Person of Interest season 5

13 episodes · 2016

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what happens

For years, the Person of Interest team have been protected by The Machine, but as worlds collided and a rival AI known as Samaritan finally cornered The Machine inside the nation’s power grid, it was the POI team’s turn to protect Finch’s creation. In season five, the cold war is over. The world around us might look the same, but something has drastically changed. Samaritan’s lethal “correction” has initiated its control. Finch’s Machine is essentially dead. Shaw is still missing. And the team is once again hiding in plain sight. But with Samaritan’s invisible grip tightening everywhere, will Finch be able to rebuild and resurrect The Machine? And if he does, will it be the same Machine when it comes back online?

how it went

Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.

Read from 169 comments — 80 said when · across 7 episodes.

📈 rising arc — Builds the whole way through. Warm most of the way through. In the last stretch it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. It tightens hardest in the last stretch.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

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📈 rising arc — builds the whole way through

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“instantly hooked me”
man_in_the_suit▲ 605about 0–5% inread it ↗
“the season 1 finale in one of the most satisfying moments I have ever watched on tv”
man_in_the_suit▲ 605about 95–100% inread it ↗
“That last scene would be a great set up for a spin-off”
firethequadlaser▲ 264about 90–100% inread it ↗
“when i saw the machine downloading itself back into the subway station i started tearing up”
j0hn_r0g3r5▲ 192about 90–100% inread it ↗

episodes

6 of 13 with a score

Every episode has a page — its synopsis, who was in it, and a place to rate it. A number appears when discussion or ratings support one; where there is neither, the dash is the honest answer.

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