#review; Lie to Me.

a piece of review here, 

well as a psychology major student is a normal thing that our lecturers keep blowing up some kind of books or films that contain any "psychological matters". one of the series that they mentioned before was Lie to Me. I forgot about what subject did I take when one of my lecturer have shown us an episode from these series. is it sociology? or abnormal psychology? I forgot, because it was my early year in college. the point is, they talked about how a person could read the 'facial expressions' from people to guess what is in their minds. 

sounds cool, right? and it really is.

the stories began when a scientist, Dr. Cal Lightman, whom is an expert for reading deception, along with his partner, known as a psychologist from the US secret company, Dr. Gillian Foster, they solved so many cases with their abilities to "read" the facial expressions from people who lied as suspected by the cops. they recruited a nerd and geeky boy named Eli Loker, known as an experimental student who liked to do research about psychology. then, they hired an immigration's security at the airport who had a natural aptitude at reading people's expressions, named Ria Torres. these four people is the main characters of Lightman Group. 

the interesting part is, how can you tell someone's mind by reading them on their faces? 

for example, you can read a contempt, from a slight movement of lips and twisted eyebrows. we called this, the power of observation. not just faces, because some people knows how to hide their feelings through faces, they could read emotions by some gestures. another example, you can read a shame from someone by the gestures of his hands, covering up his vital part. this series give us so many lessons to observe people in details, how to read deceptions, and the most exciting one is, how to lie.

the series told us how to solved so many problems and cases, it may have negative effect for us, as a psychology major student, to be oh-so-judgemental for people around us. also, we can't avoid the probability of being so biased about our judgement through people. but, I'd like to say, this is the greatest series I've ever watched (I just watched several series, such as Sherlock Holmes and Game of Thrones), because this have so many lessons to be learned. 

and they revealed how the scientists could be so judgemental or bias sometimes, when it became related to their personal feelings. you know, they tried to tell us that scientists, or even psychologists, were only human being, just like us. they do have lacks from another side of their lives. after that, I realized that their personal love-life are such a mess. Dr, Cal Lightman, divorced from his wife, Zoe, known as a lawyer from the US embassy, and had a daughter who lived with him, Emily. Dr. Gillian Foster, divorced with her husband, who known as a drugs addict. Eli Loker, a guy who always playing social media, just in case he found someone to be asked for a date or dinner. Ria Torres, I don't know, as long as I watched her here, she looked like she's scared to bulid up a serious commitment with someone.

see that?

they're just a human being with some kind of abilities to "read". 

but still, I'm adoring this series so much because of "psychological matters" that I've said before. and for me, it isn't just watching, but learning. and several kinds of their analysis are so useful to us, because they just did some of interviews with such a super-smooth digging questions, and had so much professional rapports. well, at least I've seen professional rapports from Foster, the psychologist one.

if you're curious about our major, just watch it. and you'll find how cool are we whom studied in this major for years.
oh, for the last note, we aren't having some supernatural powers, we just have some knowledges, a little bit more from yours.

happy watching!