Like many others, I thought the Samaritan story arc had dulled down much of the season so far. While the build up of Samaritan's power was probably my favorite part of the series with Vigilance and Decima, the first part of the season really just felt like a lot of pointless battles with Samaritan that didn't go anywhere. That dullness, however, brilliantly ends in this episode. We got our first episode since season 4's finale where the crew was fighting for their lives in an epic series of events, the kind where you fear for the life of every character at some point (accompanied by the most inspired soundtrack in POI history, don't know where that came from). We get some big picture, philosophical points that don't feel forced like Finch's "limiting the machine" has felt like. We see deep into Root's character, and while I would have liked to see her for three more episode's Acker's performance throughout the show made it one of the most fitting and poetic deaths I can remember on television. Most surprisingly, we see a little bit of humanity and emotion from Finch, in probably his most memorable episode yet. It's the kind of episode that defined an amazing series, and one that makes you truly sad when it reminds you only three episodes remain.
Review of The Day the World Went Away
