Lie To Me - TV show about nonverbal communication

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Recently I've gotten into a TV show called Lie To Me, which I recommend highly to other autistics.

It's a detective show where the main characters are psychologists specially trained in analyzing nonverbal communication in order to detect deception. So, for example, the very first scene is one of the main characters interviewing a white supremacist who's hidden a bomb in one of several black churches, and he lists the churches off and notices the subtle shift in facial expression when he says the church the bomb's in.

I like that all the plot-important nonverbal cues are focused in on and highlighted, that the show is well-researched and accurate and that they explain what each plot-important nonverbal signal means, such as a person touching their forehead means shame. And I can kind of test myself, looking at the highlighted nonverbal cue and guessing what it means. It's really educational. And at the same time, they have interesting stories and compelling characters.

I've watched every episode to date.

It's based on the work of Dr. Paul Ekman. I borrowed his book Emotions Revealed from my Uni. library. It's interesting theory, but the show and his online talks deliver the message in a much more concise way.

His main area of study is how human emotion is displayed on the face. Lying behavior is actually his sideline.

One of the few television shows I like.

I watched most of the first season, but I stopped after realizing there were some inaccuracies in the way the techniques were applied even though the basic knowledge and methodologies were sound. It's the same reason I stopped watching fictional CSI/forensic shows.