#as ignominious as it is to admit this...... my final tipping point into starting SPN was 'the fuck do you MEAN they're both in s1'

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one of them is a crazyass homicidal hacker chick who worships the AI as a god, the other is a former government assassin who doesn't know how to feel feelings, together they team up with the guy who built god and try to prevent murders before they happen........ also the creators were not expecting these two characters to fall DISGUSTINGLY in love and spend a bunch of seasons murderflirting and eyefucking at every available opportunity, but when they noticed it happening they went "fuck it, let's roll with this" and let them desperately make out at the climax of one of the best episodes of TV i've ever watched

i mean also the show ran from 2011 to 2016 and managed to predict just about every surveillance-tech scandal of the 2010s at least a year in advance, and is like Leverage-level competent at doing insanely ambitious things with the network-procedural format... but for the purposes of this rec all you really need to know is that two of their lead characters (both violent little feral-cat weirdos who suck at being people) fell in Big Gay Love right under their noses and they canonized! that! shit! AND let Sarah Shahi and Amy Acker have a furniture-smashing sex scene!

(season 1 is kind of slow to find its calling and neither Root nor Shaw are major characters until s2, but unfortunately the show is so good at doling out backstory piece by piece and burying big arc-plot reveals in what looks like a case of the week that it... doesn't really have skippable episodes. if you want a sample you can try Shaw's intro ep, 2x16 "Relevance," because her chemistry with Root was insane kinky freak shit right from the start)

have you heard the good news about Root, Shaw, and their sentient AI third (she/her) on Person of Interest

no...but i just perused the tag and i am seated and ready to hear the gospel