By its final fifth season, which holds a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes , critics noted that the show had become one of the most ambitious science-fiction series on broadcast television.
Finch built "The Machine," an AI that monitors all electronic data to predict terrorist acts. It also identifies "irrelevant" crimes involving ordinary people—crimes the government ignores, but which Reese and Finch choose to prevent. By its final fifth season, which holds a
While the show begins as a grounded "case-of-the-week" procedural, it eventually transforms into a high-stakes sci-fi epic centered on the conflict between rival AIs, The Machine and Samaritan . By its final fifth season