Person of Interest Season 3 Premiere Review

Warning: Full spoilers for the Person of Interest Season 3 premiere follow...

While "Liberty," Person of Interest's Season 3 premiere, might not have held the gripping mythos of last year's premiere, "The Contingency," it still gave us some great revelations about Carter while also focusing heavily on Shaw's new "wild card" presence on the team. The shiniest spots of the episode however involved the incarcerated Root and her therapy sessions with Dr. Carmichael. And by the end, both Finch and Root were uncertain - hesitant - about the immediate future, although with Harold we didn't quite understand why he thought things were about to get worse.

With Root though, we finally began to understand the depths of her madness, which now seems to have amplified thanks to conversations with The Machine - which she now deifies. "God is 11 years old," she told her doctor, revealing that the argument she'd been having all along (with what the doctor assumed was a typical crazy "voice") was whether or not she should kill him. Boom. Then we saw, for the first time, a whole new Machine read out screen. Some sort of probability mapping relating to Carmichael's death. A system screen just for Root. Nothing like the one that we connect to Reese and Finch. The Machine now has a different relationship with Root and it's possible that it's not wholly altruistic. Perhaps her worship of The Machine is even feeding its own desire to be worshipped.

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