• Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 22, 2011
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3
Person of Interest Image
Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 178 Ratings

  • Summary: Reese (Jim Caviezel) is a former CIA agent presumed dead who is recruited by Finch (Michael Emerson), a mysterious billionaire, to help stop crime before it happens with the help of Finch's software.
  • Genre(s): Drama
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 26
  2. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Sep 22, 2011
    100
    Person of Interest separates itself from the gimmick pack, not only because of superbly nuanced characterization and writing but also because of how it engages a post-9/11 sense of paranoia in its viewers.
  2. Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    Sep 22, 2011
    80
    Of course, it all sounds preposterous, but so did a movie about a guy who remembered everything backward, and Jonathan Nolan was nominated for a writing Oscar for Memento.
  3. Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    Sep 22, 2011
    60
    Clever but somehow not very absorbing, Person might provoke the paranoid while leaving the generation who's grown up on camera wondering what all the fuss is about.
  4. Reviewed by: Aaron Riccio
    Sep 16, 2011
    25
    There isn't a single interesting person in CBS's dud-on-arrival Person of Interest; at best, there's only a single interesting idea.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 51 out of 56
  2. Negative: 3 out of 56
  1. CRL
    10
    Person of Interest has gotten consistently better every week, so much so that I think it deserves a 10. Michael Emerson is amazing as the software genius Finch, and though I originally thought Jim Caviezel was seriously underacting in his role, now I realize he's just playing Reese (his character) the way Reese is meant to be played: dark, brooding, and with some insane fighting skills. Even the cops have gotten a bit larger in their roles, and the character development has been stellar. This is easily the best new show of the year, and I hope CBS keeps this one going for a long time. Expand
  2. 8
    I think this show has been perfectly cast. Jim Caviezel does very well playing the brawn while Michael Emerson is clearly one of the best cerebral actors around at the moment. Each episode is separate and only the back story carries over from one to the next, but i'm sure it could be adapted easily to make it more serial if need be (without it just being an extra long episode spit up). Expand
  3. The second season starts faster. And I believe it is going to be much more faster than the faster start. However, They must fail sometimes to make the series more likeable. They are always winner why? Expand
  4. I'm pretty tolerant, but we really don't need a revenge fantasy masquerading as moral nobility. I was going to take off 2 points for unrelenting grimness, but had to take off 8 more for its sense of right and wrong. Even if it is TV. Expand

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