★★★ A graceful woman with little luck with men finds a decent-looking boyfriend thanks to a friend. She is not and the “presenter” couple begins to investigate the match, while also rediscovering a lost spark. There is something – there is a lot, actually – of vaudeville in this fiction that has very good moments and likeable characters (who live, as befits the genre, in an equally fictional universe, where what counts are their actions and reactions). Also something of the picaresque, although nuanced with something that we could call “psychological realism”, that everything that happens has a reason for being and can be understood by others. It is not a criticism, but a description. In any case, the problem with Lie to me is that it usually falls into regulation resolutions and the easy effect. Not always, but quite a lot.
