J. J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan had originally planned for this sci-fi crime drama to be a movie, but CBS had other ideas. . I’m a big fan of J. J. so have high hopes for this show. I only hope he’s learnt how to provide an answer to the many questions he provides. Come on, its got Jesus and the king of the Island (Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson) what more can you want?
After losing his girlfriend John Reese (Jim Caviezel) is at the bottom of his barrel, Mr. Finch (Michael Emerson) gives him the purpose he needs to keep ticking. While working for the government Mr. Finch created a machine that determines who will be involved in a future crime and sorts the data into relevant and irrelevant information. Relevant data is what the government commissioned the machine to produce, giving them high level terrorists, irrelevant is other acts of crime, crimes which Mr. Finch has decided he will try to prevent. The machine doesn’t say if the person will be a victim witness or perpetrator, it only provides a social security number. During their first case involving corrupt cops and attorneys Reese recruits a corrupt cop (Kevin Chapman) to provide him with information from within the police department, after seeing misplaced loyalty not greed as his motivation.
This is well written, acted and the story is well thought through. J.J. hasn’t changed his style and deals bucket loads of mystery while still providing focus for the story arc. I think this show will be around for a long time, it’s only problem could be the amount of times we’ve seen stories about corrupt cops, but the machine will be able to move away from the cops if it starts to get stale.
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