Tonight, Person of Interest pulls back on the Samaritan story line to focus on the show’s original ASI: Finch’s Machine. It turns out that the same Machine that was hyper-condensed into that briefcase at the end of last season isn’t the same one that comes out when Finch and Root decompress her and turn her on. This is immediately apparent from the opening moments of the episode, which finds Finch and Root testing out the Machine’s facial recognition programming. Read More...
Under the Cover is a column that reveals the stories behind album art. Before he became an instrument-smashing, windmilling rock star, Pete Townshend was a student at Ealing Art College in London, studying kinetic sculpture. Around the same time, he developed an interest in the work of Sir Peter Blake, a British pop artist who, most famously, designed the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, along with albums for Oasis, Paul Weller, and Eric Clapton. Read More...
Blame the poor cell service in the Mines of Moria maybe. Peter Jackson, the Oscar-winning director of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, says the studio behind the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power requested his input on the show but then never followed through. "They asked me if I wanted to be involved — [writer-producer Fran Walsh] and I — and I said, 'That's an impossible question to answer without seeing a script,'" Read More...
