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Post by dark sister on Jun 13, 2016 0:37:59 GMT -5
Let's talk about this amazing show here! It comes back in July and Rami Malek and Christian Slater are currently gracing the cover of EW.
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Post by Ripley on Jun 15, 2016 14:49:41 GMT -5
I am very excited about Season 2 of Mr Robot and can't wait to see the next part of the story unfold. I have so many questions-
I want to know more about Elliot and Angela's mother
I want to know more about whatever deal they made years ago as he//they came up with the master plan
I want to find out why Elliot was in court-ordered anger management therapy too.
I also want to know about Tyrell's history and his wife, lol. She is far more dangerous that he is.
Also the members of f-society themselves.
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Post by Rosie on Jun 23, 2016 14:07:20 GMT -5
From TV Guide today:
"Mr. Robot will be getting some add-ons, USA announced Thursday. Season 2 of the USA computer hacker drama, which premieres July 13, has had two episodes added to its running order, bringing its Season 2 total to 12.
In addition to the expanded order, the season premiere will get a live special aftershow called Hacking Robot. Currently, the network only plans to do the aftershow for the two-hour premiere."
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Post by nana on Jun 23, 2016 23:29:18 GMT -5
I want to re watch season 1 before this airs. There were some crazy twists and turns and I want to re familiarize myself. Also, I am wondering if that guy Elliot's sister was sleeping with will be important in season 2.
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Post by Ripley on Jun 25, 2016 20:15:15 GMT -5
I'm Curious about both guys Darkene was implied to be sleeping with-the hacker who had the access to white rose and also the wealthy trader/analyst who seemed much more powerful and useful. I'm rewatching season 1 now. “Mr. Robot” Season 2 is getting an upgrade, with USA Network adding two additional episodes to the drama’s episode order. USA has also announced that Season 2 will premiere with two back-to-back episodes, presented with limited commercial interruption on July 13, beginning at 10 p.m., followed by a special live after-show. The drama will expand from its previously ordered 10 episodes to 12, with “Mr. Robot” creator Sam Esmail directing all 12 installments. The live after-show, “Hacking Robot,” will debut immediately following the season premiere on July 13 variety.com/2016/tv/news/mr-robot-season-2-live-after-show-12-episodes-1201802203/
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Post by dark sister on Jun 29, 2016 7:40:57 GMT -5
I'm all about them adding two extra episodes. So excited this is only a few weeks away. I've got to get used to watching a show on Wednesdays though. All of mine are usually on Sundays. lol
(I watched this On Demand last year)
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Post by Ripley on Jul 6, 2016 9:03:02 GMT -5
NYT profile-posted in entirety so no link. Unlike most Hollywood attempts, the computer hacking scenes in the USA Network techno-thriller “Mr. Robot” are both cinematic and realistic-looking. But they aren’t so easy to shoot. On the show’s set in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in early July, a scene’s makeshift Wi-Fi antenna kept falling over, the screen of a prop cellphone wouldn’t stay lit and, in one fraught moment, a new laptop slid out of its box and crashed to the floor. “I hope you bought the warranty,” the show’s star, Rami Malek, clad in the signature black sweatshirt of his character, Elliot Alderson, told a producer. Mr. Malek swore, exasperated. “I thought I was supposed to be good at this tech stuff!” Such moments underscore the sweat equity that goes into rendering the taut, remarkably assured world of the series, which was created by Sam Esmail and returns for its second season on Wednesday, July 13. Arriving last summer as a grim, haunted curiosity on a network known mainly for dimpled dudes in suits, “Mr. Robot” went on to become one of the most acclaimed shows of 2015. Inspired by real-life movements like Anonymous and Occupy, the tale of anarchist coders waging war on corporate culture was a hacktivist inversion of Silicon Valley cliché: The “fsociety” hooligans of “Mr. Robot” sought to make the world a better place by destroying its financial foundations. The first season won a Peabody Award, among other honors, for its sleek embrace of au courant concerns like the loss of privacy amid the tyranny of smartphones and social media. At times, the topicality reached through the screen — among the real-world events the show uncannily, if inadvertently, anticipated were embarrassing corporate hacks (Ashley Madison) and, more tragically, televised death. (The August season finale, in which an executive shoots himself on live TV, was postponed a week after a gunman killed two Virginia broadcast journalists during an on-air report.) Aside from Mr. Esmail, the person most responsible for whether “Mr. Robot” is a one-season wonder or a show with some staying power is Mr. Malek. The 35-year-old actor gave a breakout performance as Elliot, a gifted but mentally unstable hacker with social anxiety and a morphine addiction, and is the face of the show in every conceivable way, from posters to point-of-view. The audience watches the story unfold largely through Elliot’s shifting, unreliable perspective. His high-beam gaze vibrating with intensity one moment and wounded vulnerability the next, Elliot physically manifests the anxious, fractured themes of “Mr. Robot” as explicitly as the boorish, brooding Tony Soprano did for “The Sopranos” or the slick but troubled Don Draper did for “Mad Men.” But unlike those complicated white men, Mr. Malek, who like Mr. Esmail is of Egyptian descent, embodies a time when television, through shows like “Orange Is the New Black,” “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Transparent,” is finally starting to reflect the diversity and multiculturalism that define American life. On an urgently modern show, he is an urgently modern leading man, though the phrase makes him chuckle. “Five or 10 years ago, I would have never been considered for the lead of a show,” Mr. Malek said. “Even going into the audition it was like: ‘No way. Ultimately they’re going to go with someone who looks more conventional, someone society would be more accepting of.’” The second season of “Mr. Robot” brings both the usual sophomore pressures — Can it sustain the promise of its debut? Will the praise translate into more viewers? — and a singular narrative challenge, springing from last year’s big twist. (Warning: For anyone who hasn’t watched or finished Season 1, here be spoilers.) Mr. Robot, played by Christian Slater, was revealed to be a hallucination based on Elliot’s dead father, who had owned a computer store. While that move was not unique — the show signaled its debt to predecessors like “Fight Club” — what comes next is: Mr. Robot returns as a core character for Season 2, an insistent, at times antagonistic, sidekick who is no less prominent despite his imaginary status. “Discovering something like that is one thing,” Mr. Malek said. “Actually taking steps to live through and manage it is entirely another beast.” As Mr. Slater said, “Anybody can relate to having that other voice inside their head talking to them, telling them what they should have done.” “Mr. Robot” was not a ratings giant in its first season, drawing an average of slightly more than 2.7 million viewers a week, 1.4 million of them in the coveted 18-49 age demographic; it didn’t crack the Top 100 in that category for 2015. USA is aggressively marketing the new season in a bid to raise the numbers, according to Alex Sepiol, an NBCUniversal executive vice president for development. But the show’s buzz and acclaim are its own rewards as the channel, in pursuit of a younger audience, continues to move away from lighter fare like “White Collar” and “Royal Pains” into moodier series. This season the show is expanding to 12 episodes from 10. More recognizable performers, including Craig Robinson, Grace Gummer and the rapper Joey Badass, have joined the cast, and USA is adding a live after-show, “Hacking Robot,” that has its debut on July 13. The premiere picks up not long after Season 1’s culminating megahack, which wiped out all debt and threw the world into a financial tailspin (see accompanying article). The new season explores the fallout and fills in some of last season’s blanks — we still, for example, don’t know how the cyberattack actually was handled — as it devotes more of its focus to characters like Elliot’s friend Angela (Portia Doubleday) and his sister and fellow hacker Darlene (Carly Chaikin). “You definitely get answers to the questions from last season, but at the same time, you’ll be left with just as many different questions,” Ms. Chaikin said. Viewers can expect gloomier visuals to signify Elliot’s continuing mental disintegration, Mr. Esmail said. In a rare move for television, he is directing every episode, using a block shooting schedule — all the scenes in a given location are shot in a chunk, despite which episode they appear in — more common to feature filmmaking. Mr. Esmail sees the new episodes as the start of the second act of a story he expects to last four or five seasons. “The Mr. Robot reveal wasn’t the ending; it was the setup,” he said. The real story of the show is Elliot’s journey to resolve a convulsive identity crisis and make some sort of sense of himself. “The idea of how he’s going to reconcile this relationship with Mr. Robot — it’s the title but it’s also the central conflict of the whole series,” Mr. Esmail said. Mr. Esmail had never worked in television before “Mr. Robot,” which began as a film script before he decided the complex narrative would work better as a serial. But after auditioning many “great actors” for Elliot, Mr. Esmail began to wonder if what he’d written was too caustic to watch at all. “I thought it was the material and that I would have to start over — it felt like we were getting yelled at by this guy,” he said. That changed when Mr. Malek infused Elliot’s scorn with a warmth and vulnerability that suggested the emotional fragility that is, in effect, the foundation of the show. “I did not know that’s what he needed until Rami brought it,” Mr. Esmail said. While he’s often nearly catatonic as Elliot, Mr. Malek in conversation is jocular and excitable, his elongated vowels carrying traces of his Southern California roots. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, the son of Egyptian immigrants who hoped he’d become a lawyer or doctor. (His twin brother is a teacher, and his older sister is a physician.) He tried debate in high school and was terrible, he said, but a teacher saw a spark and urged him toward drama. A school performance of Charles Fuller’s “Zooman and the Sign,” with his parents in the audience, was a turning point. “In that moment, I had a connection that I never had with my father before, and I realized just how powerful this kind of communication and art could be,” he said. After college in Indiana, he returned to Los Angeles and began auditioning while supporting himself with restaurant jobs. Bit parts in “Gilmore Girls” and “Medium” gave way to more involved work in shows like “24” and films including the “Night at the Museum” movies, a “Twilight” installment, the indie drama “Short Term 12” and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master.” His most memorable role before Elliot was as a jaded private in “The Pacific,” the HBO World War II mini-series produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, among others. At the AFI Awards in January, Mr. Spielberg took the actor aside to let him know that “Tom and I are so proud of you,” Mr. Malek recalled, incredulous, his eyes bulging at the memory. “And I was like, come on!” Mr. Malek knew nothing about hacker culture before “Mr. Robot” and remains skeptical of what he regards as the phoniness of social media — he once posted photos of himself and other actors onto his Instagram account, only to delete them all. (It remains empty.) Films and television tend to depict hacking haphazardly at best, and it’s a point of pride for Mr. Esmail that any code that appears in “Mr. Robot” is at least rooted in legitimate programming language. Mr. Malek stopped asking what any of it means some time ago. Back in Brooklyn, he ran through the scene yet again, off-camera technical advisers whispering keystrokes (“typing, typing, mousepad, click, click, click, return … ”) as he pecked at the salvaged laptop. At the same time, he interacted with a co-star and also responded to Elliot’s continuing internal narration, which a writer’s assistant wirelessly reads into his ear during filming. Later, he will record the voice-over and shoot the programming close-ups while being coached through the code, line by line. There are easier TV gigs, Mr. Malek acknowledged as he walked a visitor off the soundstage, but “these are the characters that, as an actor, you dream of playing.” “I don’t think I’ve really come to grips with it,” he said of his burgeoning stardom. “But I’m beginning to realize that yes, something special is going on here
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Post by Ripley on Jul 11, 2016 10:56:19 GMT -5
Nice insights into the premiere airing Wednesday- unless you were lucky enough to catch the first half last night via social media. "...The start of Season 2, though, inverts that formula, testing your willingness to cascade down many a rabbit hole with Eliot, while learning much, much more about the other characters that inhabit this world. But is that what we want? And won’t that steer the acclaimed USA Network drama into being more of a niche appeal than ever?... Airing Wednesday at 10/9c, the double-episode, 90-minute premiere (the first half of which was “leaked” online Sunday night by fsociety) establishes that in the wake of the epic “Five/Nine” hack that crippled E Corp and other institutions, Eliot (Rami ...Elsewhere, we see that Darlene (Carly Chaikin), perhaps a bit uncharacteristically, is quite dissatisfied with the unarguable results of Five/Nine, that she wants to make “the man” hurt more. Angela (Portia Doubleday) meanwhile is digging in her Louboutin heels at E Corp, evolving into a spin doctor who is every bit as ruthless as she needs to be in the wake of Plouffe’s on-air suicide as well as another very public embarrassment that is foisted upon the conglomerate. E Corp CEO Price himself is busy strong-arming D.C. into a better bailout for the biggies who fell hard, while Tyrell Wellick’s wife Joanna is coping with his disappearance via BDSM with strangers. We also meet two new characters — E Corp counsel Susan Jacobs (Sandrine Holt), whose smart home gets appropriated, Axel Foley-style, by Darlene as an fsociety safe house, and Dom Dipierro (Grace Gummer), the FBI agent assigned to root out Five/Nine’s true perpetrato..." link
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Post by nana on Jul 11, 2016 11:25:51 GMT -5
I'm Curious about both guys Darkene was implied to be sleeping with-the hacker who had the access to white rose and also the wealthy trader/analyst who seemed much more powerful and useful. I'm rewatching season 1 now. “Mr. Robot” Season 2 is getting an upgrade, with USA Network adding two additional episodes to the drama’s episode order. USA has also announced that Season 2 will premiere with two back-to-back episodes, presented with limited commercial interruption on July 13, beginning at 10 p.m., followed by a special live after-show. The drama will expand from its previously ordered 10 episodes to 12, with “Mr. Robot” creator Sam Esmail directing all 12 installments. The live after-show, “Hacking Robot,” will debut immediately following the season premiere on July 13 variety.com/2016/tv/news/mr-robot-season-2-live-after-show-12-episodes-1201802203/Well, that just solidifies I do need to get going and rewatch season 1. I don't remember Darlene sleeping with a hacker. I keep hoping Elliot hallucinated much of that with his girlfriend (sorry..don't remember her name) and she will come back. I liked that character a lot.
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Post by Ripley on Jul 11, 2016 15:38:59 GMT -5
Variety review-posted in entirety so no link.
"USA's smash cyberthriller from Sam Esmail, starring Rami Malek and Christian Slater, returns1
Now that the secrets of “Mr. Robot” are known — its hallucinations identified, its faces unmasked, its world markets burned to ashes — the show’s second season faces a historically difficult task: writing the next chapter after the first tore the story’s universe to shreds. Precisely because the first season was so thorough and brilliant, the task for the second stands to be monumental; what comes next will necessarily lack the propulsive quality of last year’s unraveling mystery, and on top of that, there are many loose ends to stitch together.
But if any show could make the prospect of that task more thrilling than daunting, it’s “Mr. Robot,” last summer’s sleeper hit. The USA cyber-thriller deftly walks the line between macho intellectual exercise and nuts-and-bolts techno-corporate re-creation. It continues to astonish that the show is unafraid to name brand names, or to hack in actual lines of code. And the criminally wonderful music direction and haunting cinematography of New York City’s seediest underbelly mixed with its most rarified penthouses make for a series that’s a joy to get lost in. Peak TV has bloated the television offerings of seemingly every marginal cable network and streaming platform in the universe; “Mr. Robot” is a rare success story amid dozens of copycats.
Some of the success of creator-writer-director Sam Esmail’s vision is one of timing, too. The show’s underground movement “f society” has flavors of Anonymous and #Gamergate, Occupy, and Brexit, both copying and anticipating a festering resentment. F society, and Esmail, know that viewers feel something is wrong with the world, but don’t quite know what to do about it.
This summer — with British politics a conflagration, the looming specter of President Donald Trump, and the 11.5 million documents comprising the Panama Papers just three months old — the series’ cyberpunk meditations on society and the self, on enfranchisement and alienation, on the haves and the have-nots, seem more vital than ever.
And now that the first season has finally outed itself as a “Fight Club” homage (with a swaggering Christian Slater playing the show’s version of Tyler Durden), the second season can hopefully move away from derivative dude-cinema to engage more fully with what it means to be driven mad by this particular world. “Mr. Robot” is much more than just another narrative of the male ego’s will-to-power, but it let on to its complexity late in the game.
The key is in Rami Malek’s performance as Elliot Alderson, the quintessential unreliable narrator. Esmail executed a taut, technically beautiful season — one of the most confident and complete first seasons in recent memory — but it’s Malek’s soulful eyes and silent pathos that give “Mr. Robot” its unexpected warmth, as the viewer is lured into Elliot’s chaos and confusion. Throughout, Elliot’s narration creates a fraught relationship with the unseen audience — at times accusatory, at times conspiring, but always implicated in the growing secrecy and madness, always both a part of the system and a part of breaking free of it.
Elliot’s confidence in dismantling the system makes him the smug, oppositional crypto-vigilante, saving and patronizing the masses in equal measure. But his conviction is undermined by the affection he feels for his own vulnerable “sheeple,” notably Angela (Portia Doubleday) and Gideon (Michel Gill), innocent bystanders made flesh, who serve as crucial foils to Elliot’s flights of anarchic fantasy. In the opening two episodes of the show’s second season, their suffering exemplifies how much pain Elliot so quickly swept in at the end of the first season. Because while the corporations that create the modern economy are unfairly influential, so is Elliot — a disaffected and even disturbed young man with the skills to dismantle the fragile lines of code holding the world together. Watching the economy as we know it implode under Elliot’s tapping keys is both happy ending and tragedy: Our hero, who professed to want to save the world, is the agent of our ruin.
Season two opens on a world that looks mostly the same, but hides a certain inexpressible panic at its core — belied by hushed meetings behind closed doors, nervous talking heads on the news, and the blank expressions of powerless bank tellers, as yet another customer is told they can’t cash out their life savings. In the way that a server is down, the entire American economy out of commission. The streets are too crowded in the middle of the day, and in the background of some shots, there are tents of the kind that pop up during disaster relief. Though the fabric of the modern economic system was an uncomfortable, unfair, and largely unknown, it was at least some kind of fabric, some kind of security blanket.
What’s left is terrifying. For the viewing public, the horror of a zero bank balance, or lost documents that prove home ownership, or every electronic device in the house tweaking out simultaneously impart far more fear than visions of flying dragons or marauding zombies. “Mr. Robot” leans into these curves, revealing its deep ambivalence toward Elliot’s actions, even as it extends him the sympathy and dry humor of an outsider perpetually looking in. (There’s a bit about “Seinfeld” that is entirely unexpected and totally hilarious, even in the midst of insanity and/or anarchy.) With just two episodes made available for review, it’s difficult to say yet whether or not “Mr. Robot” will be able to produce a second season as wild and seductive as the first. But the show remains an artfully constructed receptacle for our cyber-paranoia, whether directed at the government, or capitalism, or technology, or most pressingly, one’s ability to betray oneself, with hallucinations or selective memory or — worst of all — a self-serving notion of the right thing to do."
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Post by dark sister on Jul 12, 2016 13:12:55 GMT -5
I'm kicking myself for picking up overtime on Wednesday, now I don't get to watch live.
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Post by Ripley on Jul 12, 2016 19:52:27 GMT -5
"Going into season two, how have your conversations with the actors evolved? How do you draw the line between what to tell them ahead of time and what not? Esmail: I tell them everything. They know everything about the second season. What I do is we sit in the writer's room for the first month and talk about the second season in general: where we're we going and where the key moments are. Before we get into the episodes, before we get into the nitty gritty, I pitch it to the network and the studio to see how they feel, any thoughts or notes, or what their feedback is in general and then I pitch it to my cast because I consider them co-creators in these characters. They have to live with this person, they have to breathe this person and for me to ignore their input would be ridiculous. Then, once I get everybody's blessing and everybody's feedback, then we go into breaking down every episode... ...When and how did you come to the decision to direct all of season two? Because you're also writing on the show, that timeline has to be just right to allow you to do both. Esmail: I knew that kind of when we wrapped the first season. The biggest struggle for me was the visual style of the show is very singular and very distinct, and it was hard for me to articulate that to our guest directors. It's not their faults, they were actually amazing and did amazing work on the show but I was on set everyday and I think, for me, it would just be more efficient if I took over the reins. There's this weird thing in TV, because you have multiple directors, you can't cross-board, so you can't shoot things out of order because you have to bring in that director of that episode. From a production standpoint, it actually makes things easier on us going into the second season..." www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mr-robot-sam-esmail-interview-910445?utm_source=twitter
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Post by Ripley on Jul 12, 2016 20:14:20 GMT -5
""In true Elliot form, he's trying to cope with all of the consequences and repercussions of what happened," Malek says about his character's journey. "He feels there's a lot of blood on his hands, and what he thought was going to be a really transformative event ended up almost backfiring. He's in a very guilty place. On top of that, he's dealing with this revelation that he and Mr. Robot exist together as one person. I think he's pretty fractured at the time you meet him. He's just trying to pick up the pieces of who he is. He's trying to glue it all together, and hope it doesn't fall apart." ..."The ensemble is really special this year," Malek says. "Everybody has their own dark progression through the story, but you're surrounded by…it's almost that the misery of everybody else brings out a weird kind of dark, black humor that arises. Humor that's even just very funny on the surface." "Sam knew what he was doing with this season," he adds, "and knew he had all of these dire and dark moments. I think this season, people will be surprised at how funny and fun this show is. The music that Sam has pulled into this show, the montages that I've shot…. I know from being there first-hand, they're some of the coolest and most cinematic things you've seen on television in a while..." www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mr-robot-rami-malek-season-910079
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Post by Ripley on Jul 13, 2016 10:52:09 GMT -5
"...As the hacker drama’s two female leads, Angela and Darlene make for nicely rounded characters. Angela’s journey through Season 1 sees a capable yet not fully confident cybersecurity professional become just that, and someone who now makes seemingly impossible decisions on her own. Daredevil malware hacker Darlene, although not undergoing such a radical transformation as Angela, is fleshed out ― without giving too much away — through her backstory over the season, revealing her ties to Elliot and other characters. “I think with any show or film or project, what people respond to the most is emulating real life,” Chaikin told HuffPost. “And in real life, women are in the tech world, they’re more competent than men ― equal if not more competent than men.” Doubleday agreed, saying “a lot of trends [in writing women] play into stereotypes that are of the past.” That is, women in business and tech aren’t shown on screen because they don’t work in business and tech off screen. Chaikin explained how, in fact, her character didn’t even strike her as unusual when she first read the script, only realizing it afterward when others pointed out the rarity of Darlene-types on TV...." www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mr-robot-portia-doubleday-carly-chaikin_us_576c3e25e4b017b379f550e8?section=
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Post by Ripley on Jul 13, 2016 13:10:33 GMT -5
"...The two-hour Season 2 premiere, airing Wednesday night, is as stylish and well-performed as any in Season 1, but it is also confusing, burdened by the series’ dense backstory and intricate, time-skipping structure. The new season will surely rev up: Malek’s performance remains excellent, there’s a devotion to verisimilitude that includes casting someone to play Janet Yellin, and an act of violence that demonstrates the series can still tap into the dystopic, widening gyre-vibe of the present moment at will. But the premiere is a time-waster, diligently checking in on the series’ supporting players while Elliot tries to stay on the sidelines. Some weeks after the events of the Season 1 finale, Elliot is hewing to a strict routine and avoiding all computers, hoping to keep Mr. Robot from taking over his mind again, with no help at all from Mr. Robot, who is a very loud manifestation of mental illness. Mr. Robot spends the premiere berating and attacking Elliot, trying to rouse him into taking part in the revolution he began. It’s strident and tedious. We know Mr. Robot will get his way. There’s a show to make. In the first season, Elliot was consumed by the idea that everyone around him was a sheep, awash in false choices, unknowingly vulnerable, so much less free than they imagined themselves to be. But at the start of Season 2, Elliot is trying to domesticate himself. He eats and sleeps and watches basketball, all in locations with so little detail, color, and advertising they could be from a dream or the USSR. Elliot also keeps making snide comments about television. He insults NCIS (which airs in re-run on USA). The guy he eats his meal with humorously riffs on the nihilistic meaning of Seinfeld. In another storyline, a dopey character can’t stop watching Vanderpump Rules. Esmail, having created a cult TV show, is expressing some skepticism about television, a medium that, for much of its life, existed to sell audiences soap. Mr. Robot is like an iPhone with an “I hate Apple” ring-tone: both are beautifully designed, powerful products that are superficially conflicted about being beautifully designed, powerful products. For all that Mr. Robot invites us to think about global financial issues, the unchecked power of technology, and imminent societal collapse, it also demonstrates just how efficiently capitalism co-opts all critiques: It can even turn a criminal hacktivist into the poster boy for a cable network..." link
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Post by Ripley on Jul 13, 2016 14:49:57 GMT -5
www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/mr-robot-four-of-the-shows-best-hacks-explained-20160713"When it comes to hacking, Mr. Robot has one rule: If it can't be done in real life, it doesn't appear on the show. That's where Kor Adana comes in. A former teenage hacker who went straight after a brush with the law, Adana used to work as a cyber-security expert at a large multinational corporation, just like Elliot in the show, but quit to pursue a career in TV writing. Now he has a job that incorporates all his various expertise: as a member of Mr. Robot's writing staff and its chief technical adviser. With one foot in the hacking world and one foot in the writer's room, Adana is the one most responsible for translating showrunner Sam Esmail's ideas to the screen in a technologically accurate and visually compelling way. Here, Adana walks us through a few his favorite hacks from the show. The Minicomputer "The Raspberry Pi is a small, credit-card-sized computer that you can program any number of ways," Adana says. Last season, when Elliot's fsociety crew attacked a data-storage facility called Steel Mountain, they attached a Raspberry Pi to a thermostat and used it to hack into the facility's climate-control system, which they planned to overheat in order to start a fire. "That was an exciting thing for us to showcase, because it's relatively new, and I've never seen it on a show or in a movie before," he says. "It was really really fun to incorporate it in a realistic way." In this case, realistic is an understatement. "We actually kind of modified it a bit, because it was a little too big to fit behind a thermostat," Adana admits. "We removed this wireless network port that was pretty bulky, so that it would fit easier — but then, in order to make it so that it could still connect to the network, we soldered a network cable directly to the board. We took the time to solder every single copper wire, as if we were doing it for real." (Adana knows it would have been easier just to get a bigger thermostat, but for some reason, the props department couldn't get one in time. "There was some mixup or something," he says. "So I said, 'Give me a soldering iron and we'll get this done.'")..." Read more: www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/mr-robot-four-of-the-shows-best-hacks-explained-20160713#ixzz4EJuLDTli Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook Read more: www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/mr-robot-four-of-the-shows-best-hacks-explained-20160713#ixzz4EJuBScKm Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
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Post by Ripley on Jul 13, 2016 22:46:54 GMT -5
Quite the premiere! Seeing some lives move on normally while other characters' lives are ruined, or worse, was very powerful. The song playing with the fire also powerful. Phil Collins lol.
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Post by Ripley on Jul 14, 2016 19:47:38 GMT -5
As you mentioned, Elliot has had hallucinations outside of Mr. Robot. In the first season, he often saw visions of himself as a child alongside his mother — someone who is something of a nightmare figure in Elliot's life and in the lore of this show. Now, Elliot's back at home and living with his mother. When he explains this to his therapist Krista, Elliot says: "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't." Is that how desperate he is right now?Yeah, he's very desperate. I think there are a lot of unresolved issues with her as well, underneath everything he says, that he would hope to bring some type of closure to perhaps. But for all of her negativity, he does have a small amount of trust in her. I don't know. There's something about a mom, no matter what, good or bad. There is a sense of protection, whether it exists or not. Just knowing that the word and person "mom" are at home brings a lot of people a sense of safety. It's a bit juvenile, but I think at your most dire moment, those are the things you revert to. Speaking of parental figures, there's Gideon, who was quite paternal toward Elliot at the beginning of the show. Gideon is killed in the premiere, having already begged Elliot for help in clearing his name. How much of this death lands on Elliot's shoulders?I think the majority of it. Gideon wouldn't be in this position if it weren't for Elliot. That's on Elliot's hands. There's a lot of guilt that will impact Elliot's progression, and that's due to what happens to Gideon in that first episode. It's so sad. Elliot's situation with his own father is very tumultuous. He obviously grapples with what kind of a father he had, and the one he envisioned versus the one that existed. He did kind of find the best in Gideon, that resolved all of what was missing with his own father. To have the loss of both of them on his hands, to a degree, and to feel like he's responsible in a way, not letting his father leave the world in a certain way, and now having to deal with being the cause of Gideon's end… it's something that's deeply on Elliot's mind and heart..." link
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Post by Rosie on Jul 14, 2016 23:38:52 GMT -5
I'm interested in the story arc with his mother. Elliot seems to remember she didn't want his broken arm put into a cast when he was a child due to the cost. I wonder if there was physical abuse - the doctor wanting to speak to Elliot alone?
I'm liking Leon and the other 'friend' with the dog.
Wow! Grace Gummer really resembles her mother. Grace plays the FBI investigator role. For those that don't know, Grace is Merle Streep's daughter. Her sister Mamie Gummer is also an actress. Their father and Merle's husband's is Don Gummer, a sculptor. Been married to each since the 70's. There is another sister and an older brother. Amazing family.
Rami Malek was frightening when he was laughing hysterically near the end of the episode.
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Post by dark sister on Jul 15, 2016 7:52:14 GMT -5
Rami was great in that scene where he's laughing.
I'm trying to decide whether or not I think his routine is set up to be like a metaphorical prison or if he really IS in prison and this is just his mind coping with it? His entire routine reminded me of someone in prison. Meals at the same time, watching basketball, chores, even his friend watching Seinfeld, that's something that would be on a TV prison. And his mother's wallpaper is all stripes, and the final scene of him on the phone reminded me of prison too.
What do you think?
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Post by Rosie on Jul 15, 2016 11:00:51 GMT -5
Rami was great in that scene where he's laughing. I'm trying to decide whether or not I think his routine is set up to be like a metaphorical prison or if he really IS in prison and this is just his mind coping with it? His entire routine reminded me of someone in prison. Meals at the same time, watching basketball, chores, even his friend watching Seinfeld, that's something that would be on a TV prison. And his mother's wallpaper is all stripes, and the final scene of him on the phone reminded me of prison too. What do you think? I think the entire set up is an in-patient drug re-hab. Maybe Darlene had him committed? I agree Rami was great in the laughing scene - frighteningly good! 8-)
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Post by Ripley on Jul 20, 2016 1:54:32 GMT -5
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Post by spectre on Jul 20, 2016 7:01:15 GMT -5
I thought the premiere was incredibly slow, so much that I was actually falling asleep. But, it was past my late bedtime of 10 pm, lol. I still have not finished and I am somewhere like halfway through the second part. I'll get caught up by tonight.
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Post by Ripley on Jul 20, 2016 7:59:21 GMT -5
You know I will be curious for your thoughts on the premiere and also 2.02 @sepctre!
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Post by dark sister on Jul 20, 2016 9:59:43 GMT -5
I like this theory, it's something I immediately thought about after watching. Whether he's actually in a prison/hospital or if it's a metaphorical one. I'm interested. I like the idea of Gummer's scenes being flashbacks, that's interesting.
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Post by Rosie on Jul 20, 2016 23:31:20 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/arts/television/mr-robot-season-2-episode-3-recap.htmlMr. Robot gave us more of the FBI chick played by Grace Gummer. I cannot figure out Ray. Counselor at Elliott's hospital and hacker as well? Angela has to make a big decision. The two dinner guests were responsible for the chemical leak that killed her mother and Elliott's mother father. (I plan to re-watch Season 1 - I had forgotten a few things). I think he still had his dog and his fish at the end of season - where are they? Maybe Darlene? I dunno know.
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Post by dark sister on Jul 21, 2016 8:47:11 GMT -5
I'm glad we got to see more of Gummer's character. Ray, I can't quite figure out either. Last week, I was sure he was a guard at the prison, now after watching him talk to himself at breakfast, he must be a patient too. I'm interesting in Angela's choices she's going to have to make, the only person boring me at this point is Darlene.
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Post by Ripley on Jul 21, 2016 9:28:33 GMT -5
Ugh, Angela, danger, danger! Her instinct to not trust him is a good one. The history of the building and the implied "curse" with the parallels interested me too.
Angela will likely end up sadder but wiser at season's end on many levels.
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Post by Rosie on Jul 21, 2016 9:57:04 GMT -5
Last week's ratings were down significantly for Ep 1. I can't see ESPY awards capturing much of the market - thinking probably the on-line sneak peek took some of the market. Delayed viewing numbers boosted the low ratings. finance.yahoo.com/news/mr-robot-just-got-much-165700501.htmlAnother dissection and speculation of last night's episode. www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Mr-Robot-The-God-of-Panic-8399965.phpDoes anyone else remember the remaining letters on the arcade? I didn't realize this until Grace Gummer's character saw it as "f" "society". I know all that was explained by Jerome in the flashback but I don't recall the letters.
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Post by Ripley on Jul 21, 2016 10:01:33 GMT -5
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