Warning: Spoilers for the latest episode of Mr. Robot, "eps2.5_h4ndshake.sme."
"This will be the last time I keep things from you, I promise."
If Season 1 of USA's trippy, compelling Mr. Robot taught us anything, it's not to trust our own eyes. But after the big reveal that Mr. Robot himself (Christian Slater) was actually only a figment of Elliot's (Rami Malek) imagination -- a more confident and aggressive side of her personality who appeared in the form of his dead father -- would the show be so bold as to dip into the "things aren't what they seem" well again during its sophomore run?
Well, yes. It did. And in a big way. Of course with viewers having learned a huge lesson about the show's unreliable narrator last summer, trust issues were going to be abundant heading into Season 2, and so many folks were able to guess the true nature of Elliot's "regimen" ahead of time. As far back as the season premiere, in fact. Still, just like in Season 1, knowing the outcome or predicting the "gotcha" twist doesn't necessarily diminish things on a show like Mr. Robot. By the time we found last year out that Mr. Robot wasn't an actual person, most viewers already had the puzzle sorted. Now the Darlene twist was another story, but for the most part, the show's audience was hip to the Tyler Durden-ness of it all from early on.
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"This will be the last time I keep things from you, I promise."
If Season 1 of USA's trippy, compelling Mr. Robot taught us anything, it's not to trust our own eyes. But after the big reveal that Mr. Robot himself (Christian Slater) was actually only a figment of Elliot's (Rami Malek) imagination -- a more confident and aggressive side of her personality who appeared in the form of his dead father -- would the show be so bold as to dip into the "things aren't what they seem" well again during its sophomore run?
Well, yes. It did. And in a big way. Of course with viewers having learned a huge lesson about the show's unreliable narrator last summer, trust issues were going to be abundant heading into Season 2, and so many folks were able to guess the true nature of Elliot's "regimen" ahead of time. As far back as the season premiere, in fact. Still, just like in Season 1, knowing the outcome or predicting the "gotcha" twist doesn't necessarily diminish things on a show like Mr. Robot. By the time we found last year out that Mr. Robot wasn't an actual person, most viewers already had the puzzle sorted. Now the Darlene twist was another story, but for the most part, the show's audience was hip to the Tyler Durden-ness of it all from early on.
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