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was just thinking about it the other day - it is very much a lib's interpretation of radicalism/anarchism/revolution, in that it's portrayed as being ultimately ineffective and driven by great men rather than a mass movement; and is focused on optics rather than actual praxis, e.g. hacking the banks and 'deleting' public debt rather than redistributing wealth, forcing the corporate exec to burn a big pile of money rather than put it to use etc.

Nah I watched it at the time. I watched it fully. There's parts that I like. And overall there are parts that are souring. I by the end felt sour.

This show and person of interest jumpstarted the whole russiagate china peril shit. Fuck this show.

Also only show to cheaply do a horrible sopranos homage. Not to forget the most passive aggressive cheeto in the white house insert.

I hated it. Well, I didn’t at first, but I did the more I watched it. I didn’t even bother watching the last few episodes. It’s basically Evangelion except I’m more sympathetic to Elliot than Shinji. I think I just hate “save the world” stories. With that being said, I still think Tyrell was the best character.

I already commented but here's a sidenote. I also do not like the annoying fans and the showrunner. I remember in like probably 2020 lockdown protests and all that. He tweeted out something like "You are living in season 5" 😎 (all it needed it was any fucking questions at the end).

Then the coup Myanmar happened. There was video of facebook live of someone yoga while the tanks were rolling to take over. Fans of the show could not stfu about how this is exactly like a mr robot intro. They made fancams of it. All the while there's a massive ongoing genocide of rohingya people. VrO ItS jUsT liKe mY Tv ShOw

Also sam went on to make that obama produced movie that came this year.

Me when I see a post about one of my comfort shows:

Me reading the comments:

The comments have a lot of valid criticisms, but idk, I like it. We are on our second watch through since I missed a big chunk of s3.

I really liked it, it was one of my favorite shows for a very long time. Nowadays I think it's very lib, but it still has a special place in my heart and regardless of its politics, it's absolutely a joy to look at, probably one of the most unique looking shows ever.

It also tries some interesting things aesthetically, especially towards the end of the show. I don't know if you've finished it yet, so no spoilers, but there's an episode that goes full Birdman and is just like one continuous shot from beginning to end. Another one is structured like a stage play, another one is like a 90's sitcom, and then all of a sudden you're watching a Lynch-esque surrealistic nightmare episode. It's so unique, and that is a huge virtue when there's so much generic drivel out there.

Edit: also, in a world of shows where nothing ever drastically changes in the setting of the story, I remember how stunned I was when

I was mostly enjoying it until it did a

Do yourself a favour and never watch beyond season 1

fight club for stallmanoids SUCKED

Where are all the cool hackers in the real world? Are they just working for capitalist?

Ugh, the very first episode was ridiculous. Why would he buy tons of tor exit nodes (a multi billion dollar attack that's unrealistic) to hack the guy whose physical location he already knew?

He would have just compromised the coffee shop's network. You deannonymize onion services by finding some way to the front door, and he was already there.

They shoulda hired a tech consultant or something. Typical Hollywood garbage

I love the show. Yeah I agree, the politics aren't great, queer villain, anti-Chinese bullshit, etc. But artistically, the show is pretty awesome, the 2 part episode, the silent episode, so good. And from a technical standpoint, it was cool to see such attention to detail. Pretty much all of the hacks were feasible and carried out using real tools.

As soon as the twist that his mentor guy, or whoever the fuck it was, was just in his head was GUESSED and posted about widely on the internet weeks before the reveal, I stopped watching.

I watched season 1, don't regret watching it, I don't remember if I watched S2 or not but I wasn't that interested in continuing.

used to love it, it was one my absolute fave shows. revisited after my politics evolved a shitton and i still love season 1 and 2 but HATE 3 and massively mixed feelings on 4 as they pivot into comic book china bad supervillain horseshit. 4 redeems itself a bit with some good character drama separate from the overarching political plot but i really cant stand the dark army/deus group bullshit and it sours the whole rest of the show for me. also cant buy that someone is so good at computer that they become such a central great man of history. show was ruined for me by the fact that sam esmail couldnt contain his insufferable shitlibness and trump derangement syndrome i guess (plus his gross Lib American exceptionalist xenophobia).

still though the first two seasons do capture the malaise of late capitalism under tech dystopia uniquely well, in a way very few pieces of media have IMO so it'll always have a special place in my heart for those reasons. i also have a soft spot for Elliot and think he would be cool if he just read some theory. i always imagined a rewritten back half of the show where he realizes the pitfalls of adventurism and actually decides to do his part to help lead a mass movement, falling back into being a small-but-important part of said movement that goes well beyond hacktivism. but that wld require the show to not be written by sam esmail so oh well. if u want a more stark view of how the show was always going to be inherently limited by his politics, just watch that Obama produced netflix abomination he directed.

oh also wtf is with the big final hack? spoiler if you care about spoilers for a a long-ended show (tried to do the right thing but sites spoiler tags are janky as shit so last chance turn around now if u no want to see) no dude this secret band of oligarchs doesnt just have Big Money Number that can be subtracted and redistributed a lot of their power and capital is gonna be in real assets and concrete state power and shit like wtf? (am i missing something or was this just genuinely v implausible?)

TL;DR big mixed feelings on mr robot but Elliot is almost cool and just needs a little Marx in his life (also it doesn't hurt that i often dress like him lol we feel like soul bros some days)

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I like the show. I love the air of unease in every shot. I don't think a lot of TV shows have such a memorably unique look an "feel" as mr.robot. Yes the politics aren't that great but the dialogue, characters, narratives, all the TV show stuff is good. It's great drama.