You know a show is at the point of wow factor when you get an episode of this caliber and it isn't even the season finale. So much happens through out this episode and it shows that these writers are so great to be able to balance three different story lines going on within one big packed episode and none of them feel rushed... not many can do that. Between Dominic capturing Elias/John/Fusco or Root and Harold trying to save the machine's life while root finds hope the woman she loves may actually be alive after all and almost comes close to reaching her, On top of that control finally seeing the bigger picture and trying to do what she needs to do to stop a fatal event from happening with Samaritan. Its too much to explain but when we talk about Penultimate episodes in the series, this was better then Beta in season 3 last year without question. POI at its best!
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For the love of God: Awesome
jayant-121229 April 2015
Finally after a dour episode with Carter's hallucinations, everyone has turned into the bad***AI fighters they are supposed to be. This is the explosion people have been waiting for since Elias took off, since end of Season 3. The ultimate scene of faceoff between the mortal crime lords and the immortal machine and Samaritan.
This episode delivers every amount of fun that this series has ever promised. It has set the stakes really high for the last episode and things will change in the name of God: YHWH
The characters have gotten deeper as well. Fusco is no longer a comic element but a true ally of Team machine who can take anything on his chin with his humor still intact. Reese super calm in storm as usual. Finch is ever more skeptical of either machine but eventually takes a leap of faith and joins the naked battle of AI. The relationship between machine, root and Finch has been explored and Finch gets his questions answered from machine on its trustworthiness.
Excellent episode, I wanna bunk all office and all work to catch the finale next week :)
This episode delivers every amount of fun that this series has ever promised. It has set the stakes really high for the last episode and things will change in the name of God: YHWH
The characters have gotten deeper as well. Fusco is no longer a comic element but a true ally of Team machine who can take anything on his chin with his humor still intact. Reese super calm in storm as usual. Finch is ever more skeptical of either machine but eventually takes a leap of faith and joins the naked battle of AI. The relationship between machine, root and Finch has been explored and Finch gets his questions answered from machine on its trustworthiness.
Excellent episode, I wanna bunk all office and all work to catch the finale next week :)
I WILL NOT FAIL YOU NOW!..
hamidullahgenc22 December 2017
Warning: Spoilers
After a great episode like "Terra Incognita",
-----which contains the element of human drama, and the soul touching -in the example of John Reese who is on daily heroic deeds- by showing the intimate relationship between Joss Carter and John Reese which was missing from the show, and for that it gave their might be / could be relationship implausibility when she died...-----
I can only say that this episode is something else!
An artifical intelligence that is determine to say lives even if this means giving itself up, therefore opening a window to countless casualties!.. This is sophisticated!.. In today's world, a robot can answer simple questions by its codes and even get a citizenship from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; but it can never produce / create something better than itself... (Okay, okay... Don't poke me. At least for now.)
That is why, The Machine is much more than any artificial intelligence and any robot. One can even claim that it has a conscious... hence a soul!.. Maybe this explains the love / passion Root has for It. (From now on, this "It" would only indicate its agenitalism / neutralism.)
Maybe we can conclude this with the idea the show provided us with the dialogues that both artificial intelligences are somewhat gods! (We are not talking about the idea of Godship every religion seems to have, but the gods the pagans have before the Christianity who can eat, sleep and breed... So, don't you, please, get offended.)
To be fair: Thoth versus Zeus!..
At the end, this episode promises us that humans, inwardly, want to devote themselves to and be ruled by a higher entity that has control over things, such as Greer and the fanatical followers; or don't care about anything but power for themselves as in the case of Elias and the Brotherhood; and some in between, like Control.
All were served well in this episode. Let us see what lies ahead. Wow.
"a beautiful woman killed me, nearly.
I say beautiful. You had to see her." (by David Baker)
An artifical intelligence that is determine to say lives even if this means giving itself up, therefore opening a window to countless casualties!.. This is sophisticated!.. In today's world, a robot can answer simple questions by its codes and even get a citizenship from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; but it can never produce / create something better than itself... (Okay, okay... Don't poke me. At least for now.)
That is why, The Machine is much more than any artificial intelligence and any robot. One can even claim that it has a conscious... hence a soul!.. Maybe this explains the love / passion Root has for It. (From now on, this "It" would only indicate its agenitalism / neutralism.)
Maybe we can conclude this with the idea the show provided us with the dialogues that both artificial intelligences are somewhat gods! (We are not talking about the idea of Godship every religion seems to have, but the gods the pagans have before the Christianity who can eat, sleep and breed... So, don't you, please, get offended.)
To be fair: Thoth versus Zeus!..
At the end, this episode promises us that humans, inwardly, want to devote themselves to and be ruled by a higher entity that has control over things, such as Greer and the fanatical followers; or don't care about anything but power for themselves as in the case of Elias and the Brotherhood; and some in between, like Control.
All were served well in this episode. Let us see what lies ahead. Wow.
"a beautiful woman killed me, nearly.
I say beautiful. You had to see her." (by David Baker)
Dark & Black ... goes well with any ensemble
A_Different_Drummer29 November 2015
My My Seems like just yesterday I was doing individual episodes of POI and lamenting the shift to what I called the TBAA ("Touched by an Angel") format, where every week the crew dutifully moved to save some hapless soul, whether deserved or not.
The worst example of this was the "gambler" episode, dutifully reviewed by yours truly. A POI episode that shall live in infamy.
Truth is, over the years, JJ and company have shown themselves to be nothing if not flexible.
These final two episodes to close season 4 are an entirely different shade of dark -- torture, killing, maiming, overall almost unrecognizable from the earlier seasons.
So, this is the stage of the review where, if you have been paying close attention, I lament the change and wish for the old days...??? Nope, not going to happen. In this case, dark works well with the show and suggests great promise for the 5th season.
Compelling TV
The worst example of this was the "gambler" episode, dutifully reviewed by yours truly. A POI episode that shall live in infamy.
Truth is, over the years, JJ and company have shown themselves to be nothing if not flexible.
These final two episodes to close season 4 are an entirely different shade of dark -- torture, killing, maiming, overall almost unrecognizable from the earlier seasons.
So, this is the stage of the review where, if you have been paying close attention, I lament the change and wish for the old days...??? Nope, not going to happen. In this case, dark works well with the show and suggests great promise for the 5th season.
Compelling TV
Are we interchangeable?
gridoon202418 April 2021
Maybe the best out of the first 89 episodes. The juggling of parallel plotlines & situations reaching a boiling point at the same time has never been done more masterfully, and there is one genuinely shocking and one incredibly powerful moment - the latter being, in fact, something that 4 seasons of this show have been building up to. ***1/2 out of 4.
The Correction is Coming
claudio_carvalho9 March 2024
Control and an agent kidnap the teacher Shelley Spencer and bring her to a place to torture her. Control kills another double agent, who worked with Samaritan and denounced Shelley as his liaison. After being tortured, she finally confesses to Control that she works for the A. I. and advises that The Correction is coming, and Control kills her. Reese and Fusco are investigating a crime scene when The Machine delivers the numbers of Elias and Dominic. Based on his undetected means of communication, Finch finds that Elias is based on the New York Savings Bank that used cases through underground pipes activated by compressed air as means of communication. Reese and Fusco meet Elias and offer to help him, but Elias refuses. Immediately after, The Brotherhood invades the bank and capture Elias, Reese and Fusco. Meanwhile, in the subway station, Shaw's phone rings and Root hears her voice. Finch believes it is a trap, but Root convinces The Machine to tell the whereabouts of her friend. They learn that she is hidden in a psychiatric hospital and the base of operation of Greer. Finch is right and it is a trap and Root and him are captured by Greer, Martine and his agents. They propose to exchange Finch and Root per the location of The Machine.
"Asylum" is one of the best episodes of "Person of Interest". In this episode, Reese and Fusco are captured by The Brotherhood together with Elias. There is no chance that their friends come to help them and unless Elias have a Plan B, they will be in serious situation. The Machine delivers its location and Finch and Root are released by Greer. But no, all his operatives are heading to destroy it. The good parts are Root breaking the neck of Martine and Shaw alive, My vote is ten.
Title (Brazil): "Asylum"
"Asylum" is one of the best episodes of "Person of Interest". In this episode, Reese and Fusco are captured by The Brotherhood together with Elias. There is no chance that their friends come to help them and unless Elias have a Plan B, they will be in serious situation. The Machine delivers its location and Finch and Root are released by Greer. But no, all his operatives are heading to destroy it. The good parts are Root breaking the neck of Martine and Shaw alive, My vote is ten.
Title (Brazil): "Asylum"
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