I'm a little heartbroken but it is so nice to watch a show that doesn't lie to the audience. The latin lover jokes about unreliable narrators, but they did warn us: this is a telenovela and we would see Michael dying.
Curious to see what comes next, I still trust this show to keep on bringing the fun and the (so many) tears.
i see, but like, why
Obviously "love" is not always romantic love, so I understand that this may NOT have been their intention, but this episode was weird from the get-go.
Maybe I'm being conspiratorial, but this episode creeped me out. First off, this girl LOOKED younger than 18 (which felt intentional to make us feel like we were viewing a little girl who wanted her daddy) and the story was told from her perspective that she wanted to be in a relationship (whatever that meant to her) with this older man. In other words, it felt TO ME like the intent was to "normalize" an underage relationship. I don't care what her "needs" were, the man should have seen that it was not appropriate for them to "snuggle in bed" together as if that was something people do. Not to mention the lying in bed and snuggling with your "father" is quite strange. There were just too many weird underage/incest vibes happening in this episode for me to like it. It just felt like an episode that attempted to normalize behavior that shouldn't be normalized.
Relationships can be complicated at times for anyone, and the show has done a pretty decent job (especially in the first two eps) explaining this.... but THIS - this was a perspective of a relationship that nobody really needs to see as "relatable" enough to put on a TV show. Sorry.
Just give Rami Malek and Sam Esmail all the awards. Two absolute masters of their craft.
The red light in the therapists office and his moms dining room becoming the focal point of the transition was a master touch.
I loved it. The reason why the twist works so well is because it never feels like it's "season 1 all over again", this time Elliot is fully aware of what is happening, it's his own coping mecanism and he is just telling us a lie. I saw theories that he might be in a mental institution early in the season, but after he got involved with Ray I didn't think a scenario like that would be possible. So, I guess Ray was probably a guard/warden and Elliot helped him in a Michael Scofield/Pope kind of way. And when Elliot was "captured" by them he was probably thrown in solitary confinement.
I feel like a fool for not realising it when Elliot was being threatened by those guys in the episode, but the house definitely had that "prison" feel... the visits to the house make so much more sense now, with all the people talking to Elliot looking at the mother and being extra careful.
Once again flawless writing and execution, those shots shifting from imagination to reality at the end were just beautiful. Mr. Robot deserves all the praise it gets, thank you Sam Esmail.
Wait... What?
But.. But.. but.. what about that stuff with Ray? He couldn't have done that from within, right?
I'm puzzled......
It feels like the season misses a general narrative. The single story lines are nice, but the feel disconnected not only from each other, but also from episode to episode. I don't see yet how they will bind those vignettes together
The moment Elliot hugged the guy whose heart had been broken by Elliot was too sweet ^-^
Have you tried writing 192.251.68.249 which Elliot wrote on Putty to connect Darlene on URL bar of your browser? :)
This season has been even more brilliant than the first. I was captivated by this episode. It's actually frustrating because I'm becoming more and more addicted to this show. sigh I hate when I become addicted to things.
That speech on religion felt generic. Like some teenager read Marx and now thinks he is the great religion critic, but i don't think it was a real message they wanted to deliver, but instead show how mad Elliott has gone after the Advil and sleep deprivation.
What i really, really love in this episode, and also in the episodes before is how they show how the hack affects the people. Ray talks to his wife about an allowance, we see people searching the trash and an opera singer singing in the subway. Specially the opera singer i liked, because the actor is a real life singer at the metropolitan opera in NYC, so there is a whole story how nobody goes to the opera anymore, so they had to lay him off etc. (or, that is what i imagined.)
Angelas plotline is awesome because she has absolutely no empathy left, and you can see her transformation to a corporate overlord. I enjoyed seeing more of Dominique DiPierro, how she is as a person and overall i think this episode sets a lot of thinks nicely up. I want to see more
HOLY MOTHER THE SCENE OF THE VOMIT THAT WAS INTENSE
Man! that speech about religion is awesome.
More action and less of the main story. But some great humor, kiddo is just great. That little moments between him and Mando are what made this episode work for me.
When the lady calls out Mando for not honoring his word, baby yoda looks at him like Damnnnn!
Till this episode was great, I don't know, I just didn't like this season finale, they left too many questions in the air and focused more on Elliot's problem that in what he did (and how) and that final scene with that people, well, they just leave us full of question and not a single answer of anything. Good show, and it's great that it's gonna be a second season but they should've given us a little more considering all the time we'll probably have to wait for it.
Ok, Angela did it with Ollie's ID and in his computer, then what? A SECURITY company doesn't have security cameras?
Ok, Angela did it with Ollie's ID and in his computer, then what? A SECURITY company doesn't have security cameras?
I like how they try to make you question if Mr Robot is real by having someone interact with him other than Elliot during the scene where they enter the Junkie house. Of course none of that was real.
