mexico and found out the gender of the person who'd drunk from them.

The Castle blog is useful, but complaining about the ME doing forensic work is like complaining about the doctors doing tests on House. You can't hire another half-dozen day players and waste all that good exposition time.

The NCIS with the power outage had fun with searching for fingerprints by hand. The odds of finding a match by hand are astronomical, but having the entire team peering blearily at cards for hours at a time was a good touch.

But I can think of Machismo off the top of my head where they sent the glasses back from Mexico and found out the gender of the person who'd drunk from them.

yeah, but that's a fairly easy, quick test.

Compressed time, compressed roles--all perfectly standard for expediency's sake. Pointing a gun at every guy on the bus? There you're abusing police procedure for dramatic effect. Other shit is carelessness or ignorance.

I like when John Rogers explains some of the wrong stuff in Leverage. Sometimes they're actually right, sometimes it's to make the story go easier, sometimes they were told by a supposed expert that it was right. His last justification was Law:Leverage as Medicine:House which basically meant get on the fun train and off my back.

that's a fairly easy, quick test

But it still runs counter to the showrunner's assertion that they don't do that. They've also run fingerprint comparisons, but I think they usually don't come up with matches.

The odds of finding a match by hand are astronomical

Final matching is done by eye, and it sure used to be done that way.