Mr. Robot’s second season opens

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Mr. Robot’s second season opens

Post by Royal » Sat Jul 16, 2016 2:46 am

Mr. Robot’s second season opens with less command line, more commanding plot
Premiere beautifully delivers thrills, S1 plot updates, and intriguing new elements.

Has our hero left the grid for good? In two hours of Mr. Robot’s glorious return, Elliot Alderson touches only one computer. Technically, that brief interaction takes place within the timeline of season one.

The screenshot-able coding and tech accuracy that the show became known for last year only surfaces twice (and fittingly, Darlene provides the other moment). Instead of action, the second season’s two-part premiere, titled “unm4sk,” is much more interested in the state of our hackers and the hacked.

Within the story, it has now been roughly one month since the S1 finale and the unanswered questions that came with it—what happened to Tyrell? How does Whiterose know Phillip Price? Wait, is there a gun in the popcorn machine at fsociety HQ?—and Mr. Robot's latest installment satisfies some lingering curiosities while potentially building greater season-long mysteries. We learn that Tyrell Wellick, while still missing, has been identified as the ringleader in the E-Corp data encryption scheme. In a well-done bit of digital sleight of hand, Barack Obama utters his name in an address to the nation (which, if you're wondering, is a tweaked version of his real speech denouncing North Korea's Sony-related hacks). Krista still sees Elliot for regular therapy sessions despite where they left things in S1. Angela still works at E-Corp despite the promise of her lawsuit.


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