Okay so I decided that since I was going to do my book review on the book, "Telling Lies," by Paul Ekman, I should probably watch one of the T.V. episodes that are based on research from the book.
The show turns out not to be so great, it was really boring and I felt that the plot was rather dry. The actors are actually quite bad and you would think that this guy would kind of be a bad ass, while he does do some cool shit, it's mainly like weird stuff that no one cares about.
The show barely uses any of the stuff from the book and all of it is just like examining facial gestures or slip ups of the tongue and the book goes way more in deepth about everything than that. I mean you could find little to no connection at all between the show and the book. I can see where some of the research might be incorporated, where the main character interrogates the people but I don't see how watching the show would make me want to read the book or where reading the book would make me want to watch the show. So know I have officially deemed the show full of crap and badly set up with little to no plot line and I will not being using it in my book review paper other than to make a reference to why I chose the book to do and how it may relate to today's life. In other words, what makes me care at all about reading the book.
"And so it goes in fashion"
15 years ago

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