*Sniffle* It's all over
For those who have been following my roundups and seeing that every week there's another feature-length summary of the latest Person of Interest episode that they don't watch, I apologise for boring you all. But I'm going to have to do it one last time.
I wasn't going to watch the finale until Thursday after my work rotation was over, because I thought I would need the time to process what was set to be a stunning conclusion. But in the end, I couldn't wait. And I'm glad I didn't. This was hands down the single best hour of TV I've ever seen. And I blubbed like an emotionally incontinent child.
(FAIR WARNING: This roundup is extremely long. Read on only if you'd like to waste time you should be revising, or if it's 3am and your kids won't go back to sleep and no one's on Facebook.)
RETURN 0
This episode was filled with emotional gut punches, heartbreaking speeches, the odd well-timed titbit of humour and lots of beautiful throwbacks, but in terms of actual plot there's little substantive action to analyse. Which means I can review the actual plot of Return 0 as an individual episode easily enough. I'll prove it.
Following the events of the previous episode, the Ice-9 virus intended to kill Samaritan (and collaterally the Machine and the entire bleeding Internet) is having a devastating global effect. Samaritan does its best to protect itself in a variety of ways: first by sending info to the cops that Reese aka Detective Riley was the Man in the Suit. He and Fusco are arrested by corrupt cops but rescued by a sniper hired by the Machine. Then Samaritan creates a copy of its code onto an airgapped server in a gold vault in the Federal Reserves, an area Finch enters with Reese after convincing a security guard he had a "thermonuclear device" in his briefcase. That guard was terrified you crazy sumbitch. Although to be fair, intense-calm Michael Emerson is mad scary.
After they get to the vault, they realise that Samaritan's plan is to divert its remaining source code to an antenna on a roof somewhere and beam it up Scotty to a passing satellite to see out the Ice-9 virus. The only way to stop it is to send some Machine code after it, but Samaritan has covered its evil behind by sending a cruise missile to that one satellite dish. Whoever sends up the Machine code dies, basically.
Finch refuses to let that be Reese, so he locks Reese in the vault. Then the penny drops: the Machine sent Finch to the wrong roof and Reese is actually in place to send up the code. He sacrifices himself so that Finch can live.
Elsewhere, Fusco finally meets the Machine and the Subway, and shortly after he is left with Shaw to defend the Machine from Samaritan agents who have found the Machine. Blackwell, Root's murderer, attacks as Shaw drives the subway car alone the line. He stabs Fusco and escapes, but in the end Fusco lives.
And that's it. There's obviously loads more that I haven't begun to speak of yet, but in terms of action that's how everything goes. While some of that (like Reese sacrificing himself) is heartbreaking, it's the closure each character gets which makes this perfect. An outsider wouldn't grasp the bittersweet perfection of all the character closure on the above summary alone: to understand its full impact you have to understand the importance of how our characters' lives and pasts influence the finale's endgame, and that means delving into the previous 5 seasons. And there's nowhere better to start than the Machine itself, for without it this show cannot exist.
THE MACHINE
THE MACHINE'S ENDING: After almost being completely wiped out more than once this season, the Machine survives the Ice-9 virus and reuploads its core data to the systems in the subway - and sends out another number.
So Samaritan is dead and the numbers will keep coming. That seems like a perfect way to end the Machine's growth over the five seasons, and is even better when you realise that speech that Root gave at the start of season 5, which was actually the Machine using Root's voice, was said by the Machine to itself after it came back down from the satellite victorious and began reuploading itself.
In season 1, the Machine was a faceless, hidden thing. The story was never about the Machine, it was about the characters and the POIs they protected, and the Machine's only contact with Finch and Reese was made in the delivery of the Social Security Number of that week's POI. And even the method it employed to deliver those numbers was a secret until the second season premiere.
But even that doesn't really make it a frontal figure in the series. It becomes more involved when Kara, on behalf of Decima Technologies, infects the Machine with a virus created to destroy it, because we then see the effects of that virus on its capability to predict murderous situations. However, even then we see the effects from the point of view of Reese and Finch in their efforts to try and save the POIs, not the effect upon the Machine. It's damaged, but it remains a shadowy, mysterious being.
But that all begins to change from the end of season 2 onwards. The Machine creates a human identity for itself, recognisable to Team Machine, using the face and name of Ernest Thornhill. Hunted by Root, Decima and the US government, it then moves itself from its storage facility. Root and Reese get access to the Machine's God Mode, where it grants them open access to it for 24 hours, similar to the open system that Samaritan is later on. But once the access expires, the Machine returns to its mysterious self.
Then, in season 3, things become a little more complicated.
The hunt for the Machine hots up. A group of privacy terrorists emerge in Vigilance, who vow to stop the government abusing technology to spy on US citizens. The government, through Control, want to be able to control the Machine not work at its secretive behest and, after it moved itself, they sought an alternative in Samaritan. Root becomes an interface with the Machine, after a cochlear implant in her ear, and it sends her on missions. So now we have a direct link between the Machine and a main cast member.
This continues in season 4. With cover identities for Team Machine added to Samaritan's hardware to protect them from certain assassination, the Machine v Samaritan war becomes the prominent plot. The Machine's capability to give Root changing identities in the fight against Samaritan becomes more regular. We see inside the Machine more, including an entire episode simulation in If-Then-Else. And we learn how and where it moved itself in the season 2 finale.
But it's still a closed system. It can't fight back itself, it can only delegate necessary actions to its human agents. That is until season 5, where Finch, having saved the Machine from annihilation, becomes an open system for a while. Then, following Root's sniping, takes on its own voice and is set free to fight its rival ASI.
This is the path of the show's biggest constant: it can't act, so it doesn't. From the very beginning of the show - before then even, when Finch first coded the Machine - all it could do was give numbers. Later on, especially through Root, it began to delegate missions, but the Machine itself still cannot act against Samaritan.
Then Root gets sniped to death and Finch frees the Machine to do as it pleases. But still, having spent so much time caged, it cannot defeat Samaritan. The simulations Finch ran in the subway prove that, so he has to act alone.
In the end, ASI could not defeat ASI. And that's crucial. The Machine couldn't act against Samaritan even when it could, and in the end it needed its human agents to help it win the battle. The war may have been between two ASIs, but it's the humans who won it - as ever it was and should be.
But that's not the only evolution of the Machine and nor is it the most heartbreaking one. That honour would go to the lessons Finch teaches it about people, about value and morality; and what it learns, using those lessons, from watching humanity. It's a principle example of a parent teaching a child about how to be good,
And in the season 5 finale, the Machine proves it has learnt its lesson from watching everyone about value, when, in the middle of its slow death due to the Ice-9 virus Finch uploaded, it remembers two police officers talking years ago
Everyone dies alone. But if you mean something to someone…
if you help someone or love someone, and even a single person remembers you… then maybe you never really die?
That conclusion was right for the finale. After everything that has happened, after all the people it saved - and after how Samaritan comparatively treated the world like chess pieces (where the Machine was taught a specific lesson by Finch not to see people as having more value than another [like in chess]) - and all that its team had done, the Machine knew that the most important thing was that everyone was important to someone.
And that was especially poignant given that it had taken Root's voice as a comfort to Finch and Shaw. In fact, that was how the Machine's conclusion worked best. It didn't take Root's voice for nothing: it did so to bring peace to two of its human agents. Because if "even a single person remembers you ... then maybe you never really die".
FINCH
FINCH'S ENDING: After the events on the rooftop which defeat Samaritan, Finch decides to seek out Grace in Paris and attempt a normal life.
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| Finch in the pilot |
Without Harold Finch, this show runs very differently, as the Machine showed us in ".exe". Samaritan enters the world unopposed and controls humanity forever. Without the Machine it can't be stopped, but without Harold Finch there's no Machine.
Since this finale is all about growth and closure, it seems right to discuss Finch's growth, but also to note that his growth is actually much less than anyone else's. He begins the series as a particularly private person - it's even an arc of the first season that Reese tries to surveil him to learn more about his new employer. He is private, he is calculating, he is unquantifiably clever and he has an excellent technological skillset. But by the end of it, he's actually no less a mystery.
Yes, we viewers learn why he built the Machine (because he was powerless to stop his father's dementia and had wanted to build something to help him remember things), and yes, we viewers learn how he got his injuries (in the ferry bombing designed by the government to kill Nathan Ingram and prevent him revealing the Machine's existence to a journalist), but that's because of flashbacks. He reveals to his compatriots in Team Machine as little in season 5 as he did to Reese in season 1.
But he is also a constant in his beliefs. Steadfast in his conviction that a closed-system ASI is better than an open one (and Samaritan awkwardly proved his point), steadfast in that permanent harm to people is wrong unless completely necessary, steadfast in that one person is as valuable as another ... It's Finch's beliefs that guide the characters: he helps tame Reese in the beginning, he directs Shaw to better use her own combat abilities for good, and he helps see Root from distant enemy to arguably his closest confidante. He never wavers from the moral code with which he built the Machine. Some people say that he did, that Finch became unbalanced when Root died and that the darker side of him was shown. I disagree completely. Even to his final moment in the episode, he was the same Finch with the same beliefs. He had not changed in how he dealt with the deeper philosophical questions about ASIs.
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| Reese and Finch in the pilot |
The biggest growth Finch experiences is his relationship with Reese.
Harold Finch: You can call me Mr. Finch. I think you and I can help one another. I don't think you need a psychiatrist or a support group, or pills...
John Reese: What do I need?
Harold Finch: You need a purpose. More specifically, you need a job.
That quote, taken from the pilot, shows how Finch views their entry into the venture of saving the numbers together. Reese is his employee, albeit one Finch saved (perhaps he even considered John a number, although the Machine never did give out the SSN of a suicide).
But in season 5, he recognises that they have become closer than he ever imagined.
"When I hired you, I suspected you were going to be a great employee. What I couldn't have anticipated was that you would become such a good friend."
Awww. BFFs. Rinch? Feese? Oh God, not Feese, that's one S away from a disaster. Moving quickly ahead!
So their relationship is much more than employee and furtive employer, but we need to hark back to another Finch quote from the pilot.
"If you stay and we continue to do this, sooner or later both of us will probably wind up dead, actually dead, this time."
Finch knows even then that their work is dangerous, although at that time even he doesn't envision a rival ASI emerging.
But the EPs told us seasons ago in an interview that Reese was always going to die. That was where his storyline was headed: a heroic death in the fight to topple Samaritan. It was even implied that had Sarah Shahi not fallen pregnant and claimed maternity leave, Reese would have died in season 4. If that's true, thank God for Sarah's husband doing the biz, because I think Reese's sacrifice in the finale was perfect. I can't imagine him bowing out any earlier working for the show.
Anyway, the point of this is to show that Reese and Finch became more than just two men working together to save people, because it's their closeness that creates probably the most predictable and yet still the best twist in the episode. Finch, desperate to save Reese, locks him in the gold vault and goes to sacrifice himself to destroy Samaritan - but Reese has an arrangement with the Machine to protect Finch. Reese escapes, diverts Finch and sacrifices himself. That emotional goodbye between these two characters, who in the first season were as close as me to my old boss (that's not very close at all), is the biggest payoff of the show. It built to this, and Reese dying so that Finch could live allowed for Finch to go and do one last thing.
Return to Grace.
His fiancée, the woman for whom he had faked his death in order to protect her, his one true human love.
Certainly, Finch seeking out Grace was poetic and seeing them reunite was something the fans all wanted. It was simply a shame that time constraints had to affect this one thing, because it would have been nice to see more than just Grace's reaction when she realises he's still alive. But in the end, it was enough. Finch and Grace reunited in Paris, and we as fans can believe that they lived happily ever after.
REESE
REESE'S ENDING: He dies in a hail of bullets, having done two things: save Finch's life and upload the Machine code to the satellite to destroy Samaritan.
Now it's time to talk about Reese's death in proper detail, and why that was the perfect ending for him. In the pilot, he was homeless, living on subways and drinking himself to death because he had no purpose nor will to live. Harold Finch changed all that. He saved his life by giving him a job, as you can see in the video below.
Reese began the series out of the loop. He knew about the Machine but he knew nothing about Finch and he didn't know how the numbers were determined or delivered. He wasn't satisfied with that, but over the course of the first season he had plenty of other things to concern himself with: the turning of corrupt cop Lionel Fusco, an investigation into his vigilante activities led by Joss Carter, the fight to stop Elias gaining power, his old CIA buddies catching up thim and the painful memories of the death of his soulmate, a death he was unable to prevent because he was in China with the CIA.
He killed a lot of people in his time. He hurt a lot more. He let go the one person he truly cared about. In the end, Reese, even after Finch rescued him from suicide, was on "borrowed time", as the EPs put it. It was always in their endgame for Reese to die. So how to make his death just?
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| Reese being killed by Samaritan agents |
Well, for five seasons he had been Finch's friend, his helper, but most importantly his protector. So even when Finch tries to do the right thing and give Reese a chance to live, Reese refuses. He understands that his past means he will never be happy, and that he doesn't have anything to live for. He can't live a normal life (look at his failed relationship with psychiatrist girlfriend Iris for evidence of that), but he knows that Finch has a chance to. So Reese goes behind his back, diverts Finch to the wrong rooftop and uploads the Machine code to the satellite himself.
I think it could still have been poetic if Finch died: he brought an ASI into the world and he could take it out again, but that would have left the loose end of Grace and Reese couldn't have had the happy ever after Finch got. So Reese sacrificed himself. You can watch that in the video below.
The salient point is that Reese did the one thing Reese was hired to do. Protect people. Sometimes those people don't deserve protecting, sometimes those people don't want protecting, but Reese's job was to protect them regardless. And he did that. If he needed to redeem himself in his own eyes, and he didn't feel like he had done long ago, then this would be his moment of redemption.
Rest in peace, John Reese.
SHAW
SHAW'S ENDING: She collects Bear from Fusco and walks down the street when a payphone rings, presumably the Machine (in Root's voice) with another number.
With Reese dead and Finch in Paris, the Machine turns to its last remaining asset in Sameen Shaw with a new number. That's quite a responsibility for someone as untethered as Shaw, who always had Reese, Finch and Root to manage her.
When she is first met, it's in the most out-there episode at that point. It's almost solely told from Shaw's perspective and Finch doesn't even appear in the episode until the 30 minute mark (nice little week off for Michael Emerson, bet he loved reading that script). She's cold, she's distant and she has a personality disorder. Shaw doesn't care aobut anyone or anything and that's why she makes a great assassin.
She struggles to adapt to working with the team at first, and in all fairness right the way through until Samaritan captures her in season 4 she is still somewhat of a loose cannon. Of course, meeting the team and seeing them humanise victims and perpetrators, being thrust into situations she is not emotionally comfortable with (or even ready for), and latterly meeting her love Root, all makes Shaw a more human human.
Then Samaritan kidnaps her and Shaw losing her grip on reality due to the incessant torture twists her again for a short while, but it also shows how she bears up under so much pressure. She doesn't give up her friends and Root is her safe place. She would kill herself before she betrayed any of them, and by the time she escaped Samaritan she had killed herself in over 7000 simulations. That's some raw shit.
Shaw was always kind of Reese's protégé. Physically, she was more than a match for him, but he was there first. So it makes sense that with Reese's perfect ending being his death, Shaw is free to take the reins and deal with the numbers. She's come along way and while I admittedly still don't think she's emotionally stable enough to go with the numbers alone, I think the writers had an absolute ace up their sleeves with this conclusion.
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| Shaw and Root meeting for the first time in 2x16 "Relevance". The sexual undertone of their relationship was present even then. |
They said at the start of season 5 that #Shoot (Shaw and Root) fans would like their ending, and then they went and killed Root in the 100th episode. Happy ending not happening. Now, the final three episodes could not have worked without Root's death or the Machine taking her voice. That was Root's happy ending, and as the Machine she guided our heroes to their final stand. And when the Machine returned from the satellite following the Ice-9 virus's destruction, it still had Root's voice. It knew that Root would be the one person who, without Finch or Reese, could temper Shaw, could work with her. I'd never want to see it in action, but I just love that idea of Shaw saving numbers with the Machine-Root in her head.
And that is #Shoot's happy ending.
I'm gonna just put this quote here again:
Everyone dies alone. But if you mean something to someone…
if you help someone or love someone, and even a single person remembers you… then maybe you never really die?
We have two more things to discuss about Shaw's ending, and we'll start with how she dealt with Root's murderer, Jeff Blackwell. I enjoyed Blackwell's character immensely and Josh Close played him to absolute perfection. I thought he was able to portray Blackwell's indecision over his choices and then the Terminator-style execution of them brilliantly. But Blackwell's character suffered the most from a shortened episode order because, as I say, that transition from concern over his actions to an Arnold Schwarzenegger sniping God was abrupt and unexpected. And that was a shame.
So were the Nazis, mate, so were the Nazis.
Blackwell arrogantly suggests that because Shaw is a changed person, she won't kill him. But then, as Shaw says, everyone who made her good is dead. So she shoots Blackwell dead. And like in that review I read, the difference between Shaw and Blackwell is Shaw understands and accepts the consequences of her actions. Blackwell doesn't, and he is killed for it. Rightly so. I liked his character, but he got the death he deserved. It wasn't big and it didn't stand out in that spectacular finale, but justice was served.
Finally, we need to discuss the very final shot of the show, and how it paralleled with the pilot. Shaw received a very Leverage-esque sendoff (spoilers if you plan to watch Leverage, skip the rest of the Shaw paragraph). In much the same way as Parker takes over from Nate in leading the team that will help bring down the bad guys, Shaw takes over from Reese. But the symbolism doesn't end there for Person of Interest.
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| Reese walking away, watched by the Machine (Pilot, 1x01) |
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| Shaw walking away, watched by the Machine (Finale, 5x13) |
In the pilot, we see the Machine watching Reese through one of its cameras as he turns away down the street. He is the agent who will be saving the POIs - and now he finally has a purpose. A reason to want to live. And in the finale, we see Shaw turning down that same street. Reese (the original asset) and Root (Shaw's human love) are dead, so she will take over the job of saving the POIs - and now she has a purpose. It brings the show full circle, and assures us that normal service in saving the number of the week will resume, albeit in a different but satisfying manner - and one that we never have to see.
In this final scene, Person of Interest came full circle, and that's the most satisfying part of this finale as a die-hard fan of the show.
FUSCO
FUSCO'S ENDING: Unclear, but he lives.
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| Fusco captured by Aryan Nation in the season 2 premiere. I had to use this pic! |
I love every character in this show (even if I thought Shaw was wrongly utilised for the majority of her tenure), but for some reason I kiss Fusco's ass more than anyone else's. Actually, it's not for some reason, I know exactly why I kiss Fusco's ass more than anyone else's. It's because for the show's entire tenure he was criminally underutilised. In season 1 and 2 he had a HR storyline that worked well, but in season 3 that went to Carter and Fusco became Team Machine's side bitch. In season 4, he got a bit more in terms of airtime with Reese as a detective, but it's season 5 he finally got his due with a stunning arc throughout. He went from bad to good to better to the best. The most underrated POI character (somehow Carter got all the glory but she was a bit boring), and a great one at that. Unfortunately, there's not much to say about Fusco here.
But that's going off on a tangent, one I will revisit in a future roundup.
The point of that entire video is to show you Fusco's speech, to show you how he becomes a better person and why. He won't kill Simmons just because he can.
But what if he doesn't have a choice?
In season 5's premiere, Fusco is basically let off for the murders of Dominic and Elias that he didn't commit in the first place, in a test by a Samaritan agent posing as an FBI agent to determine whether Fusco would be a problem to it in the future. That man's name was LeRoux.
Fusco doesn't let it lie, however, and in the penultimate episode, Samaritan decides to take action. LeRoux returns and kidnaps Fusco, intending to kill him. Fusco flips the tables and asks the question: "If I let you go, do you try and kill me again? Or do I kill you now and save us all the trouble? But if I kill you, does that make me bad again?"
It's an important question. Fusco is in the same position now as he was with Simmons, but what's changed is Samaritan. It wasn't around when Simmons was arrested. But with LeRoux, it is. And Samaritan won't stop. So does Fusco kill LeRoux? And if he does, does that amount to him returning to his old self, or can it be written off as "justifiable homicide"?
I predicted we wouldn't find out, but in the finale Fusco replies to Reese asking what he did with LeRoux by saying "Lost him in a trunk". Another throwback, this time to how Reese made Fusco dispose of his old corrupt cop friend Stills in the pilot: Reese threw Stills in the trunk and had Fusco drive him out to Oyster Bay and bury him. So we have an answer, a pretty definitive one, but in that scene I do wonder or not if Fusco was just joshing. Did he kill LeRoux or not?
And do you know the best part?
I'm not even going to answer that question. Taking Fusco at his word "Lost him in a trunk" means Fusco killed him, and he probably did. I don't think the writers would leave that ambiguous because of the gravity of the question it asks about Fusco and how he is still a good man just doing what he knows is necessary to save himself, but for me that answer isn't an answer. I genuinely am not sure if Fusco is just making a reference to how he met Reese with his last words or being honest about killing LeRoux, and I don't care which is true.
If I decide I know whether LeRoux is dead or alive, then naturally that choice to kill or spare him reflects on Fusco's character. But if I don't decide, like Schroedinger's cat, LeRoux is both dead and alive.
And that is a satisfying answer.
But Fusco's conclusion after Samaritan's demise is arguably the most open-ended. He survives Blackwell stabbing him, and meets with Shaw. Fusco hasn't heard from anyone since Samaritan was defeated, but he knows about Finch and Reese. Shaw collects Bear and Fusco says he will see her around.
Is he still a cop? It's never said. The captain knows he worked with the Man in the Suit, and that that man was Reese. Would Fusco be allowed back? Who knows. It's another question I don't have to answer. And I won't.
And that's the most satisfying thing about Fusco. You don't know what his life is after this, you just know it's a normal and unremarkable one. Which he deserves.
ROOT
ROOT'S ENDING: Dead, but the Machine has taken her voice and communicates as her.
This one was already common knowledge following Root's death in the 100th episode, but it's worth mentioning again quickly because it's her ending.
Root always wanted to free the Machine. Even when she was an adversary, it was her goal to free it. In season 3 and onwards, she began speaking to the Machine. Talking to it, and it talked back to her. It was a "her" or a "she" and it was "God". Then, in season 5, the Machine returned as an open system, giving Root her dream.
And then Root died.
The Machine made a bold choice in selecting Root's voice as its own, but it's perfect because Root was always it's number one fan. And it works because of Root's connection to Shaw and Finch, and that I think also slightly foreshadows the fact that Reese dies and Finch splits off after Samaritan is gone. Root is still there for the person who remains: Shaw.
But we have to remember this isn't Root. No matter how much the Machine personifies itself, it's still the Machine and we have to differentiate it from Root.
Root is dead.
Root.
Is.
Dead.
She doesn't get the happy ending with Shaw that she wants or deserves, because that isn't how she wanted her life to be. The #Shoot storyline appeared because the writers realised they had so much chemistry in their first scene, where Root threatens to burn Shaw with an iron, a threat creepily underlined with bondage imagery. Killing Root, and her in a sort-of way transcending to the become the voice of it was Root's perfect ending. She may not have wanted it, but story-wise it was right.
Rest in peace, Samantha Groves.
THE REST OF THE ENDING
Now we come to the final titbit: Northern Lights. The government's codename for the Machine project. I predicted Garrison's return would be because he might be needed to remove Samaritan's access to the government feeds, and me guessing massively incorrectly happened again here. Garrison returns following Samaritan's destruction, and the Machine's believed death. The US government is closing the book on Northern Lights. It's gone. Their big surveillance system project is gone. They'll have to find a new way to protect America from terrorists.
In the grand scheme of things, this was probably one of the most important scenes in the finale but no one realised that because of what else happened. I've not seen this mentioned in any other review, but had this scene not been included, then somewhere down the line people would have been struck by the thought: did the Machine continue to work for the government after its reboot or not? It would have been a huge oversight on the writers' part.
But they knew their stuff. They've known their stuff this whole ride. I applaud that. They created an unimaginably complex and thrilling story, and got to tell 4 1/2 seasons of a 6 season arc. In the light of TV in the modern era, that's no small feat. Yes, it's a shame they didn't get their whole run - and yes, they probably would have had it not been for Warner Bros owning the rights to everything POI - but they did enough justice at the end for us to see that, in spite of having condensed 46 episodes of TV into 13, this was the same endgame. And we reached it brilliantly.
To Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson, Taraji P. Henson, Sarah Shahi, Amy Acker and Kevin Chapman, to Jonah Nolan and Greg Plageman, to all the writers, the cast, the crew, the fans who watched and helped it get this far, to CBS for continuing it this long, to everyone who loves or despises the show, to everything Person of Interest, thank you for existing - and thank you for making me blub madly for the last ten minutes of the finale and then a further ten minutes on a ball on my bedroom floor afterwards.
I'll leave you all with this:
Final thoughts
OK, so Person of Interest may be over, but now that I've retrieved my dignity and thrown away my tissues, my want to talk about it hasn't waned. I have two more roundups of the show planned.
The first will be an overall roundup of season 5: brief episode descriptions and my ratings out of ten for each; my thoughts on the season as a whole (discussing some of the questions it's short season unavoidably left unanswered) and how it fit into the larger arc of the show (pre- and post-Samaritan's activation); where it took its characters and the ideas it utilised before its end; and then finally I will try to rank the seasons in order.
The second will be a "Best and Worst Of POI" - things it did well, things it dad badly and things it should have done, including my picks for the top 5 episodes, top 5 POIs, top 5 scenes and the top 5 reveals among others.
I'm saddened I didn't start blogging this five years ago and followed it from the start, but hey ho. I was here for the end. So thank you everyone who has kept up with these roundups and joined me on this final journey. I'll be back eventually with the above two roundups, but until then see you on Monday for my review of the third week of the off-season.
Sam
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