Anyone and any device can be hacked. This is portrayed in detail in this show, an outstanding performance from the Academy Award winner Rami Malek who plays Elliot Anderson, a hacker who lost his faith in global capitalism after he lost his dad to the very company he works for. A show spun across four seasons and forty-five episodes in total not only keeps you at the edge of your seats but also communicates with the viewers not a comedic way but a thrilling and emotional form.
Mr. Robot is a show about how our contemporary society and the extreme inequality that modern capitalism has imposed upon us are tearing us further apart from one another and how important it is for us to come together. Although season one showed Elliot as a man alienated from the word and fighting crime (not a Batman kind) with just his laptop and the internet while in therapy, in further seasons they explored who and why Elliot is.
A show full of mysteries that are rather easy to guess could be irritating, but the longer Mr. Robot ran, the more I admired the way it allowed the audience to keep one or two steps ahead of its protagonist. Elliot had been injured so severely in the past that he dissociated into a different version of himself who no longer cared about himself and instead cared for everyone. Over the course of its four seasons, Mr. Robot subtly prodded him in the direction of realizing that alienation is a feature of modern civilization, not a side effect.
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