Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow.
The world can be an ugly place. If you had the power to make a difference, how far would you go? The topic was explored in tonight's Mr. Robot. Though the second episode didn't quite hit the high levels of the pilot, the world was expanded. Elliot is thoroughly entrenched one way or the other -- with E Corp or Fsociety -- and he's a little lost. He's also in constant danger, and we don't know if the threats he sees are real or imagined. Regardless, those threats add an undercurrent of stress and excitement throughout the episode.
The big conspiracies introduced last week definitely swirled around Elliot, but they took a backseat to humanity and relationships. Mr. Robot doesn't sugarcoat the fact that Elliot has issues and does a suitable job of putting viewers inside Elliot's head (I love how we see that Elliot translates all references to E Corp as Evil Corp) -- Rami Malek's performance helps this tremendously. So, given what we know about the way Elliot processes the world and people around him, it's terribly interesting to watch how he interacts with it.
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The world can be an ugly place. If you had the power to make a difference, how far would you go? The topic was explored in tonight's Mr. Robot. Though the second episode didn't quite hit the high levels of the pilot, the world was expanded. Elliot is thoroughly entrenched one way or the other -- with E Corp or Fsociety -- and he's a little lost. He's also in constant danger, and we don't know if the threats he sees are real or imagined. Regardless, those threats add an undercurrent of stress and excitement throughout the episode.
The big conspiracies introduced last week definitely swirled around Elliot, but they took a backseat to humanity and relationships. Mr. Robot doesn't sugarcoat the fact that Elliot has issues and does a suitable job of putting viewers inside Elliot's head (I love how we see that Elliot translates all references to E Corp as Evil Corp) -- Rami Malek's performance helps this tremendously. So, given what we know about the way Elliot processes the world and people around him, it's terribly interesting to watch how he interacts with it.
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