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. PaganPen
    Feb 28, 2017
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I enjoyed season 1, but first 10 hours of season 2 have been taxing. The show has become self-indulgent and forgotten drama. If I have to watch unresponsive characters staring silently into the middle distance for one minute longer...
    There are speeches that the writer obviously felt really chuffed with and imagined to be extraordinarily profound. They needed cutting. The characters are not reacting in any kind of emotionally honest way in most scenes, which is fine for Elliot, because we know he's pretty insane, but for the others it becomes irritating.
    To be really engaging we need a genuine sense of journey, but 10 hours in to season 2 the journey has been limited. Angela, we don't know her real motivations, and has one demeanour - constant inner agony.
    Elliot, has been on a farcical journey of insanity, which even the TV show apologised for - his narration promised not to do it again (it only took 3 eps).
    Mr Robot, is just Mr Robot, no real character to him.
    Tyrell was a great character, but he's dead or not, we dont know. Mrs Wellick hasn't really learnt any new tricks, so she's not very interesting. Madame executioner sounded promising, but they killed her. Gideon was even interesting as the one decent human, but they killed him. Philip Price is turning into a self parody full of completely unnatural speeches that try to explain the nature of power, totally unbelievable. Darlene, we don't really know what motivates her, so not an interesting journey. Her boyfriend slightly more interesting, but seemingly pretty dumb.
    I will watch this to the end in the hope that they pull something out of the bag, but I am losing heart.    … Expand
  2. Ken_Heisenberg
    Oct 27, 2016
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I did not like the second season. It was generally slow with a few better episodes, but nowhere as good the first one which was superb. Frankly the show should have been finished at season 1. Now when the hackers achieved their goal it's all about FBI tracking them which is much less interesting and also about Elliot schizpfrenia getting worse to the point that not only he talks to his dead father but also having problems with differentiating between what is real and what is not.… Expand
  3. 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 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    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.    … Expand
  4. Zlatan
    Jul 22, 2016
    5
    Got myself through first season and it was ok' ish. Feel like nothing is happening. Same old "situation"being retold over and over again. I really lost interest by now.....
  5. LordMaster
    Sep 28, 2016
    4
    First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club. First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.First season was great, second season is boring and veryFirst season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club. First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.First season was great, second season is boring and very confusing. It all is a pretty **** wannabe Fight club.… Expand
  6. HarryNuggets
    Oct 23, 2017
    5
    Started to get a headache a couple of episodes in. Took me a while to realize why. This show is not complicated or deep, it's monotonous and self-important.
  7. OscarTheGrouch
    Dec 23, 2017
    6
    I can't help but feel the Seinfeld references, with it being a show about nothing, was sort of alluding to how the first half of season 2 of Mr Robot would be. Because not a lot happens. Basically we get it pounded into our minds over and over again how the main character is crazy, which was already known since season 1 but I guess we needed to be shown that again. Over and over.I can't help but feel the Seinfeld references, with it being a show about nothing, was sort of alluding to how the first half of season 2 of Mr Robot would be. Because not a lot happens. Basically we get it pounded into our minds over and over again how the main character is crazy, which was already known since season 1 but I guess we needed to be shown that again. Over and over.

    Ignoring that we get these redundant scenes, I also feel there's a lot of padding in the sense scenes take longer than necessary. We need to be shown for almost 3 minutes that a smart house became a noise hell due to hacking. The same with a chess scene, where we find out you can't beat yourself playing chess........ There are a lot of these kind of scenes, which feel stretched out because frankly there was not much else happening to fill the time better with.

    Probably due to the big 'reveal' midway in the season which pretty much made most of what you saw in the first half of the season pointless. Because of this constraint they couldn't really further the story.. A reveal which made no sense at all, because why would he lie to his 'invisible firend' to begin with? Other than the writers wanting to force another "Fight Club"-esque reveal moment into the season.

    It's the 2nd half of the season which sort of saves it in my opinion. mainly because things actually happen and the story gets furthered along. Yeah some characters are turning into charicatures with their speeches or conversations which seem unrealistic. Especially the 'bad guy' and the sister. And we get some silly scenes with the girlfriend being tested by a little girl. But at least things happened, for real and not make believe,    … Expand
  8. annbd
    Jul 25, 2018
    6
    Nothing like season 1, which is 10/10. It was confusing, like at all. To many fillers, too little actually happening. It just like they made something they invented it during the shooting process. I will admit that I skipped many scenes, because it was simply boring. Music and sounds - also disappointing.
  9. Cyanurea
    Jul 5, 2018
    5
    This season chokes on its own cleverness. It's hard to say if anything really happens other than the director yanking the blindfold away to yell "surprise!!" This season makes somewhat more sense as it sets up season 3, but seriously? Not much happens this season.

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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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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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