rodgriffin32
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Fantastic show. One of the best things on television.
BTW, I'm glad I didn't erase the last episode, I didn't realize there was a scene after the credits until I read about it today.
I loved the first nine episodes. The last one ... less so. I understand it knowing that they are setting up for the next season, but it almost felt like they had two episodes ready - one for if they didn't get picked up for a second season, and one for if they did. It also seemed a bit heavy-handed on things that they let the viewer figure out on their own before.
But yeah, shades of Fight Club, and also of Memento. I totally want to re-watch to see what I missed the first time through.
Okay, so watched the premiere of Season 2 and this show is even more fucking crazy and weird than last season. I have no idea what is happening and I dig it.
I had a suspicion about what was going on in the season 2 premiere and I googled something about it and stumbled across a detailed reddit theory about it and it almost ruins it a bit because it's so good it's basically a spoiler. If curious just google reddit theory mr. robot and it will come up immediately (it's in the headlines of some articles written about it, which i think is kind of bunk). if it turns out to be what i think it is and what the theory supports, it's not a completely novel trope but brilliantly done nonetheless. no one would have seen it unless they understood what type of show this is from season 1.
That's a pretty common theory, if you're talking about what I think you're talking about. Hell, I thought of that independently when I was watching the premiere the other day. I think that's what Esmail wants us to be thinking, honestly. He wouldn't have included the line from the psychiatrist ("why your mom, specifically?") if he wanted it to fly under the radar as a theory.
Same as all of the people floating the "Leon isn't real" stuff, which I think also has to be what Esmail wants us to think. There's no other way to read the Elliot/Leon scenes so far, IMO.
are you talking about:
the last scene from s1 is a knock on the door at elliot's and it's really the police/feds, and the s2 premiere he's in jail/institutionalized and everything we're seeing is just an immersive psychotic break from reality from elliot's POV
Easily the best show on TV and I'm a huge Game of Thrones fan.
I dig what they're doing with this show and one can make a case for it being "the best" but I have to pump the brakes on adding the word "easily". Out of GoT, The Americans, Fargo, The Leftovers and sometimes Better Call Saul, plus whatever I'm forgetting off the top of my head, my "the best" is whatever I viewed last, nothing easy about it.
The Americans is the best show on TV, and honestly, I don't think it's particularly close.
Mostly, yeah. I was talking independently of the last S1 scene, though. I just think it's an easy way to read the setup with his room and the authority figure and, well, all of the structure. I also don't think that theory applies to "everything we're seeing," just probably the scenes with Elliot in them.