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

pretty sure swedish patrick bateman is real cuz we've seen him with other characters away from elliot. i really do hope they're messing with us by making it look like mr rowboat is a delusion but yeah it does feel like a fight club reveal is increasingly likely.

idk, i feel like Inevitable Fight Club Denouement is such a trope at this point that it wouldn't be weird for it to be something they're able to play with & misdirect around. episode five probably had enough moments of sort of unavoidable christian slater participation for it to be retroactively ridiculous if the finale is a shutter island thing. who knows though. also i think the other guy is for sure real, we see him solo/with his wife/&c. anyway i like this series & most all of its cast feel like real finds. it's like michael shannon & kristen stewart: the college years.

did i read somewhere that this was supposed to be a miniseries then usa decided to pick it up for a second season? kinda makes me worried that they had a self-contained story with a shocking mr-rowboat-is-a-delusion finale plotted out.

no way is rowboat durden

i really hope not!

"I have an ending and it's about 4 or 5 seasons away."

https://twitter.com/samthemovie/status/622503766940475393

spoiler alert: turns out they were all in purgatory all along

spoiler alert: it's all just a dream

turns out they were on 77 all along

I sincerely hope they avoid any of that nonsense because I think I'd be done with the show at that point. I'm pretty much over the Shyamalaning of television.

finchering

slater is the least interesting element of the show imo; it's a very good television program(me in teh uk)
if they fight club this i am going to be very pissed.

otm x2

hey as well as the score
something else i like about this show
particularly the first few eps
is
its new york locations
which are v credible & sort of temporally accurate & meaningful vibewise

i mentioned this on another thread but the show is primarily filmed both in my neighborhood at the Church Ave F/G stop, surrounding environs and just off the F stop at East Broad where I do some charity work so it feels VERY accurate and it's fun to see places i spend time in as part of this show
EXCEPT all the "shady areas" are like 1800 dollar apartments

and yes, the score is excellent
kinda surprised that ctrl+f "kubrick" isn't getting any hits here

i don't think i know kubrick well enough to speak to that, it didn't ring bells for me

& re: locations i think maybe one of the pluses of abundant routine voiceover is in necessitating a lot of accompanying silent footage of the guy, usually traversing the city, slumped on subways, &c, & some of those cuts are pretty judiciously picked, like aren't new york in a glitzy skyscrapery way but are just sort of familiar city fabric

but yeah the score is rad

the openings of every ep are studied kubrick homage

Thanks for the recommendations, loving this show - if it reminds me of anything it's Utopia

Yes not bad after 2 eps, guarded optimism for the rest

Well that was quite ruthless and brutal but a very good episode.

Been enjoying the songs that they've chosen from MOR or whatever background. Neil Diamond If You Go Away & the latest one opening with Nancy & Lee's Some Velvet Morning. Hadn't heard the Diamond before but I did recognise he source and the Nancy & Lee is a song I love but never know how many people know.

Not sure what else there is of that sort. Will probably have to rewatch the series at some point. Especially as the 1st 2 were in a format that my computer was struggling with.

Durdenisms of the episode, chance appearance of somebody sitting on a set of stairs at a crucial moment?

I just think the Swedes area pair of psychos, the embodiment of that purple people school that was being touted before the most recent recession.

this was so good! wow. it is also kind of as credible as it could possibly be when pitching nerd vs tough guy & feeding him lines about making the best move.

not foreshadowing this episode for anyone who hasn't seen it yet but just in general i am o_o

Wellick freaking out while his wife snacked in the foreground was a killer shot, this ep was beautifully directed

Was trying to work out what she was eating. was she eating something normal in an odd way or was it a swedish delicacy?

hey what do you think is their Long Term Goal

try to take over the world?

but where are we going to get a mini-pack of red vines and two tons of ball bearings at this time of night?

this is shot so beautifully. worth it for that alone.

this is getting harder to watch because of the tyler durden problem. otherwise, a+ still.

Jesus fuck, this episode. Gah.

just watched it. aw, mannnnnn

incredible episode. just brutal, though.

preview for next ep seems to give further indication mr robot is not a hallucination - scenes w just him and no other character

can't wait to see fuck

that came out wrong

you know what i mean

do i ever

<3 this show. there's been a need for more decent hacker lore like this.

also their website is cute: http://www.whoismrrobot.com/

'420' is the only unlisted command i could find, and i wonder if there are other easter eggs.

jesus fuck

that opening ;_;

nervous to watch

last week was broots

this one was kinda ehh, obviously a stopgap episode. I really hated the scene of Elliott visualizing people's flaws as literal signs.

of all the Big Talky Scenes the only ones that really landed for me were Colby being gross and Elliott's confession at the end

between the colby blowjob threat thing and what wellick ends up doing, I can't believe this show gets away with what it does sometimes on basic cable

not to mention using that fka twigs song in that situation is...an interesting and fucked up transgressive choice

the plotting has been bizarre thanks to that month timejump. Why has the malicious Allsafe hacker guy just been sitting on his hands? Why do they still care about the Dark Army if the window for their op closed long ago?

This is the best thing on TV right now which isn't at all what I was expecting when I initially read about it. Malek is excellent and another thing I love about it is the location shooting, some of the best realness since The Sopranos there.

wellick thing was unbearable & kinda depressing territory for this show

Yeah -- unpleasant, and also made no sense except I guess to show how unhinged he is. Clearly not part of a well-thought-of scheme. My wife's comment was, "I hope they start adding some dudes to the body count."

well-thought-out, I mean.