Imagine a show where the protagonist is exceedingly brilliant. So brilliant , in fact, that his or her abiliy to solve seemingly intractable problems verges on the paranormal. Every word out of his or her mouth advances the plot without any other character’s assistance! Forget deux ex machina — this deux is frickin’ IN the machina. Thankfully, he (or she) is riddled with eccentricities — cold, brutish, aggressive — so rather than being an expository device, he or she is quirky! ooh!
Thank our mighty stars that Cal Lightman* has finally gone where House, Bones, and The Mentalist have dared not! Oh. Hmmm. I guess they all totally dared. Darn!
*Cal Lightman is Tim Roth’s character on Lie to Me.
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Don’t forget Psych! (along with House, Bones, etc.)
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