Quickie Review: Person of Interest

[jeriendhal]

Summary: He's a soft speaking, well-dressed, ex-Special Forces, ex-CIA agent. He's a well-dressed computer genius with a paranoia about personal privacy. It's a magical computer that's hooked into everything. Together they fight crime!

Oh, yeah, and they face the Singularity with the help of a police detective, a dirty cop, a dog who only understands Dutch, and a psycho hacker who thinks one of the main characters has built God.


Review: It's telling that one of the most interesting science fiction shows on TV these days manages to hide itself, at first at least, in the cloak of a typical TV detective series. I wish I had caught on to this show back when it first came out. Or maybe it's better that I didn't, because then I wouldn't have dared try to start writing my For Your Safety stories.

Anyway, the characters are well drawn and likable, the villains are clever, the Idiot Ball is generally well avoided, and the use of an emergent AI is very well done.

Highly Recommended.

Comments

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I'll add that to my list to check out.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I'll warn you the actual sci-fi elements (aside from the Machine's mere existence) don't figure heavily in the first season. And the way it warns Reese and Finch of upcoming crimes (providing only a SS# for the next victim/perp) is silly. But taken in context of Finch deliberately Nerfing the Machine to make it less Orwellian it kinda makes sense.