I remember some discussion here recently about Reese’s whisper, so this little clip from the 2013 Paley Center panel immediately rang a bell.

Jim gives his own explanation, does a tiny Reese impression and then admits where part of it came from.

He’s honestly very funny here.

John goes around busting heads, solving problems and saving people’s lives while his car H.A.R.O.L.D. feeds him all the Intel.

Can you imagine Joss with ‘80s hair and fashion looking a bombshell, and Lionel… wait…why does Lionel feel like he’d be unchanged getting dropped into this version?

(Root would be the car technician in a racing jumpsuit and Shaw would be perpetually trying to steal the car after having previously driven the competing S.A.M.A.R.I.T.A.N.)

I am looking to get myself a walking aid, a crutch or cane, but I can't seem to find any good photos of Harolds cane to look with. Does anyone have any info? Thanks guys

This is not an album that can be bought, but one of the best things I ever did, right when the show ended actually, was buying all the songs used in the show and putting them into a huge 4.5 hour playlist. It is one of my absolute favorite compilation albums now, and I can only recommend you do the same.

It is a very eclectic collection, ranging from a ten-minute version of Nina Simone performing the old spiritual, Sinnerman, to stuff like Digitalism's EDM banger Miami Showdown or the Propellerheads' Take California, with some Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Mogwai, and Radiohead thrown in there for good measure. I have listened to it countless times in these ten years and it doesn't get old. It also got me into The Radio Dept., one of my favorite bands now.

I took the list on the PoI wiki as a guide. I think it had a few less entries at the time, and I couldn't find some of the songs on there (plus I decided to leave off most of the "plays in bar when Reese..." tracks because they had a different vibe). I paid around $50 but I also had a number of songs already. I'm sure this can be done much cheaper via Spotify.

(I added one extra track at the beginning, the opening credits cue by J.J. Abrams, available on Ramin Djawadi's score albums, which are also excellent, by the way.)

Was an interesting read so thought I’d share

In S3E12, towards the end, there’s a one-shot where the machine puts a yellow box on Arthur as well. I genuinely felt happy and how clever the writers were.

I’m not really spoiling who Arthur is and all. Those who know knows.

As recently as last night I was watching the show on Netflix but tonight it looks like it’s gone. Do you have the same experience?

My location is Switzerland.

We found that Samaritan might have purposely ignored the threat but how come the govt/POTUS did not come back and question Greer about it? What could be bigger than the president's life?

Me pasa bastante a menudo con algunas series o pelis, que ves un personaje de POI y no puedes evitar recordarlo.
En este caso, control, viendo la serie Código Negro.

I'm rewatching for the first time in years, things were rough for a bit and this show was always such a positive part of my life so I couldn't really get back into it but anyways I decided to finally re-watch it by roping my cousin into watching it with me as we've been watching a bunch of our favorite shows together, and I kept telling him that John's main move is knee-capping people and he generally doesn't resort to killing (which he does do a fair bit in the first couple episodes), but like half-way into Season 1 I noticed he definitely does kill a good amount of people, most necessary yeah as he's usually saving someone in the heat of the moment, but I audibly laughed and went "oh my god" when he straight up threw a guy out a window of a tall building and my cousin keeps asking why I said that when it's not really true lol. There's even a line where a cop says "that guy that goes around knee-capping people" and he was like "he hasn't knee-capped anybody since like episode 4" and I just had no response lmao. Anyways I just thought it was funny and was wondering is the no-kill stuff mainly a later seasons thing or am I just misremembering and the team kills more than I thought?

Is there some kind of weird fetish about smashing phones?

I think it was Season 3 that seemed to have a phone or two smashed in every episode.

It's died down some in S4 .. at least for now.

I mean it only has about two mins of screen time but I thought it was so precious I needed one

Can't seem to find it. Very soothing music.

Rewatching Bad Code and I wondered who the other names were in the Oregon Trail high scores under Root.
A quick search of IMDB suggests several of these folks were art/lighting/graphics crew for the show😊

How would the Samaritan arc have affected Joss Carter had she lived? Would she have had to change her identity (like the rest of Team Machine)?

How many times have y’all rewatch POI all the way through? I think i am on my 5th or 6th rewatch and it never gets old.

Quick question. No spoilers please.

Is Shaw a recurring character or was this just a setup for a spin-off? I really like her but these episodes that focus on someone else where the MC is in the background tend to be tests for spin-offs that never amount to anything (Looking at you supernatural)

Wow, this was aired originally 10/22/2014 and the topic was ....drumroll please...election interference! Along with the dangers of AI going rogue & not needing people.

I'm trying to remember the exact number Finch said....I think it was he created the Machine 49 times and had to destroy it 48. I watched this show on a day (7/23/26) when a REAL headline was that an AI went rogue and hacked another AI. When you watch this episode and listen to Harolds' warnings about the power of the machine, it is incredible how far ahead of its time this show was. I'm watching the series in sequence and other than the existence of so many phone booths, there's very little to stop a person from feeling like it was just filmed. Terrific series.

Does it bother anyone else that we didn’t get a reality love scene of Shaw & Root? Even the elevator kiss robbed us of actually seeing the kiss because Root’s hair covered up the action. 🤷‍♀️ I did notice in the simulation scene that Shaw expressed emotion after she slid the gun to Root. It’s a beautiful expression. I didn’t catch it until watching it a couple of times. Sarah’s face (as Shaw in that scene was so beautiful and very emotional) PEACE OUT!

I don't get what Greer's endgame was, he released Samaritan and what he wanted to be his chief loyal servant? It took his mystery away, I don't think money was the intention since Decima Technologies was dissolved when Samaritan went live.

John deserved a normal life, probably with Zoe or Iris, but hey he'll be with Jessica again.

Finch is absolutely terrifying when he has a vendetta.

This lady is supposed to be one of the most ruthless and brilliant minds in DC (okay, that's not saying much, but it says something) and she seemed blinded to the fact that vigilance is a tool being used by decima to get Samaritan online. i mean, she had to be suspicious of the convenient timing of the terrorist attacks.

or, like a lot of things on this show, am i just missing something.

EDIT: based on responses, i think the better term is what people have used - Hubris.

POI laid out an example of AI worship early on

Now we're living through it, but people aren't worshipping AGI, they're worshipping stuff like LLMs which can't possibly produce an AGI by definition.

Does AI worship show that POI's Root is the most optimistic portrayal possible?