Let's talk about a new fall TV series. Of the shows I've checked out (
New Girl,
Pan Am,
Person of Interest, part of
Suburgatory)
Pan Am is the winner in terms of quality (after two episodes), and I still have hope for
New Girl, in spite of literally cringing at some of Jess (Zooey Deschanel)'s antics. But I'm most interested in the world and mythology of
Person of Interest. A show about preventing violent crime in post-9/11 America using stolen information from a government threat-assessment computer? A J.J. Abrams project with
Lost veteran Michael Emerson as one of the stars? I was all in from the get-go. The fact that Jonathan "Brother of
Christopher" Nolan, co-writer of
The Dark Knight, is the creator is just icing on the cake.
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Person of Interest's Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Finch (Michael Emerson)
via TV Fanatic |
Here's the short version of the premise: in the wake of 9/11, a rich genius computer programmer (Michael Emerson) built the U.S. government a Big Brother machine to identify potential terrorist threats. The machine, however, identified
all potential violent crime, so the "irrelevant," small-scale crimes are disregarded -- and sent to the programmer, Finch. He gets a list of Social Security numbers of people who will be involved in crimes, either as a victim or perpetrator. Finch recruits an ex-CIA agent, John Reese (Jim Caviezel), to do the boots-on-the-ground work of preventing these crimes using a combination of technical savvy and old-fashioned brute force.
Much more under the jump.
(I started rambling. Whoops.)
