Friday, July 15, 2016

Mr. Robot: unm4sk-pt1.tc and unm4sk-pt2.tc

So I started watching The Americans, and there will be a write-up of that eventually, but Mr. Robot's second season has begun, and I managed to see the premiere (on the USA Network website. Sometimes the answer's so simple it takes you forever to think of it.)

Mr. Robot has a big challenge in its second season. The first season was definitely one of these cohesive wholes that banked on big twists and reveals, and built itself all around one major future event - the hack to destroy EvilCorp's debt records.

The revelations toward the end of the season - not just the most telegraphed twist (which Eliot even angrily accuses the audience of withholding from him,) but several others that either got revealed out of the blue or set up greater mysteries.

Before I go on, I'm going to do a spoiler cut just in case.