I know I've mentioned this before...and she's even better looking this year...Portia Doubleday is just smokin
I can't seem to get any of my friends to watch this great show. Idiots. I know. I need to find new friends.
The episode when he was going through withdrawal in season 1 with all the hallucinations was one of my favorites so this episode was right up my alley. It's funny reading Esmail interviews where he talks about that season 1 episode and said it was either going to be great or they'd lose their whole audience.
Hey man, be happy you're not in my boat. My wife told me she was done with the show after this week's episode. . .. ... .... ..... ...... ....... ........ ......... ..........awkward ......... ........ ....... ...... ..... .... ... .. .
half way through episode 3 of season 2. thus far this season this show has been basically a nightmare , very dark, not much happening in a linear since. I can deal with a little of that , but its not even very enjoyable at this point. they need more a story and less complete delusional from Elliot .
The problem I have with the season (which I am enjoying a decent amount) is not knowing how much is actually real vs. what's fake right now. The theory about him being in an asylum or the like right now is a fun theory but everything that happened with Elliot on Wednesday's episode seemed like it could be fake. Which is annoying as hell when watching a show you want to have a plot.
Esmail talked about this with Sepinwall after the end of season 1. He doesn't want people assuming everything is fake. Now that we know what Mr. Robot is, how much are we meant to keep questioning the reality of things? We have other people referring to Evil Corp in scenes that Elliot isn't in. Where do you draw the line so the audience doesn't just question everything? Or should they be? Is that what you want? Sam Esmail: No. It's not what I want. That could get really frustrating. I want us to be tethered. For me, it's about the authentic experience of what Elliot is going through. For example, when we make the reveal to Elliot that Mr. Robot doesn't exist, that hits home to him, and the goal was for that to hit home for the audience, and we accept it and believe it. When Darlene comes out and says she's his sister, that hits home to us, and if we go back and rewatch the episodes, hopefully that all makes sense. Those are things we can grab onto and believe. Yet there are still more questions. Hopefully, we've been very good about showing where those questions still linger. Not just the reality of things, but the loyalties of people, where people might go left instead of right. Those are things that we definitely hope to direct the audience in. And I've noticed that, too. For me, if I were an audience member, and I couldn't buy into anything or hold onto anything, and that would get extremely frustrating, and you wouldn't be able to connect or relate or engage with any of the characters if that were really indeed true. We definitely do not want that.
I agree very much with your point about plot. You have to have plot advancement/development and when everything is just a nightmare/delusion its hard to tell when you're actually advancing the plot. I do think the last half of the last episode moved things along. Now we have a murder. We have f society falling apart without Elliots leadership. We have some advancement with Elliots mental illness-that is he knows that the best he can do is stumble in the right direction. He knows that he can't stop the fatal flaw, but when it hits, if he finds the error and fixes it and moves forward-that is good enough-until the next time the virus hits again. I.e. he realizes he'll never be able to completely get rid of Mr Robot and the best he can hope for is to maintain and move forward. We also have the FBI agent circling around getting closer and closer to the truth. Tyrell is still just a tease and on the back burner. I enjoyed the CEO of E Corps mind games with Angela. Also the way he told off the FED officials was obviously the show writers saying that corporations are more powerful than the government.
did y'all miss the scene where he was talking to someone, then the camera pans out and no one is there?
I realize he was talking to his dead wife. I was referring to this: According to the theory posted on the last page, Ray is a fellow inmate/patient, not a therapist/psychiatrist.
I think this season is quite interesting. There are a lot of characters in this world and its going to be hard to give them all proper stories but so far its been handled well. Angela and her boss I have no idea where that is going but I just love that guy since Rubicon, he is perfect in this type of role. Now we've got a murder mystery on top of where Elliot is and where Tyrell is. If they are still building in ep 6 or 7 then I'll worry but they have to setup this entire post-hack world and I'll give them time doing that. I'm certainly entertained.
I've posted what the vulture theory says below. I think what you've posted is the reason why this theory does not work, at least why Ray can't be an inmate in that theory. Leon, Hot Carla, and Ray are fellow patients. Joey Bada$$ is a gem of an addition to the show, appearing as Elliot’s new friend Leon, a dude who just discovered Seinfeld and wants to talk about it ad nauseam. They meet for breakfast at 8 a.m., lunch at 12 p.m., and dinner at 6 p.m. every day; Leon talks, Elliot (half-)listens. How on Earth would Elliot have found this guy? Think about the methods people usually have for meeting new chums: Elliot hates going to parties or bars, he isn’t using the internet, and he generally despises people. It would make all the sense in the world if Leon were just another patient, one who likes to wax poetic about whatever he saw in syndication during TV time in the psych ward. Elliot would never have had to seek this person out; he could just have decided not to turn him away when he started yapping one day. We don’t know much about another one of Elliot’s new acquaintances, “local pyro” Hot Carla, but someone primarily identified by a dangerous mental illness could definitely be a person in a ward, too. In addition to dining together, Elliot and Leon also attend a regular 2 p.m. pickup basketball game. Perhaps it’s one being played by patients during recreational hours? While watching the hoop-shooting, Elliot meets a husky and verbose gentleman by the name of Ray. Despite the fact that they’ve never met, Ray seems to know about Elliot’s proficiency with computers. Perhaps someone else found out about that and word spread within the ward? Ah, but Ray is where your theory falls apart, you may think, because how could a dog make it into a hospital? And what about the wife and home that Ray mentions? Hey, who’s to say any of that is real? Perhaps Ray suffers from the same kinds of delusions that affect Elliot, and he believes himself to be a free citizen living in domestic bliss, toting around an entirely imaginary dog.
They updated the theory after last week's episode. http://www.vulture.com/2016/07/mr-robot-theory-episode-2.html?mid=twitter_vulture
Just started this last weekend after a recommendation from a friend, really enjoy this. Good fucking show.
Sam EsmailVerified account@samesmail Ahead of tonight's #MrRobot I want to apologize for the extra long ep (again). Next week will be shorter. Again, sorry for being so long-win
Cunty. "I didn't mean that in a cunty way." It's official. You can say whatever the fuck you want on basic cable now.
Makes no sense how fuck has to be edited out entirely or silenced yet the season premiere saw three gun shootings and there are entire TV shows on basic cable where the part of the premise is people being shown getting murdered.
So someone on reddit (possibly someone who actually just works for the show) posted something about a random noise early on in the episode. The story goes that their boyfriend recognized the strange sound as an image being rendered as audio so they ran it through some audio program on their computer and came up with this... It's one of those "hang in there" posters you see sometimes with a cat hanging onto a fence or a wall or wherever. Considering that Esmail tweeted last week about that episode being the last "super sized/long-winded" I'd imagine it's him having it put in there as a little plead to the viewers who may think this season is going a little too slow to just hang on a little longer and reap the reward. Pretty insane little Easter egg.
so i guess they didnt beat him to death because then there would be no show. but i also dont know why they'd leave him alive. he knows too much. unless they need him for something. what did they hire him to do in the first place? that gets lost in the fold. who was the guy that tyrells wife had killed? what was he doing for them?
They still need him to do the site migration. And the guy Tyrell's wife had killed was the parking lot attendant that woke up Elliot in Tyrell's Escalade a couple days after Elliot did the hack and Tyrell went missing.
Did not see that shooting coming. Guessing China killed the FBI people. I really like the FBI chick and interested to see her vs BD Wong moving forward.
Sam hyping up tonight's episode... https://twitter.com/samesmail/status/763385628495122437 He's also suggesting that if you can you should view tonight's episode live with the commercials. Must be some Easter egg thing going on. I'm somewhat tempted to watch live as long as the weather isn't shitty and knocks my satellite out like it did last night.