Mr. Robot: Is This Why Elliot Is in Prison?

On top of that, she was attacked with red paint and labeled a “Capitalist Pig” as she took a walk with her baby. No one? Mr. Robot isn’t usually the kind of show that underestimates the intelligence of its audience.

Well, as we’ve all feared, Elliot was forced to face the music and the realization that he killed Tyrell with the gun Darlene left in the popcorn machine.

What did you guys and gals think of Mr. Robot’s latest venture into Elliot’s shattered, untrustworthy mind? Angela goes to visit her father.

Which meant Darlene was officially done with Angela even if Angela wasn’t technically done with her. Read those questions again: They touch on everything from basic world-building (the hack), to conventional suspense (Tyrell), to general issues of character and motivation (Angela). She said that she remembered that cheesy movie that Darlene and Elliot would make her watch and that thing with the masks didn’t hit her until recently.

Ray sits Elliot down at his computer and demands that he finish the host migration job. They let the market decide what it was selling.

“Elliot, you know you haven’t been staying with your mother, right?” Esmail added that they didn’t want to trick the audience, nor were they in it for the “gotcha moments” but he did want to keep the experience of Elliot’s life alive through the big revelations. Indeed, the Federal Bureau of Investigation show up shortly thereafter and take Ray into custody. Philip Price has no choice but to settle with that detail off the table. Clearly suspicious, Dom tells her “whatever this is, it’s not you”.

Elliot gets jumped by former customers of Ray who lost money after the site was taken down. That narrative efficiency holds throughout “Handshake”: We finally learn just how much Angela knows about her best friend’s involvement with fsociety, and Mr. Robot gives Elliot a maybe-trustworthy answer to Tyrell’s whereabouts. They’re in the visitor’s room of a prison. “That was the one approach of, “This is what Elliot would do in this situation, to cope with being in prison”, and then the other of keeping it from us because he felt betrayed by us from the first season”. She adds that it’s not ideal, but Mr Robot is “the best hacking show yet”.

A mid-season plot twist in hacking drama Mr Robot has annoyed some critics, but as news that the series is to be renewed for a third season, here’s why it’s worth tuning in. But overlong episodes, self-satisfied cleverness (ugh, that ’80s sitcom stunt), and pacing problems that betray a lack of story and focus at best and a crass self-indulgence at worst have exacerbated the stultifying barrenness of a follow-up season where nothing really happens until five installments in. Some twists are great because the clues were subtly seeded leading up to the reveal. Knowing Elliot, from the very first episode, he definitely has interesting coping mechanisms. Elliot accepts that this is the truth. Elliot promises he won’t lie to us again and hopes that we can start over. Mr. Robot then claims that “we were going to be next”.

I cared more about Elliot’s struggle more than anything else. But someone has been calling Joanna and sending her gifts. It seems pretty clear that Tyrell isn’t dead. I am (stupidly perhaps) inclined to believe Elliot. Elliot is locked up for reasons yet unknown. Dramatic irony is a weird fit on this character. We’re now layers deep into various altered mental states that Elliot and/or Mr. Robot use to warp reality and that can get a bit murky.

We will (un) learn more over the coming weeks, but I think it’s fair to say that this little coup de theatre is not a Bobby Ewing moment. He says that he conjured up his apparently humdrum existence in order to protect us, his imaginary friend. It did last night though, in a big way – and it was smug about it to boot. In a drama, that’s always a good thing.

After a complex episode, one might wonder if Mr. Robot would succeed to excel. I wrote last week how Esmail will do whatever it takes to tell the story he finds appropriate for this season. Especially given that he has to exist within the prison in some way. Admittedly, even as a fan of the twist, it doesn’t really make sense when you trace back some of the earlier appearances of the killer. She did what Darlene asked with hacking the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but the snag in the WiFi connection could’ve taken her down so easily. What other crimes could he have been arrested for?

Also, how is he watching Seinfeld so much? They have a BA in Film Media with minors in History and English from the University of Rhode Island.