I just finished the show for the first time today! Personally, I’m one of those people who really didn’t like the ending, but I think it left a lot open to the imagination and that can be a good thing. I liked that Harold went to reunite with Grace, it left me wondering what he told her and how Grace reacted. It also surprised me when the Machine came back online… I have very mixed feelings about that. I’m interested in hearing everyone’s headcanons about how the characters went on to live their lives and how the world looks after the end of the series!

If you dont want spoiler i have included deceased to some people that die abit early on the show

Jahames2844/Person-Of-Interest-project

Have fun with it (P.S. Im not done with the projects im taking suggestions)

username is Harold
password is admin

I am on my 4th or 5th rewatch. I am not sure they started out making a science fiction AI show, I think it was more of the premise to build a serialized cop show more original. But why on earth they keep referring to the central plot device as "the machine" is beyond me. It has to be an intentional choice by the writers, else naming it just seems like this obvious step in development. The rival AI being called "Samaritan"--that should've been the first "machine's" name and the name of the whole show. I mean, just grammatically and semantically, middle of dialogue, it feels like a missing piece and makes conversations about "the machine" confusing. A new viewer tuning in when it was on TV would be completely lost and have no chances of catching up, simply because the thing they're talking about is so unembodied in the plot and dialogue.

People who know the show have him at least top 5

So only the 3rd time i have rewatched LOST and several times i have POI and finally realized that Navid Negahban was also in both.

In LOST he plays Sayid’s superior in Solitary and played Ali Hasen - Panopticon (POI)

This was my original post on the r/Lost and got denied… so i thought it was interesting that I caught it… so i am attempting here.

Hi, I never looked because I thought POI was an old show to actually look for other work of the actors. So it was a surprise when I saw Jim Caviezel in a future movie : Ghost Soldier (2026/11/06)

I know many of you name your computers “The Machine” and “Samaritian”. I need more ideas like this please. I have a phone, an ereader, and a pair of earbuds waiting to be named.

When I shared my Machine rebuild, the most common question was some version of "only Mac? what about my phone?" (Windows is still on my list, I promise.)

So I built the Machine's view into my own iPhone camera app, XianNow Camera.（） There are seven looks: Admin, Primary Asset, Secondary Asset, Analog Interface, Threat, Irrelevant, and one called Machine Decides, which gives everyone in frame a random identity. The square box sits on your head and shoulders like in the show, follows your face, and gets smaller as you walk away. Hit the shutter and you get a still that looks like it came off one of its cameras.

The update is in App Store review right now and should be out in a day or two. It's free on iPhone. I'll post the link in the comments as soon as it's live.

Until then: which identity do you want? Tell me below and I'll reply to you the day it's out. I'm guessing there'll be a lot of Threats.

(The people in these samples are AI-generated. I'll swap in real shots once people start using it.)

Don't get me wrong it was amazing in most places but it felt less rigorous than the previous seasons.

Shaw being a potential asset vs just a source of information to find the machine.

the sudden existence of a virus that can takedown both AIs (and they can't fight the virus).

Didn't get anything to tie the stories of Claire and the Samiritan boy.

No buildup or even a sudden realization for why the Machine would win against Samiritan on the satellite. I was actually hoping for a 3-4 minute VFXed battle between them once they were on the satellite.

Control/DC storyline was also kinda sidelined heavily. I enjoyed seeing past characters in the episode but machine bringing Control back into the game would've been nice.

I know a lot of these things are dependent on casting and talent availability. and it's generally hard to write a gripping plot when the AIs have no limitations.

Still I miss that detail in the final season.

ps: I liked what they did with Elias. Using him to hint to a ruthless finch before he finally turns.

I hate that Ellias dies but it is such good writing and I love how it is done. It makes sense and is satisfying but it is SO sad.

Hello everyone - still watching the show for the first time - almost done with season 5 - and have been thinking about a website game - which I actually started to build - the way it works is your like doing what Finch/Root kind of does.

Your a tech doing all the online research and hacking - The games Machine gives you a number and you have to figure out what its all about - you have agents out in the field that you can communicate with through your phone with text massages - you can play either side the Machines side where you have to help people and stay hidden from Samaritan that's hunting you or get exposed - or play as Samaritan and shape the world while hunting for the machine?

Its all themed out like the computer systems - it will be like a desktop system that you log into -

This is not a sells pitch or anything like that - this would be a free open game for anyone - but if you do want to help let me know - I kind of have to build and fund this all myself so if you want to help speed this up - you can offer any support - if not then when it's finally done depends on time I have and funds for the server?

Follow-up to my post from a couple of days ago. Thank you all for the kind words and the corrections.

I cut a short trailer for it, scored with Ramin Djawadi's main title. It opens on the Machine's boot sequence, and at 0:06 it finds me and tags me ANALOG INTERFACE.

Try it in your browser, no install: https://rosehahah.github.io/the-machine/

Source code (MIT, runs on your own webcam): https://github.com/rosehahah/the-machine

If any screen doesn't match the show, keep telling me.

Person Of Interest is streaming on Peacock in the US idk when it went live but if your trying to watch or get ppl to watch its alot easier now

What’s your ranking?

Person of Interest ended ten years ago, and I'm still watching it. I started in middle school, around 2013, and I've rewatched the whole series more than ten times since. It has helped me a lot in my life, and it changed how I think about things.

Now that the AI era really seems to be here, sometimes I feel like I'm living in the world of Person of Interest, and the line between the show and real life gets a little blurry.

So I tried to build The Machine.

It runs on a Mac with your webcam and iPhone camera. It boxes everyone it sees, recognizes you once you enroll yourself as ADMIN ("GOOD EVENING, ADMIN."), notices someone picking up a knife, and issues a number in the ###-00-#### format. It never says why.

There's also a console you can open right in your browser, no install: a wall of 32 cameras at real Manhattan intersections, dossiers, numbers, a map, and who-was-seen-with-whom, all on a fake city of 500 people.

👉 Try the console: https://rosehahah.github.io/the-machine/
👉 Code (free, open source): https://github.com/rosehahah/the-machine

The rule I set myself: every box, label and colour has to match an actual frame from the show. I searched all 103 episodes for reference shots (the S4 Manhattan map, the S5 "PRIMARY ASSET IDENTIFIED" panel, the S1 camera captions…). Anything the show never showed is marked as invented.

So please nitpick. If a box is the wrong shape or a label is wrong for the season, tell me and I'll fix it.

No footage from the show is used. The video is stock footage plus mock data, and the "ADMIN" in it is scripted. Faces never leave your computer.

Thank you to Jonathan Nolan, Greg Plageman, the writers, the cast and the crew. This exists because of you. 📞

Does anyone know the brand and style of the blue glasses worn by Terance Beagle (actor- Keith David) in season 5 episode 3 ?

I’m watching this for the first time and enjoying it except for the bogus locale references. Far Rockaway is in the same borough where most of the show is filmed, Queens, and has always been at least half ghetto, at least as long as I remember.

Is there a list of other locales for this show anywhere? It looks like the Far Rockaway episode was filmed in Forest Hills, also in Queens, but I’m not sure.

Love the show through the first two seasons, but if NY was really this dangerous the rent would be lower!

I remember this series being filmed in Long Island City and love seeing how it was back before gentrification.