Person Of Interest | Introduction to SciFi TV Series

Have you heard the phrase “Person Of Interest”. In terms of police dictionary (well, not a dictionary to be precise, but used by the police department, especially in the USA) it means a person in whom the police is interested.

Now the person referred can be a witness or someone is cooperating in solving a specific crime, the phrase has no clear meaning. The person can be on either side of the crime.

By keeping this phrase as the title, Jonathan Nolan created a TV Serial which was originally aired on CBS from September 22, 2011 to June 21, 2016.

The basic concept of the TV Series will remind you Tom Cruise starrer Hollywood movie Minority Report!

The series got popular and received mostly positive reviews from the critics and audience altogether and it was renewed for a total of 5 seasons.

List Of Episodes – Season 1 (2011-2012)

The pilot episode of the first season was directed by Jonathan Nolan himself, following by various directors.

The first season came with the concept of a software known as The Machine. The machine can be better referred as a modern surveillance system with artificial intelligence. It is able to accurately monitor and analyse the security footage and communication around the world to accurately predict the crime!

The machine is developed by mysterious reclusive billionaire computer programmer named Harold Finch. He leaves a backdoor into the system so he can use it to know about the crime before it happens. However, to prevent misuse of the backdoor if found by someone else, he put a limitation there. The backdoor reveals just the Social security number of the person(s) associated with the crime. It doesn’t tell whether he/she is a criminal or a victim!

How he is planning to use the backdoor and how the things turned out is explored in the first season.

Here is the list of episodes of the first season.

Title	Director	Written By	Release Date
Pilot	David Semel	Jonathan Nolan	September 22, 2011
Ghosts	Richard J. Lewis	Greg Plageman & Jonathan Nolan	September 29, 2011
Mission Creep	Steven DePaul	Patrick Harbinson	October 6, 2011
Cura Te Ipsum	Charles Beeson	Denise Thé	October 13, 2011
Judgment	Colin Bucksey	David Slack	October 20, 2011
The Fix	Dennis Smith	Nic Van Zeebroeck & Michael Sopczynski	October 27, 2011
Witness	Frederick E. O. Toye	Amanda Segel	November 3, 2011
Foe	Milan Cheylov	Sean Hennen	November 17, 2011
Get Carter	Alex Zakrzewski	Greg Plageman & Denise Thé	December 8, 2011
Number Crunch	Jeffrey Hunt	Patrick Harbinson	December 15, 2011
Super	Stephen Williams	David Slack	January 12, 2012
Legacy	Brad Anderson	Amanda Segel	January 19, 2012
Root Cause	Richard J. Lewis	Erik Mountain	February 2, 2012
Wolf and Cub	Chris Fisher	Nic Van Zeebroeck & Michael Sopczynski	February 9, 2012
Blue Code	David Von Ancken	Denise Thé	February 16, 2012
Risk	Jeff T. Thomas	Sean Hennen	February 23, 2012
Baby Blue	Larry Teng	Patrick Harbinson	March 8, 2012
Identity Crisis	Charles Beeson	Amy Berg	March 29, 2012
Flesh and Blood	Stephen Semel	Amanda Segel	April 5, 2012
Matsya Nyaya	Kevin Bray	Ray Utarnachitt	April 26, 2012
Many Happy Returns	Frederick E. O. Toye	Story by: Erik Mountain & Jonathan Nolan Teleplay by: Erik Mountain	May 3, 2012
No Good Deed	Stephen Williams	David Slack	May 10, 2012
Firewall	Richard J. Lewis	Greg Plageman & Jonathan Nolan	May 17, 2012

List Of Episodes – Season 2 (2012-2013)

The commercial and critical success of the first season encouraged the makers to come with the second season of Person Of Interest.

The plot gets interesting in this season with the introduction to another organization of powerful people who is trying to get access of The Machine. The season explores many aspects of criminal activities including betrayal, revenge and truth revealation.

Here is the list of episodes which are part of Season 2.

Title	Director	Written By	Release Date
The Contingency	Richard J. Lewis	Denise Thé & Jonathan Nolan	September 27, 2012
Bad Code	Jon Cassar	Greg Plageman & Patrick Harbinson	October 4, 2012
Masquerade	Jeffrey Hunt	Melissa Scrivner Love	October 18, 2012
Triggerman	James Whitmore, Jr.	Erik Mountain	October 25, 2012
Bury the Lede	Jeffrey Hunt	David Slack	November 1, 2012
The High Road	Félix Alcalá	Nic Van Zeebroeck & Michael Sopczynski	November 8, 2012
Critical	Frederick E. O. Toye	Sean Hennen	November 15, 2012
Til Death	Helen Shaver	Amanda Segel	November 29, 2012
C.O.D.	Clark Johnson	Ray Utarnachitt	December 6, 2012
Shadow Box	Stephen Surjik	Patrick Harbinson	December 13, 2012
2πR	Richard J. Lewis	Dan Dietz	January 3, 2013
Prisoner’s Dilemma	Chris Fisher	David Slack	January 10, 2013
Dead Reckoning	John Dahl	Erik Mountain	January 31, 2013
One Percent	Chris Fisher	Denise Thé & Melissa Scrivner Love	February 7, 2013
Booked Solid	Frederick E. O. Toye	Nic Van Zeebroeck & Michael Sopczynski	February 14, 2013
Relevance	Jonathan Nolan	Amanda Segel & Jonathan Nolan	February 21, 2013
Proteus	Kenneth Fink	Sean Hennen	March 7, 2013
All In	Tricia Brock	Lucas O’Connor	March 14, 2013
Trojan Horse	Jeffrey Hunt	Dan Dietz & Erik Mountain	April 4, 2013
In Extremis	Chris Fisher	Greg Plageman & Tony Camerino	April 25, 2013
Zero Day	Jeffrey Hunt	Amanda Segel & David Slack	May 2, 2013
God Mode	Richard J. Lewis	Patrick Harbinson & Jonathan Nolan	May 9, 2013

List Of Episodes – Season 3 (2013-2014)

In this season, Carter (know more about her in future articles of this series) decides to investigate deeper in HR to find who is the leader of the same. Will he be able to uncover it? And if yes, then how? All these questions are answered in season 3 which ends in a way that you can expect season 4 of the TV Series.

Here is the list of episodes for Season 3.

Title	Director	Written By	Release Date
Liberty	Chris Fisher	Greg Plageman & Denise Thé	September 24, 2013
Nothing to Hide	Frederick E. O. Toye	Erik Mountain	October 1, 2013
Lady Killer	Omar Madha	Amanda Segel	October 8, 2013
Reasonable Doubt	Stephen Williams	Melissa Scrivner Love	October 15, 2013
Razgovor”Разговор[51]	Kenneth Fink	David Slack	October 22, 2013
Mors Praematura	Helen Shaver	Dan Dietz	October 29, 2013
The Perfect Mark	Stephen Surjik	Sean Hennen	November 5, 2013
Endgame	Sylvain White	Nic Van Zeebroeck & Michael Sopczynski	November 12, 2013
The Crossing	Frederick E. O. Toye	Denise Thé	November 19, 2013
The Devil’s Share	Chris Fisher	Amanda Segel & Jonathan Nolan	November 26, 2013
Lethe	Richard J. Lewis	Erik Mountain	December 17, 2013
Aletheia	Richard J. Lewis	Lucas O’Connor	January 7, 2014
4C	Stephen Williams	Melissa Scrivner Love & Greg Plageman	January 14, 2014
Provenance	Jeffrey Hunt	Sean Hennen	February 4, 2014
Last Call	Jeff T. Thomas	Dan Dietz	February 25, 2014
RAM	Stephen Surjik	Nic Van Zeebroeck & Michael Sopczynski	March 4, 2014
/”Root Path[64]	Jeffrey Lee Gibson	David Slack	March 18, 2014
Allegiance	Jeffrey Hunt	Tony Camerino	March 25, 2014
Most Likely To…	Kevin Hooks	Melissa Scrivner Love & Denise Thé	April 1, 2014
Death Benefit	Richard J. Lewis	Erik Mountain & Lucas O’Connor	April 15, 2014
Beta	Frederick E. O. Toye	Sean Hennen & Dan Dietz	April 29, 2014
A House Divided	Chris Fisher	Amanda Segel	May 6, 2014
Deus Ex Machina	Chris Fisher	Greg Plageman & David Slack	May 13, 2014

List Of Episodes – Season 4 (2014-2015)

The team have to work on uncovering the criminal activities and prevent them as it was doing. But the things are more challenging now. The season also explores bigger aspects of criminal activities with huge impact. It includes playing with the Election Results, Stock Market and other such large scale activities which can affect masses.

Here is the list of episodes aired as part of Season 4.

Title	Director	Written By	Release Date
Panopticon	Richard J. Lewis	Erik Mountain & Greg Plageman	September 23, 2014
Nautilus	Chris Fisher	Dan Dietz & Melissa Scrivner Love	September 30, 2014
Wingman	Frederick E. O. Toye	Amanda Segel	October 7, 2014
Brotherhood	Chris Fisher	Denise Thé	October 14, 2014
Prophets	Kenneth Fink	Lucas O’Connor	October 21, 2014
Pretenders	Stephen Surjik	Ashley Gable	October 28, 2014
Honor Among Thieves	Sylvain White	David Slack	November 11, 2014
Point of Origin	Richard J. Lewis	Tony Camerino	November 18, 2014
The Devil You Know	Richard J. Lewis	Erik Mountain	November 25, 2014
The Cold War	Michael Offer	Amanda Segel	December 16, 2014
If-Then-Else	Chris Fisher	Denise Thé	January 6, 2015
Control-Alt-Delete	Stephen Surjik	Andy Callahan	January 13, 2015
M.I.A.	Kevin Bray	Lucas O’Connor	February 3, 2015
Guilty	Kate Woods	David Slack	February 10, 2015
Q&A	Stephen Semel	Dan Dietz	February 17, 2015
Blunt	Frederick E. O. Toye	Amanda Segel & Greg Plageman	February 24, 2015
Karma	Chris Fisher	Hillary Benefiel & Sabir Pirzada	March 10, 2015
Skip	Helen Shaver	Ashley Gable	March 24, 2015
Search and Destroy	Stephen Surjik	Zak Schwartz	April 7, 2015
Terra Incognita	Alrick Riley	Erik Mountain & Melissa Scrivner Love	April 14, 2015
Asylum	Frederick E. O. Toye	Andy Callahan & Denise Thé	April 28, 2015
YHWH	Chris Fisher	Dan Dietz & Greg Plageman	May 5, 2015

List Of Episodes – Season 5 (2016)

The fith season is the final one. Here we see that The Machine reinitiated and it takes a while before it can start functioning as it was. What are the actual damages and how the things again fall in place, are the main points explored in this Season.

The fifth season includes the following episodes:

Title	Director	Written By	Release Date
B.S.O.D.	Chris Fisher	Greg Plageman & Tony Camerino	May 3, 2016
SNAFU	Chris Fisher	Lucas O’Connor	May 9, 2016
Truth Be Told	Stephen Surjik	Erik Mountain	May 10, 2016
6,741	Chris Fisher	Lucas O’Connor & Denise Thé	May 16, 2016
ShotSeeker	Maja Vrvilo	Andy Callahan	May 17, 2016
A More Perfect Union	Alrick Riley	Melissa Scrivner Love	May 23, 2016
QSO	Kate Woods	Hillary Benefiel	May 24, 2016
Reassortment	Kenneth Fink	Tony Camerino	May 24, 2016
Sotto Voce	Margot Lulick	Sabir Pirzada	May 30, 2016
The Day the World Went Away	Frederick E. O. Toye	Andy Callahan & Melissa Scrivner Love	May 31, 2016
Synecdoche	Tim Matheson	Jacey Heldrich & Joshua Brown	June 7, 2016
.exe	Greg Plageman	Greg Plageman & Erik Mountain	June 14, 2016
return 0	Chris Fisher	Jonathan Nolan & Denise Thé	June 21, 2016

Person Of Interest got many accolades during it’s airing. Here is a brief summary of some of the awards it was nominated for/won during the course.

Award	Year	Category	Nominee(s)	Result
2012	Golden Reel Awards	Best Sound Editing – Short Form Dialogue and ADR in Television	Thomas DeGorter, H. Jay Levine, Maciek Malish, Matt Sawelson / “Witness”	Nominated
2012	Hollywood Post Alliance	Outstanding Sound – Television	Thomas DeGorter, Keith Rogers, Matt Sawelson, Scott Weber / “Matsya Nyaya”	Nominated
2012	IGN	Best TV Action Series	Person of Interest	Nominated
2012	NAACP Image Awards	Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series	Taraji P. Henson	Nominated
2012	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite New TV Drama	Person of Interest	Won
2012	Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards	Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour)	Noah Timan, Keith Rogers, Frank Morrone, Scott Weber / “Pilot”	Nominated
2013	Golden Reel Awards	Best Sound Editing – Short Form Music in Television	Tom Trafalski / “Firewall”	Nominated
2013	IGN	Best TV Action Series	Person of Interest	Nominated
2013	IGN	Best TV Hero	Taraji P. Henson (for the character “Joss Carter”)	Nominated
2014	IGN	Best TV Action Series	Person of Interest	Nominated
2014	NAACP Image Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series	Taraji P. Henson	Won
2014	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite Dramatic TV Actor	Jim Caviezel	Nominated
2015	IGN	People’s Choice TV Series	Person of Interest	Won
2015	IGN	Best TV Action Series	Person of Interest	Won
2015	IGN	People’s Choice TV Action Series	Person of Interest	Won
2015	IGN	Best TV Episode	If-Then-Else	Nominated
2015	Saturn Awards	Best Network Television Series	Person of Interest	Nominated
2015	Zimbio, Inc.	Best Overall Show	Person of Interest	Won
2016	Edgar Allan Poe Awards	Best Television Episode Teleplay	Erik Mountain, Melissa Scrivner Love / “Terra Incognita”	Nominated
2016	IGN	Best TV Series	Person of Interest	Nominated
2016	IGN	Best TV Action Series	Person of Interest	Won
2016	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite TV Crime Drama Actor	Jim Caviezel	Nominated
2016	People’s Choice Awards	Favorite TV Crime Drama	Person of Interest	Won
2016	World Soundtrack Awards	Television Composer of the Year	Ramin Djawadi	Nominated
2017	Edgar Allan Poe Awards	Best Television Episode Teleplay	Jonathan Nolan, Denise Thé / “return 0”	Nominated

The rise of the E-Commerce lead to wide accessibility of such TV Series, which were otherwise available in the country of origin. Eventually, the TV Series was releade on media and made available in various regions. And now you can find it in online stores like Amazon in many locales.

We will keep exploring and reviewwing each episode of this TV Series over the period of time. The episode tiles will then be linked with the reviews for the specific episode. So we recommend you to bookmark this page.

Quick Purchase Links:

• Person of Interest: The Complete First Season : Blu Ray : Amazon India
• Person of Interest: The Complete Second Season Blu Ray : Amazon India
• Person of Interest: The Complete Third Season : Amazon India
• Person of Interest: The Complete Four Season : Blu Ray : Amazon India
• Person of Interest – Saisons 1 à 4 [Blu-ray] IMPORT Region Free in French and English : Amazon India
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• Person Of Interest : Season 1 : Amazon US
• Person Of Interest : Season 2 : Amazon US
• Person Of Interest : Season 3 : Amazon US
• Person Of Interest : Season 4 : Amazon US
• Person Of Interest : Season 5 : Amazon US

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