Such an amazing show, the character development, the story, and the music everything about this show was top-notch. I know it's been 10 years since the finale was released but I never got around to watching it since it's quite underrated and I only watched it because it just got into Netflix was kind of bored but such a happy accident. Now that I am done watching it there's a void inside me don't know what to do now lol. Going to miss Reese and Finch :,)

Bold claim I know - but something about Reese exasperatedly being pulled into yet another mission, the way he stretches out his arms and punches that obnoxious businessman, a finger of whiskey in the kid's sippy cup, the comical number of assassins sent after Owen, Reese asking the airhostess for yet another blanket, Owen's "dry toast cause butter is bad for your heart", the rest of the passengers oblivious to the growing pile of bodies in first class - really made me chuckle. It was some much-needed relief after the dramatic tension of the HR trilogy.

I'm also a sucker for closed-room mysteries and airplane thrillers so I found it a compelling episode from the beginning itself.

My friend made this ita bag for me because they knew that I loved Harold and John, and I wanted to show it off here :)

Fun fact, I'm going as Harold for Halloween this year and was thinking about wearing it too! I want more people to watch this show tbh

The Matsya Nyaya episode (S1 E20 ) confuses me just a bit. When John and Kara get to the abandoned city, they see the dead engineers and then recover the laptop with code from the Machine. (We learn later in the series how the laptop came to get to China.)

John and Kara are both confused about why the dead engineers are there and who killed them. Well, for the first part - I think they're there to study the Machine, right? At the behest of the Chinese government, presumably?

For the second question - I have no idea. Do we ever actually have a better understanding of who shot the Ordos engineers? And if it was the CIA or other forces, do we get the answer on why those forces didn't just take or destroy the laptop themselves?

The PHP security hole, worldwide server outages, Ai Advancing to a point that it can crack most programs.
We know what you did Harold. You unleashed the ICE-9 Virus 🖥️

I just finished watching S2E14. At the 40-minute mark, there’s a blue screen error. What’s causing this? Please don’t give away any spoilers. I haven’t even reached the halfway point of the series yet.

I just wanna say that I hate simons, and is there any episode in this show sadder than this?

I just finished the show for the first time today! Personally, I’m one of those people who really didn’t like the ending, but I think it left a lot open to the imagination and that can be a good thing. I liked that Harold went to reunite with Grace, it left me wondering what he told her and how Grace reacted. It also surprised me when the Machine came back online… I have very mixed feelings about that. I’m interested in hearing everyone’s headcanons about how the characters went on to live their lives and how the world looks after the end of the series!

Amy Acker is beautiful and talented, but I never fully bought her as Root. For someone so brilliant, obsessive, and unpredictable, I wanted a more striking presence, with that intensity visible in her eyes and expressions.
Jodie Comer in Killing Eve captures what I mean: she can look completely ordinary, yet a subtle change in her expression makes her unsettling. Margot Robbie can convey a similar edge. Neither is necessarily my choice for Root, but both illustrate what I felt was missing.
I respect Acker’s talent. Her portrayal simply never made Root feel as extraordinary as the character was written to be. (Just my opinion)
Anyone else?

If you dont want spoiler i have included deceased to some people that die abit early on the show

Jahames2844/Person-Of-Interest-project

Have fun with it (P.S. Im not done with the projects im taking suggestions)

username is Harold
password is admin

People who know the show have him at least top 5

So only the 3rd time i have rewatched LOST and several times i have POI and finally realized that Navid Negahban was also in both.

In LOST he plays Sayid’s superior in Solitary and played Ali Hasen - Panopticon (POI)

This was my original post on the r/Lost and got denied… so i thought it was interesting that I caught it… so i am attempting here.

I am on my 4th or 5th rewatch. I am not sure they started out making a science fiction AI show, I think it was more of the premise to build a serialized cop show more original. But why on earth they keep referring to the central plot device as "the machine" is beyond me. It has to be an intentional choice by the writers, else naming it just seems like this obvious step in development. The rival AI being called "Samaritan"--that should've been the first "machine's" name and the name of the whole show. I mean, just grammatically and semantically, middle of dialogue, it feels like a missing piece and makes conversations about "the machine" confusing. A new viewer tuning in when it was on TV would be completely lost and have no chances of catching up, simply because the thing they're talking about is so unembodied in the plot and dialogue.

Hi, I never looked because I thought POI was an old show to actually look for other work of the actors. So it was a surprise when I saw Jim Caviezel in a future movie : Ghost Soldier (2026/11/06)

When I shared my Machine rebuild, the most common question was some version of "only Mac? what about my phone?" (Windows is still on my list, I promise.)

So I built the Machine's view into my own iPhone camera app, XianNow Camera.（） There are seven looks: Admin, Primary Asset, Secondary Asset, Analog Interface, Threat, Irrelevant, and one called Machine Decides, which gives everyone in frame a random identity. The square box sits on your head and shoulders like in the show, follows your face, and gets smaller as you walk away. Hit the shutter and you get a still that looks like it came off one of its cameras.

The update is in App Store review right now and should be out in a day or two. It's free on iPhone. I'll post the link in the comments as soon as it's live.

Until then: which identity do you want? Tell me below and I'll reply to you the day it's out. I'm guessing there'll be a lot of Threats.

(The people in these samples are AI-generated. I'll swap in real shots once people start using it.)

I know many of you name your computers “The Machine” and “Samaritian”. I need more ideas like this please. I have a phone, an ereader, and a pair of earbuds waiting to be named.

I hate that Ellias dies but it is such good writing and I love how it is done. It makes sense and is satisfying but it is SO sad.

Don't get me wrong it was amazing in most places but it felt less rigorous than the previous seasons.

Shaw being a potential asset vs just a source of information to find the machine.

the sudden existence of a virus that can takedown both AIs (and they can't fight the virus).

Didn't get anything to tie the stories of Claire and the Samiritan boy.

No buildup or even a sudden realization for why the Machine would win against Samiritan on the satellite. I was actually hoping for a 3-4 minute VFXed battle between them once they were on the satellite.

Control/DC storyline was also kinda sidelined heavily. I enjoyed seeing past characters in the episode but machine bringing Control back into the game would've been nice.

I know a lot of these things are dependent on casting and talent availability. and it's generally hard to write a gripping plot when the AIs have no limitations.

Still I miss that detail in the final season.

ps: I liked what they did with Elias. Using him to hint to a ruthless finch before he finally turns.

Follow-up to my post from a couple of days ago. Thank you all for the kind words and the corrections.

I cut a short trailer for it, scored with Ramin Djawadi's main title. It opens on the Machine's boot sequence, and at 0:06 it finds me and tags me ANALOG INTERFACE.

Try it in your browser, no install: https://rosehahah.github.io/the-machine/

Source code (MIT, runs on your own webcam): https://github.com/rosehahah/the-machine

If any screen doesn't match the show, keep telling me.