If it's Thursday night, it must be "Person of Interest"

One little detail that bugs me about this show: Finch built his computer for "the government" to conduct surveillance on ... well, it's assumed on the whole country.  And yet, whenever someone's "number comes up" for them to investigate, it's invariably in New York City.  Are people in the rest of the country not worth saving? It's better on my sanity to assume that the machine is, in fact, only surveilling people in NYC until the assumption is proven wrong.  Honestly, I don't think the show's creators are at all clear on the concept yet themselves and are leaving it intentionally vague.

Loved me some Reese tonight, though.  After "24" ended, I read an article that opined that the appeal of the show was not, as some liberals feared, the ideology (simplified in their minds, at least, as "the furriners are out to get us, let's waterboard some Arabs") but the illusion of competence.  Millions of viewers would love to believe that, if imminent disaster did threaten, there would be someone like Jack Bauer willing and able to do whatever was necessary to stop it, rather than the more likely scenario of someone filing some paperwork in triplicate, passing the buck, and figuring out a way to blame it on the other party or the previous administration.  The character Reese projects that same sense of uber-competence, of always being in control and one step ahead of the bad guys.  It's a lovely little fiction: There's no one really that capable and that ruthless in protection of the innocent, but wouldn't it be nice if there were?  He's like Batman, and his physical resemblance to Christian Bale doesn't hurt, either.