{"id":6607,"date":"2017-10-24T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2017-10-09T19:50:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T02:50:32","slug":"mark-watches-person-of-interest-s03e07-the-perfect-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2017\/10\/mark-watches-person-of-interest-s03e07-the-perfect-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Person of Interest’: S03E07 – The Perfect Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the seventh episode of the third season of Person of Interest<\/i>, the team must protect a con man who unknowingly conned HR. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Person of Interest<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Can this show give me a break for like five seconds please. PLEASE.<\/p>\n

Con<\/p>\n

This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the first episode with an unlikeable victim, nor is it the first time the victim is a perpetrator in another way. But Hayden Price is a unique brand of unlikeable! While I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care that he stole only from the rich, he was just so arrogant. Despite how annoying he was, the team still had to protect him, especially once they figured out just much of a mess that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gotten himself into. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, this season is SO good at combining numbers-of-the-week with the serialized arcs! I expected Carter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story with Laskey to remain separate, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting the sense that this is all spiraling towards some huge confrontation or chaotic twist.<\/p>\n

And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good storytelling. The HR plot has dominated the season because it HAS to. I can tell that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case without evening knowing what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming! The writers have been seeding details and context clues that have hinted on this massive fortune that HR is amassing, and it has to be for something. Their partnership with Yogorov is only a piece of it, as is their attempt to control any possible loose end.<\/p>\n

But then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Joss Carter. No matter what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve thrown at her and done to her, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the resilient force who refuses to do their bidding. Who refuses to accept that this is the way the world is. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always made sense that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worked with John and Harold. All of them decided that accepting injustice was unacceptable anymore. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s certainly put Carter in danger multiple times (including that UTTERLY UNFAIR scene at the end of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Perfect Mark\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), but she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now closer than ever to having everything she needs to take down HR.<\/p>\n

And my gods, what a fucking JOURNEY to that point. This episode twists and turns with multiple threads that are all part of the same unraveling tapestry. Like all the characters, I assumed that Hayden was the main focus of this crime and that everyone else was incidental. But as I said before, the clues are all here that HR was desperate to increase their reach and expand their operation. In this case, Hayden was merely an accident, a third party who just happened to get tangled in this nightmare. It was Sven, Hayden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s patient, who was the person laundering money for HR. Hayden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s con just put him in HR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crosshairs.<\/p>\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot to love in the suspenseful script for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Perfect Mark,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d basically. I must shout my love from the rooftops, though, for the brilliant twist that Hayden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unknowing partner, Natalie, was ACTUALLY CONNING HAYDEN THE ENTIRE TIME. After all the wrong he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d done, he got exactly what he deserved. I would have felt strange if he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rewarding\u00e2\u20ac\u009d after all of this, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m much more satisfied that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to start over.<\/p>\n

And then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Root. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, I truly am starting to think I got her and the Machine wrong. Harold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fear is palpable in that scene where Root tells him that he may have misunderstood everything. He believes her, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t he? At the very least, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doubting what he thought of Root\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interpretation of the Machine. And I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t blame him! Aside from the fact that Root is just downright unnerving, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not lying about the Machine guiding her on a path that was entirely separate from everyone else.<\/p>\n

So what is<\/i> next for the Machine??? How else is it evolving?<\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Perfect Mark\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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