User Reviews

Even if you don't like it, Mr. Robot is undeniably a very unique show with lots of great ideas. It's biggest crime to this day is how much it stole from Fight Club, which is now more or less forgiven by everyone.

The show is very stylish, it's unique camera angles, I love hoe they play with focus, and zooms. There are a lot of very great little montages, or parts where there is a lot of quick editing. The show's intro alone is unique enough to make people excited for the episode. So the editing is really on point inthe first 3 seasons, but in the 4th season it slows the hell down, and there is an abundance of really long takes, that are really impressive. Some locations in and of themselves are beautiful, and the CG is mostly well done, although it is not a prominent thing in the series, it's just a tool they use to make long takes easier to pull off, and it's pretty seamless, with the exception of a scene from 402 Payment Required.

The whole show and the world of it is full of details. The title of every episode is very closely tied to the story and the fact that they are hackers in the show itself. There are actual websites from the world of the show, reddit pages from 2015 (the year the show is in), and so on.

The descriptions for each episode on Amazon Prime are really funny too.

The story and the motivations of characters always change and the show is many things at once, but it's always about the main protagonists's internal, personal emotional journey, it's the central focus of the show. He is a really likable character.

Mental illness, hacking, and economics are all pretty accurately and realistically predicted in the show, that make the world all the more interesting.

The overall plot is just there so that the characters always have something to do, but the characters are the important and interesting part. All the characters are either lonely, depressed, anxious, or lost, and the show explores them very deeply. All of them are different so it makes for very fascinating scenes.

I don't want to say too much, but watch the first few episodes. If you like Elliot and who he is, than continue with it, and always watch it like it's his show, because it is. It is about him.

Another advice: Watch Season 2 in a short period of time. Lot of people got bored because there is very little progression in a huge amount of time, and for some, it is frustrating. Still, keep watching because Season 3 and 4 are universally accepted as magnificent seasons of television.

Thank you Sam Esmail! You are amazing.

This show is genuinely perfect on so many levels. The first season although very reminiscent of Fight Club is still done in such a unique way with unrivalled directing, music and portrayals of genuinely interesting and gripping characters that it sets itself apart from the crowd. Season 2 although seemingly messy and confusing on the surface unravels episode by episode and becomes a much deeper delve into the mindset of Elliot and his alter ego Mr Robot as well as an important part of the overall puzzle presented by the show. Season 3 was at the time of broadcasting my favourite season of television with consistently brilliant instalments every week, including but not limited to Kill Process, Runtime Error, Shutdown and Don't Delete Me. The bold steps taken by season 3 marked a point of no return where they had to go hard or go home with their final season and after a 2 year wait we got what I believe to be the greatest season of television in the history of the media and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Every episode of season 4 is an absolute masterpiece in all respective departments. Mac Quayle delivers another incredible expansion to the score which is one of the staples of Mr Robot and is almost single handedly responsible for its gripping atmosphere, Sam Esmail brings his A game firing on all cylinders in directing and writing giving us shocking and satisfying answers to the questions that need answering and wonderfully frustrating ambiguity to the ones that didn't and the cast are all award worthy, from Rami Malek to Christian Slater, Carly Chaikin to BD Wong, even Joey Bada$$ and Elliot Villar! they all deserve the highest possible praise for their work on this show that they have helped bring to life. Not only is Mr Robot a consistently intriguing and gripping show but it also sticks the landing making its finale its best episode which after Proxy Authentication Required, Kill Process, eXit and Conflict is no small feat. Thank you to all that helped piece together this incredible puzzle and thank YOU for reading this review. I'm going to give Mr Robot a 10/10. Goodbye, friend.

I reviewed the pilot episode and gave it a high ranking. I looked forward to the next episode ... it was so-so. Waited for the next ... oh dear, what a dysfunctional mess. The main character, who 'seemed' so interesting in the pilot, has degenerated into little more than a shallow child and the other characters in the show are little more than window dressing and as undeveloped as the main character. A show with great potential sadly wasted on a clichéd hum-drum who cares anyway story. I am left wondering why, when there are so many interesting and stimulating places to which scriptwriters can take an audience, they choose depressing life-scenarios and self-obsessed pseudo-intellectual ghetto types as their subject of choice. Pointless and boring. Rated at 2 and I'm being kind.

Honestly, this show has really frustrated me, and I'm sure a lot of other fans as well. The characters, the acting has no doubt been excellent , 10/10. But let's get to the story.

This show deserves a 9/10 only if it's considered as a show about a guy battling with mental health disorders. But right from the start we are plunged into a world of hackers, scheming corporates, and a plan to bring down the world's most powerful organization. That is what excited me, and I am sure most viewers.

After 4 seasons of one plot twist after another - with one recurring theme, i.e. Elliott almost always has no idea who he is, what he is up to, what is real, what is not.....after 4 seasons of all this, turns out we don't find out much, except for Elliot's multiple personalities (you thought he was one guy? He's actually 2? Oh no wait, it's actually 3....oh but wait....I mean, are you kidding me? Shocking plot twists in a great story are always welcome, but when it reaches the point that the viewers just Never know what's going on, if what they are watching is a dream, reality, parallel reality....it just becomes a joke.

Die hard fans are going to call my criticisms the actual beauty and whole point of the show....but in the end, the show should be for the fans, for the viewers, and after 4 seasons of watching such a heavy show, practically every plot point seems to have been trivialized, and I am just left highly disappointed and kind of pissed off.

Also, what of Whiterose's machine, the only other massive plot point? We never really get to know what it was. Was it just some delusion of Whiterose? And how was Angela convinced it worked? I guess cuz...she was delusional too??? Basically all the key characters on this show have mental issues of some sort and the entire show has become just about how they deal with them, rather than an actual, "real" plot.....of course this begs the question...what is real? What is not? WHATEVER.

One episode ago I was myself thinking "the series is not perfect, but come on, there are so many hateful comments and too low ratings". This time I wonder myself whether even to continues watching this. It's just became weak in every way.

The corporations have no real security. Agirl can just enter the workplace, power on some computer and install the virus, without ever needing to register her presence. Half of the episode is spent on some high visions. The biggest corporation doesn't have a backup of it's data. The greatest hackers are some young emo problem-dealing teenagers. No one knows what a rootkit is in a security company. Well.. if you've watched it, you surely are aware of many more I don't have time to mention.

The only way I see for this series to have such a high rating is that today are the times when anti-corpo and anti-capitalism topics are so on top and there's a great number of anti-system people who like that kind of series, even though logically it just sucks.