We just started watching season 2. The first episode is a bit hokey with the multiple roles for the guest start, but it was a fun ride. I’d forgotten how much we enjoyed the first season, and we expect to enjoy season 2 just the same.
Hmmm, that’s relevant but does include video. Basically I’m wondering if the CB conversation with Good Buddy could be immune to her ability. Or maybe there just hasn’t been a reason for Good Buddy to lie to her yet. Surely there’s some bigger role to play for Steve Buscemi at some point.
I remember a season of, Star Trek: Picard I am pretty sure it was, where one character was a Romulan spy tasked with seducing and keeping tabs on another character. Later, after his identity is exposed, she is understandably upset and accuses him of lying to her. However, if the viewer goes back and reviews everything he told her, I am pretty sure every response was literally truthful.
I think it’s worth comparing this series to another one with a very similar premise–Lie to Me with Tim Roth. That one benefits from having the lie detecting ability be less of a super power/fantasy element (although I like the idea that she has some sort of synaesthesia). Poker Face has an impressive slate of guest stars, I must say.
The impression I had from the beginning was that Charlie’s ability to detect lies was based on her being able to read faces. This would explain her being able to detect lies on video feeds, but would mean that she couldn’t detect lies on audio only. Has there been any times when Charlie detected a lie during a phone conversation, or when hearing a recording of someone speaking?
Then they should’ve called it — hey, wait a minute.
IIRC, there have been a few times where she’s heard people talking behind her and muttered “Bullshit.”
Heh. If I wind up binge-watching my way back through COLUMBO, your post will have me seeing how long each killer manages to go without actually lying to the detective — you know, just answering questions about where they were when witnesses heard the shot ring out, and adding that someone else who has no alibi for the time of the murder stood to inherit everything under the will — only to rasp out a reflexive bullshit at the precise moment when the guest star du jour would’ve just outed themselves to Charlie Cale.
We’re catching up on Season 2 episodes and saw the one with Gaby Hoffman (the gator episode). It was interesting because the previous night we watched Field of Dreams, where she plays Kevin Costner’s daughter. She looks completely different, yet exactly the same.
Yeah, a pretty recent episode with Rhea Perlman and John Mullaney. Perlman is talking to someone on the phone and Charlie identifies which comments are bullshit. OTOH, Charlie was cooperating with the FBI at the time and was Perlman’s prisoner, so she might have been lying…
A bit of a tone shift between last week and this week.
A little different in tone, but still fun, especially with the romcom aspects versus the heist film aspects.
Haven’t watched it yet, but Rian Johnson said it was made in Michael Mann-style.
It occurs to me that Charlie must have a difficult time enjoying movies and TV.
I don’t think she was pretending to be another character who was pretending to be yet another character. She was pretending to be one character (the murder victim, so she could claim her inheritance), then she switched to pretending to be a different character (one of her other sisters, so she could forge her signature on the document to prevent the will from being held up in court).
Not a comment on the show itself, but of the broadcast of the last episode. As soon as the show started, there was a serious lack of sync between the audio and visual. I’m not talking about a slight slip; it was several seconds, which made it very hard to follow what was happening. I had the closed captioning on, as I always do, and it was definitely out of sync with the video.
After the first commercial break the audio and video were back in sync, and I thought that was the end of it. But then after the next break the problem returned, and continued through the rest of the episode. It also seemed to affect some of the commercials.
I didn’t see this, and I always notice.
I think she looks like Stevie Nicks.
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Just watched the episode without a murder of a human - the background music at a few points reminded me of “Election” which was probably on purpose
This week’s episode was a little bit different though fun as always.