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So I’ve been tattooing myself recently (I’m not trained nor am I even a particularly skilled artist, it’s just fortunate that a lot the tattoos I want require little skill), and this is my most recent. Had to make one of them a tribute to my all time favorite TV series.

Like he is good at what he does, he would be able to source it elsewhere? or am I missing something here?

6 episodes in season 4

Elliot isnt talking to me...

I am sad....:(

( no spoilers please)

Mr. Robot is usually remembered as a show about hacking, surveillance and corporate power.
But I think one of its more interesting ideas sits underneath all of that.
Power does not always need to tell you what to think.
Sometimes it only needs to control the environment from which you form your thoughts.
What information reaches you.
What gets repeated.
What feels popular.
What disappears from your attention without ever being formally censored.
Elliot attacks systems because he understands that the system itself shapes the range of choices people believe they have.
That feels even more relevant now.
We live inside recommendation systems that do not merely organize information after we choose what we want. They increasingly participate in deciding what enters our field of perception before the choice is even made.
So maybe the modern version of the question Mr. Robot was asking is not:
Who controls the internet?
It is:
Who controls what the internet allows you to notice?

I’ve been exploring a similar idea through Cassie Hour, a novel and song project moving between 1985 and 2020.
In 1985, control operates through people, reputation, records and access.
By 2020, something can remain completely legal, searchable and technically available while becoming almost impossible to encounter organically.
Same power instinct.
Different architecture.
And that makes me wonder whether Mr. Robot was ultimately less about hacking computers than hacking the structures that determine what reality looks like from inside them.

Would Elliot see recommendation algorithms as another form of infrastructure to attack, or would he consider them something fundamentally different?

I mean E-Corp is the equivalent of Blackrock or General Electric, its cybersecurity must be absolutely crazy. I know that real life hacker groups naturally do not disclose their numbers, but i can bet anonymous is much bigger than fsociety.

So… how plausible is the idea that just five hackers can hack the world’s most powerful company? Yeah, I remember that Elliot worked for Allsafe abd Allsafe was cybersecurity provider for E-Corp, but still.

I'm playing with Hermes and need a skin

making my way through season 2 and am super confused by episodes 1-7. Were Ray and Leon real? and was this elliots brain creating a fake town while in prison, OR was elliots brain creating a fake prison environment.

Every episode I watched till now felt like a full produced movie, the audio production is crazy, the cinematography is always top tier multiple angles for the slightest of scenes, I'm pretty nitpicky with what I watch and comparing this to other series I watched I don't see the amount of effort put into it like this, you guys agree?

Hello, Friends. It's been a while since I last watched the show and I am currently reading Orwell's 1984 and unrelated to that (!) I imagined what books would potentially match Mr.Robot themes and atmosphere? I have read the Red Wheelbarrow diary of Elliot (for those who don't know it is an actual thing with insane level of detail and accuracy from season 2 Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow: by Sam Esmail https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29873086-mr-robot ) and also read From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler which featured heavily in the original series as it inspired Esmail. Everybody talks about tv shows, but what books do you think would match the show?

Edit: Thanks EVERYBODY for the great suggestions! I am taking notes 👀 📝

So, I don't know why I never noticed. I've rewatched the show every few years since it first aired. I always thought Season 3 was the final season with Darlene outside of Elliot's apartment (never saw the Vera appearance). I was content with the ending. Then, yesterday, another episode continued playing and I realized there was a final Season 4. It is shot very differently and paced very creatively compared to the other seasons. It's almost like it's own seperate show. I'm just mind-blown after each episode. Incredible.

Update: Just finished the season. It was wonderful. Now, at least, I know why I was so confused by all the Mastermind references. I cried, I smiled and I allowed myself to celebrate the series.

Finished the show another media I can watch that adds on or is similar

Friends, if (and only if) Mr. Robot is your favourite TV show what other TV shows clicked for you in the same way? And I don't ask for 'great tv shows' recommendations, because I can simply get this on imdb. I'm asking specifically for the subjective preference from a Mr. Robot fan.

I'm having trouble finding tv shows that would resonate in the same way as mr. robot. Maybe the closest one was Dark for me -> similarly complex, introspective, non-mainstream, emotionally torturous material.

UPDATE:

Thanks for sharing your favorite shows! Here are the most popular responses. The number is the number of times the show was mentioned here:

• 16: Severence
• 14: Better Call Saul
• 12: Dark
• 11: Breaking Bad, Leftovers
• 8: Twin Peaks
• 7: Attack on Titan, Sopranos, Succession, Westworld
• 6: Expanse, OA, Utopia (UK)
• 5: Fringe
• 4: Andor, Fargo, Killing Eve, Legion, Lost, Orphan black, Pantheon, Person of interest, Pluribus, True Detective S1
• 3: Arcane, Battlestar Gallactica, Black Mirror, Chernobyl, Devs, From, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Wire
• 2: 12 Monkeys, Americans, Babylon 5, Barry, BoJack Horserman, Dark matter, Deadwood, Dexter, Good Place, Halt and Catch Fire, Hannibal, House MD, Maniac, Midnight Mass, Mindhunters, Patriot, Queens Gambit, Serial Experiments Lain, Walking Dead, Widow’s Bay, Yellowjackets

I only counted the shows in the top comments -> i did not count the shows in the comments of comments. I counted this manually so there could be mistakes, but i think it paints the picture. I did not weigh the upvotes of those comments (I tried to enjoy each comment equally :D), so even shows mentioned in comments with no upvotes were counted.

Also I did not put single mentions since there are HUNDREDS :D, but you can see the full spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/143JM4a24jnKpdZ2TUV36gmbzwX3K1cK5bQ9pV5OO8Ak/edit?usp=sharing

When I watched this episode at 15, I didn't fully understand this scene, especially why he was crying like that. I remember thinking, "What makes someone break down like this? Is loneliness really that real?"

Now I'm 24, and I understand him completely. Loneliness is as real as it gets.

It's strange how a scene can sit in your memory for years before it actually clicks. Rewatching this now hits completely different.

Yesterday, I finished the last episode of the series Mr robot, and it was... PEAK Needless to say, I was crying like a baby through the whole episode, definitely an experience I would like to have again if given the chance, I am not good at giving my rating or opinion about something in a x/10 but the episode was too good it is obviously gonna be a 10/10

Now talking about the whole series it was a treat, I really had fun going through the series, sam esmail's brilliant writing, and Rami malik's exceptional acting, and needless to say this plays out with almost every character, having good acting performance, other things like cinematography, Sound Design and Score, Screenplay and Narrative Structure etc, ig If I keep talking about it I want stop, so Amma just end with rating the seasons.

Best episode: s4 ep 13

Least favorite episode: s4 ep 10

Season1: 8.5

Season2: 8.5

Season3: 9

Season4: 9.5

And i wanna end with asking for more recommendations anything a movie a series an anime :D

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Hello friend.

I’ve only watched Mr. Robot once, and I was baked the entire time. Man, it hit me beautifully. The cinematography, the paranoia, the audio design... it was easily one of the best entertainment experiences I've ever had. Best show ever made, hands down.

Part of me really wants to rewatch it, but I’m honestly afraid that watching it sober will ruin the magic or just make it lose its punch. I feel like I must keep the memory prestine.

Has anyone else experienced the show this way?