What I’m Watching: Person of Interest

Person of Interest: Season 1, Episode 10 “Number Crunch” (B+)

I was thinking to myself midway through this episode that this could well be the end of the show, if Reese was somehow captured by his old friend Snow and this whole business was shut down. That’s hardly the case, since this episode was the highest-watched installment since the premiere and it’s only halfway through the twenty-two episode season commissioned several months ago. It’s definitely a character-of-the-week-oriented show, and therefore having it turned into a ten-episode miniseries wouldn’t necessarily make sense, but I do feel as if we’ve reached a turning point. This episode was a fitting hour with which to head off into hiatus, featuring multiple numbers, some of whom Reese did not reach in time to save. Mike Kelly’s Snow is definitely the show’s new villain, and I’m glad that Carter decided that she wanted to help him out after seeing Finch come to rescue him rather than continue to work towards turning him in. Things haven’t been easy for her, being under investigation for allegedly working for Reese, and she’s handled as best as she could. Hopefully her act of assistance will lead to a more productive working relationship, potentially with Fusco overtly helping out as well. Finch wasn’t superb at recon, but imagine how could this team could be if they actually worked together! I’m not sure that’s where this show is headed, but it would be fun to expand the ensemble so that it didn’t just feel so solitary sometimes with only Finch and Reese operating each case.