Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow.
Zero Day has not only arrived, it's already in the past. One of the primary objectives of the first season of Mr. Robot revolved around destroying Evil Corp and changing the world. The characters and the audience were invested in seeing the hack happen and observing the fallout, but the season finale only made a partial delivery. It was a bold move to skip over the actual execution of the hack and to a couple of days after the takedown. But was it the right one?
Mr. Robot has thankfully avoided the usual tropes that depictions of hacking run straight into. The camera doesn't follow information blips through wires and around circuit boards. Other series or films would have stood over Elliot's or FSociety's shoulders as they pushed a giant button labeled "Execute" and followed the command inside machinery. Nobody wants that. However, there's still material to be mined from being alongside FSociety as they made the last plunge or while they anxiously waited for the effects to ripple across the globe. We got the smallest slice of what it was like with Elliot scouring the internet but experiencing more would have been better.
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Zero Day has not only arrived, it's already in the past. One of the primary objectives of the first season of Mr. Robot revolved around destroying Evil Corp and changing the world. The characters and the audience were invested in seeing the hack happen and observing the fallout, but the season finale only made a partial delivery. It was a bold move to skip over the actual execution of the hack and to a couple of days after the takedown. But was it the right one?
Mr. Robot has thankfully avoided the usual tropes that depictions of hacking run straight into. The camera doesn't follow information blips through wires and around circuit boards. Other series or films would have stood over Elliot's or FSociety's shoulders as they pushed a giant button labeled "Execute" and followed the command inside machinery. Nobody wants that. However, there's still material to be mined from being alongside FSociety as they made the last plunge or while they anxiously waited for the effects to ripple across the globe. We got the smallest slice of what it was like with Elliot scouring the internet but experiencing more would have been better.
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