I went into PoI with quite high expectations. The show has sky-high ratings and nearly every review I read about it was raving how much it subverts the confines of a basic weekly crime show. Personally, I don´t feel it ever achieves that. Not even in its last season which still felt very serialized. The main characters of the show hardly change throughout the runtime, only giving Finch some edge towards the last few episodes. When I was nearing the middle part of season three I was thinking of dropping the show, because it felt so vanilla. Funnily enough, that was around the time the show somewhat started to redeem itself. PoI shows promise every now and then. I love the surveillance setting, the music is used extremely well and when the story shifts from normal gangsters to government conspiracy I see the potential PoI has. But it never does enough with it. Every season is drenched in weekly crime cases. Which isn´t bad in itself I like Mentalist and Buffy which for the most part are Monster of the Week or weekly crime case episodes. But PoI doesn´t have a strong enough cast nor interesting enough standalone cases, making even the later seasons which admittedly are quite a bit better than the beginning feel mediocre. I don´t feel like I fully wasted my time. PoI is a decent show to turn on when you clean your dishes or while eating, and arguably that is what most crime dramas created for free TV were supposed to achieve. Something interesting enough to make you not switch the channel. Watching it while fully paying attention often felt a bit like a chore and while there hardly are any interesting cases I at least feel like this gives me a base on what the definition of a 5/10 show is. There was nothing overly egregious bad, not extraordinarily good. The show had some highs and some lows, some characters I enjoyed like Root, and some I didn´t much care for like Fusco. A great premise, that the show doesn´t do much with. PoI in conclusion is the epitome of mid-TV.