US: Mr. Robot

Midlife Crisis · 23 Jul 2016 at 10:32

Getting a bit fed up with this I can only stand so much of someone looking gormlessly at the camera

puppetworx · 23 Jul 2016 at 15:18

Slow start to this season, too much setup in the first two episodes. Third episode was promising though, can't wait for the next.

teaboy5 · 23 Jul 2016 at 22:04

Bit disappointed this season. I want some more tech/hacking/computer related bits.

Not him going nuts.

easyrider · 26 Jul 2016 at 12:28

I'm bored s2 is very poor up to now.

rids57 · 26 Jul 2016 at 16:59

I agree, it's not a patch on the first series - three episodes in and I have no idea what is going on, there has been zero story advancement and I find myself being unable to trust anything that Eliott says or does because I don't know whether he is hallucinating or not.
Pretty awful TV to be brutally honest, which is a crying shame after the brilliant first season.

Gman · 27 Jul 2016 at 12:59

think its time to put this one to bed. if it carries on like this its getting cancelled at the end of this series. Probably best to write off season 2 and remember it for a very good season one.

beh · 29 Jul 2016 at 01:26

Reassuring that it's not just me finding it frustratingly slow. Moments of promise but for 4 episodes, ~3.5hrs, I'm not getting any sense of where they're going with any of it.

Malevolence · 29 Jul 2016 at 05:04

Please tell me that I'm not the only one who pauses the show when there's a screen of code on screen and then has a read through it?

izzop · 29 Jul 2016 at 07:44

Well Season 2 is utter... Certainly won't be wasting anymore time with, shame.

Can't see it getting another Season.

NexusK · 29 Jul 2016 at 18:43

The last episode was much better.

Caged · 29 Jul 2016 at 23:24

I hope I'm just being impatient but this show seems to have shifted in style since season 1. We're now 4 episodes in and nothing really has happened yet.

It's like the first season received some praise for the portrayal of mental illness and the writers have decided to double-down on that, but for me it was never where the story was.

stewski · 29 Jul 2016 at 23:27

I can't agree with the bored sentiment. The wire took 6 episodes to get going.

rids57 · 30 Jul 2016 at 03:22

Yes but it already did get going, season one was brilliant.

I watched this weeks episode and I don't think I knew "when" they were until about halfway through. Was the first chunk from before the takedown and then it came up to the present day?
I did enjoy this week's episode more, in spite of the confusion and hopefully, now that he seems focused (on the FBI), things will get back to being as good as the first season.

Caged · 31 Jul 2016 at 11:19

I rewatched episode 4 and it gives the impression that stuff is about to start happening, so I am optimistic about episode 5.

G-MAN2004 · 1 Aug 2016 at 22:13

How unrealistic was that money burning part?! I'm sure everyone would just stand there looking as he tips it all out and sets it alight, especially in NYC. The moment he started dousing it I would have grabbed a load.

Edit: Well I've caught up now and it's rather underwhelming. It seems to be less about hacking now and more about him being crazy. His face is downright offensively annoying too.

teaboy5 · 4 Aug 2016 at 19:20

Now things are moving along!

Ali195 · 5 Aug 2016 at 14:51

These last two episodes have actually been worth watching, especially yesterdays but my gosh before that was a waste of time.

Homer-Simpson · 5 Aug 2016 at 22:25

The start of season 2 was definitely setting up the rest of the season, a bit like the middle of season 1.

Push through the first few episodes, it's worth it

Caged · 6 Aug 2016 at 01:03

It is picking up, but we are halfway through the series already. I hope that it works out.

spoffle · 9 Aug 2016 at 01:07

G-MAN2004 said:
How unrealistic was that money burning part?! I'm sure everyone would just stand there looking as he tips it all out and sets it alight, especially in NYC. The moment he started dousing it I would have grabbed a load.

Edit: Well I've caught up now and it's rather underwhelming. It seems to be less about hacking now and more about him being crazy. His face is downright offensively annoying too.

It's been a slow start, but what is happening has been planned out since before season 1.

The show is more on the intellectual side and not about visual stimulation. It's a build up to something in particular. I have found the pace of the first few season 2 episodes to be difficult, I have however been enjoying the character development that has been going on in the different groups of people and the hints at what's to come next.

It's also not really about hacking, and it never really was. Having was a theme to the show, but it was just a vehicle to present situation rather than just to visually stimulate people who are interested in technology.

The show is about Elliott, his behaviour and severe issues he has and how they impact on the people in his life with a central theme of mental health, corruption and the 1%.

It's like saying that the Walking Dead is about guns because of how much they're featured.

As for the money thing, I highly doubt you would actually do that if you saw someone doing that. I would fully expect that you would be incredulous as to what was going on and just stand observing it trying to process the absurdity of what you were seeing. I wouldn't even expect you to acknowledge that it was actually real money.