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Person of Interest Season 4

Nice side B-plot with Silva. Again, I hope we see her again.

You mean the woman who partnered with Fusco? I was wondering if she was meant to be the new Shaw (or maybe the new Carter). Or at least a candidate for the gig.

The answer to that is maybe. The actress has a pilot with TNT, but who knows if it'll get picked up or not. She's also going to be in the second season of True Detective.
 
The stuff in the town was definitely interesting. It really is scary what Samaritan is capable of, but I guess that's the whole point.
The end scene really surprised me. In all of the interviews they kept making it sound like the other episode was the last we'd see of Shaw. So I wonder if this was just one last quick scene, with anything else involving her happening off screen, or if they were lying just to keep the suspense.
The B-story with Fusco and the other cop was good too. I really hope this isn't the last we've seen of her.
 
I was thinking that we might see the Samaritan people talking about what they are doing to Shaw, but we won't actually see her.
 
Shaw's situation seemed like a callback to Kara Stanton's first meeting with Greer and that can be a bit worrying. Although The Machine certainly seems to have a plan for her or otherwise it wouldn't ask the team to stop searching for her.
 
I thought that was a great premise: use a bankrupt little town as an experiment. Samaritan is amping up the evil intent.

Good to see Shaw at the end.
 
Shaw's situation seemed like a callback to Kara Stanton's first meeting with Greer and that can be a bit worrying. Although The Machine certainly seems to have a plan for her or otherwise it wouldn't ask the team to stop searching for her.
I forgot about The Machine telling them to stop looking for Shaw. That does kind of make you wonder if she knows something the team doesn't.
 
I forgot about The Machine telling them to stop looking for Shaw. That does kind of make you wonder if she knows something the team doesn't.

I figure it's just what Harold said -- that being consumed by the hunt for Shaw would lead to their deaths and cause the failure of the larger mission.
 
I forgot about The Machine telling them to stop looking for Shaw. That does kind of make you wonder if she knows something the team doesn't.

I figure it's just what Harold said -- that being consumed by the hunt for Shaw would lead to their deaths and cause the failure of the larger mission.

I'm hoping the Machine has a deeper purpose in mind here. She's playing the long game...

:techman:
 
From Dead Reckoning:
Kara Stanton: "Where am I?"
John Greer: "You're in the afterlife, my dear."

From M.I.A.:
Sameen Shaw: "If this is the afterlife, it sucks."

Clever. :techman:
 
A rather small episode, but in many ways it felt like a quick return to the feel of the very first season. I liked it.
 
This one didn't work for me. It was pretty stupid for them all to assume Blair Brown was trying to get the defendant acquitted, and to act on that assumption before verifying it. And the underlying premise doesn't really make sense — if everyone on the jury was so easily convinced of the guy's guilt, why was a fixer even needed? It would've been a more credible scenario if there'd been some real ambiguity, if there'd been enough divisiveness within the jury that it would make sense to hire a fixer to push things a certain way. But the writers evidently wanted to fall back on the familiar 12 Angry Men trope of the one solitary juror speaking for the client's innocence against a room full of self-absorbed people who just want to rush to judgment and go home. Which worked great in 12 Angry Men but was a very poor fit for this story, and was handled in a cursory, caricatured way at that.



And the regurgitation of the "cell phone towers cause cancer" myth made it even more stupid. It's physically impossible for microwaves to do that. In terms of the "size" and energy of microwave photons relative to the photons of cancer-causing ionizing radiation, saying "cell signals gave him cancer" is tantamount to saying "he was shot through the heart by a weather balloon."
 
I don't know where the idea that Reese had feelings for Carter but I always thought there was something between him and Zoey, but it's now obvious that he's got a thing for the IA woman. As for the jury, Zoey had tagged the other woman as an alpha so it was needed to get her out of the way. But I was wondering about the numbers that were coming out while they were looking for Shaw and this ep. explained some of that, it's no wonder the Machine wanted them to stop looking for Shaw since there other things going on.
 
I thought this one was pretty good. It was kind of nice a smaller episode after the big episodes we just got.
 
I liked it, too. It was a chance for some quiet moments. I really liked Finch in the jury room and the Morse code conversation.
 
I don't know where the idea that Reese had feelings for Carter but I always thought there was something between him and Zoey, but it's now obvious that he's got a thing for the IA woman.

The Carter/Reese idea is from shippers. Or people who can only comprehend the kiss as being one thing. As for Reese/Zoe, it's been implied that it's just a casual thing between them.
 
I did find it kind of funny that they the morse code with a rifle thing here, after they did almost the same thing just a couple of days earlier on Agent Carter. Granted this was a laser pointer, and the Agent Carter was a reflection off the scope, but I still found it funny.
 
That kind of stuff happens sometimes .The Big Bang Theory had Sheldon discovering he liked Taylor Swift and then a few days later Dean on Supernatural did the same.
 
Also, two shows this week, Arrow and Grimm, have featured characters finally revealing secrets that they've been sitting on for some time -- weeks in the latter case, months and years in the former. Although that convergence might be because it's sweeps month.
 
Also, two shows this week, Arrow and Grimm, have featured characters finally revealing secrets that they've been sitting on for some time -- weeks in the latter case, months and years in the former. Although that convergence might be because it's sweeps month.

"The Sweeps Month Convergence" sounds like a Big Bang Theory episode title.:)
 
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