Person of Interest - Pilot, S01E01

Finally a pilot worth watching! I was beginning to despair for the new series being launched this Fall that almost none of them would be worth the time it takes to watch them. That said, Person of Interest is more likely to go on my list of Shows I Might Watch At Some Point rather than the Shows I MUST Watch NOW list. Still, I give it praise because I am interested in seeing more.

The premise was a lot more interesting than I originally thought. The cameras watching everyone, evaluating their intentions, and dismissing the potential evil of or danger to anyone if it did not reach 9/11 proportions, made far more sense than I expected. Big Brother is watching, but he only cares if what you are going to do will hurt a lot of people. Small scale doesn't bother him.

And that is where the main characters come in. Mr. Finch (Michael Emerson) designed the Big Brother machine, and told it to dismiss the little things, but through some tragedy we will hopefully discover in the future, he began to care about those so-called "irrelevant" issues. Having more money and time than he needs or cares about, he hired John Reese (James Caviezel) to prevent these bad things from happening. Reese gets a job from the deal, and a purpose of trying to save people. Both of these men are missing parts of their souls after devastating circumstances and it will be interesting to see as the series progresses how much their accomplishments help to fill that hole.

It's clever, it's intriguing, it's interesting, and it is a little different from the other shows out there. Certainly worth checking out.