Person of Interest is a relentlessly silly show, although you wouldn't necessarily pick up on it at first. It leans into it more with each season until that's all there is. I still enjoyed it, it is pretty self aware. I would not watch it with the idea that it has any relevance to anything.
Almost like you were watching the show from the eyes of the machine?
That's how most good shows used to be. Start serious, maybe a bit goofy, then by the end everything has gone way off the rails.