Ok, this is an interesting one. A little old school 80s style updated for the new millennium, shades of Knight Rider with some definite influences from other shows. Unlike many of those, the protagonist here isn’t afraid of using a gun and making it count. Basic concept is that a Bill Gates type character created a supercomputer for the government, one that tracks and analyses all the data from emails, phone calls, CCD cameras, and everything else and uses that information to track terrorists. The thing is, it also finds all kinds of lesser crimes. Crimes the government doesn’t have the time to worry about. That information is sent through a backdoor in the form of nine digits. A social security number. Enter the hero, a former government assassin looking for a cause he can believe in. Armed with only one person of interest to start from, he has to figure out what crime is coming, who is committing it, and how can he stop it. All I can say is… shades of The Dark Knight. From the big brother computer systems spying on cell phones to the main character that I CONTINUALLY kept checking to be sure that it wasn’t Christian Bale. No wonderful toys, unfortunately, but he makes use of what he can lay his hands on pretty effectively. He’s not unwilling to kill, but this isn’t the punisher either. Overall, I liked this show. It’s one to watch. Check out Person of Interest this season, I don’t think it’ll be time wasted.
