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There will be spoilers in the latest pages of the thread since we will discuss the episodes. I highly recommend watching the latest episode before reading the newest comments.
Searched for a thread discussing this awesome TV Show. But couldn't find it. So i made one.
Plot outline from Wikipedia(Not many spoliers though. This is just the first 20 mins of the pilot) "In the beginning, John Reese (Jim Caviezel), a former Green Beret and CIA field officer, is living as a vagrant in New York City and is presumed dead. He is approached by Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), a reclusive billionaire computer genius who is living under an assumed identity. Finch explains that after September 11, 2001, he built a computer system for the government that uses information gleaned from omnipresent surveillance to predict future terrorist attacks. However, Finch discovered that the computer was predicting ordinary crimes as well. The government is not interested in these results, but Finch is determined to stop the predicted crimes. He hires Reese........"
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama Series is produced by J.J.Abrams and Jonathan Nolan (Yes, brother of Christopher Nolan.) I stumbled upon this gem of a series quite recently. It's a great find. Two seasons are out, as of now, with the third season coming out in Sept. 2013. There are lots of interesting plot lines to keep the series going strong for a good number of seasons.
I would highly recommend this to people who liked shows like 24 , Prison break, Burn notice etc.
Here is the season 1 Promo: + Show Spoiler +
Here is the season 2 Promo (Don't watch this until you finish season 1. There are a quite a few spoilers): + Show Spoiler +
Why are you still here? Go watch it now. :D
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sorry, but this is not a good show. There's at least 30 better shows in a similar genre you should watch, before you watch this one.
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On August 25 2013 21:54 TigerKarl wrote: sorry, but this is not a good show. There's at least 30 better shows in a similar genre you should watch, before you watch this one. So please name a few, I find this show quite decent. But I agree, it shows some JJ Abrams/Nolan style, which I do not enjoy that much.
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On August 25 2013 21:54 TigerKarl wrote: sorry, but this is not a good show. There's at least 30 better shows in a similar genre you should watch, before you watch this one.
I disagree, I think Person of Interest is very underrated. Of all the series currently running I think I rate it second after Breaking Bad, but before Dexter, Homeland, Game of Thrones and a lot of other series, but opinions will always be opinions.
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On August 25 2013 22:07 Vandro wrote:Show nested quote +On August 25 2013 21:54 TigerKarl wrote: sorry, but this is not a good show. There's at least 30 better shows in a similar genre you should watch, before you watch this one. I disagree, I think Person of Interest is very underrated. Of all the series currently running I think I rate it second after Breaking Bad, but before Dexter, Homeland, Game of Thrones and a lot of other series, but opinions will always be opinions. Wait, what? I strongly disagree, but I do not like Breaking Bad lately... so
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On August 25 2013 22:09 Derity wrote:Show nested quote +On August 25 2013 22:07 Vandro wrote:On August 25 2013 21:54 TigerKarl wrote: sorry, but this is not a good show. There's at least 30 better shows in a similar genre you should watch, before you watch this one. I disagree, I think Person of Interest is very underrated. Of all the series currently running I think I rate it second after Breaking Bad, but before Dexter, Homeland, Game of Thrones and a lot of other series, but opinions will always be opinions. Wait, what? I strongly disagree, but I do not like Breaking Bad lately... so
Breaking Bad - Consistently good, really looking forward to how the show will end. Dexter - Decent start of last season, but it's flaws are starting to show again. Actually only 3 great seasons (1,2 and 4). Homeland - Bitches be crazy, and why is the CIA totally incompetent? Why do they lose track of a helicopter when it takes of on American soil?? Game of Thrones - "Hello, I am Robb Stark, I have camped on the same spot for 2 seasons, nobody knows why I have screen time since I sit on my ass all day, and then I die (at least my death was cool). In the books I am hardly mentioned in book 2, but in the series they think I need scenes with a very uninteresting wife that for unexplainable reasons is introduced in the TV series instead of a more interesting girl in the books." Person of Interest - A lot of great characters, even a lot of high quality recurring characters. Cool story (hello intelligent PRISM), looking forward to season 3.
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Quite looking forward to season three myself. Whether other people consider it good or not I don't actually care about, as long as the series keeps running.
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I'm a BIG fan of this serie. I watch a LOT of series (and this is an understatement), and, IMO, this one rates up there right below Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones (counting only the undergoing series).
I find Person of Interest a lot more Interesting than Homeland for instance. The second season of PoI was awesome in terms of script writing and story development. In the first season the series started as one of that Crime Fighting series with stand alone episodes, and wasn't very cativating, but it slowly picked up and now, that the episodes aren't stand alone at all, it became a really good series.
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And the idea of an omnipresent AI also fascinates the nerd in me. (And i hope the rest of the TL'ers too). Most stories of this genre need some suspension of disbelief. But what sets POI apart is that it has only a few points that need it(the suspension of disbelief, i mean. + Show Spoiler +Such as the why would Finch give so many outputs to the machine, How did it mimic the Nsa chief's phone call ).
The crime fighting is cool and all ;but i like the machine and Finch-Nathan centric story lines the most.
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I enjoyed the first season, but stopped watching after a few episodes of the second because it was just getting so formulaic.
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On August 25 2013 22:19 Vandro wrote: Homeland - Bitches be crazy, and why is the CIA totally incompetent? Why do they lose track of a helicopter when it takes of on American soil??
Alright well first off, please edit out the game of thrones spoiler. I've obviously seen it but others should not be spoiled about game of thrones in a thread that has nothing to do with it.
As for my response to the homeland criticism: Do you think they just have a helicopter on standy? Even if they do, do you think a helicopter can covertly tail another helicopter? Or do you expect them to have access to a satellite that can track a helicopter while it's dark outside?
There are plotholes in homeland, as there are in every show, but if that's your worst criticism then I don't really understand.
As for Person of Interest, I'm gonna give it a try, hadn't heard about it before I saw this thread though.
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Absolutely love this series, one of the best.
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It's completely formulaic. That doesn't make it bad. Connelly has been writing the same book his whole career, and he's still a great author.
Person of Interest is pretty decent for a formula show. I've watched the two seasons in like 3 days, which I rarely do when most episodes look similar.
[also if you've really watched a lot of series, you shouldn't be that surprised to see Abrams take a formulaic pitch and then change it completely at some point in season 2 (seeing how he has done it every time)]
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I've been watching this, it's a fun show so far. It doesn't have that much depth as far as I can tell. I suspect we'll continue to get bits and pieces of character development for the 4 main characters, but as it was mentioned above, it's a very formulaic show. Decent at what it does.
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It's one of my favorite tv shows atm and the last episode showed some really interest things imo. So, is someone still watching the show here?
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On November 24 2013 02:43 ExChill wrote: It's one of my favorite tv shows atm and the last episode showed some really interest things imo. So, is someone still watching the show here? I am. Interested how the show is going to continue after that last episode
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I'm there too, I did not enjoy at all the episode in question, I thought it was telegraphed as hell. The next one, however, was just freaking amazing. So I dunno. I think I still like this show, and I'm not sure yet if it's because I'm hopelessly in love with Amy Acker or if it's because it's actually interesting.
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I love this show.It keeps getting better and better. Probably my favorite show right now.
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Just caught up. Season 3 has been pretty damn amazing. They really turned up the heat for this season.
+ Show Spoiler +This season needs more Zoe though.
+ Show Spoiler +Laughed so hard when they left the guy hanging in episode 10.
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Gonna up this just because that last episode was fucking awesome and there's no specific reason why we shouldn't be talking about this show more than we are.
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