{"id":6572,"date":"2017-10-06T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2017-09-26T11:14:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T18:14:01","slug":"mark-watches-person-of-interest-s02e18-all-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2017\/10\/mark-watches-person-of-interest-s02e18-all-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Person of Interest’: S02E18 – All In"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the eighteenth episode of the second season of Person of Interest<\/i>, Reese and Finch uncover a bizarre money laundering scheme, and Carter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s questions have ramifications. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Person of Interest<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The pacing in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All In\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a little odd at time, but as a whole, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a touching story about grief and moving on. I certainly didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect it to get as sad<\/i> as it did towards the end, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mostly because I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t catch onto the way the script was giving Finch a chance to reflect on to his own \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lost\u00e2\u20ac\u009d wife. IT SNUCK UP ON ME, HELP ME EVERYONE.<\/p>\n

So while I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think this is one of the best episodes this season, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really solid, and I appreciate how many different kinds of people we get stories about. The people in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All In\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are able to be undetected when they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re forced into money laundering specifically because<\/i> people find senior citizens to be unassuming. Not only that, but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re forgotten<\/i>. A case like Lou Mitchell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s could have easily fallen through the cracks, and if wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t for the Machine, he probably would have. He would have died alone in Atlantic City, and that sentence is a tragedy all by itself.<\/p>\n

Thus, part of what Reese and Finch do in this episode is provide closure for Lou, rather than just save his life. Granted, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen in a lot of these episodes, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great example of it in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Booked Solid\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s batch. But that stuff matters just as much as the revenge or the heist! Lou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death played a huge part in why he fell into Makri\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s laundering scheme. It also felt<\/i> very much like an Atlantic City story. From the diner to the cheesy decor in that casino, I believed that this was possible, that a casino owner would exploit desperate people and people who had little to no other recourses in life. And it fit for a story about a man who promised his wife he would live life to the fullest, yet found that was a lot harder to actually do<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And, of course, this episode had a strong effect on people like Reese and Finch, especially<\/i> Finch. How do you move on from someone you love so much? Both Reese and Finch had to do that. For different reasons, yes, but on a very general level, they understood what Lou was struggling with.<\/p>\n

While this episode jerked up and down a bit too much for my tastes, I still enjoyed it. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also because of the HORRIFYING subplot that Carter deals with, and CAN THIS SHOW JUST CHILL ON ESCALATING EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME. Look, as you could probably tell from the last review, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expecting anything else from Beecher. I thought Carter would drop him, and that would be the last we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d see of him. Instead, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gradually making his way back into Carter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life. I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite know what to think<\/i>. He could actually have a genuine interest in Carter, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to trust him when HR is so insidious and awful all the time. Naturally, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m suspecting Beecher of the worst: that he was put in place to keep an eye on Carter.<\/p>\n

But the events of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All In\u00e2\u20ac\u009d make me question that. Because now it seems like Detective Terney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s role is to spy on Carter and Fusco! Or is HR so worried that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got two<\/i> people in her life??? I want the best for her, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much potential for her in a relationship with this man. BUT I CAN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T TRUST ANYONE. Terney got Szymanksi and the prosector for Peter Yogorov murdered, and if HR is willing to do that<\/i>, then I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but worry that Beecher is doing something similar.<\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All In\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n

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