Mr. Robot

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Season 2
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
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
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  1. 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 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.    When 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.    … Expand
  2. mahcussmaht
    Sep 15, 2016
    0
    Season 1 was fun. Season 2 fell off the rails entirely. It's an aimless and highly pretentious show with no clear motivations or goals. It's got a serious case of "LOST" syndrome in that it's fallen in love with itself and it's infinite mysteries while failing to make the story and the characters compelling in the process. The entire season is a giant waste of time and if it weren'tSeason 1 was fun. Season 2 fell off the rails entirely. It's an aimless and highly pretentious show with no clear motivations or goals. It's got a serious case of "LOST" syndrome in that it's fallen in love with itself and it's infinite mysteries while failing to make the story and the characters compelling in the process. The entire season is a giant waste of time and if it weren't for the goodwill of the first season and the ambitious stylistic choices, would be universally panned. I find myself not caring about anything happening in this show. I find myself not caring about the characters. With no clear goal in mind and no clear motivations for the characters, it's a hollow show with no direction or purpose other than to fellate itself.… Expand
  3. 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. The second season is even worse than the first one.… Expand
  4. shundog
    Apr 10, 2017
    0
    Season 1 was very good, easily an 8/10, but this season was just awful.

    The show tries so hard to be smart that it has basically become a parody of itself. The plotholes are numerous and to great depth. Also, the 'unreliable narrator' motif has been abused to the point where you can no longer trust anything that happens in the show. I sat through the entire miserable season because I    Season 1 was very good, easily an 8/10, but this season was just awful.

    The show tries so hard to be smart that it has basically become a parody of itself. The plotholes are numerous and to great depth. Also, the 'unreliable narrator' motif has been abused to the point where you can no longer trust anything that happens in the show. I sat through the entire miserable season because I liked season 1 a lot and it seemed that season 2 HAD to get good at some point. Wrong. So wrong... This season is arguably worse than Season 8 of Dexter, if you can believe it. The showrunner should go back to his day job, whatever that is. I truly wish they would have just cancelled this show after season 1.    … Expand
  5. 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, 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.
  6. night4
    Jul 29, 2016
    3
    Season 1 was pretty darn good. Season 2 is pretty much unwatchable.

    It's "Mozart in the Jungle" all over again: the things that made the first season special are simply no longer there in the second.
  7. trollbob2000
    Aug 9, 2016
    1
    Season 1 was awesome, enough realism to keep interesting, enough plot and character development to be good. (ok, so it is a fight club rip off) ... Any - season 2 is boring. The hacking is BS, the characters are flat. The writers just rolled over, answered all the questions and put a quaalude over every characters personality. i've never seen a show get lame so fast. Even Weeds tookSeason 1 was awesome, enough realism to keep interesting, enough plot and character development to be good. (ok, so it is a fight club rip off) ... Any - season 2 is boring. The hacking is BS, the characters are flat. The writers just rolled over, answered all the questions and put a quaalude over every characters personality. i've never seen a show get lame so fast. Even Weeds took 2 seasons to go from cleaver to weird.… Expand
  8. roscoeswaffle
    Jul 21, 2016
    1
    Season 1: addictive.
    Season 2: slow, empty, dull, unimaginative, pretentious, artsy, self-indulgent.
    Went to Sam's head?
    Sam ran out of ideas?
    Sam ran out of the right drugs?
    My god! The rant about organized religion was as bad as the worst monologue in True Detective.
    Someone please wake me up if the show ever gets good again (doubtful).

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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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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
  1. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Jul 22, 2016
    90
    Sam Esmail’s weirdly mesmerizing cyberthriller continues to pull off an audacious feat of boldly original, eerily relevant and daringly surreal storytelling, reminiscent of the visionary cinema of the 1970s. [25 Jul-7 Aug 2016, p.14]
  2. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Emily Nussbaum
    Jul 20, 2016
    70
    Mr. Robot may be self-serious, but it’s also a rarity on TV, capturing a modern mood, an ambient distrust based on genuine social betrayals. For all its flaws, it feels like an alarm going off. It’s worth paying attention to.
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  3. We Got This Covered
    Reviewed by: Stephen Puddicombe
    Jul 13, 2016
    80
    Mr. Robot continues to use its distinct aesthetic to explore some of the fundamental tensions at the heart of what made both politicians’ campaigns so popular.
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