Person of interest will bid farewell to his fifth season

After many rumors,  Person of Interest  expire at the end of its fifth season. 

The news of the cancellation comes the same day that CBS announced the release date for this latest installment, on May 3, nearly a year after the issuance of the last chapter of the fourth season on 5 May 2015. From then, the crime thriller be broadcast on Mondays and Tuesdays at 22.00, concluding his tour on Tuesday 21 June.

Speaking to  IGN , executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman series said: "Above all we want to thank the fans of the series, the best fans in the world This subversive and a little paranoid thriller-cyberpunk is. for you and would not have been possible without your support.  as life has come to imitate  Person of interest , it has been our privilege to work in the series the past five seasons. we can not wait to live the latter and exciting chapter. "

The cancellation of the series is no surprise. As noted  by Variety , in early 2016 the executive producer JJ Abrams also lamented the probable end of the series in the press tour of the Television Critics Association saying: "I think it's the last season."

Released in 2011,  Person of Interest  is a creation of  Jonathan Nolan , screenwriter, producer and brother director Christopher Nolan.  Jim Caviezel  (The Passion ) leads the cast of this series with  Michael Emerson  ( Lost ), Amy Acker ( Alias ​​) Sarah Shahi ( Chicago Fire ) and Kevin Chapman ( Rescue me ).

When reality imitates fiction

Set in the later stage the attacks of 11-S in the US, the series tells the story of Reese (Caviezel), a former CIA agent who had been presumed dead and lives his days on the margins of society to a mysterious billionaire, Mr. Finch (Emerson) proposes an alliance to solve violent crimes in an unusual way.

Using data from the US intelligence agencies  and systems developed by the government to control the population and prevent new terrorist attacks, the mysterious Finch is able to identify a  person of interest , someone who will be involved in a crime, either as a victim, a witness or an author.

Thus,  Person of Interest  explores the  contradictions between privacy and security, between freedom and control, and poses a current dilemma in society who recently addressed Former CIA analyst Edward Snowden, in his interview in  The Objective : Is monitor legitimate citizens to prevent terror?