Person of Interest – Recap & Review – Flesh and Blood

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Person of Interest
Flesh and Blood

Original Air Date: Apr 5, 2012

Len – Senior Reviewer
len@thetwocentscorp.com

It’s rough to go through life alone. That’s why it’s always good to have a family that has your back, be it through tough financial times, personal issues, or, say, when a number of criminals are blowtorching their way into your safe house.

It’s truly a family affair this week on POI, where we got (count ‘em!) FIVE persons of interest, who just so happen to be the heads of the Five Families of NYC. You’ll recall the goal of criminal prodigy Elias is to reunite the Five Families – well he’s not talking about getting everyone together for Christmas dinner! Elias wants a streamlined, efficient criminal operation – not the infighting and turf wars that define the current zeitgeist of the NYC underworld.

While Reese sees mob casualties as addition by subtraction, Finch is concerned about the collateral damage. And when ACTUAL family members get dragged into the thick of things, there’s no chance in hell that Reese is going to stand on the sidelines.

This week is a fantastic episode that also cleared up a few things for me. But with just a few episodes left until the season finale, the ending left me wondering, “Where do we go from here?” But the answer is easy for you, Dear Reader – click the jump below, read my recap/review, leave your TwoCents in the comments, and….await…further….instructions!

Person of Interest – Recap & Review – Identity Crisis

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Person of Interest
Identity Crisis

Original Air Date: Mar 29, 2012

Len – Senior Reviewer
len@thetwocentscorp.com

Gyahhh!! College basketball took away my POI for almost a month! I wouldn’t have minded so much if my bracket wasn’t f**ked after the first weekend.

So when we last left our heroes, Reese saved a cute baby (good thing!) but in the process gave up one of Carter’s witnesses to crime wunderkind Elias (bad thing!). And of course that witness happened to be Elias’ own illegitimate father (terrible thing!). As a result, this week Carter is not taking any of Reese’s calls – so we get an extra helping of Fusco, of which I totally approve.

As the title indicates, this week’s episode involves not one, but TWO potential persons of interest. I say potential because one of them is the identity thief and the other one is the goat. While this week’s episode takes a break from our Elias-Carter-Reese triangle, there’s some interesting stuff worth exploring and enjoying, and if you click the link below we’ll get to all of it!

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Person of Interest – Recap & Review – Baby Blue

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Person of Interest
Baby Blue

Original Air Date: Mar 8, 2012

Len – Senior Reviewer
len@thetwocentscorp.com

”Please let her be the perpetrator! Please let her be the perpetrator!

That was me in front of the TV Thursday night when I found out this week’s person of interest was a six-month old girl. I suppose I just wanted to see a POI version of the classic “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” episode of The Simpsons, but instead we got a good, solid episode that continues to apply tension to the bonds that hold our heroic quartet (after this week, I’m including Lionel Fusco) together. Plus, since all this week’s POI can do is eat, sleep, crawl, and crap herself, we get some “Three Men and a Baby” type comedy, as well as a few heartfelt moments out of Uncle Reese and Uncle Finch.

But it’s not easy for a same sex domestic couple to raise a child – not when they spend most of their time firing guns and circumventing the law. And certainly not when crime boss Elias is lurking right around the corner! So click on the jump below and let’s put this review the f*** to sleep!

Person of Interest – Recap & Review – Risk

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Person of Interest
Risk

Original Air Date: Feb 23, 2012

Len – Senior Reviewer
len@thetwocentscorp.com

Last week, I posed the question “What you think is going to be the big end-of-season battle?” If you’re keeping a tally board, get ready to mark one down! We had our three choices of Elias, Root, and Agent Snow. This week’s episode features handiwork associated with all three – there are murder framing attempts (Elias), phone hacking not done by Finch (Root), and government involvement (Snow). But who’s behind it all?

This week doesn’t offer much new information, Reese sets a new personal record for minimal effort, and the only questions you’re likely to be left with involve the financial plot (unless you’re somewhat investment savvy, which I’m not). But it’s still a fairly entertaining episode. I see the bull and the bear are already marking their territory, so click the link and let’s recap!

Person of Interest – Recap & Review – Blue Code

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Person of Interest
Blue Code

Original Air Date: Feb 16, 2012

Len – Senior Reviewer
len@thetwocentscorp.com

If you just watched tonight’s episode, you were probably left with a lot of questions – namely “What just happened?”, “What was that girl’s name, again?”, and “So that guy was working for the other guy but then they decided to do away with him or something?” And that was just after the first ten minutes.

Tonight had to be a new record for amount of double-crosses in a CBS drama. There were undercover people, bad cops, bad super cops, even a bad guy who once played Robocop. As Agent Snow says in one of tonight’s flashbacks, “Don’t forget you’re behind enemy lines.” That could be applied to everyone in tonight’s episode.

And it’s especially fitting for Reese, who finds himself infiltrating a smuggling ring, and Detective Fusco, whose days of being a total good-guy cop look like they could be in jeopardy. So just who can you trust in this topsy-turvy world of POI? Only me, dear reader. And my review, which is always loaded. Click the link and let’s recap this thing! And be sure to post your TwoCents in the comments at the end!

Person of Interest – Recap & Review – Wolf and Cub

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Person of Interest
Wolf and Cub

Original Air Date: Feb 9, 2012

Len – Senior Reviewer
len@thetwocentscorp.com

”Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War

This famous, 2000-year old Chinese military treatise (which means it’s available for free on your Kindle, right?) is frequently quoted by both Reese and our latest person of interest in this week’s episode. Reese goes a step further by showing this week’s POI how to put theory into practice by seizing every available opportunity to whoop some criminals, to satisfying results.

Speaking of seizing opportunities, teenage Brooklyn rapper Astro, whom you might recognize from this season’s The X Factor, has parlayed his success into a nice featured role as a young man bent on revenge. And he’s just in time for a good transitional episode this week, as Reese continues to dig up info on Finch, and Finch has to deal with the fallout from last week’s encounter with the mysterious Root and STILL manage to throw his nephew Will Ingram off the scent of The Machine.

So to quote another famous Chinese mind, “Click the link to read the rest of this week’s recap and review. In bed.”

Person of Interest – Recap & Review – Root Cause

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Person of Interest
Root Cause

Original Air Date: Feb 2, 2012

Len – Sr Reviewer
len@thetwocentscorp.com

If you go back and check out my review for the October 27 episode of POI, titled “The Fix”, we were in the middle of our Elias mystery, which was one of the first big, exciting storylines to take place. At the end of the review, I surmised that the season’s final episode would involve a cliffhanger involving this alpha enemy. Ah, how young and naïve I was then!

After this week’s episode, I can honestly say I have no clue what is going to happen by season’s end. I thought tonight’s episode would play more off of the last one, where Nathan Ingram’s son, Will, and Detective Carter both started getting a little close to Finch’s secret. And just when I thought the rogues gallery was complete, Finch gets a new, powerful enemy this week. But it’s not all bad news for Reese and Finch – a political mystery this week brings the return of Girl Reese to lend a hand!

We’re on our way toward the end of the first season, so follow closely and start paying attention for any signs of where we’re headed! On to the recap! Post your TwoCents in the comments section at the end!

Person of Interest – Recap & Review – Legacy

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Person of Interest
Legacy

Original Air Date: Jan 19, 2012

Len – Sr Reviewer
len@thetwocentscorp.com

It’s Week One of the Carter-Reese experiment! This week’s episode marks the first official, face-to-face collaboration between the by-the-book detective and our hard-ass vigilante, and the results are as expected. While Carter investigates and interrogates at the precinct, Reese fights, protects, and fights some more!

But Finch isn’t too crazy about the partnership. He’s very selective about whom he lets in, and he certainly doesn’t want Carter to ever find out about The Machine. But we soon learn that Carter isn’t his only worry – a person from his past drops back into his life, and this guy has the potential to get even closer to the secret!

This week’s episode is important because it feels like it’s starting a sea change in the lives of the characters. The trust relationship between Reese and Finch has always been a little tenuous, and it’s about to get a whole lot more complicated. But don’t worry – I’m here to make sense of it all!

Person of Interest – Recap & Review – Super

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Person of Interest
Super

Original Air Date: Jan 12, 2012

Len – Two Cents Reviewer
len@thetwocentscorp.com

The first POI episode of 2012 quickly answers the questions left behind from the midseason finale, where Reese took a bullet from a CIA sniper, Finch broke every traffic law in the book to come to his aid, and Carter let the two go free – probably against her better judgment.

After Finch convinces a coroner to stitch up Reese (it’s pretty easy to sway a guy when you can provide a sack full of cash and rattle off details about his life), the two make for a safe house set up in an upscale apartment building, where this week’s person of interest works – wait for it – as a building super. But with Reese on crutches assuming the role of a slightly more ass-kicking Jimmy Stewart from Rear Window, Finch is going to have to do most of the legwork this week. Fortunately for him, this week is conducive to a role reversal – it’s less about the mystery and more about advancing the plot forward. Click on the jump to read the rest of this week’s recap and then provide your TwoCents in the comments at the end!