Warning: Full spoilers for Person of Interest: Season 5 below.
With only 13 episodes to play with instead of its normal 22, Person of Interest drove home its endgame this year with a spectacular run featuring our heroes' tragic, yet victorious, battle against the invisible hand of an ASI named Samaritan. A force that, with a bit of cold herd thinning, could have actually helped humanity survive future turmoil, but at the cost of our already spare freedoms and privacy. An intriguing and frightening debate that put an excellent exclamation point on a series that had already dove deep into the pool of questioning surveillance, the rights of citizens, and the true dangers of an artificial intelligence that could out-think us and out-maneuver us in every way.
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With only 13 episodes to play with instead of its normal 22, Person of Interest drove home its endgame this year with a spectacular run featuring our heroes' tragic, yet victorious, battle against the invisible hand of an ASI named Samaritan. A force that, with a bit of cold herd thinning, could have actually helped humanity survive future turmoil, but at the cost of our already spare freedoms and privacy. An intriguing and frightening debate that put an excellent exclamation point on a series that had already dove deep into the pool of questioning surveillance, the rights of citizens, and the true dangers of an artificial intelligence that could out-think us and out-maneuver us in every way.
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