The best new show of the year !!!
Summer television was once the place where good (but usually very bad) TV went to die a merciful death away from the eyes of the public… and advertisers. It was the place networks dumped their undesirables and under-performers. Mr. Robot has single-handedly changed this emerging as the sleeper summer hit of the year. Its freshman season is compulsively watchable and the new obsession of millions of fans..
For the uninitiated, Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek (a definite Emmy contender) as Elliot, a hoodie-ensconced, disorder-riddled antihero with a penchant for hacking. Mr. Robot confronts the everyday realities of massive corporate greed, cyber terrorism, and the way the Internet makes us all very, very vulnerable.
Unafraid to move furiously fast and hypnotically slow at the same time, it’s the writers’ ability to go from zero to (ro)batshit in the blink of an eye that keeps us hooked. Deeply immersed in current events it’s a rare gem that is the dictionary definition of fresh. The show also relies extensively on its star Rami Malek whose performance is twitchy explosive perfection. The others at Fsociety and Ecorp are also phenomenal and I almost forgot to mention there’s Christian Slater too…
Creator Sam Esmail’s background as a “film nerd” certainly helps to enthrall us for the entire series. He’s a virtuoso at intrigue and misdirection and the whole TV show seems as if it was made for the big screen! A feat few can boast of….
At its heart, Mr. Robot is cyberpunk, the sci-fi subgenre set in a near-future world where the reality that exists within computer networks can feel more real than actual reality — if this sounds and feels familiar – its because this is the way most of us live now and more importantly how most of us have chosen to live now !! Whatsup YouTwitFace — if you get the drift…
“Democracy(Capitalism) has been hacked” — better login as soon as possible to find out how, why and by whom. Binge-watch just got its next Must-See member!
SAUMIL BHANSHALI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug4fRXGyIak