Mr. Robot

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Season 2
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
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Critic Reviews

  1. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Sophie Gilbert
    Jul 12, 2016
    60
    Things are much murkier, and the question of whether the show will recover its focus or remain mired in psychological trauma will define whether season two succeeds or fails. Malek’s hollow-eyed charisma can redeem a hero who’s deeply troubled but essentially noble in purpose; it can’t carry a show whose defining quality is cynicism.
  2. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Chuck Bowen
    Jul 12, 2016
    50
    As usual with Mr. Robot, there's a sense that the creators care only about establishing pretenses to mount their formally self-conscious kitsch. The series is too busy being cool to matter.

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#36 Best TV Season of 2016
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#25 Most Discussed TV Season of 2016
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#81 Most Shared TV Season of 2016

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User Score
8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 408 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 345 out of 408
  2. Mixed: 28 out of 408
  3. Negative: 35 out of 408
  1. simonezandara
    Jul 31, 2016
    4
    The first season was great. Original, beautiful and unexpected. Great characters and enough plot development to keep you addicted.
    I am now    The first season was great. Original, beautiful and unexpected. Great characters and enough plot development to keep you addicted.
    I am now already 4 hours in the second season and I cannot recognize this show. The original plot is completely lost and all the mistery related to the season 1 finale is just ignored. We have to deal with psychological issues of the protagonist battling himself. In every episode the same topics are touched and they repeat all the time the same "issues" without any plot development whatsoever.

    4 just because the photography is great.    … Full Review »
  2. MAGA_Man
    Aug 29, 2016
    0
    When a show's whole premise revolves around characters trying to accomlish a specific goal, they're always going to run into trouble once thatWhen a show's whole premise revolves around characters trying to accomlish a specific goal, they're always going to run into trouble once that goal is accomplished. Call it the "Who Killed Laura Palmer" problem.

    Season 2 of Mr Robot runs into this problem hard. With the hack of Evil Corp accomplished and the secret of Mr Robot revealed, there's just nowhere else for the plot to go. Elliot spins his wheels in the suburbs, being generically insane and listening to pointless existentialist monologues from a couple "numinous negro" stereotypes. Darlene decides to... hack Evil Corp again? Because it didn't work the first time, thus rendering the whole first season pointless. Angela listens to self-help tapes, random FBI chick buys sandwiches, Tyrell Wellick breathes heavily into phones, and Romero commits suicide due to boredom. The only likeable character is Christian Slater, as he bellows at Elliot to get off his ass and do something dramatic and interesting for cripe's sake. One sympathizes.

    The artsy cinematography and haunting score are still present, but in the absence of a compelling storyline they're just cutesy and cloying. There's no narrative drive or momentum anymore, just a lot of flailing around punctuated by random bursts of violence. In the absence of anything interesting for them to do it becomes tough to care what happens to the established characters, and the new additions of Flat-Affect FBI Girl and Gangster Fat Albert don't help.

    It's always a shame to see a good show push past its sell-by date, but it's looking like this should've been a 10-episode miniseries from the start.    … Full Review »
  3. metacriptico
    Aug 4, 2016
    3
    I was so thrilled waiting for season 2, then I fell asleep watching episode 1... and, well, you know what that means. Disappointing, slow,I was so thrilled waiting for season 2, then I fell asleep watching episode 1... and, well, you know what that means. Disappointing, slow, with a nice, obscure touch and the awesome photograph we all know, but the feeling of already seen is poisoning my admiration for the whole project.… Full Review »
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