4.03: Wingman

[Dave]

Finch recruits Fusco to stick close to the latest POI, a professional “wingman,” but learning how to approach women soon becomes the least of his worries. Meanwhile, Reese must find a way to play by the rules at his new day job as the Machine sends Finch and Root on a mysterious errand.

This was a return to the 'case of the week' and not one of the better episodes, but Fusco being taught how to appeal to the ladies was amusing. There was more fun with Reese and Finch being forced to adopt different personae. Reese learning not to shoot every suspect, and Finch playing the part of Egret.

Fusco is now a full member of the team, but as he tells Reese, being a police officer is his job, not just a cover for his superhero identity. He wasn't only the comic foil here though and brings much to the team. We don't learn anything new, but the group dynamics are reinforced and the machine helps them to 'earn' enough money to cover their shortage of funds.

 

[markpud]

Fun episode but nothing much for the overall arc. Interesting that the cut scenes were back to the Machine rather than Samaritan - is this going to flip flop each week?

Enjoyed Fusco's adventures, and Reese making friends with his Lieutenant whist solving some cases too. If more police dramas had a 3 season dystopia future arc, I'd watch them!

Finch as Egret was great, and he almost pulled it off til that pesky conscience kicked in. But of course "she" knew that would happen. The show does love to wrap things up with a bow at times, and the Machine has led them to a huge cache of weapons and money - handy

 

[J-Sun]

I actually didn't buy Finch as Egret and, yeah, the Fusco line was kind of same ol' same ol' but wasn't too bad. The part I liked about it was the bits here and there with Groves and Shaw (though, unfortunately, none at the same time).

I don't expect them to do a giant solid arc - it's CBS and is going to have to have a lot of weekly one-shots. And there is an implicit heightened paranoia. But the kind of epochal apocalyptic stuff that is really going on is being underplayed, all the same. There is a total surveillance dictatorship and war of AI gods going on here and I'm not really feeling it like I think I should. (The scene of whacking the reporter in ep1 is the kind of thing we need frequent reminders of.) But that's a case of not living up to the potential greatness that the new vista showed. It's still just as good as usual otherwise and I'm enjoying the season so far. But I sure am looking forward to sweeps when they presumably jack up the arc and intensify the show.