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LentThem
Aug 31, 2004

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Party Plane Jones posted:

Episode ended on a note that was a little too 'cute' for lack of a better word. Hopefully the next one has more Harold to it.

This episode had a lot of moments where it felt like the writing was doing too much WINK WINK GET IT?? at the audience; stuff like the new Irrelevants quoting Finch's opening credits monologue and Reese explaining why he didn't want to be Secret Service.

The only other time I remember it getting this heavy was in the last season with the insurance salesman who was pretending to be a cop and working with Reese; there were a ton show-aware references ("How do you do that thing with your voice?!?!?!") and it just felt so much like that character was supposed to be some kind of audience insert. Like, if someone was daydreaming about being a character on the show, but somehow had previously watched the show and therefore had way too much knowledge about the other characters and plot.

Edit: oh it looks like other people thought the same thing - http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/person-interest-pretenders-211121

LentThem fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Jun 9, 2016

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LentThem
Aug 31, 2004

90% Retractible

Hollismason posted:

Okay which one of you called out the invisible ear pieces because now I can not watch the show without noticing this. GRRrrrrrrrrrrRRr

I enjoy trying to figure out when they do or don't need to slap themselves in the ear before talking to each other, or when it's an open channel and they're just listening to what's going on around the other person

LentThem
Aug 31, 2004

90% Retractible

Accretionist posted:

Fusco's crazy eyes. For a second there, I believed Kevin Chapman was murdering a stunt double.

His telephone acting was fantastic in that scene when he thought his son got shot, followed by Shaw telling him things are fine but she couldn't help them both, god drat

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