USA’s Mr. Robot has been one of the more pleasant surprises of the summer television season. What started out as a series of goofy sounding news stories (“Christian Slater will play an anarchist hacker named Mr. Robot in a USA series called Mr. Robot) has turned into a dark, cynical, compelling, and incredibly weird show that is borderline impossible to explain to anyone without making yourself sound crazy. “There’s this guy, and he’s a drug addict who may or may not be losing his mind, and he’s working with these hackers who are trying to take down Evil Corp., which is a whole thing, and the hackers are led by Christian Slater, whose character’s name is Mr. Robot and may or may not be a figment of the drug addict’s imagination, and…”
The point here is that there’s A LOT going on early in the show’s run, and any time you have a show getting that ambitious that early, it’s certainly fair to ask if the creator has an idea of where it’s all headed. So, Sam Esmail, creator of Mr. Robot, we ask you: You got a plan or what?
https://twitter.com/samthemovie/status/622503766940475393
Okay! So that’s settled. Now all the show has to do is fill three or four more seasons with a high-wire act of pacing out the plot to get historically bitter and impatient viewers there without giving away too much or too little and having them turn on it, which should be… easy?
