Anyone else here watching this? The writing, acting, directing, settings, score and soundtrack set a tone that is one of the most intriguing that I have seen in a TV show.

I think that it is the next "Breaking Bad" and highly recommend it to someone wanting to get in early on something great.

There's a mention of this by Brubaker in the latest issue of Fade Out -- he's enjoying the show and also sees big things from it.

I plan to put it on my dvring.

Yes! I watched the first three episodes then took a break to watch Deadwood but I'm circling back. Definitely fresh TV. Rami Malek is fantastic. Initially reminded me of Dexter meets hackers but it seems so much more. The show's logo alone is a win.

Sell me on this show. What's it about?

The story is primarily told through the view of Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) a young antisocial, anxiety-ridden morphine addict and hacker who works for a computer security firm during the day and enjoys hacking the public off hours. He has a friend/coworker who he formed a relationship with after both of the parents died from the actions of the most powerful corporation, identified in the show as Evil Corp.

Malek finds himself approached by a group of anarchist hackers - fsociety- whose goal is to take down the corporate world, starting with Evil Corp. as a means of income redistribution. Elliot's neuroses and drug addiction provide a warped, perhaps even false assessment of what is going on with it all and there is an just enough "how much of this is real" about a major part of the narrative to keep the audience guessing. There are subplots that deal with the management of Evil Corp. (primarily with a young, ambitious, cocky, narcissistic German asshole) as well that tie into the main story.

Elliot uses his hacking skills to get through a variety of conflicts, not unlike how Walter White used chemistry in Breaking Bad, although the show is by no means a carbon copy. He knows intimate details about almost everyone he knows and this is used often as a plot device to provide exposition of the characters around him. This is also in many ways the majority of his "social interaction", the exception being with fsociety and with his drug-dealing neighbor.

It is really hard to talk about details of the show without giving away spoilers, but if you watch the first episode, I think you will be interested for more, and by the fourth you will be hooked.

Sounds neat. I hope it turns out better than Halt and Catch Fire, which I gave up on after 4 episodes.

Its an enjoyable show. After the last two epiodes, when ,its become a bit more griping now. Its now become a cross between Fight Club and Breaking Bad.

I'm a little confused about this one because

I stack a lot of things up in the DVR for later viewing, but Mr. Robot was one I watched every week (not live, but that week's episode before the next one came on the following week).

Obviously, I only do that to shows I enjoy the most since everything else might eventually be given a pass. This one held me strongly enough for a weekly must watch series. It's different and good.

So this has nothing to do with robots? "Mr. Robot" is just the nom de plume of a super hacker?

I think it's about killer robots with laser eyes.

Turns out Mr. Robot was

I hate to say it, but you know the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread?

In that case, my show would have been called Egghead.

I've caught a little bit here and there. Christian Slater is real good in it.

I originally was interested in the show because Rami Malek is so dreamy...

All the hackers - possibly.

The what would explain

It seems I've been wasting my time watching garbage like Hannibal when I should've been watching this.

To each his own. I watched both, really like both, but I prefer Hannibal.