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Maybe Mr Robot is trying to help Elliot and maybe he isn’t.Įlliot’s addressing of us, the audience, as his imaginary friend has always been a gimmick. Maybe Tyrell Wellick is dead and maybe he isn’t. The world is fucked and Evil Corp is stronger than ever. But now his blinders are off and so are ours. He’s only realizing it now because he’s spent the past several months in a prison – both literally and one of his own making.
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And on his way he sees streets filled with garbage and flickering lights and an ATM with a $50 cash limit and a line backed up for blocks.īy any reasonable measure, Elliot’s plan to save the world has failed. He is being driven by Joanna Wellick’s goon to a Micro Center where he will purchase some hardware to finally get to the bottom of where Tyrell Wellick is for Joanna. “Is this the future I was fighting for?” Elliot ponders to us, his imaginary friend partway through Hidden Process. Hidden Process finally reveals once and for all that not only are all the trolling and the cliff-hangers and the Easter Eggs worth it, they’re kind of the whole point. You can tell that Mr Robot is absolutely a product of internet culture in the way it steadfastly trolls its viewers week after week. And after the penultimate episode Hidden Process, I love this season. It packs so many Easter eggs into every episode that it might as well be the world’s darkest Where’s Wally? book. It doesn’t let one episode end without setting up at least three cliff-hangers for the next one. It doesn’t screen episodes for critics (THE HORROR! THE INJUSTICE!). It has self-seriousness, spoiler-phobic traits that reek of egotism. Mr Robot season two is filled with so many of the self-indulgent “watch-me-as-I-write-direct-and-edit-every-episode” flourishes that I hate.