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Title: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 19, 2012, 09:02:22 am
Person Of Interest (Season 2)

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Trailer

Episodes

CBS is still refusing to air any episodes online. So, you will have to watch them as they air on TV.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 19, 2012, 09:02:50 am
Person Of Interest Panel - Comic Con 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVSqLNY3hCs&feature=plcp
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 15, 2012, 09:22:07 am
Person of Interest - Ultimate Look Back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmMMKG1p64M

This show can't come back fast enough for me.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 30, 2012, 10:17:00 am
The Contingency
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This was a great return for the series and it comes with a different bent to it this time around. With Finch being held captive by Root, it's up to Reese to try and find him. I was pretty certain that they would wrap this up by the end of the episode. Not the case here at all. If anything, I think it's going to be quite a few episodes before he is rescued. What's interesting this season, particularly this episode is that they have given 'The Machine' a personality. With flashback scenes of Finch communicating with it, as well as Reese doing the same in current time, we are seeing more of the intelligence of the AI, which has a huge depth to the overall vibe of the show. Love it.

Also, another Lost (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/lost-(season-5-2009)/msg12181/#msg12181) vet pops up here as well with Ken Leung playing shady accountant Leon Tao who is on the run after stealing $8 Million from white supremacists. Not sure of Ken is joining full time, but I figure that with Finch twisting in the wind, Reese will need someone good with computers to help him out in situations. Also joining the family is a dog name Bear. Awesome.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 05, 2012, 05:38:00 pm
Bad Code
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Well, that ended a lot shorter than I thought it would go. I was certain that "rescuing Finch" would take a good chunk of episodes since it seemed to building toward something much bigger with Amy Acker's character Root. Even though he was rescued, it's nice to know that Amy will be back in a future episode. I hope she has a lot of future episodes. She is awesome in everything she's in.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 20, 2012, 07:31:12 am
Masquerade
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Very good episode. It's funny how last season I was pretty sure that Carter would have a falling out with working with Reese and Finch because it goes against her code as a police officer in doing things 'by the book'. Well, it seems like she is really into how things are progressing because of how much good they are doing.

I like the scenes with Finch and Bear (the dog). At first Finch was steadfast in that he wasn't going to bond with the dog to suddenly playing catch with him to wanting to take him out for a walk. But that's when he has the panic attack being out in the open which of course shines a light on the fact that he is still suffering trauma having been kidnapped by Root. I like the ending where Reese goes for a walk with Finch and Bear to offer him a sense of security.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 26, 2012, 05:28:18 pm
Triggerman
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Pretty good episode where Reese and Finch have a decision to make: Protect the Girl or protect the killer that killed her man. But the best thing about the episode was the return of Elias (Enrico Colantoni) who is asked a favor of from Finch. In exchange for his help....a game of chess. So, are they going to be bridging the gap and making Elias a good guy? Who knows.......
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 09, 2012, 05:48:40 pm
Bury the Lede
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Another kick ass episode as the hunt for HR continues. This is also the "romantic" episode where Reese gets set up on a blind date to use as a cover to get close to the Female Reporter who is being hunted down for getting to close to uncovering the true identity of the leader of HR. The final reveal at the end is pretty good. Let's just say that the Reporter already has a connection to the man in charge. Props to the return of Zoe. I need more Paige Turco!!!!!
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 10, 2012, 04:44:41 pm
High Road
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Very cool to see David Denman pop up on POI. But even better was getting an entire episode with Paige Turco.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 17, 2012, 07:57:32 pm
Critical
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Yay! Ken Leung returns and finally shares some screen time with his Lost co-star Michael Emerson. When I first heard that Ken was joining the cast, I was under the impression that he would be a series regular. My guess is it will be more along the lines of what we get from Paige Turco when she occasionally pops up here and there. Very cool to see Julian Sands make an appearance. Since he didn't get whacked, my guess is he will have more episodes in the future. They set up at least one more episode for sure. Anything beyond that is a wait and see proposition.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 01, 2012, 08:46:38 pm
Til Death
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It was very cool to see Mark Pellegrino pop up on POI. For those that don't know or recognize his name, he is best known for playing Jacob on Lost. So, it was nice to get another alum sharing screen time with Michael Emerson. The episode itself was good and I like that they are now expanding the scope of the show to include social lives for both Fusco and Carter. No, not with each other, but with other potential love interests.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 07, 2012, 06:04:12 pm
C.O.D.
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Half the episode was basically to set up something much larger with Elias. Funny thing, they manage to do this without using a single shot of Enrico Colantoni in the role. I hope that they bring him back soon because he along with the character that he plays brings a lot to the story line. Elsewhere, very cool to see Reiko Aylesworth join the cast as Secret Service Agent Regina Vickers. Not sure how big of a role it is or for how long it will run, but whatever it is, she always brings her A-Game.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 15, 2012, 08:16:01 pm
Shadow Box
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Pretty huge turn of events at the end of the episode with Reese surrendering to the Feds, but he really didn't have any other alternative. He did have one trick left up his sleeve by turning himself in with 3 other suspects. So, this will mask his identity for the time being. I can only imagine how he is gonna get out of this little predicament and avoiding being captured as the 'man in the suit'. Solid episode.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 05, 2013, 01:42:08 pm
2 Pi R
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Solid episode that sees the gang flying solo with Reese out of commission and sitting in Jail. It's up to Finch, Fusco and Carter to track and save a mathematical genius from elimination. Turns out that the one targeting him is...himself as he contemplates suicide over feeling guilty about his older brother's death from a few years earlier. Luke Kleintank guest stars as Caleb, who also has a small role on Bones.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 12, 2013, 02:21:34 pm
Prisoner's Dilemma
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Holy crap! The last couple of days have given me some incredible episodes. Along with Breaking Bad (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/breaking-bad-(season-4-2011)/msg15718/#msg15718), this episode of Person Of Interest delivered in SPADES! The best way to describe Prisoner's Dilemma is to imagine a series of spinning plates on a highwire 200 feet above the ground and Carter somehow has to keep the plates spinning with the Fed literally in her ear feeding her questions to ask to root out 'The Man In The Suit'.

Along the way we get to see the return of Elias who actually comes to Reese's aid. Also, this episode gives us two endings. The first is when Reese is released from lockup because he was convincing enough to fool everyone. Cue The Who's Eminence Front as the soundtrack to his exit and you have an iconic scene. Loved it. Out of the woods right? Wrong. Both Carter and Reese are taking into custody by Mr. Fed who is promptly murdered by....Reese's Ex partner. BAM!!

Throw in the "story" involving Fusco and a Supermodel that made no sense whatsoever and you have a great comedic levity to an otherwise intense episode. A++++++++++.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 12, 2013, 02:22:30 pm
The Who - Eminence Front (Reese walks out of prison)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOqQ-QHqK-8

Here's the clip. Tell me that isn't some cool sh*t?!
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 03, 2013, 07:56:23 am
Dead Reckoning
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It was so weird to finally see Reese and Snow working side by side. But then again, with both of them basically at the mercy of Reese's former partner, plus having a Bomb Vest strap to both, they really didn't have a choice. I did like the scene between Finch and Reese at the end, diffusing the bomb. But it was Snow that had the scene of the episode. Instead of running and trying to make it to a safe-house with his Bomb Vest still live, he decided to just wait in Cara Stanton's car. BOOM! Payback is a   b i t c h .

So, did I detect something between Reese and Carter and she begged and pleaded to let her help him disarm the Vest? I kinda see that the writers could be leading them down the road as potential lovers. Could seem weird at first to think of this show becoming a romance show. Fear not, if it can work on Nikita, it can work here. So, what name did Cara write down? The one that points to who ordered the hit on her and Reese a long time ago.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 09, 2013, 07:46:02 am
One Percent
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This episode played like it was going to basically be a throw away episode, a stand alone that is. Having Reese and Finch trying to protect and save a billionaire that seemingly doesn't care about anything other than being a jackass doesn't scream as a character worth revisiting. But there was actually more to the story, something a bit deeper. When its revealed at the end that he was in fact tracking them, he just became a major player in the mythology of the show. Well, I should say potential to become a major player that is.

Carter and Fusco were barely in this episode, but what little screen time they had, they made the most of it when Carter basically laid down the law with Fusco that no matter what she digs up about his past, that he isn't skating by.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 15, 2013, 05:43:45 pm
Booked Solid
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Very cool to see Mía Maestro pop up on Person Of Interest. I haven't seen her in anything since Alias went off the air. For those that don't remember, she played Sydney's half sister Nadia. As for her role in this one, it looked like it was a one shot kind of deal with her playing a maid at a Hotel that's been targeted for elimination for witnessing a murder. But at the end of the episode, Finch buys the Hotel and names her Head Of Operations, which suggest that she may come back for future episodes....hopefully.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 23, 2013, 07:10:44 pm
Relevance
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Pretty bold move by the show's creator to shift pretty much the first half of the episode to a new character with practically no Reese or Finch at all. And on top of that, we don't get any Carter or Fusco till the very end. I like the new character Samantha Shaw (Sarah Shahi) who works as a government assassin who just happens to get the number from the Machine that she is a target. There is a lot of twist and turns with this one and the ending which I saw coming a mile away, served it's purpose that this is going to be a major player in the series down the road.

The really cool thing about POI is that they have created some kick ass female characters: Carter, Root, Zoe, Shaw and Kara (now deceased). I applaud the writers and show-runner's for going down this road. We are lucky to get one, maybe two female leads. But this show seems to be setting the bar higher with new and exciting female characters that actually add to the mythology. More please!!!!
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 08, 2013, 05:52:16 pm
Proteus
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After a series of episodes, expanding on the mythology of the series, Proteus was kind of a "soft" episode that was more or less a stand alone episode where Reese and Finch are tracking a serial killer, who assumes his victims identity's. It wasn't a bad episode, but it did feel light when compared to the onslaught of the last handful of episodes.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 15, 2013, 06:03:05 pm
All In
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Best thing about this episode was the fact that they gave Ken Leung a "big" part to play in this one. Up till now, his role as been pretty much cameos from time to time. I want to see him integrated further into the group and given more time like that of Carter and Fusco. I like the story for this one centering around a Casino, Old people and Money-laundering. It's combination that I've never seen before and it worked great.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 05, 2013, 05:35:48 pm
Trojan Horse
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Poor Cal. He spends all this time trying to impress and get to know Carter, but she has her suspicions and rightly so. He then is finally able to clear his name with her, paving the way for an eventual 'connection' only to be gunned down by HR. That's what you can call sh*tty timing! Ack!!
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 28, 2013, 11:38:36 am
In Extremis
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Huge episode involving both Fusco and Carter and where their relationship will go after this. Bombshell is that Fusco confesses to Carter about his shady past and that he has "killed people". Of course this isn't going to sit well with Carter. "Once a dirty Cop, always a dirty Cop". That's the mantra she lives by. So, with the Feds closing in on Fusco and the location of where he buried his ex-partner's body, Carter has a decision to make. Does she help him or let him twist in the wind. Of couse she helps him. But it's the reveal at the end when it's implied that Bear the Dog is the one that led her to the burial site to move the body.

The final scene also implies that the Machine is now infected with the computer virus as the signal goes haywire. This could have been the Season Finale. It sure felt like one. But, we still have two more episodes for this season. Yay!! The other half of the episode was about Finch and Reese's "failed" mission in that they didn't save the man from poisoning. So, the rest of the episode is about exacting retribution against the man that poisoned him and giving him one last chance to confront him. It was great. Payback is a b*tch indeed.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 05, 2013, 03:01:45 pm
Zero Day
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Pretty huge mythology episode that is really more about Finch, even though it centers around the crippled Machine. There were so many small details that whizzed on by in a flash that I actually have to go back and re-watch this one for sure. I know I missed on a couple of key nuggets. We finally get some more information about who Finch is and his former partner. We even get to see how the Library HQ came to be. It doesn't sound like much, but it is. So, gonna hit this one in a bit. Also, Carter looks to be up sh*t creek now that she is being set up for a 'non-clean' shoot/killing.
Title: Re: Person Of Interest (Season 2 - 2012)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 12, 2013, 10:01:45 pm
God Mode
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What a great f*cking Season Finale! A lot of action to be had here. But what I was really getting off on was the humor they injected into the an otherwise intense and very serious episode. Probably my favorite moment was when a Bride and Groom are facing gunpoint by some derange lunatic and with the help of the Machine, Reese and Shaw pull up in their sport car right behind him and one bullet to the back and they are gone. It's a moment you have to see. It loses a lot in translation here. Very funny though. So, basically the entire episode is about everyone hunting down the location of the Machine and it's not the ending you'd expect.

One thing I thought was kind of odd is that after Root learns of Finch's deception in the whereabouts of the Machine and is subsequently shot, she becomes catatonic to the point of having to be institutionalize. But this also leads to the the cool cliffhanger at the very end when the Machine decides to call her.....and not Reese and Finch. Season 3 can't get here fast enough. I also liked that Carter had to literally save the life an enemy of hers. Elias. They left us hanging as to where the go at the end, so I can't wait to see what becomes of their "partnership" next season. And speaking of partners. Where the hell is Fusco? He was MIA in the last 2 episodes.