Michael Emerson is a PERSON OF INTEREST
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I really like this show. Both episodes so far have been good.
The part where Reese discovered Finch's day job (or cover) was fun.
The frequent cuts to the CCTV "god perspective" really adds to the atmosphere of the show.
EDIT: fixed character names - thanks, auntiehill
The part where Reese discovered Finch's day job (or cover) was fun.
The frequent cuts to the CCTV "god perspective" really adds to the atmosphere of the show.
EDIT: fixed character names - thanks, auntiehill
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^REESE discovered Finch's day job. Michael Emerson is the actor who plays Finch, the billionaire, and Jim Caveziel is the actor who portrays Reese, the former CIA agent.
Again, it wasn't a terrible episode, but not all that interesting either. I am very 50/50 about keeping this show on the DVR list. Once again the "crime of the week" was quite boring. The only parts that intrigued me were the flashbacks, and even with those you can already see where the story is heading. I want to like this show but something is just missing.
Someone on another forum made the interesting observation about the show - that it is is almost an Batman adaptation - But one where the two aspects of his personality are separate characters:
- Finch is the wealthy person with connections, but he cannot fight crime, so...
- Reese is person he employs for dealing out vigilante justice
I think it is an interesting way to examine the show.
- Finch is the wealthy person with connections, but he cannot fight crime, so...
- Reese is person he employs for dealing out vigilante justice
I think it is an interesting way to examine the show.
^hmm. That is an interesting way to look at it--Batman, divided in two.
So I guess a future revelation will be Finch developing his limp, because he didn't have it in the flashbacks.
I'll give this a couple more episodes, but so far it's not doing much for me. It did occur to me that I'd be more interested if Finch and Reese had a Mulder/Scully will-they-or-won't-they tension going on. Sounds like a joke but I'm not kidding.
I'll give this a couple more episodes, but so far it's not doing much for me. It did occur to me that I'd be more interested if Finch and Reese had a Mulder/Scully will-they-or-won't-they tension going on. Sounds like a joke but I'm not kidding.
This show is very good and Reese is ridiculously awsome, almost - as other mentioned it - in a Batman way!
This is my top new show of the year so far.
This is my top new show of the year so far.
I'm pretty easy to please and I can name 40 better shows on the air. You guys know I rarely complain about a show. I just want to like it so much because of Emerson and Nolan. I'll give it one more shot. 
Yeah, but I think they might save it for a season finale if the show makes it that far.
CBS shows mostly make it to the end of the season. The only thing I can think of recently that didn't get to finish up was CHAOS.
Same here. And how perfect would Michael Emerson be as the Riddler, BTW?
The pilot had flaws (I DVR'd but haven't watched the later eps yet) but the two main actors made it worth watching. I was especially impressed at just how...badass...JC's character was for a TV show. Especially on CBS, I would have never expected the lead actor in a network crime show to
blackmail a cop by shooting another [crooked] cop with the first cop's gun, putting the dead body in the first cop's squad car trunk and then demanding the first cop work as his snitch to avoid being framed for murder.
The ratings only dropped 13% which is not at all bad for the second week of a show.
The story was just another humdrum case of the week. Finch is being fleshed out as a real character whose motives seem understandable, but I think Michael Emerson has a lot to do with that.
Reese needs some help. Right now he's a cypher and Caveziel isn't putting any layers into his performance. Just echoing Finch's motive of having lost a loved one (gay lover perhaps in Finch's case?) I'd like to see Reese have some unexpected level, such as having a side of him that just loves mayhem. He certainly does have a knack for it.
But there are sources of tension between characters other than sex, and maybe they can develop something along those lines. If Finch misjudged Reese, who is more of a violent psycho than he let on, yet is too effective for Finch to terminate the relationship (and there's always the possibility of reprisal), that could be a source of dramatic tension. Reese could become a monster that Finch can barely control.
The story was just another humdrum case of the week. Finch is being fleshed out as a real character whose motives seem understandable, but I think Michael Emerson has a lot to do with that.
Reese needs some help. Right now he's a cypher and Caveziel isn't putting any layers into his performance. Just echoing Finch's motive of having lost a loved one (gay lover perhaps in Finch's case?) I'd like to see Reese have some unexpected level, such as having a side of him that just loves mayhem. He certainly does have a knack for it.
The second week is more confirmation that this show cannot survive on a case-of-the-week format. The interesting part is going to have to be the serialization about the machine and the characters.
Well since Reese at least is straight, this may be too much to hope for.
But there are sources of tension between characters other than sex, and maybe they can develop something along those lines. If Finch misjudged Reese, who is more of a violent psycho than he let on, yet is too effective for Finch to terminate the relationship (and there's always the possibility of reprisal), that could be a source of dramatic tension. Reese could become a monster that Finch can barely control.That'll be the season finale cliffhanger (assuming the show lasts that long).
I agree a real cracker and looks like we have a off screen mini big bad, wonder how long it will last. So far every episode has improved IMO and its a keeper for me but the demo ratings are a little worrying at the moment though it was down last night like all shows due to baseball...The shite lead in doesn't help.
I watched this show for the first time the other night. Been otherwise occupied here at the beginning of the TV season, but I had been looking forward to this show and so made a point of tuning in.
Bottom line is that it was okay...but just okay. And that sort of disappointed me.
I suspect a lot of people tuning in to this show were/are LOST fans, like myself. And Michael Emerson is still brilliant...but personally, I think that he needs more to work with. Emerson became a star of LOST from what started out to be a couple-off contract because he is an expert at generating mystery and intrigue around his character. But let's face it....LOST gave him a LOT to work with going in.
This show, not so much.
I think if they made the show less crime-of-the-week and more about some larger intrigue, Emerson can do wonders. But not even Emerson can take a dime a dozen crime-of-the-week show and make it anything other than just okay.
Bottom line is that it was okay...but just okay. And that sort of disappointed me.
I suspect a lot of people tuning in to this show were/are LOST fans, like myself. And Michael Emerson is still brilliant...but personally, I think that he needs more to work with. Emerson became a star of LOST from what started out to be a couple-off contract because he is an expert at generating mystery and intrigue around his character. But let's face it....LOST gave him a LOT to work with going in.
This show, not so much.
I think if they made the show less crime-of-the-week and more about some larger intrigue, Emerson can do wonders. But not even Emerson can take a dime a dozen crime-of-the-week show and make it anything other than just okay.
Not really all that important I guess: the way the flashbacks were placed in the episode really irritated me.
Something I thought of during the episode: In episode two, we learned that some years ago Finch didn't have the limp thing (maybe from a back injury/fused spine), which made me think something happened between then and now that we would later learn. But in this episode, he's out in public a lot. And it started me thinking maybe the limp is just an injury that will make people he encounter remember that about him first and less about the specifics of his face or anything else. And it would be one more thing he would be able to surprise Reese with in an emergency.
Something I thought of during the episode: In episode two, we learned that some years ago Finch didn't have the limp thing (maybe from a back injury/fused spine), which made me think something happened between then and now that we would later learn. But in this episode, he's out in public a lot. And it started me thinking maybe the limp is just an injury that will make people he encounter remember that about him first and less about the specifics of his face or anything else. And it would be one more thing he would be able to surprise Reese with in an emergency.
