1x12 Ready Player Two

@misnomer I think one of the best lessons you can learn from Persons of Interest is that just because the premise only lends itself to a few iterations doesn't mean they can't dig out a bunch of them that you don't expect. And of course on of the lessons of Prison Break is what when you have a two season premise you don't stretch yourself by having a third season.

@wolfkin I've never watched Person of Interest, but Prison Break had a superb first season and a truckload of appalling ones after that (with the promise of yet another one in the works, yay...). I honestly can't see how this show will go on after revealing the origin of the God account, the whole premise will fall flat after that. So, best case scenario, this will be a one season show.

@misnomer Persons of Interest (which is a really good show if you get the chance) is basically about two guys. One is The Nerd, one is The Gun. The Nerd creates a computer program, not unlike the epynonymous program in this show, that predicts people who need trouble. By basically hacking into literally everything and then running the recently mentionted predictive analysis on ALL data. The catch is it gives only the social security number of a target individual. The Nerd gets the SSN and figures out who they are and how they're related to the problem. Together they track down the person of interest and help them.

Now with years of TV watching you can predict the four basic ways this works out

1. The number is of a person in trouble they need to help.
2. The number is of a person causing trouble and they need to stop them
3. (and here's where it gets whoa) The number is of a person who seems like they need help but they're actually causing trouble. (i.e. a friendly guy who just needs to find his wife that was kidnapped only she wasn't kidnapped she ran away from her abusive husband) and finally
4. The number is of a person who seems like they are causing trouble but they really are the ones who need help. (i.e. someone robbing a bank heist but they're doing it because their wife was kidnapped by their former crew)

It basically a two season show as the four variations get revealed over the course of the episodes with the latter two in the later season but they have twists on how the machine functions, and even twists on the numbers, that keep it interesting. A nice take on technophobia that doesn't make me want to claw out my eyeballs (CSI: Cyber) it's an all powerful machine that can do everything and hack everything but it makes sense usually Plot Spoiler (Minor): It's revealed later that the machine was intentionally hampered so it literally can't do everything for them. The acting is superb featuring Jim Caviezel as The Gun and Michael Emerson as The Nerd and Taraji P. Henson as Their Comissioner Gordon. Later on in a move that surprised me Amy Acker shows up as a new character who genuinely had me convinced some moron booked her for a passing role rather than a recurring character because she was so good. It also has an ending that likely is good, but I refuse to let the show end so I'm not watching it (just like The Good Wife).

@wolfkin my short attention span prevents me from reading walls of text (also because I was about to go to sleep when I was notified about this). But I promise I'll keep the e-mail notification in my inbox to read your comment some other time. Please don't take this wrong :)

@misnomer no biggie at all. read it at your lesiure. respond only if you care to. Laters.