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.
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.
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.
Christian Slater is revealed to be Eliot's dad, then a total figment of his imagination. And when his neighbor is murdered
,its become a bit more griping now. Its now become a cross between Fight Club and Breaking Bad.
_________________ I'm forever blowing bubbles,
pretty bubbles in the air,
they fly so high,
nearly reach the sky,
then like my dreams,
they fade and die.
Fortune's always hiding,
I've looked everywhere,
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
pretty bubbles in the air.
UNITED! UNITED!
West Ham United fight song.
there are scenes where Elliot's sister is alone in conversation with "Dad" as well as at least another scene where "Dad" is talking to and answering fsociety in Elliot's absence. I suppose this means that not only is he a figment of Elliot's imagination, but also that Elliot has multiple personalities and "Dad" was just a visual image of that personality.
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.
the name of his dad's computer shop (he would sell computes and software to the public). It was a small shop. Doubtless he learned much about computers there as a kid.
there are scenes where Elliot's sister is alone in conversation with "Dad" as well as at least another scene where "Dad" is talking to and answering fsociety in Elliot's absence. I suppose this means that not only is he a figment of Elliot's imagination, but also that Elliot has multiple personalities and "Dad" was just a visual image of that personality.
Thats the only plausible explnayion. But yeah there are someholes with that like when Eliot was going through withdrawl who was telling the black hacker to go in the hotel? Is it only Eliots dad who is a figment or all the hackers as well?
_________________ I'm forever blowing bubbles,
pretty bubbles in the air,
they fly so high,
nearly reach the sky,
then like my dreams,
they fade and die.
Fortune's always hiding,
I've looked everywhere,
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
pretty bubbles in the air.
UNITED! UNITED!
West Ham United fight song.
Elliot's sister with Angela as they were trying to find Elliot at the same time Elliot was with "his Dad" at the end of the latest episode? I suppose this would extend to how much of what we are seeing is real as well, but my brain has a problem putting it all together.
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