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Person of Interest (TV series)

Person of Interest
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Season 4 and 5 intertitle
Genre Crime drama
Action
Science fiction
Created by Jonathan Nolan
Starring
Composer(s) Ramin Djawadi
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 5
No. of episodes 103 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Producer(s)
  • Athena Wickham
  • Margot Lulick
  • Kathy Lingg
  • Stephen Semel
  • Erik Mountain
Location(s) New York City, New York
Cinematography
Editor(s)
  • Scott Lerner
  • Scott Powell
  • Ryan Malanaphy
  • Ray Daniels III
  • Mark Conte
Running time 43 minutes
Production company(s) Bad Robot Productions
Kilter Films
Warner Bros. Television
Distributor Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network CBS
Original release September 22, 2011 (2011-09-22) – June 21, 2016 (2016-06-21)
External links
Website

Person of Interest is an American science fiction crime drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2011, to June 21, 2016, over five seasons, comprising a total of 103 episodes. The series was created by Jonathan Nolan, and executive produced by Nolan, J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Greg Plageman, Denise Thé, and Chris Fisher.

Person of Interest centers on a mysterious reclusive billionaire computer programmer named Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), who develops a computer system (known as "The Machine") for the U.S. government that is capable of collating all sources of information to predict and identify in advance, people planning terrorist acts. He finds that the Machine also identifies other perpetrators and victims of deadly intentions, but being considered "irrelevant" this information is deleted each night, and he realizes the Machine has developed into a superintelligent artificial intelligence, leaving him wrestling with the questions of human control and other moral and ethical issues resulting from the situation. His backdoor into the Machine allows him to act covertly on the non-terrorism cases, but to prevent abuse of information he directs the machine to provide no details beyond an identity to be investigated. He recruits John Reese (Jim Caviezel), a presumed-dead former CIA agent, and later others, to investigate and act on the information it provides.

The series received a highly positive reception from some critics, including an increase in acclaim when the series introduced more serialized storylines and deepened its exploration of the varied implications of superintelligent artificial intelligence in later seasons. A 2016 critique of the series on Gizmodo stated that by the end of its first season, Person of Interest had transformed from a "crime fighting show" with a plot twist, to "one of the best science fiction series ever broadcast", a change said to be due to the series "put[ting] the Machine, its intelligence, and the ethics of [..] using it, at the center of an ideological battle", and an unintended consequence of giving the Machine a voice, compared to its initial presence as a simple background plot device.


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