According to his professionalism in the field of studying body language and facial expressions, in knowing who tells the truth and who lies, Dr. Cal Lightman, a young successful man, works for the police, in order to help them finding out the truth. In this new season, Cal does his best, in order to know whether a multi personality's woman has witnessed a murder or not.
The second season...has fluctuated wildly in quality since the day it hit the air, a fact that was underlined when the great Shawn Ryan...came on-board and seemed to find the program's personality, only to leave it and watch it drift again.
Though the writers still drop far too many hints and come up with some ridiculously contrived confrontations, they at least keep us guessing, and that's a good thing.
Roth is riveting. He plays Lightman with a combination of inscrutable intensity and loose-limbed nonchalance that elevates the entire show, even when the plots are a bit predictable or the story arcs uneven.
We've seen some amazingly written episodes this summer. Conversely, we've also suffered through some rushed and fractured episodes. I'd classify [season finale] "Black and White" as a mixture of both.
