Mr. Robot: Season Three (1 Viewer)

[TravisR]

Mr. Robot returns on October 11.



Now more relevant than ever.

 

[DaveF]

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Great trailer, but they should have kept this as a summer series. The second season demanded a lot of patience for a less than satisfying payoff. Up against the full slate of fall programming, I'm not sure it'll make the cut for me.

 

[Josh Dial]

Great trailer, but they should have kept this as a summer series. The second season demanded a lot of patience for a less than satisfying payoff. Up against the full slate of fall programming, I'm not sure it'll make the cut for me.

For me, Mr. Robot will be taking precedence over almost every other show. I think the Fall will be pretty light for me--at least compared to previous years. As it stands right now, my fall shows will be (September to December):

• Star Trek: Discovery
  
• The Blacklist
  
• Inhumans
• The Gifted
  
• Mindhunter (binged)
  
• Mr. Robot
  
• Stranger Things (binged)
• Alias Grace (binged if Netflix Canada gets it, otherwise weekly on CBC)
• Runaways

 

[TravisR]

For me, Mr. Robot will be taking precedence over almost every other show.

Same here. There's probably 10 shows that I'll end up watching but the only things I'm anticipating as much as Mr. Robot are Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Deuce (the creative team, subject matters & era make it the new show I'm most interested in).

 

[gadgtfreek]

Should a stayed in the summer, but Ill still be all over it.

I LOL at Star Trek Discovery even being in the debate. PC Star Trek on a pay streaming sub, that they are leaving off their own channel most already pay for with a cable sub. Lose, and CBS can suck it. Discovery will fail a miserable death.

 

[gadgtfreek]

Great trailer, but they should have kept this as a summer series. The second season demanded a lot of patience for a less than satisfying payoff. Up against the full slate of fall programming, I'm not sure it'll make the cut for me.

You get it. The obscure people here thinking most folks watch like 5 tv shows from Sept to Dec are fools. Putting it on in Oct gives a lot larger competition, and most people don't give a crap about Mr Robot (I love it). Bad move.

 

[TravisR]

Putting it on in Oct gives a lot larger competition...

There's definitely more competition but I'm not an advertiser on USA so I don't care about that. And since it's the only show ever on USA that has any kind of real critical buzz or Emmy win, there's little chance of USA cancelling it.

 

[DaveF]

Looking forward to Season 3. Season 2 ended on such a vague, intriguing note that I'm eager to see what follows.

I've still got 2016 - 17 shows on the TiVo unwatched (Legion, The Expanse S2, and half of Orphan Black), so Mr. Robot will go into the hopper. Not sure if I'll pop it to the top of the watch list or let it ride to when I'm caught up on the other shows.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Tonight!

 

[TravisR]

Good opening. I like that they seem to follow what would be the natural progression of what Elliot would feel (I gotta fix this disaster) at that point.

Seeing the characters interact with Mr. Robot seems like a great idea and it'll be nice to see Christian Slater act with someone other than Rami Malek.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

This season has come out of the gate much stronger than the second season for me. The second season was built around a series of surprises, which I found frustrating and boring. Elliot and the audience were kept in the dark for most of the season, which is a lot of fun for puzzle solvers but sapped the show's dramatic energy. If we aren't clear what the stakes are, it's hard to get too invested in outcomes.

So far, this season is built around suspense: Elliot's agenda is to roll back the fsociety hack, while Mr. Robot's agenda is to complete Phase II and dash Evil Corp's hopes of piecing together the encrypted information. Even though there are still a lot of blanks to be filled in around that, knowing what they're each aiming for provides a scaffolding for the rest of the show since all of the other characters will be greatly impacted one way of the other, depending on who prevails. Whiterose sees fsociety and its vendetta against Evil Corp as a WMD targeted at China's Western adversaries. Angela sees Mr. Robot as a necessary evil to get justice for her mother. Darlene needs to help the FBI stop Mr. Robot, or else she's going to disappear down some hole and never be seen again.

I came into this season convinced that Trenton and Mobley were dead, but now I'm not so sure. I think it's just as likely that they were conscripted back into the cause, especially with that Vimeo account going active again.

We're still in the table setting phase of the season, but it's better table setting for me.

 

[Hollywoodaholic]

Wild technical directing in that last episode almost doing the whole show in one shot, no commercial breaks and breaking wall space. Must have been a real challenge to block out, but they did an excellent job and it was fascinating to watch. Not really much narrative movement, but the action and ambition of the episode was outstanding. The Walking Dead could learn a lot from this show. If you're really not going advance narrative, at least have some great style. This show has it in spades.

 

[TravisR]

Since the direction and performances are so good, the sound design and music don't get much recognition but both of those elements make this show that much better.

 

[Hollywoodaholic]

Since the direction and performances are so good, the sound design and music don't get much recognition but both of those elements make this show that much better.

Yes, I always notice the music choices, whether very low in background or more dominant. I wonder what Sam Ismael was teasing that he has already dropped clues from about direction, and that Reddit posters (I don't see that thread) have already started to guess.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

One thing you gotta give this show credit for: When it starts down a given course, it commits.

 

[MarkMel]

Favorite line of the episode; Darlene to Angela "I can see your big ass eye, I know you're home, open up."

Angela does have big ass eyes - lol.

 

[TravisR]

What a great pair of episodes.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Really bummed that Trenton didn't make it, but what a nerve-wracking hour of television.

Everything up until this point has been executed perfectly by Whiterose. But now she's laid a lot of her cards down on the table. And she's made just about everybody else on the board her enemy. What should scare her the most is that her latest attack might have aligned Eliot and Mr. Robot against her.

 

[TravisR]

What should scare her the most is that her latest attack might have aligned Eliot and Mr. Robot against her.

Yep. I think Price won't be going down without a fight either.


I love that Angela has cracked even if it's temporary. In all of the movies or TV shows where 'dark forces' dupe someone into helping them, I can't think of any time when someone has snapped over being used. And when you're responsible for a pile of dead bodies, losing your mind is probably a likely reaction for most people.

I continue to like Leon's TV critiques (although Knight Rider bites).