The show has now finished - after four superb seasons and with a proper & planned ending for it… so this thread will contain spoilers!)
The series follows Elliot, a young programmer working as a cyber-security engineer by day, and a vigilante hacker by night.
The premise…
Mr. Robot is an American drama-thriller television series created by Sam Esmail. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker who has social anxiety disorder and clinical depression. Elliot is recruited by an insurrectionary anarchist known as “Mr. Robot”, played by Christian Slater, to join a group of hacktivists called “fsociety”. The group aims to destroy all debt records by encrypting the financial data of the largest conglomerate in the world, E Corp…
Mr Robot trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6HGuJC--rk
Subversive, on-topic & fresh, biting social commentary, and a cynical viewpoint of the modern world - with the occasional insert of humour, warmth, redemption and a fair few WTF moments too 😃
Like many other absorbing modern tv shows… this is really beautifully put together; the cinematography, direction & style, feel, suspense, choice of music - the whole works; coming together to lift an already immersive series, with it’s quality acting and genius plot twists, into an even better, more captivating one.
Well worth a watch…
Some useful info sites… (be careful for spoilers)
IMDB Page
Wikipedia Page
Mr Robot Wikia
Official Site
Official Twitter