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Jacobkosh
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Person of Interest is a police/espionage/action/superhero/science fiction/roguelike about a good dog and his team of human agents, including nerd, hot nerd, fat cop, lady cop, lesbian assassin, and the kneecap avenger. Together they fight for justice in a dystopian cyberpunk hellscape that is also 2016 New York.
I am joking and yet only one word of what I just wrote is actually untrue. Welcome to what may very well be the most ambitious and sustained act of bait-and-switch ever committed to television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQKsYXH2LCMJohn Reese (Jim Caviziel) is a former special forces soldier and black-bag assassin on the verge of killing himself with guilt. Harold Finch (Michael Emerson) is a deeply secretive software billionaire who's written a pattern-recognition algorithm to help the NSA detect potential terrorists. However, it also detects everything else: husbands plotting to kill their wives. Ordinary people who've gotten in trouble with the mob, or who have blown the whistle at a company willing to kill to keep its secrets. Every week, guided only by a single clue that the program sends them - a social security number that may belong to a victim or a perpetrator - Finch and Reese plunge into a world of corner drug deals, insider bond trading, international espionage - or just simple domestic drama.
This is the formula that made Person of Interest one of the best-rated debut shows of 2012. It was well-cast and slickly made - as you'd expect from JJ Abrams - the procedural mysteries were well-written, and there has always been a somewhat dark, cockeyed sense of humor; still, the enterprise, which perfectly fit CBS's cracker-eating old people demographic, still seemed unusually ordinary for such an ambitious producer, not to mention for showrunner and head writer Jonathan Nolan.
And then things started getting weird.
Now we're embarking on season 5 - the show's last hurrah - and, aside from some of the characters, literally almost none of what I wrote above is true. The show has smoothly evolved from one form into another in a transition so seamless that I think it will stand as a model for serial drama (yes, I did say "serial") going forward for the next decade.
But, like a great man used to say every week on Reading Rainbow, you don't have to take my word for it:
Person of Interest started as a guilty pleasure (you can find posts of mine in that fashion after season 1 or 2 iirc) and became one of my favorite shows.
whereas a show like Grim is something I still find fun, PoI has gone leaps and bounds passed what I thought it could or indeed would even try to do
person of interest is so good you guys
Apothe0sis wrote: »Person of interest is the glory of glories
Powerpuppies wrote: »chu if you dislike person of interest we are going to have some serious conversations about how much better it is than the things you do like
Johnny Chopsocky wrote: »Just finished season 3 of Person of Interest.
Man, this show certainly goes places.
Chincymcchilla wrote: »When I described that show to speed as being like metal gear solid
Be was surprised because he thought it was just a procedural
Grey Ghost wrote: »One of the things I like about Person of Interest is how creepy Reese is, and how they mostly refrain from making him into some suave glib badass
Dude comes at motherfuckers like Jason Voorhees
Man of the Waves wrote: »Person of Interest, man.
Person of Interest is a show.
It is available to watch on your electronic adding machine of choice via US Netflix right now.
If you are about to embark on this journey for the first time, then I have only one thing to say to you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4jgW4p55ugJacobkosh on
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Also, I should probably watch Person of Interest it looks kind of neat and I didn't realize it went sci-fi.
In another life, I could have been a carnival barker.
Wait, it was seriously arson? That's nuts.
He is good
I don't think you need anything else
Yup! Found the person on one of the cameras, probably the same person who's been setting small fires around town for the past few months.
it is pretty much pure garbo except...
I am pretty sure that only way to explain Jane's tattoos and the timelines of the shows is via a massive A.I. As well, otherwise plausibility goes out the window.
So, if that turns out to be true, my gritting my teeth trough the godawful execution may be worth it.
He speaks Dutch
useful tips for operating your frog
Anyway, its mid season and finale episodes were always tours de force with musical, action and narrative choices that were extremely bold and very exciting but it is so much more than how it was initially presented.
Dogs don't speak Dutch.
I had my holy shit moment at the end of season 1.
Like, that paradigm shift. Completely unexpected.
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Morning Casual
sometimes you get som pretty surreal stuff
https://g.co/ev/1817
I am watching the new one:
"morning"
How was your lunch Haps?
I hope you know what I mean.
One of the best opening scenes ever.
Apple-y!
Also hot nerd/lesbian assassin for ultimate otp 2016
I don't remember ... Please advise
make a race of hippie fungus people
some of his one liners and snarky retorts are just amazingly delivered