Lie To Me Scoop

Premium Hollywood’s Will Harris has published one of the most detailed coverages of the Lie to Me TCA panel that I’ve come across. While some of the general thoughts are the same, Will included the context of the comments, and also provided a lot of new bits as well. There are some light plot spoilers included too.

You’d better believe that everyone on “Lie to Me” – actors and producers alike – were completely psyched to be able to get Phifer to join their cadre.

“There will be an episode that goes deep into his history as an FBI agent, into Reynolds’ history, and will really split Lightman’s loyalties,” said Baum. “I think over the season, you’ll start to see a friendship develop and be tested in terms of split loyalties throughout the season.”

“The first season… it was kind of experimental in a way,” said Roth. “And a lot of what’s happening now, I think, is that the characters are starting to surface. And a lot of what we’re doing is looking into why they are what they are and how they behave and what their backgrounds are and their secrets are and so forth. It should be quite interesting. It’s great stuff to act, I have to say.”

As far as what else we can expect this season, Brendan Hines’ character, Eli Loker, will be continuing to tell the truth, despite how uncomfortable it tends to make those who are on the receiving end of his truth-telling. “I think this season we’re moving on into other territories for him to sort of explore as far as his research and experimentation. And he’s still putting people in awkward situations, I think.”

Ryan offered further information about Season 2, including the fact that Emmy Award-winning director/producer Dan Sackheim has joined the series. “He’s really kind of retooling the look of the show, and it really looks spectacular,” he said. “The sets have sort of been updated, so the show, I think, is going to look different and feel different as well.”

“Another area that we really want to get into this year that Sam and his team touched on a little bit last year is the idea that not only is (Cal) a master of detecting lies, but really he’s one of the world’s greatest liars,” continued Ryan. “So it’s seeing the flip side of the coin. It’s seeing him insert himself in the situations and lie to people to be someone else. We have a great scene that Matt Olmstead, who ran ‘Prison Break’ last year and who is writing for the show this year, wrote where we meet Cal Lightman at a singles’ mixer. And we think, ‘Oh, is this his hard-up way for a date?’ But really he’s there to check out one of the women for a case. And we see him presenting himself as a suitor to this variety of women that’s just fascinating to see him, the way he lies, and sort of worms his way into the hearts of some of these women. We’re going to see him in other situations where we see him being the liar, not just the lie detector.”

“Also, one of the things this season I’m excited about, particularly as Kelli’s character, Dr. Foster, is newly single and starting to date, is this question of, ‘How much do we want to know?’” said Baum. “How much honesty and at what price? And what is it like when you do this for a living and suddenly you’re single? And the period of dating where normally there would be a fair number of half truths, the person is laid naked. And Lightman can see it as well. And what do they talk about, and what don’t they talk about?”

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