Irrelevant But Awesome

Elliot is a smart guy. It's something easy to forget after the way season 1 ended and how season 2 has begun because the stigma of mental illness tends to overshadow any sort of mental capability. Let's put it this way, Mr. Robot is like a program Elliot created for his mind to stay on track to carry out fsociety's plan and when Elliot was about to stray from that plan, the Mr. Robot program took over his brain completely and auto-piloted Elliot to a world-wide cyber attack. So now that the deed is done, Elliot is alone with the program and is noticing the bugs, hence the error code he sees in this episode and it's discussed in the scene with Ray (Craig Robinson) that the solution is to fix the code and continue on. We as a television audience has a short tolerance for really any multi-episode arc. I praised the Elliot isolation thing in the review of last week's 2-part season premiere but now that it's carried over into the third episode even I had a twinge ...

*If spoilers are a thing you care about, go finish watching season 1 before reading this, ya dumb-dumbs* There was two challenges that I faced when I sat down and watched the two part season premiere of Mr. Robot last night: there were so many loose ends left from season one that it was difficult to keep straight what was what and that was partly due to the second challenge. After it was established that Mr. Robot was existing only in Elliot's imagination, it left me trying to figure out if any of the new characters Elliot was interacting with (like his friend that he eats every meal with and Craig Robinson's character) are also figments of his imagination. It's like the most recent season of Game of Thrones (yeah, I'm spoiling that too) when time travel was revealed to now be in play, the possibilities were endless as far as fan theories grew rampant. Now that season one established the degradation of Elliot's mental stability in the form of hallucinations ...

We're still about a month away from the official premiere of USA Network's newest Sci-Fi thriller Mr. Robot starring Rami Malek, Portia Doubleday and Christian Slater. However, USA provided a major sneak peek this week when they aired the pilot and I enjoyed the pants off this episode. The first thing you'll notice is that it doesn't exactly feel like your typical USA show. When I tell you a show comes on the USA Network, you immediately start associating it with shows like Monk, Psych or Royal Pains, quirky tv shows that are easily digestible. However, Mr. Robot feels like it would fit comfortably in the Sunday night lineup on HBO or Showtime and that's not just because of the harsh(er) language or mild nudity but just from the overall great quality of the show. And while we're on the subject of what this episode felt like, I got halfway through the episode and just assumed that it was directed or at least produced by David Fincher because it felt so much ...