The first season of Mr. Robot was some of the strangest, most exciting television of 2015, and a real surprise on a number of levels. It was a USA original drama. It starred Christian Slater as a character named “Mr. Robot.” It was called Mr. Robot. It had no business being as good as it was. But oh, it was, very much so, thanks to some creative storytelling and some hard left turns in the plot, one of which — and spoilers here — revealed that the Mr. Robot character Slater was playing was actually the dead father our main character, Elliot (Rami Malek), had been seeing in visions the whole time.
This brings us to season two, which is in the early stages of production now. Creator Sam Esmail spoke to Entertainment Weekly about what to expect, and in addition to saying season two will be “very different” from season one, he said this about Elliot’s future.
“What you’ve got to understand is that when Mr. Robot and Elliot go at it, he’s really going at it with himself,” Esmail says. “What I can say is that they’re communicating, but it’s almost under duress. Obviously, Elliot can’t escape him, and Mr. Robot doesn’t want to leave. It’s a conflict, but it’s actually more of an impasse that they somehow have to negotiate.”
Elliot and his dead dad fighting for control of his brain as all the stuff with Evil Corp. and White Rose plays out, with Tyrell still maybe unaccounted for? Yeah, that’ll do. We can work with that. Now we just need to figure out how Joanna plays into all of this, because one has to assume the show will not introduce her terrifying doomstare and then just cast it aside. That look deserves its own IMDb credit.
(Via EW)