On the newest episode of Person of Interest the team help out a con artist, who gets mixed up with the Brotherhood.
For an episode that deals with Dominic, this is really boring.
The number of the week, Harper, is not very interesting despite the show's attempts to make her so. She is a con artist moonlighting as a college student to mess with the cartel and the Brotherhood for their drug money. But there is no backstory, no reason given why or when she started robbing criminals for a living. And that's boring.
Harper's friend Trey is not better. He is a walking stereotype of a college kid who likes to get high, and it's not just boring, it is annoying.
It is great to have Dominic back though. He is becoming a very interesting character and his meeting with John is one of the highlights of the episode. I find his interest in figuring out the bigger picture fascinating. What would happen if he (and maybe Elias) found out about Samaritan and the war between two gods?
Harold name-dropping Dr. Tillman (all the way from season 1 episode 'Cura Te Ipsum') was interesting, especially after Caleb's return at the end of the episode. Are they going to start bringing back characters from the past? Is the Machine beginning to recruit them (there are several that could be useful in this war)? Have them help out as a favour for saving their lives earlier?
The best thing in this episode is clearly Root's storyline. They should have focused on that more. The Machine has finally decided that it needs more people on its side if it wants to win against Samaritan and so it is trying to recruit people. To do this it has ordered Root to build an app and sell it. The second the man Root was discussing business with mentioned a boss I knew there was something going on. And this leads to the glorious return of one Caleb Phipps (from one of my favourite episodes '2 Pi R') as the boss of this company Root is negotiating with.
Caleb offers Root a job and from her smile I can tell this was her plan all along. This is going to be so much fun. This is what the show should start focusing on instead of random numbers of the week that don't seem to have any proper storylines. The show does set up Harper as an possible ally for either Dominic or even the Team Machine, but frankly I don't give a crap. She was not given a proper story so I don't care about her and I have no interest in seeing her again, no matter how much set up they give her. Compare her to Caleb, who was given a great story and though I never expected to see him again I'm excited to have him back because he was a full character and I connected with him.
This show used to be so good at telling great stories about the world and humanity through its numbers of the week, so what happened? Past few weeks the numbers have been very uninteresting and one dimensional. Please fix this, Person of Interest, and get back to being absolutely awesome.
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