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Here’s a little snippet from my latest ‘Lie To Me’ review, up at Daemon’s TV

….Words cannot express how excited I was when I saw that Enver Gjokaj was going to be in this week’s episode of Lie To Me, titled ‘React To Contact’. I was extremely impressed with his work on Dollhouse and when that show was sadly cancelled, I really hoped this talented actor would keep on working. I was also excited to see Alona Tal, whom I’ve been a fan of since her work on another of my favorite shows, Supernatural.

In this episode of Lie To Me, these two guest stars play a married couple dealing with the trauma of a husband who is apparently suffering from PTSD after returning home from war. Everyone seems convinced that it’s a cut and dry case, but…….read more at Deamon’s TV

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More Lie To Me Reviews…
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 1 “The Core Of It”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 2 “Truth Or Consequences”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 3 “Control Factor”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 4 “Honey”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 5 “Grievous Bodily Harm”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 6 “Lack of Candor”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 7 “Black Friday”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 8 “Secret Santa”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 10 “Tractor Man”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 11 “Beat The Devil”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 12 “Sweet Sixteen”
Lie To Me, season 2, episode 13 “The Whole Truth”

Great news folks, in addition to writing reviews here on my blog, I’ve also been hired by one of my favorite sites , Daemon’s TV, to write reviews for them too.

To see my latest Lie To Me review, for the episode “The Whole Truth” check it out on Daemon’s TV.

Lie To Me – “The Whole Truth” – review by Mokibobolink

Don’t worry, I’ll still be writing plenty of reviews here on the blog, but I’ll also be adding links to the ones on Daemon’s TV too, so y’all don’t miss them. 

More Lie To Me Reviews…
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 1 “The Core Of It”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 2 “Truth Or Consequences”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 3 “Control Factor”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 4 “Honey”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 5 “Grievous Bodily Harm”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 6 “Lack of Candor”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 7 “Black Friday”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 8 “Secret Santa”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 10 “Tractor Man”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 11 “Beat The Devil”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 12 “Sweet Sixteen”

Even though I missed about ten minutes from the middle of this episode (DVR issues, sigh), I still saw plenty enough to know that it was amazing. From the very beginning – starting with the explosion which made me jump about six inches, to Eli’s slow walk into the building, bloody and in shock – I knew we were in for something great.

It turns out that the bomb killed a man that was Cal’s boss back when he was working with the Pentagon. Back then he and Foster were doctor and patient. Cal had been sent to her after suffering from the mental trauma of accidentally causing the death of an innocent woman and child. He did a read on a man who he thought was going to cause trouble and someone in the Pentagon decided to go after the guy, only they got the man’s wife and daughter instead.

Doyle (played by Angus Macfayden), the man who Cal is sure is behind it all, comes to him to say that he didn’t plant the bomb and Cal helps him to find out who did. In getting to the truth, he tracks it down to the Assistant Deputy Director of the Dept of National Intelligence. From there, he’s able to find the man who actually pulled the trigger that day and allows Doyle to finally get what he’s always wanted. Only the former terrorist doesn’t want to kill the man, he just wants to help get him arrested for what he’s done to his family.

The ending was a bit of a double shock to me. First off, we find out that Lightman admitted that he knew when he read Doyle as a threat that they’d kill him. Then we also find out that all those years ago Foster had been told that if she didn’t keep Cal under control, that they would have killed his family. So all this time she’s been lying to him and he never knew it. Wow.

As always, I enjoyed the foray into the backstory between characters that this episode brought us, going so far as to show us the day that Lightman and Foster first met.

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More Lie To Me Reviews…
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 1 “The Core Of It”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 2 “Truth Or Consequences”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 3 “Control Factor”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 4 “Honey”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 5 “Grievous Bodily Harm”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 6 “Lack of Candor”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 7 “Black Friday”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 8 “Secret Santa”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 10 “Tractor Man”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 11 “Beat The Devil”

Lie To Me, season 2, epsiode 10 “Tractor Man”. Image from www.daemonstv.com

There were so many great things in this episode; I hardly know where to begin. I guess I’ll start with the cast. In addition to the already wonderful regulars, we also got Miguel Ferrer as FBI Agent Steele (aka Agent Reynolds’ boss) and Felicia Day as a schoolteacher.

I’ve been a fan of Miguel’s for years and was so happy when I saw he was in this episode. I love seeing great actors on screen together and I was absolutely giddy over Miguel acting alongside Tim. Miguel’s character was not a bad guy, but in his fight to ensure that no one was hurt by a crazed bomber, he and Lightman go head to head on a few issues.

As for Felicia, I of course loved her in Dr. Horrible and when I saw her come on screen, I quite literally squealed out loud. Yes I’m that easy to please. She played the part of a scared schoolteacher looking out for her students very well. Getting to hear her sing again was a special treat. I had no idea that Brendan Hines could sing or play guitar and that little song they did together was so cute and catchy, I found that I couldn’t resist singing along either.

You can catch a clip of the song “White Lie” here.

Overall a riveting yet fun episode, with some great guest stars and some musical moments, the latter of which I’d never thought to see on this series.

More Lie To Me…
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 1 “The Core Of It”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 2 “Truth Or Consequences”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 3 “Control Factor”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 4 “Honey”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 5 “Grievous Bodily Harm”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 6 “Lack of Candor”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 7 “Black Friday”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 8 “Secret Santa”

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

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.

More Lie To Me…
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 1 “The Core Of It”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 2 “Truth Or Consequences”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 3 “Control Factor”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 4 “Honey”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 5 “Grievous Bodily Harm”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 6 “Lack of Candor”
Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 7 “Black Friday”