Lie to Me

It’s Saturday night. You call your girlfriend hoping to spend some time with her. Unfortunately, she replies you she is very busy, lots of homework to do yet and she is very sorry but she won’t be able to meet you. On Sunday, you meet each other. You ask her how was her last night, if she could finish her homework. She smiles at you and says that it was a very tough night and that she missed you a lot.
Did you pay enough attention?
Maybe you didn’t notice that, when you questioned her about last night, she was telling you something while her face was telling you another very different. Maybe you didn’t notice her risen upper eyelids, her risen eyebrows, her stretched lips. It is normal since this micro-expression just lasted 1/15th of second. That was the expression of fear. In other words, she was lying.
If you didn’t, maybe you should pay attention to other hints like the fact she was looking at your eyes all the time to sound more convincing, the way she started to gesticulate more than usual, or how her story sounded too perfect and detailed to be true.

This is the starting point of Lie to Me, the story of a group of “behaviour analysts” who can detect lies just paying attention to facial micro-expressions and other markers. The Lightman group, lead by Carl Lightman (Tim Roth), will be hired to solve the most difficult cases in which, detecting people’s lies, will be the key to save a life o prevent a scandal. Lie to Me has been a success in USA and in other countries which it has been aired. The 13-episoded show is preparing a new season to be aired this fall. So forget about DNA tests and using complex gadgets and theories to solve crimes because “Truth is written all over our faces”

Lie to Me is based on the investigation of Dr. Paul Ekman, who has been studying facial expressions all over the world for more than 40 years and has published some books like “Emotions revealed” and “Telling lies” among others.