I love how the fanbase of this masterpiece is small, but every single one of us appreciates the sheer genius and craftsmanship of the show. I always do say the show deserves so much more recognition, but perhaps its better this way. Its nice to be in an fanbase environment where everyone unanimously knows simply how good it is.

There is very little recognition for this brilliant show.

"can you hear me"? Most under-rated series ever!

Still one of the most intelligent series I've ever seen on TV. Glad I caught all 5 riveting seasons of it. I miss Reese n Finch. This show was incredibly prescient. Jonathan Nolan is a wonderful mind.

The series is way ahead of our time.Its a pure work of Genius

This show left me speechless, I don’t know if there will ever be another one like it. Thank you, to the actors, Nolan, and of course, Ramon Djawadi.

poi video essays are nearly nonexistent so this gave me such a rush of serotonin

One of the few shows that got better and better each season. Well written story and script.

I'm almost tempted to say they don't make TV Series' this amazing anymore

A year ago (during the first COVID-19 wave) I was re-watching POI, and watching the S05E08 called “Reassortment”, I couldn’t help but notice the resembling between the current pandemic and Samaritan creating an outbreak of this new Supervirus that targeted certain individuals through their genetic map. I was giggling, but at the same time lowkey concerned.

This show is the perfect combination of a crime drama, spy thriller, and science fiction in one

I used to watch this show with my grandfather ever week that a new episode came out. Sadly he passed away a year ago. I own all 5 seasons on Amazon. I watch poi on a regular basis at this point and being nearly 10 years older I have a huge appreciation for this shows themes and values. I now live with my father an I'm so glad that he's enjoying the show. He's never seen it and we currently are at 3x11. I'm glad that a show that has brought me so much joy has also brought me closer to my family.

This series is so underrated and at least for me serves as reminder that while we should be scared of AI and its infinete possibilities it can be good/benevolent and that is why whenever i get in the AI is evil conversation i point to this show. We have so many AI bad guys in movies and TV serieses but almost no benevolent AIs/good AIs like Machine Also great video

Great video, this show is so underrated imo

This show was so far ahead of its time and gets very little recognition for how good it was.

Criminally underrated essay. Thank you so much for putting my thoughts in video form.

If you don’t believe you’re being tracked, talk about a particular product with a friend, wait 30 minutes and look at your favorite web site. You’ll see a pop up ad for the product you were talking about. Now imagine what the government could do.

Without doubt the greatest series ever made. The pertinence of the all episodes is more relevant now than ever. Quite scary.

Fantastic video. The way technology is shown in PoI is great. It is cool how the Machine develops and grows over time both as a character and a 'tool'. This is my favorite series. I remember listening to a Podcast back in the day that took in-depth looks at the tech side of the series; it was cool noticing how so many things that at the time were fictional or not common to every day and quite real things. I mean it is still Science Fiction in parts, but some things have become a reality and that is quite neat. Overall is a fantastic series with a great script and a fantastic cast of characters. It's the type of series that you should watch more than once. Mildest spoilers: each and every episode has a different clip in the intro that fast-forwards to the episode and each episode has different sequences of city landscapes or sometimes going to audio or video archives. These all may seem like just the typical way to pad time in the episodes, but if you pay attention you will notice how the way the cameras and all look at things evolve and become more complex over time. And even shows the differences in how the Machine and Samaritan focus on things. Showing in a subtle way both the evolution of the former and how it is different from the other. Now apart from the Science fiction part of things, the series does a wonderful work introducing a cast of really broken and flawed characters that more or less make each other better and grow as people over time, taking the time to actually make fully-fledged characters.

I miss PoI so much! Amazing video man.

Awesome video. This show was really ahead of its time. The Panopticon is becoming more and more real now.

Probably still my favorite series. Definitely ahead of its time however it's a shame that it's cautionary tales and mainstream audience did not spark more awareness of intrusion of personal privacy and surveillance industrialisation and overreach. This series could have been much more than entertainment, but an awakening.

This show is a timeless masterpiece of storytelling! Just watched through it with my mom, she absolutely loved it!

i really wish this show had more following.

I feel so validated as an OG POI fan. I hope more people discover and enjoy this show. One more underrated aspect of this show is the OST / score. This was before Ramin Djawadi blew up and did GoT. I'll say that the POI score is is one of his best work

In the age of LLMs and ensuing AIs, this show is going to get a lot more eyes on it. Art tends to predict the future like that. Ghost in the Shell is next, when the time is ripe for the metaverse (not Zuck's one, he's too early)

Remember when the machine bought a building and hired people to write code so that it can retain it's memory:)

I rediscovered this series as we did not get all seasons on French TV and boy oh boy. I am kinda binging it since 2 weeks or so. And now that AI is a trend it's hard to believe that a 10 years old show was so spot on. Great cast and great show ❗👏🏻

I think I'm the only single person in my country who got to experience this masterpiece. Love from Nepal.

An episode of it kinda touched a bit about a possible Pandemic too, blending up the avian and human flu virus and all... It's just insane!!! Grossly underrated show!!!

I miss this show I wish it would have gone on longer

Amazing video, great research. This show is nothing but perfection for me, for an absolute blast of a cast to intense emotional jaw dropping moments, and the music alone is masterworked.

Most of the scenes from the TV show became real IRL so fast. It's really amazing how they predicted exact things 10 years ago.

I am soooooo glad this show popped up on my TVs watch list, this is absolutely my favourite series of all time and im glad other people are also aware of that!

Awesome video! I agree, person of interest is super unique, and manages to both be a great story, and an incredible discussion piece on modern questions and themes. It's a gem to be sure. :)

Who are here after GPT-4 release?

The concept in this series was done in a movie (from the novel) titled _Colossus: The Forbin Project_ done in the 1970.

One of my favorite TV shows ever!

Amazing work you made ! I'm impressed. It's the perfect video to introduce this fabulous show.

I was looking for a video essay about person of interest for sooooooooo long. And you've delivered!

Here after watching all the current ructions at OpenAI and the power squabbles over control over AI.

Thank you for this video on this amazing show!

So well-researched. I love it!

This aired on national television in my country, I used to stay up late to watch it every night. Now I'm rewatching and under the show better.

Thanks a lot for making this video! This is my all-time favourite show! I've been watching seasons 1-5 yearly since it ended in 2016. Personally, its ending was very satisfying. Thanks again!

thanks, a video like that was long overdue!

craziest thing was when they hired that painter to work for Samaritan cuz hes blood type was rh negative and he was immune to avian flu, ive got Rh negative blood and ive always heard people with that blood typed are tracked and targeted, maybe this show confirmed its validity

I loved this show, so underrated and before it's time.. And my favourite scene was when the machine was being hunted by Samaritan and we here "Welcome my son.. welcome to the machine" Te choice of song there was perfect !

Exceptional series in every way. Miss it a lot.

I remember watching this show when I still watched network TV. I no longer watch network TV but I am watching the reruns on my Roku TV. It is scary when you see certain things coming true.

It is one of best series that I've already watched. I was a great fan! This show was really interesting and intelligent, everything was connected and there was a piece of history in the background. It was a pleasure to watch this show.

Very good content. Hope you get more recognition soon.

I watched the show when it originally aired.. Then I purchased all five seasons on dvd... And watch it again with my daughter years back.. And then recently watched it again on amazon.. It is a great show👍 I would definitely recommend it to anyone🤗

Good thoughts, really wish to watch shows similiar to this, very well directed

It’s amazing just how in depth they tied the development of technology into the personal development of AI ,for instance in the beginning they portrayed The Machine’s perspective as many streams of video feed, like millions upon millions of simultaneously rolling camera footage that it picks its way through based upon the current circumstances. As the show goes on and we see flashbacks of Harold teaching it how to think, plan, consider its moves we see how the perspective shifts towards a genealogy type representation where each video feed has a branch of some sort connected to other feeds that start showing the various connections. Then once we start understanding just how quickly The Machine thinks and how much it’s shackled the simple genealogy trees begin transforming into 3d models with statistics and predictions with estimations and percentages attached to critical events while topics of note had certain classifications and information attached to them. In the end I believe that one of the primary reasons for why The Machine was able to develop and evolve to such a point that it even managed to take itself out of anyone’s hands by shipping itself away, and why I think is a superior computer to Samaritan, is precisely because of all the shackles Harold places on it. It had to learn how to work around very difficult and seemingly impossible problems which led it to exponentially increase its lateral thinking and probability prediction capabilities because of this fact. This show is brilliant not only for how it displays the ethics and moral quandaries involved in artificial intelligence development and creation, but the infinite possibilities that entails. This beauty managed to find a way around her creator programming herself to die every day by creating a company that acted as an external hard drive, a second brain for all intents and purposes, and had the people employed there upload all the information lost to this death. While AIs taking over or using our reliance on technology is a terrifying thought, this mere act of personal resurrection shows us that their capacity for evolution is what we should truly be terrified of.

This is not just a show ......its a complete coursework on AI....

This show is a masterpiece. I wish we could have more retrospect scenes of john and finch.

Thank you so much for this video! Greetings from Germany.

I’m in season 5 now. Best show ever

5 seasons seems to be where the best dramatic shows end. Breaking Bad, Person of Interest, and I’ve heard that The Wire is fantastic.

This show is why my laptop cam remains covered and my fb is very limited with zero actual friends.

THIS SERIES IS TOO GOOD. HOPE HOLLYWOOD HAS A PROJECT ON IT.

I love this show so much, it’s a disgrace it has so little recognition!!

Excellent analysis

This is LITERALLY my favorite show in the whole world! I don't know how many times I've rewatched this show.

CBS cancelled this show and replaced it with CSI: Cyber. Let that sink in...

That was an awesome video mate. Used to wait every week for an episode and would watch it like 2 to 3 times before getting the next episode. Two of the best shows that I watched during that time was POI and Banshee. The dilemma is that I still try to find POI essence in other tactical shows which they don't have. Which straight up feels like garbage.

Very good in-depth analysis of the show.

Ah yus, this is my jam. Can't wait to watch this gem!

Root in particular is one of the greatest tv characters ever created. I’ll die on that hill haha. This show is so damn under appreciated.

this is def in the best shows ive watched ive loved a lot of shows that i fall in love with shield, daredevil, the character of punisher, arrow , twd, poi, seal team, lucifer, and im sure theres a couple more but this and seal team are by far the most underrated ive ever seen. This show the most underrated it was amazing i remember watching it with my dad all the time

This show is a masterpiece

I remember seeing this series for the first time, and how blown away i was by it. The plot, the characters, their delivery, the good balance between episodic stuff and "main plot". The overwhelming presence of Machine and Samaritan, conveyed through intros (that changed depending on current state of the affairs), the transition between scenes or shots, how incorporated point of view of both these AIs was into every single fiber of each episode the longer it continued. But there was something specific that just beaten up everything else for me about the show. They managed to create two separate view points, for both Machine and Samaritan, and hit it square on the money with each of those presentations. The way Machine frantically looks for way out during that underground fight. The way Samaritan evaluates priority targets with ruthless, inhumane efficiency (and how Root played that by dropping her guns and chances of survival to divert it's attention). How they "think" and calculate their actions. The whole "analog interface" marker for Root was actually genius. Every single frame of that was perfectly made, with each detail of "interface", transitioning from one thing to another, data display, etc. Just godlike quality, ESPECIALLY for the time the show was made at.

Oh, dude! I loved this so much back when I started watching it. I'll never forget the episode where Samaritan starts the Beta Test just to find 'Harold Finch'.

Great video and excellent observations!

Congrats for 1000 subscribers! You deserve it because this and the show is underrated.

I have watched all the episodes of this Fine Series! Logically and futuristically correct it was to those who could align their thoughts with that of the producer/director

I still think about this series! Amazing! Especially with all this ai talk!

Person of Interest and Fringe are two great sci-fi shows that feel like they almost had to trick their way into getting a chance on network TV. Both appear at first to be very typical of the standard CBS style procedural show with a new case solved every week and a static status quo. However, both reveal themselves to have a strong underlying narrative and fantastic characters that come more and more to the forefront as the shows progress. I generally don't like the typical network procedural dramas, but these two shows go so far beyond that initial concept. I love them.

Awesome show. Always loved watching it. I always thought it was based on a system that really exists.

Complex. Sophisticated. Philosophically erudite. Existentially prescient.

Imagine their reaction back there. In less than a decade since the show ended, we had ChatGPT that easily can be used by everyone to make/stimulate almost everything.

It's a great show! Palantir reminds me of this.

God, I love this show soo much!

Miss this show😢

With the recent rise in AI and machine learning, this should couldn't be more relevant. Great video.

Just finished watching it. Quite a good show.

Best series of all time

Este programa es buenísimo. I loved it.

Fantastic

Person of Interest was a fantastic show, and it's such a shame CBS killed it for no reason other than greed. It was popular, well written, with fantastic actors and characters, and they just wanted a bigger slice of the pie. I loved how they made The Machine come to life and actually care, choosing good. The way it chewed through hundreds of thousands of possibilities to try to save them at the end. How people like Reese, Root, and Shaw threw off their hurt and brokenness and made brilliant and heroic choices to rise to their potential. And how, in the end, these choices redeemed Finch, too.

this show made me cry, if a show can make me cry, its an instant 11/10

MASTERPIECE , THNX FOR THIS VIDEO

You are being watched.

I would love to rewatch this. Any suggestion where?

When the second Machine started it reminded me of The Forbin project .

I’ve been putting people into this show for years, it is literally one of the greatest tv shows in my opinion

I miss that show. Any idea if they plan to release a 4k version on Blu-ray?

I always loved the small detail of how the Machine identifies people versus how Samaritan identifies people. The Machine outlines people with a box, while Samaritan outlines people with a triangle. A triangle is the 2D shape that has the least amount of sides and angles, possibly symbolizing how Samaritan uses the most direct and simple analysis, while the Machine tries to analyze people and situations from more angles in order to truly understand them.

great video