SummaryReese (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.
SummaryReese (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.
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.
So far, though, it has mostly kept its ambition in check, preferring to follow the playbook of a typical crime procedural, with a little more darkness and a little less energy.
With J.J. Abrams as an executive producer, this tech-driven "Early Edition" is shockingly lifeless. Caviezel's Clint Eastwood impression is flat, and Emerson is too darkly eccentric to keep the drama afloat.
If Person of Interest can calibrate the relationship between the leads in a way that makes their interactions more compelling, and if the show finds ways to answer Nolan's questions in creative and unexpected ways, it could be CBS' next addictive drama. If it ends up being a post-9/11 version of 'The Equalizer,' then this person will quickly lose interest.
This was an incredible show and became surprisingly realistic in the later seasons. I love the idea as it is both imaginative and creative! John Reese and Harold Finch work amazingly well off of each other and are more than just the brains and brawn duo they are friends and colleagues who are working to help people if they are the victim and stop the perpetrators. A spectacular show with a cool futuristic score by Ramin Djawadi.
Episode 1 Review:
I think it was a good episode. Honestly the premise is more catching than the characters at first. The whole surveillance/technology/control thing nowadays gets me going. Gets my cogs turning. Or maybe I just like the action scenes, and the show sorta just feeds into my growing paranoia? Couldn’t decide from the first episode.
We watched the first episode the night after we broke up. It was a sleepover as friends because I told you I could do that. What I told you, when I broke up with you, was that I wasn’t in love with you any longer. Everything I didn’t tell you then, I didn’t know yet. I didn’t know how you’d hurt me, how you’d monitored me, how you’d strangled me and confined me. We watched this show about surveillance that night and I didn’t realize anything. I was falling asleep a little bit and you asked me if we could hook up one last time. I said no. I had been told so many times that that was all I needed to do. You took my hand and moved it the way you wanted to. The sun had set and the show was over, and I was afraid to speak, to leave, to stop you. Eventually I rolled over and fell asleep, frozen. I left in the morning and the left of our post-break-up friendship was incredibly difficult and then, 3 months later, it dissolved completely.
Show Rating: 6/10
Viewing Experience: 1/10
Basic Plot: Computer system genius invents a machine that can detect crimes. It predicts them and its up to the Genius and his marine side kick to stop them.
The plot above does not really do the series justice as it does have some decent moments and I found it to be enjoyable. It took me a few episodes to decide I liked it. Which may put people off. It just was a little average. Think it decided it would develop the characters a little too much and had a bit too much going on. But it did find its feet. I thought that the casting was good and the direction is solid.
Some of the plot is a little bit loose. A man blows stuff up etc and no more than one person is involved in apprehending them?
You have to let this go but that can be said for many programmes.
give it a shot but remember to give it a few episodes before drawing a conclusion.
I honestly don't understand where all the 10 ratings come from... Is it people that have switched over from reality TV? Is it the CSI crew who like the twist it adds to the mystery / murder of the week genre? I honestly wanted to like the show. Two of my favorite actors from shows / movies past and I bought into the hype. Bought the first two seasons and I gutted it out through the first 10 episodes... If you like CSI, I'm betting you would like this show. For me... I need a longer / more complex story arc that's more committed to character development and the unraveling of a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma (favorite Churchill quote). This show is bland and formulaic. It simply doesn't hold my interest enough to sit through an entire episode...