Is Person of Interest on Netflix? Country by Country
It depends on the country, and on when you ask. All five seasons were listed on Netflix in fifteen of the eighteen markets checked when the listings were read on 27 September 2026. In the United States they were not, and the same read showed no Netflix listing in Japan either. That read is a month old at publication and has not been repeated since.
That split is what most pages get wrong. They answer once, for one country, usually America, and they answer as though a catalogue holds still. Both halves of that are a problem: the status differs between markets, and it changes without notice in all of them.
One check before you search. This is the CBS series with Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson, 103 episodes across five seasons, first aired from 2011 to 2016. Other titles share the name, including a British television film from 2024, so look at the year and the cast before you start watching.
The table below records what one availability aggregator chain listed on that single date, market by market. The sections after it explain why the answer differs from one country to the next, what a VPN can and cannot do about it, and how to confirm the answer inside your own account, which is the only version that is actually current.
Where the series was listed and where it was not
All five seasons were listed on Netflix in fifteen of the eighteen markets checked: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Brazil, Mexico, India, South Africa and Turkey. Two of the other three had no Netflix listing at all, the United States, which lost the series on 22 September 2020, and Japan. South Korea returned nothing from any service, which is as likely a gap in the data as a real absence.
Eighteen markets were checked and Netflix runs in more than 190, so this page says nothing about the rest. It is a sample, and it is a sample taken once. The listings were read on 27 September 2026, a month before this page was published, and nothing in the table has been read again since, so read every row as a listing on that date rather than as the catalogue today.
Two limits belong next to the table rather than under it. Every row comes from a single availability aggregator chain, which the material behind this page does not name, and an aggregator is not confirmation from Netflix or from any other service. The third column has the same standing: those services were listed on that one date, the advert-supported route in Germany included, and the same read does not establish any of them as permanent.
Market | Netflix listing, read 27 September 2026 | Other services listed on that date |
|---|---|---|
United States | Not listed, removed 22 September 2020 | Prime Video, Peacock |
United Kingdom | Listed, all five seasons | Prime Video |
Canada | Listed, all five seasons | Paramount+ |
Australia | Listed, all five seasons | BINGE |
Germany | Listed, all five seasons | Prime Video, HBO Max, Joyn free with adverts |
France | Listed, all five seasons | Prime Video |
Spain | Listed, all five seasons | Prime Video |
Italy | Listed, all five seasons | Prime Video |
Netherlands | Listed, all five seasons | HBO Max as an Amazon channel |
Sweden | Listed, all five seasons | Viaplay |
Poland | Listed, all five seasons | No second service listed |
Brazil | Listed, all five seasons | No second service listed |
Mexico | Listed, all five seasons | No second service listed |
India | Listed, all five seasons | No second service listed |
South Africa | Listed, all five seasons | No second service listed |
Turkey | Listed, all five seasons | Prime Video |
Japan | Not listed | Hulu Japan, U-NEXT |
South Korea | No listing returned, unresolved | Nothing listed, treat as unknown |
Three rows are the exceptions, and they are not the same kind of exception. The United States and Japan returned no Netflix listing, which is an absence in the data. South Korea returned nothing from any service at all, which a single read cannot separate from a missing record, so nothing is claimed for it either way.
How to confirm the status inside your own account
The only answer that counts is the one your own Netflix returns, because the catalogue follows the country your account is registered in and not the country you happen to be sitting in. Search the title in the app or on netflix.com while signed in. An aggregator can lag a catalogue change by days, so a row showing nothing is not proof of absence, and a row showing the series is not proof it is there this week. Where the series was listed, the listings showed all five seasons, so the season count in your own account is worth a glance before you plan a rewatch around it.
Why the answer differs from one country to the next
Warner Bros. Television licenses the series market by market rather than globally. That single fact carries most of the pattern in the table. A licence is sold per territory, to whichever buyer wants it there, so two services can hold it in the same country at once, a third can hold it next door, and a market can sit outside the arrangement without anything having been withdrawn from it. It also means there is no single expiry to look up: each territory runs on its own agreement and each one can end on its own date, which is why a status is only ever a status on a date.
The practical reading is that a second service in your market is a fallback worth checking rather than a guarantee. How much of the run those services carry was not checked. The complete five seasons were recorded only where Netflix carried the series, and on the two services listed for the United States. Single seasons also sell through Apple TV and Amazon Video in most western markets, with no purchase route listed in Brazil, Mexico, Poland or South Africa.
Buying single seasons against paying for one month
No prices were collected for this page, in any market or any store, so this is a comparison to run yourself rather than one to take from here. It needs two numbers: the price of the thing you would buy, one season or all five, and one month of whichever service in your country already carries the run. Price the season you would actually return to rather than the box set, and check that your store sells it in your country at all, because purchase catalogues can be less complete than the streaming ones.
Why the series left Netflix in the United States
Warner Bros. Television produced the series with Kilter Films and Bad Robot for CBS and holds distribution. It belongs to Warner Bros. Discovery, which runs streaming services of its own, and that ownership is the reason the series left US Netflix in September 2020: the rights holder moved a library title in house instead of renewing a licence to a competitor. Abroad the same logic runs the other way, because Netflix is a buyer in those markets rather than a rival for the same subscriber.
For a reader the useful consequence is this: the American absence is a commercial decision rather than an oversight, so waiting for it to be corrected is a poor plan. The international listings rest on the same logic in reverse, which is why they should be read as licences with an end rather than a permanent home.
The second market without a Netflix listing
Japan had no Netflix listing either on the date the markets were read, and the reason is not established on this page. What the same read showed is Hulu Japan and U-NEXT carrying the series instead. Whether that reflects an exclusive arrangement, a licence that was never renewed or something else is not something this material answers, so treat Japan as a second gap rather than as a version of the American one.
What this page cannot establish
Netflix licence end dates are not published, so nobody outside the contract can say how long the series stays. The removal in 2020 arrived with little notice, and that precedent is the only guide available.
Each market above rests on one availability aggregator chain, not named in the material behind this page, read on a single date. That date is 27 September 2026, a month before publication, and nothing has been read again since, so every row has aged by a month without being rechecked. Aggregators lag catalogue changes and are not confirmation from the service itself, which is why South Korea returning nothing is unresolved rather than negative.
Four further gaps are worth naming outright. No prices were collected, in any market or any store, so nothing here compares the cost of buying against subscribing. The free route with adverts on Joyn in Germany was not established as permanent, and free tiers with adverts move more often than paid ones. The international return has no source behind it: who announced it, on what date and where that announcement can be read are not established, and the country list of the deal was never published, so no date for the return appears on this page and the listings are the only evidence used. Any change in who owns the rights sits outside what this page establishes as well, and so does the date HBO Max dropped the series in the United States, which is simply absent from current American listings.
What a VPN changes here and what it does not
A VPN changes the network location your connection appears to come from. It does not change the country your Netflix account is billed in, it does not add a title to a plan that is not licensed to carry it, and using one to reach another region's catalogue can conflict with a service's terms. Those three limits, not any feature list, decide whether the tool is any use for this particular question.
When the tool fits this problem and when it does not
It fits one case cleanly. If your subscription sits in a market where the series is listed and you are travelling, a VPN is about reaching the catalogue you already pay for, which is a different thing from shopping for someone else's. It does not fit the American case, because an American account is billed in a market where the series was not listed on Netflix, so there is nothing on that plan to reach. Prime Video or Peacock is the shorter and cheaper route there, and a VPN subscription bought for this reason would be money spent on the wrong problem.
What to compare before paying for a provider
The things that decide this while you are actually abroad are unglamorous: how many devices one subscription covers, which countries the provider lists server locations in, whether there is a refund window if your route turns out not to work, and what the provider's own page says about streaming services. Those are the comparable parts, and they sit side by side in our NordVPN review and our Surfshark review. Our VPN ranking sets out how the order is built and what it is weighted for, which matters more for a choice than any single specification.
What to do next, depending on where you are
In the United States: Prime Video, included with Prime, or Peacock, both listed with the series on the date the markets were read. Buying a single season only makes sense for a title you rewatch.
In a market where it was listed: search the title in your own Netflix before you plan anything, because the row is a month old. The table covers eighteen markets out of more than 190, so absence from it means nothing either way.
Travelling with a subscription from a market that has it: the thing to reach is your home catalogue, not another country's, and that is the one case where a VPN is the right tool.
Planning a full rewatch: 103 episodes over five seasons. Check that whichever service you pick lists the whole run before you start, because the read covered the complete run only on Netflix, Prime Video and Peacock.
Seeing a different show under this name: check the year and the cast. Several unrelated titles share the title.
Common questions about where to watch it
Is Person of Interest on Netflix in the United States?
It was not when the listings were read on 27 September 2026, and it was removed on 22 September 2020. No announced US return date is established here. Prime Video and Peacock carry it instead, and single seasons sell through Apple TV and Amazon Video. That read is a month old, so confirm it in your own account.
Are all five seasons on Netflix?
In the fifteen markets where the series was listed, yes: 23, 22, 23, 22 and 13 episodes, 103 in total. Season five is the short one, and CBS aired all thirteen of its episodes between 3 May and 21 June 2016. Purchase catalogues can be less complete than the streaming ones, so check the season list in whichever store you use rather than assuming the full run is for sale.
Will it stay on Netflix?
Unknown, and that is the accurate answer rather than a hedge. Licence end dates are not published, the removal in 2020 came with little notice, and each market runs on its own agreement with its own end date. Watch it while it is there, and check your own account rather than a page.
Can a VPN put the series on a Netflix plan that does not carry it?
No, not as a reliable route and not as a fix for the American case. A VPN changes where your connection appears to come from, not what your account is licensed to show, and services detect and block server ranges they recognise. The case where it clearly helps is reaching the catalogue you already subscribe to while you are abroad, and our VPN ranking is the faster way to judge which providers are built for that.
Listings read 27 September 2026 and not read again since. Catalogues change without notice, so confirm it in your own Netflix before you plan an evening around it.
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