- 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
- Show Type: Between Seasons
- Season 1 premiere date: Nov 24, 2011
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 10:00 PM
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 26
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Mixed: 11 out of 26
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Negative: 1 out of 26
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100Person 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.
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80Of 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.
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60Clever 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.
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25There isn't a single interesting person in CBS's dud-on-arrival Person of Interest; at best, there's only a single interesting idea.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 51 out of 56
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Mixed: 2 out of 56
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Negative: 3 out of 56
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