US: Mr. Robot

ZXSpectrum said:
I am half way through the first half of ep 4 and I ain't got a clue what's going on! Oh and is it sad I recognised the voice of the goldfish straight away?
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Not sad at all, I was like that sounds like Keith David. That guy has an awesome voice :)

As for the episode, it was uninteresting and hard to follow. Stop with the drugs already.

Every episode seems to get worse. If the next two episodes are no good we will pull the plug on this show. Shame really as the first episode was very good.
 
Hopefully the next episode will make more sense seeing as he's gone cold turkey. They need to get back onto the hacking theme as without it the show has no direction.
 
I don't think anyone has picked it up yet but as it has very high ratings and has already been given the green light for season two, I would expect someone to snap it up soon.
 
This will win awards. No questions about it. Gives me a huge, huge amount of hope for the US adaptation of Utopia as this has the *exact* feeling that it needs to capture.
 
I love the film Hackers.. Its REALLY that bad its good and a throwback to the paranoid 90s and hacking, government after hackers, silly guis for systems etc.. Oh and doesn't Acid Burn (Angelina Jolie) find the way to take out the "Baddie" hacker with a program she finds on a 3.5" FDD that is stuck somewhere? :D:D:D
 
This is such a disappointment for me. A show with an above average pilot and enormous hype and it's really not that great.

But reading most of the reviews etc and it's as if it's a modern masterpiece. Maybe my tastes are just different but it feels like a lot of style over substance.

The common comparisons made are between it and BB/Dexter. But it has none of the subtle touches they did. The clever bits of humor to offset the dark or anyone to really root for in spite of their dark actions.

Most of the characters are cartoon like thugs, morons or plain psychopaths. The pilot set Elliot to at least have some depth but that's largely been neglected so they can focus on a grand plan that is rather stupid and unbelievable. Elliots intelligence is left to be highlighted with such insight as noting a chubby man whose eating his lunch must have a terrible lack of impulse control.

And they clearly filmed the opening few episodes to imply Mr Robot wasn't real (despite that making little sense. He had been in a room full of people with him numerous times, people or he would have noticed this). But they are now having MR R talk to others. So either the opening approach amounted to disingenuous nonsense akin to LOST or they will attempt to explain away these interactions by some nonsense about seeing the story through his eyes (and thus rendering much of it pointless. Like LOST).

But theres lots of average TV out there. My main issue is why this is so revered. Is it still that initial hype or..?
 
I agree, I really enjoyed the opener, and now it's just not doing anything for me. I don't care about a lot of the characters. A good example being I seemingly have no idea what the hell is going on with the blonde, that disc and some bank accounts she was worried about.
Couldn't care less about the drug dealer girl, the hacker girl is annoying and her muslim counterpart barely speaks, as does the fat dude (is there a fat dude?)
Elliots voice grates on me a little in his monotone dexter like inner monologues, every ten minutes he questioning his sanity and it gets on my nerves because I can't get to grips with the story as I'm not sure if it's real or all in his head.
It's half decent so I will continue but at the rate I am losing interest, I suspect that will last only a few more episodes.
 
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