Positively Positive Review – Lie To Me: Secret Santa

by Mokibobolink on Nov.24, 2009, under Crime, Drama, Television

Tim Roth in Lie To Me, season 2, episode 8 “Secret Santa”. Image from www.daemonstv.com Lie To Me Secret Santa

In this week’s episode of Lie To Me, the show manages to have lots of humor, Christmas cheer, and a good dose of action. Lightman is sent to Afghanistan to find out if a man claiming to be US military so deep undercover that he’s been acting as a Taliban, is actually telling the truth.

Meanwhile, back at home his daughter is clueless as to his whereabouts. Everyone, including her father, decided that it would be best that she did not know. At first I thought it was cruel to keep her out of the loop, but when she walked in at one point and saw what was happening, I changed my mind. There are many people out there right now risking their lives for our country. The difference is that none of their families actually have to watch the horror that goes with it. Like Lightman said when he came back, safe and sound, and hugged her tightly – she should never have seen that.

Once again since I’m new to the series, I’m unsure if some of the information we were given in this episode was new or introduced already. Either way, I was surprised to hear that Lightman once worked for English Intelligence. Then again, it’s not really all that surprising, given his unique skills.

Everything that happened in Afghanistan was intense and I enjoyed Lightman digging deeper and deeper into the man to find out the real truth – even as the man dug deeper into Lightman. The two of them played well off of each other and it was a great way to give us some more tidbits into Lightman’s past.

Overall another excellent episode, going from humorous to intense and then to heartwarming, and all in about 40 minutes.