I spend a lot of time discussing things I hate, so I'd like to change the pace a bit and discuss something I love: the CBS television series Person of Interest.
First of all, as a kid growing up in the 80s, I deeply enjoyed series like Knight Rider and Airwolf, and they had one thing in common: really enjoyable violence. Airwolf, especially, was perfect for me because the main conflict of nearly every episode was resolved with a rocket or missile delivered by a technologically advanced helicopter super weapon. Person of Interest is made thoroughly in this mold. You can count on just about every episode to have one of the following: guy getting thrown through window, explosion, or gunfight. The best episodes have all three, obviously.
Second, I love the writing on Person of Interest. Now, this is something I don't normally say about any television series broadcast on CBS, but the dialogue on PoI is particularly enjoyable, and I think it has something to do with the quality of the actors. Say what you will about the absurdity of the premise, but when you have ace actors like Michael Emerson, Jim Caviezel, and Taraji Henson speaking your lines, you can make pretty much anything sound good. But aside from that, very frequently the dialogue just allows the characters to play off one another and develop their relationships without forcing the issue. In a show about an artificial super intelligence, it's surprisingly subtle.
Finally, the female characters are uniformly competent and are always treated as the equals, and in many instances the superiors, of the male characters. PoI is the first action series I can recall seeing in which there is simply an assumption that the value of the characters is primarily based on their usefulness rather than their gender and that women are as useful as men. Sarah Shahi may be smaller than Jim Caviezel, but she snaps arms with exactly the same ruthless efficiency.