Irrelevant But Awesome

Sorry for the delay on this posting, 2/3 of our reviewers were at Star Wars Celebration over the weekend. However, we're all back and caught up on reviews. This week's movie "Working Girl" will be posted on Friday as per usual. Alexa:  Even if you didn’t know in advance that Comet is the brainchild of Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail, you’d figure it out almost immediately. The artful way he frames the shots, the music selection, even the typography of the opening credits are all familiar to fans of the show. But while Mr. Robot can sometimes teeter on the precipice of brilliant and pretentious, I found Comet more often than not veered toward the latter. Emmy Rossum and particularly Justin Long deliver admirable performances and they have great chemistry. The movie is dialogue-heavy, and while some of their exchanges are impossible to look away from, others feel draining and overwrought. In some moments it’s refreshing to see a more realistic portrayal of ongoing ...

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 ...