Hello!
Hello you! Well, that was a week. One week on from the eldest going to Uni, a house of sickness and the car is in the garage again on Monday.
I did not make it to the cinema this week, but the Halloween decorations are up. Yes they are.
TV Series of Interest
So whilst I may not have made it to the cinema (gotta see The CreatorI) I did finish a re-watch of a good TV show that I've been meaning to do for a while.
Breaking Bad? Only watch the first episode. Succession? Nope, not watched it. Some other fancy zeitgeist show? Thrice nope.
We’ve been watching Person of Interest and we finished it this week.
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while; the show was on Netflix (I think) but the final series never dropped for whatever reason. This might even have been back in the days when we switched DNS codes to access the US Netflix library. Remember those days? The glory days.
The whole thing is on Freevee, which is a free Amazon channel thing, by which I mean it has ads in it. Which is fine, because they’re no where near as annoying as the ads on something like the All4 app. So we deiced to finally get around to watching the last series, but decided to do a re-watch of the rest of it first.
And it was good! The jist of the show feels like its from the 80s or something; after 9/11 a rich dude builds the government a machine that basically spies on everything in order to locate terrorist plots. When it find someone, it sends their social security number to the authorities to stop them. But because the machine sees everything, it sees regular crimes as well but the government treats these numbers as irrelevant as they aren’t to do with national security. However, the rich dude decide that these numbers aren’t irrelevant and gets an ex-CIA guy in to help him investigate the numbers and try to help as many folks as possible.
So, each week they get a number, it could be the victim or the baddy, they try to solve the crime whilst dodging the authorities who are on their tail. Its a great concept! Its just a hop skip and a jump away from The A-Team which is why it totally would have fit in that era. It comes from Jonathan Nolan, yes the broker of that Nolan and J J Abrams. Yes, I know but it really feels like he didn’t have much to do with the show other than helping out with the casting.
What really makes the show work are the great characters that are really well cast; initially your 3 main characters are Michael Emmerson from Lost as the guy who built the machine, Jim Caviezel after he was Jesus but before he was a right wing nut job as the CIA guy and Taraji P Henson as an NYPD detective on their tail. There’s a great supporting cast that pop up over the seasons both as goodies and baddies. There’s great chemistry between all of them which keeps the show bouncing along.
Its got a great vein of humour through it, like I’m not sure if its a recurring joke but it seems like every time Caviezel walks into a bar someone gets chucked through the window several minutes later. But because of that, when the show turns emotional it really gets you.
Its 5 series long, the first 4 are full series of 22 episodes then the last was a bit curtailed at 13. Thats a shame, but its okay because they knew it would be the last series so they were able to wrap up the show with a great ending.
And I would recommend giving it a watch; its only become more relevant over time thanks to the way AI has seemingly been everywhere over the last year or so. A big pacey action show not afraid to lean into the sci-fi concept of a big AI loose in the world whilst ladling in a good dollop of New York crime stories doesn’t sound like a sure bet, but they really nailed it here.
Bye!
Yeah, think that’ll do. Going up into the loft for all those decorations has left me broken today so time for a bath and then figure out what we’re going to watch in the evenings now. Maybe a re-watch of New Tricks or something.
Anyways, bye!