Mr. Robot

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Season 1
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
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8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 1060 Ratings

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  1. YorkMan
    Dec 29, 2015
    3
    Probably ranking as my most disappointing 'new' show of 2015. After what was an incredible first episode, where we're introduced to the character Elliot Alderson, a cyber-security worker at AllSafe, a company charged with maintaining the security of 'Evil Corp'.
    Elliot is a high-functioning sociopath, suffering from depression, anxiety, and several other associative disorders for which he    Probably ranking as my most disappointing 'new' show of 2015. After what was an incredible first episode, where we're introduced to the character Elliot Alderson, a cyber-security worker at AllSafe, a company charged with maintaining the security of 'Evil Corp'.
    Elliot is a high-functioning sociopath, suffering from depression, anxiety, and several other associative disorders for which he is taking prescribed (and unprescribed) medications.
    He also moonlights as a hacker, his skills are presented as being unmatched and peerless and he's able to do some good by bringing bad people to justice using his abilities.
    Things get complicated when he is approached by a man wearing a jacket bearing a patch with the logo 'Mr. Robot' who suggests that Evil Corp need to be taken down, and he needs Elliot's help to do it.

    As each subsequent episode unfolds we're introduced to various other characters, most of whom are incredibly boring and who didn't elicit any sense of compassion from me. It was obvious that each one was designed (inside the narrative) to represent some part of Elliot's psyche, which is the fundamental crux of what the show hinges on.

    As Elliot's past is gradually opened up to the viewer, the tone also begins to change, mirroring Elliot's state of mind, until at the end of the season we get the 'twist' that was so obvious I never believe anyone who says they didn't see it coming a mile off!

    What destroyed the show for me was that the initial premise was so open and the character of Elliot was so interesting, that seeing the possibilities ever-narrowing as the season went on was actually more depressing than disappointing.
    The show tries to be too clever for its own good, and whilst it probably makes for fascinating debate, it just ended up being narratively predictable, the fresh ideas being replaced with a sense of it all being seen before.

    Fundamentally it ticks the right boxes for both critics and those who think such shows like this are highbrow entertainment. But, ultimately, what started off in a new and refreshing way, ended up becoming a 'paint by numbers' pastiche of ideas pilfered from other (and better) films/tv shows.    … Expand
  2. local25
    Aug 17, 2015
    2
    Pilot was awesome, downhill ever since. Most of the show has nothing to do with hacking. This show has a basic plot that easily could have been a two part series, the writers are filling the show with useless garbage. Be realistic it was signed for a second year after the pilot was shown, now its a dud.
  3. Shiftyeyeddog
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    Started out brilliantly, the pilot is one of the best I've ever seen. But each succeeding episode is worse than the one before, a steady decline until I couldn't care less what happens to Elliott. The gap between its promise and where it has devolved to makes it the winner of Most Disappointing Series of this season.
  4. smb12321
    Jul 10, 2015
    0
    (This is an update of a review after the first episode.) What began as a great idea has devolved into confusion and bewilderment. It's already tiring - the drug-addled, meandering, spaced-out "action" and jerky "dialogue" begging for irony yet sounding juvenile. When the shock elements appear (vs intricate plotting, dialogue and characterization) you know something is up. The last(This is an update of a review after the first episode.) What began as a great idea has devolved into confusion and bewilderment. It's already tiring - the drug-addled, meandering, spaced-out "action" and jerky "dialogue" begging for irony yet sounding juvenile. When the shock elements appear (vs intricate plotting, dialogue and characterization) you know something is up. The last episode with our rambling, disoriented, Proust-like hero, graphic gay sex involving a married man whose wife approved, same couple preparing for S&M, violence, trite social commentary heard in middle school or street corners - they're throwing it all on the screen in the hopes that something sticks. Return to clever plotting, get Malek off drugs (or get him to stop slurring) and build an arc!… Expand
  5. WestLil0
    Aug 6, 2015
    2
    First show great. Second show really good third show very good. Fourth show good. Fifth show bad. Sixth show really bad. See where this is going? Nowhere fast. The drug addled main character is so weird looking it's the typical stereotype of genius nerd. Just no plot
  6. moviebuffers
    Aug 25, 2016
    0
    Let me start by saying what is obvious to most - we are in a second gold age of television. I truly believe my personal top ten shows of all time are all current or near current with maybe the only exception being The Twilight Zone. OK - Mr Robot first season grabbed me right away and I felt it to be one of the best for 2015. My personal history is when I like a show I stay with it, ILet me start by saying what is obvious to most - we are in a second gold age of television. I truly believe my personal top ten shows of all time are all current or near current with maybe the only exception being The Twilight Zone. OK - Mr Robot first season grabbed me right away and I felt it to be one of the best for 2015. My personal history is when I like a show I stay with it, I realize some shows run out of gas eventually and "jump the shark" but I stay true right to the end. Never is recent TV history have I just given up on a show. That is until now. Mr Robot season 2 is the single biggest seasonal let-down in TV history. I think the creator might have let his ego get in the way or some medical issue perhaps as nothing in season 2 makes any sense. I even tried reading some blogs and episode recaps but I find there is no explanation for the mess it has become. I went as far as the moment when I saw the return of character Alf, that was it, I'm done.… Expand
  7. marc5477
    Jul 12, 2016
    2
    Its just a boring version of Fight Club. Fight Club worked because they didnt try to pan the main character off as some sort of genius. Rather, the guys in Fight Club were just ordinary average folks who didnt have much skills but were genuinely frustrated with the world. It worked. This does not and the reason is it takes itself too seriously and anyone with above average IQ and about 25Its just a boring version of Fight Club. Fight Club worked because they didnt try to pan the main character off as some sort of genius. Rather, the guys in Fight Club were just ordinary average folks who didnt have much skills but were genuinely frustrated with the world. It worked. This does not and the reason is it takes itself too seriously and anyone with above average IQ and about 25 years of wisdom will tell you the premise of the protagonist is actually false not because the world isnt corrupt, but because his solution is 100% worthless and wouldnt make a lick of difference. This is why the show needed some humor and to tone down the "genius" hacker angle and just make everyone average Joe. But it tries really hard with kiddie tech speak about rootkits and traffic routing as if these arent considered and monitored closely by a million security monkeys across the globe right now... humor would have helped lighten a otherwise eye rolling plot.

    The actors are also very one dimensional overall though it could just be the bland script. Hollywood, yet again, assumes very smart folks are actually damaged and borderline retarded addicts which is opposite of how the are in reality which, again, brings about many eye rolls when they do something off the top stupid like get addicted to drugs, or murder for money etc etc. That is not how genius level folks work nor do they think that way regardless of how damaged they were as children. Only average IQ (and below) folks act that way.

    Anyway, I could barely finish season 1 and I will not be watching season 2.    … Expand
  8. Avalancheee
    Nov 1, 2017
    2
    Seasons 1 and 2 were off-the-charts fantastic. Season 3 is a major disappointment, all due to the scripts. Every episode has been completely predictable. But what's even worse, Robot insulted 63 million Trump voters by constant shots at Trump. This show was truly above the fray until this recent BS hit. What a waste of great acting talent. Won't watch anymore.
  9. CIM
    Jul 9, 2015
    0
    Absolutely, NO longer impressed by this show. The graphic displays from the July 8 episode were totally uncalled for and ruined the integrity of the show. Shock tactic quickly turned to pure disgust.
  10. antoinedoinel
    Jul 10, 2016
    0
    I don't need to write much more than what badgamer86 had to say. I don't understand the love for this show. I want to like it. But the execution, the flat footed directing, the over obvious script and the one note acting make it impossible for me.
  11. beachldy
    Sep 10, 2015
    0
    Lost interest around the 5th episode or so when Elliot's addiction had way too much emphasis. The plot just disappeared in the blink of an eye then, when that one episode was ALL about his addiction and nothing else.
  12. derfnamdoog
    Jul 12, 2015
    0
    I enjoyed the first two episodes. However, since I had no need or desire to watch semi-nude sodomy between men or S&M performed on a pregnant woman, as I did in the third episode, I don't think I will watch anymore episodes.
  13. spud
    Sep 24, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Over-hyped, Instagram-filter-ish, self-important vacuousness populated by cardboard-cutout, two-dimensional characters performed by lackluster actors. Rami Malek, the lead, is actually alright in his performance, though the "autistic and/or socially inept genius" cliché was already an exhausted resource by the time Mr. Robot was first released: Sherlock, Elementary, Monk, the Mentalist, etc... Not to mention that the whole premise behind Mr Robot (both the split personality and the project to bring down financial institutions) are literally lifted from Fight Club. Don't waste your time with this show.… Expand
  14. ravenrcft
    Jul 16, 2015
    0
    I REALLY hate the direction of the main character. I just cant decide if he's supposed to be introvert or extrovert. He's supposedly an anti-social, chronically depressed person but still he bangs his hispter next door neighbor and is still capable enough to buy drugs from her. AND... Some how we're supposed to believe that the hot girl/best-friend/childhood friend would continue aI REALLY hate the direction of the main character. I just cant decide if he's supposed to be introvert or extrovert. He's supposedly an anti-social, chronically depressed person but still he bangs his hispter next door neighbor and is still capable enough to buy drugs from her. AND... Some how we're supposed to believe that the hot girl/best-friend/childhood friend would continue a friendship with him for this long because they both had one of their parents killed by E(vil)Corp. **** She would of dropped him years ago or he would of been to socially awkward to maintain the relationship.

    Also, this show can't go 15 minutes without someone getting HIGH on MDMA, or morphine.    … Expand
  15. everythingsucks
    Aug 30, 2016
    0
    terrible. another tv show centered around hacking that's clearly written by those who have no knowledge about hacking, computers, phones, internet, intranet, etc.

    i did laugh my butt off when they called a ddos the most severe kind of attack, though. gaping plotholes from a ludicrous premise/set of instances aside, it was also a blatant rip-off of dexter's frst episode. just    terrible. another tv show centered around hacking that's clearly written by those who have no knowledge about hacking, computers, phones, internet, intranet, etc.

    i did laugh my butt off when they called a ddos the most severe kind of attack, though.

    gaping plotholes from a ludicrous premise/set of instances aside, it was also a blatant rip-off of dexter's frst episode. just replace murder with (hilariously outlandish) hacking. pathological hacker/murderer has long history of said actions, only targets bad people, has trophies of said actions, and gets contacted by a fellow hacker/murderer.

    lame.    … Expand
  16. badgamer86
    Jan 14, 2016
    0
    Mr Robot is defined by unrealistic characters, cliche dialogue, and one of the most annoying, angsty protagonists TV has seen in some time. It feels like a failed first-draft to Fight Club. You want to hear someone rant about what is wrong with the world? Watch Network or Taxi Driver, films that were made when people actually gave a damn about script writing. The Golden Globes just lostMr Robot is defined by unrealistic characters, cliche dialogue, and one of the most annoying, angsty protagonists TV has seen in some time. It feels like a failed first-draft to Fight Club. You want to hear someone rant about what is wrong with the world? Watch Network or Taxi Driver, films that were made when people actually gave a damn about script writing. The Golden Globes just lost all credibility in my mind. If this is what passes for quality today, then we as a society have bigger problems than bad TV.… Expand
  17. POLOVOYORGAN
    Jan 7, 2018
    1
    Ne bilo polovogo akta tri goda, v svezi s chem virajau svoy nedol'stvo. bil daje suhostoy :(
  18. browe47
    Jul 10, 2018
    2
    This show starts off by showing the great promise and credo of most hackers; People who see wrongdoing and have to do something about it. Then quickly shifts to paint hackers as drugged-out, schizophrenic, homeless, psychopathic nut jobs who will do anything for a “cause” without any thought of consequence. It generates the idea that the best hackers are either being manipulated by theThis show starts off by showing the great promise and credo of most hackers; People who see wrongdoing and have to do something about it. Then quickly shifts to paint hackers as drugged-out, schizophrenic, homeless, psychopathic nut jobs who will do anything for a “cause” without any thought of consequence. It generates the idea that the best hackers are either being manipulated by the very governments or companies that they despise OR cannot differentiate between a moral code and macroeconomic-sized criminal activity.

    The pace of the show and the acting is really good and they do a lot of things well. But it's quite obvious that these characters are blatantly selling their soul to evil forces. (The Dark Army, Fsociety, AKA Devil figures). I will explain further to make it clear.

    How else would the "lawyer" type that visited Tyrell (season 3 episode 3) know that he hated his father, had been unfaithful to his wife, and had killed someone? The man asks Tyrell 6 questions multiple times that are all a major sin in Christianity. He asks, "Have you murdered, have you committed adultery, do you hate your parents, will you be loyal to me"? These are part of the 10 commandments: Do not worship any other god, do not murder, do not commit adultery, honor your father & mother, do not lie.

    While that doesn't really bother me, it is furthering the stereotype that most hackers are evil. When, in fact, the majority of hackers are only concerned with making security better to protect others. Like anything, it is a struggle between good and evil. But this show quickly blurs the lines into, it's all evil.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#31 Best TV Season of 2015
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#8 Most Discussed TV Season of 2015
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#20 Most Shared TV Season of 2015

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Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. We Got This Covered
    Reviewed by: Will Ashton
    Oct 12, 2017
    80
    Mr. Robot season 3 is quick to prove its building excellence. It’s apparent that Esmail learned from the mistakes he made in his strong, if frankly overloaded, second season, and that he understands what it is that drew fans into his show in the first place.
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  2. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Jul 23, 2015
    90
    The summer's most wildly original new series. [27 Jul - 9 Aug 2015, p.12]
  3. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Jun 24, 2015
    83
    Elliot's (Rami Malek) haunted eyes and black hoodies, coupled with a blunt, abrasive take on humankind, propel Mr. Robot through a world of deep discontent and covert villainy.
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