the new USA show MR. ROBOT: the rise of Rami Malek and the inexplicable solidness of Christian Slater

went to a party as Eliot and people kept asking if I was HOOS

lol

Binged this over the weekend and impressed-ish. Overall it felt like a ten-episode tribute to tvtropes.org, but cast and location work were *excellent* and it was entertaining enough that I'll watch the next season, even if the non-sensical plotting and random fridgings of the last few episodes don't totally inspire me with confidence. Still a fun show though.

I'm a couple of eps away from finishing

The Kubrick-ness is so addicting, especially in the opening scenes every episode. Some of the shots, there's so much beautiful composition going on and geometry and aaaagggghh

those freeze-frame title cards too, I can't get enough

and that's just the arty shit! Anyway I love Rami Malek so much and this show is aces

aside from the obvious show-level use of having the data around, was there a reason why the debt data was encrypted rather than deleted?

Wasn't too bothered by that detail. It does seem like the kind of thing hackers would do, giving an ultimate fuck you to have the data in front of you but meaningless AND showing off. But I agree that it leaves the door open for recovery, which seems like a strong possibility since nobody can remember anything. I honestly thought the season would end with Wellick providing the key and getting his job back, which would have been pretty dumb and explains why I'm not a writer

Totally missed the Durden angle when I watched the show. I chalk it up to not giving the show enough credit - I assumed the writers explained his showing up everywhere as a result of his 1337ness or something. Plus, it's pretty ballsy to borrow two huge plot ideas from the same movie. Malek is awesome. I'll keep watching the show mostly for him.

"I wish I could be an observer like you. Then I could think more calmly."

i only just conned that trenton (sunita mani) was in the turn down for what video

I did not realize that! hope she's in season two, most of the fsociety people were pretty ephemeral in the first.

I didn't catch it on first viewing, but the mid-credits scene at the end of season one... when was that to have taken place? I thought it was post-hack, but on rewatching I noticed that White Rose (BD Wong's character) silences an alarm during his "while Rome burns" dialogue, meaning he was probably there when the dark army activated their part of the plan. So he's at this gathering of powerful people at the moment the hack takes place.

Yeah but he also made that big speech about hacking time and how he wont give any time to anyone who doesnt deserve it. I saw that almost as an act of power over the CEO dude (though he may not have known so).

Just finished catching up with this series. Did my head in. I feel like I missed a LOT of refs, and the sister thing caught me completely off guard (the suicide didnt tho - the minute he grabbed his bag and got out the gun and said "please stay calm" I yelled "HEY MAN NICE SHOT" at the screen lol)

Binged this last night and today. I was 100% on board up until the scene on the roof, and then everything quickly disintegrated for me into narrative anarchy and by the end I was just like "oh no, fuck this!"

I'll watch the S2 premiere just to be sure, though.

That is the EXACT moment I hopped off too

Though I was already halfway there after the bathroom 'seduction' scene

Q: how censored is this show when it airs on USA?

I was trying to figure out how they edited the version I streamed on Prime, but it's got to be tricky. Of course, USA being a cable network, they're not bound by FCC decency rules and could air it exactly as I watched it, but I'm guessing they didn't.

By the time I pick this up again, I don't think I'll remember much of anything except that the first season ended with a knock on the door, and that I think I know who it is.

smdh at ppl jumping off when it was getting good

narrative anarchy

Mentally ill unreliable narrator, it was pretty intentional that this happened.

i really dug it & i think rami malek is great

His nasal monotone got to me from time to time, but yeah it was a suitably intense role.

i cant wait for the second season of this

aw hell yeah

excellent use of sonic youth (among other v. solid soundtrack choices this episode)

guess i should watch this show

Music choices and original soundtrack uniformly great.

I like this show, it's very watchable, well-made, but it sure does pull a lot of trope-y, narrative cliches.

I'm 4 episodes in. Not sure I LOVE it, but it's watchable. As LocalGarda says, there are some pretty daft tropey moments that make me want to switch off and never watch it again, but something about it makes me come back. Ep4 felt like it took a cool tonal twist that I wasn't expecting. I found myself getting mixed up between the random/cool/freaky girl who lives next door and the random/cool/freaky girl who works with fsociety, but maybe that's the idea?

the similarities there are 100 percent deliberate imo

so in a completely unsurprising development the season 2 premiere was fucking lit

i have no idea what craig robinson's deal is but his presence is v welcome on the show - also like getting a look inside e corp from multiple perspectives (grunt level, higher-ups, PR, etc.)

(SPOILERS) not sure how long they can play out the tyrell wellick string but it's understandable of them not to reveal what's up with that right away (SPOILERS)

on a more general note, the fact that the most general aspects of the plot have been done before kinda plays in the show's favor. its mastery is in the execution, and its examination of mental illness (the main element of which is outsized for dramatic purposes, obvs, but it nails the day to day aspects of things like depression and anxiety in a genuine manner).

I didn't notice it was going to be over an hour, making the second section a pleasant surprise

also EMMY NOMINATED YO

I did not like most of that double premiere :(

2 much ~mr robo mythology~
not enough ~people just boopin around nyc~
but more of the latter as it went on so it's fine it'll be good once it's back to anxious tap-tap-keyboard-tappin' + eli initiating

BEGIN TROJAN.VIRUS PROTOCOL ? 

it wd be a bummer if its fundamental tension + only option for continued longevity was contingent on the by-now-not-fresh suspense generated by waiting for carrie to dissolve in time for an action sequence in homeland, waiting for christopher moltisanti to get high again in the sopranos, &c; it is so much better when it is just in smooth ultra-modern procedural mode. i cd've watched the woman jog around union square for hrs

I love this show but I stuggled a bit with these 2 new episodes. Felt like not a lot happened? I did read the writer/showrunner hinting this season was going to be more of a focus on his mental illness which is cool, but a risky move given it could end up being confusing and drawn out.

I just watched the first two episodes of S1, and I... did not enjoy it at all. Really slow and dour and humorless. Does it get better or is this the whole thing?

Humorless is definitely not a word i would choose to describe this show

Yeah stick with it, but if you find things like internal monologues hard to get with it might not be yr thing.

Ok I will. So far the only humor I've seen is the arcade game is changed from Duck Hunter to Mallard Murderer, which I don't care for.

Also the villain who looks like Cillian Murphy playing Patrick Bateman is bad. And usually cliffhangers pull me in but these seem weak so far.

ultra-monotone monologue is biggest ish w/s2 so far i think; there are a couple of moments in s2 when eliot disengages Corpse Mode & reminds you what a great + weird presence + plasticity he has but dialing up the inertia feels a lil too close to cliche i think

Different sucks for different folks

I wasnt looking to this show for humour at all, fwiw.

honestly the biggest bummer of the s2 double premiere for me was the scene of E-Corp guy explaining The Way Things Work. zzzzzz

I liked his new Seinfeld-obsessed friend.

that is totally a thing in the world, people who are suddenly aware of and obsessed with seinfeld

idgi but I am an old

craig robinson playing a regular dude instead of an avatar of ridiculous comedy is a nice change of pace

I'm waiting for the reveal that Robinson is fbi

https://0x41.no/mr-robot-s02e01-easter-egg/

ways this seasons premiere evidences the series has jumped it;

Black dude from the office showing up - no ones asking for you here man

Sonics youths bull in the heather - as if

both of those things are gd imo