A computer program often ends with “Return 0”, meaning without an error. In this episode titled “Return 0”, while our beloved Machine may not have had such a normal exit, a number of the story threads, and certainly the series, had a satisfying ending. Not all rainbows and unicorns, certainly, but then this series has always asked the hard questions, and those questions usually have hard answers. And while this series has been an action show surrounded by those questions (and this episode...

In “.EXE”, Finch is ready to kill Samaritan, even if it means also killing his own Machine. He and Greer have it out over who’s vision of the place of AIs in this world is better, bringing up front some of the core questions that this series has asked, and whether one or the other is willing to die themselves (or kill their creation) for that vision. Something to think about. And in between crises, Harold and the Machine consider what life would have been like for our heroes had the...

In the episode “Synecdoche”, our heroes get out of their comfort zone in New York City, and are tasked with protecting the President. But, why are those who protect the irrelevant numbers assigned to one of the most relevant terrorist targets in the world? And can the Machine adequately protect the team in Washington, DC? Shaw is still not entirely sure she’s not in a simulation still. Perhaps this might convince her that this is reality. And what of Harold Finch? Where’s he off to,...

With only 3 episodes left and following hot on the heels of the death of Root, Amy Acker came home to Dallas to mingle with fans at Fan Expo Dallas. Amy spent much of the day signing autographs for the horde of fans waiting to get a personal moment with the actress we all love. Read More...

In “Sotto Voce”, a villain from season 3 returns, and fakes out Team Machine. When even Elias is concerned for your safety, it’s really time to be careful, and beware in whom you trust. And finally, Fusco gets the answers he’s been asking for (and, frankly, deserving for quite some time). In “The Day The World Went Away”, POI’s 100th episode, Finch finds that he is the “Number of the Week”. But after being captured by Greer, and given a “Get Out Of Jail Free” card courtesy of a Root-voiced...

In this 3-episode Person Of Interest extravaganza, Darrel and Doug (or Doug and Darrell) talk about all the episodes this week. On top of that, the discussion turns to free will when it comes to saving someone. How far should Team Machine go to protect the potential victims? How much should the team tell Fusco or Elias, even if it risks their lives? And how much free will should Finch give to his Artificial Super Intelligence? We’ve got different opinions among the characters. In “A More...

Two episodes again this week, and each let us know what’s been happening to a character we haven’t seen in a while. In “6,741”, we find out what’s been happening to Shaw while she was captured by the minions of Samaritan. In an attempt to discover the location of the secret Machine lair, she’s fooled into thinking she’s escaped. But her loyalty to her comrades keeps her from revealing this key piece of information. In “ShotSeeker”, Samaritan gets a new set of ears to go with it’s many...

There were 2 POI episodes this week, and we cover them both. In "SNAFU", we get a little facial recognition problem, as the Machine tries to figure out who's who on the team. Hilarity ensures, but only until our favorite computer thinks the good guys are the bad guys because of all the harm they've caused. Finch realizes that the Machine is seeing all their actions all at once, unaware of the time component, how they've changed, and the context in which they were done. This brings up some...

Team Machine is trying to get our favorite AI back to the subway station lair before it dies with the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). (OK, a computer running Linux does not do the BSOD; that’s a Windows thing, but work with me here.) While Finch and Reese dodge Samaritan goons on their way back, Root does a little catching up with an old employer / hacker / “electronics recycler”. >wink wink Out of that little reunion comes a supercomputer that could actually hold the decompressed version of...

It's been almost a year since we've put out a podcast episode about a TV episode of POI; that's how long they've made us wait. So if you memory has been compressed, like the Machine's, you may have forgotten some of what happened last season. Never fear, though! With Darrell's rewatch of season 4 (and Doug's cribbing of CBS's website), we are here to catch you up and make our predictions about the upcoming season (who will live and who will die, how this all ends). CBS has decided to...

Just when you thought you'd have to wait until 2016 to get more Person of Interest Podcast goodness, we're back! In this special episode of Person of Interest Podcast we have some exclusive content from San Diego Comic Con 2015! We were able to get invited to participate in the press room for Person of Interest at SDCC so our SDCC correspondents, Chip and Sara Mims were happy to accept the invitation. Chip and Sara give us some great insight on the discussions that took place in the...

In the season 4 finale, “YHWH”, we find out where The Machine has been hiding all this time, but then, so does Samaritan. In a desperate attempt to save itself, it slips into God Mode, and sends Root and Finch on a shopping trip before sending them to the hub of electrical activity in an attempt to save itself (or die trying). Reese and Fusco get an escape plan courtesy of The Machine as well. (She’s been busy.) But while Fusco is escorting Elias and Dominic to central booking, and escape...

The battle between Elias and Dominic heats up, Shaw is almost rescued, Root may lose her contact with The Machine, and Control is out of control trying to find a Samaritan mole. Read more...

“Terra Incognita” is Latin for “unknown territory”, and we go into some territory that is very unknown. John is in unknown territory, out of the view of The Machine, and while there slips into some of the unknown territory of the mind. Carter, is that you? Read more...

The threads start to get brought back together, as Samaritan plays a game of “Search and Destroy” with Sulaiman Khan. Sulaiman's software, supposedly scanning for viruses, is really searching out The Machine. Will it find The Machine? Can it? We’re nearing the end of the season, and hopefully the writers will give us answer. If they Khan. Read More...

Hope you didn’t “Skip” this episode. A bounty hunter makes her catch, Root save Finch (but Finch doesn’t agree she did), Iris closes up, and Mr. Thornhill is back in play. Things seem to be ramping up to the season finale. Any idea what might be in store? Read more...

Shane Edwards is a psychologist, and a one-man Karmic machine. But Harold Finch, drawing from his own emotional past, has to convince him that revenge is just not the way to get closure. Read more...

Someone’s trying to steal from criminals, because they don’t call the cops. But, to be “blunt”, that can get you caught between the Brotherhood and the Cartel. Better have Team Machine in your corner. Read more...

In today’s “Q&A”, we’ll talk about who you should take advice from when you’re depressed, and whether Samaritan is the good guy or the bad guy. The answers aren’t always what you’d expect. Read more...

Getting back to how it all started, with just Finch and Reese, “Guilty” puts Harold in the jury box sitting next to the latest number to save or arrest. Occasional friend and jury expert Zoe Morgan does show up to give the guys a hand in trying to figure out which. It’s “Person of Interest” meets “12 Angry Men” meets “Fringe”! Read more...

Is Shaw dead, or is she just “MIA”? Reese and Root hope she’s still alive as they follow the clues and take in some of the sights of Maple, NY and its town fair. (Talk about a couple of fish out of water.) But underneath the surface of a care-free town lies a puppet master, probing humanity to try to understand it. Read more...

In “Control-Alt-Delete”, Control finds out she’s not really in control;Samaritan is. And when Samaritan is done with you, he frames you as a terrorist and gets the ISA agents to take you out. Not the kind of boss you want to work for. And when Team Machine has Control under their control, they play a game of “Bad Cop, Bad Cop”. That is, until Harold steps in and gives her a peek behind the Samaritan curtain. Will she open her eyes? Read more...

The Machine has to rescue its “acolytes” (as Greer put it) from a Samaritan trap. And it has to choose between hundreds of thousands of potential scenarios in its head; hence the episode title “If-Then-Else." That, a truly stunning development for our heroes, and a 2003 game of chess with Mr. Finch is part of this second installment of a POI trilogy. Makes me worry for part three. Read more...