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SCheeseman posted:Didn't know it was a myth. Season 2 being terrible without any excuse at all isn't much better though. There were some interesting writers on the first season (a Bafta award winning writer, Ed Brubaker) who didn't come back for the second season. IMO the first season had a decent idea and a few decent writers in the room working on things, and the remaining three seasons didn't have either. I didn't think the first season was up to much either tbh. Mr Robot's a fairly strong show all the way through, and I reckon the first season is the weakest. When Esmail takes over directing the entire thing just looks so much better, and there's a simultaneous jump in ambition in terms of seasonal storytelling and just episode-to-episode construction. The show takes these huuuuge swings, sometimes these really cool macro choices like shifting the show into horror for the second season, or keeping Martin Walstrom back for almost the entirety of the same. Sometimes just on a micro level, like the action scene in the fourth season that's shot in a single take as the camera spins in place. Some bits and pieces don't fit, parts of the fourth season are unsatisfying (often on purpose), but overall I really love the ambitious, ambitious ride. And most of the BIG pieces are there from the start.
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You're right that the first season wasn't entirely successful, though the first episode is magnificent. Westworld transforming into pulpy sci-fi action schlock by season 3 at least made it entertaining to watch on a visceral level. Anyway, everything you're saying about Mr Robot makes me think you'll love Leave The World Behind. It's Sam Esmail as gently caress.
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Really looking forward to the Esmail movie. Shame Netflix are putting all their big promotion towards the latest Snyder bullshit instead of this. Also glad this thread is back and reminding me that s4 was extremely good and underrated and I need to rewatch it!
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SCheeseman posted:Anyone who enjoyed Mr Robot show would likely also find Sam Esmail's new movie Leave The World Behind a very enjoyable watch. It's not a direct continuation of the show (it's an adaption of a novel) but there's a lot of thematic overlap also the laptop the family use has an E-Corp logo. I always get so happy when this thread is bumped! I had not heard about this movie but I'm going to check it out for sure
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Nov 29, 2023 14:29
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i started this show after reading its like 4 seasons of the best TV ever. season 1 was super good, just finished ep 7 of season 2 and what the gently caress, what has even been real this season
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Dec 12, 2023 21:32
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queeb posted:i started this show after reading its like 4 seasons of the best TV ever. 
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cant get over how amazing/weird this show is with the 4th wall breaking, its so loving interesting lol, elliot asking us to look around his room while he listens to wellicks driver drone on
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god i read S2 wasnt as good but wtf, just finished ep 10 and this poo poo is popping off
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queeb posted:god i read S2 wasnt as good but wtf, just finished ep 10 and this poo poo is popping off s2 has potentially the best episode of the series with the sitcom fever dream
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queeb posted:god i read S2 wasnt as good but wtf, just finished ep 10 and this poo poo is popping off Season Two's my favourite. The slow building spooksy vibe, with all the short horror movie pre-titles and the rolling brownouts and the check ins with that poor little corner shop as it slowly goes to poo poo. I also like how it plays with missing characters and missing time e.g. Tyrell vanishing, the episode that's all Darlene trying to cope without Elliot around. Even poo poo like Dominique's uncanny relationship with her Alexa, or Angela's whole thing. It's very very cool and high concept and weird, I loved it.
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yeah this whole season feels like a fever dream. currently on ep 11 with angela alone in a room with a fishtank, this is crazy. and yeah the sitcom episode was so loving cool
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waht the gently caress is happening, angela was just talking to uhh, the dark army lady, gently caress this show is great, i dont know where the gently caress this show is going the gently caress now we can hear into mr robots head queeb fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Dec 13, 2023 |
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Dec 13, 2023 04:54
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i just finished season 2 ????????????????????????? the gently caress?/?
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Dec 13, 2023 05:51
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You are watching Mr Robot.
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queeb posted:god i read S2 wasnt as good but wtf, just finished ep 10 and this poo poo is popping off it's paced differently, slower. thats what bugged people
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S2 holds up a lot better as a binge than 1 episode a week imo
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blunt posted:S2 holds up a lot better as a binge than 1 episode a week imo
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queeb posted:waht the gently caress is happening, angela was just talking to uhh, the dark army lady, gently caress this show is great, i dont know where the gently caress this show is going
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lol ep 2 of season 3 apparently he never told the therapist his dad pushed him out a window?? wtf the twists just dont stop
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what the gently caress season 3 ep 2 they jsut loving killed off tyrells wife??!????!
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lmao I love this, please keep posting
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Man the gently caress, are we going into some like metaphysical poo poo, like the machine in Washington Township plant that can apparently change the past? Time travel?? Like I never got the vibe from the show it was gonna go into stuff like that aside from weird Elliot poo poo but Angela saw something and believes it so wtf??? I'm here for it Also really loving how it's changed to Elliot and Mr robot sharing a body, working against eachother, not knowing what the other is doing, when he briefly wakes up while in a room with Angela and Tyrell was so good, and when he imagines up Mr robot when in the elevator at e-corp to figure out what to do gently caress this is so good hahaha queeb fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Dec 14, 2023 |
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how dare they gut punch me like that with the beginning of episode 6 with angela and her mom, im not crying you're crying
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uhh wtf episode 6 they were playing mr robot? what the gently caress is stage 2 then?
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ep 7 gently caress they actually make you feel bad for wellick what the fuuuuck they killed the 2 characters i liked queeb fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Dec 14, 2023 |
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Dec 14, 2023 18:00
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well angelas loving lost it
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Thinking about Bobby Canavale eating ribs
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The Finer Arts > TV IV > Mr. Robot - oh
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ep 10 wht the gently caress angela is prices daughter???
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jesus christ this loving episiode edit: okay they keep teasing time travel or something all the time, like the superman flying around the world scene on the tv as he walks passed just now the musical score for this show is loving a+ queeb fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Dec 15, 2023 |
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s4 ep 1 uh what the gently caress they just killed angela in the first 5 minutes
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Ah yeah. You have reached the point where real life shenanigans have affected the show
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It's a very stylishly done death though, you've got to hand it to the show.
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Open Source Idiom posted:It's a very stylishly done death though, you've got to hand it to the show.
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Strange Matter posted:Yeah it's hard to hate on it for that reason. Plus with the way the rest of the season goes I'm not even sure what role Angela had left to play it in, honestly Yeah (final season spoilers) I suspect, at most, it'd just change which episode she dies in, not that she dies at all. I doubt she'd have made it half the season.
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What are these real life shenanigans anyway
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Escobarbarian posted:What are these real life shenanigans anyway Portia Doubleday and Rami Malek were dating pre-Season 4 and it ended on a very bitter note resulting in Malek refusing to film any scene with her. The last episode(s) contain scenes of the two together that were filmed in earlier seasons
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Portia Doubleday and Rami Malek were dating pre-Season 4 and it ended on a very bitter note resulting in Malek refusing to film any scene with her. The last episode(s) contain scenes of the two together that were filmed in earlier seasons That poo poo sucks and I'm of two minds. Emotions run deep, but be professionals.
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