Mr. Robot: Wednesdays at 10 PM on USA

That Alexa thing was just a subtle advertisement for the device. Gotta get that money somehow if the ratings are still terrible.

The Snowden movie looks solid, but it also looks like the typical Hollywood exaggeration and altering the story for a better movie. 

Citizenfour is an insanely good documentary about Snowden, definitely worth checking out.

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I gotta stop half *** watching this show. I can't be on my phone, computer, eating, nothing but watching. Halfway through and I'm already planning on rewatching it cause I missed some quick detail.
 
Bruh happy Elliott is always funny but sons mind is in complete shambles. This episode is just as trippy as Episode 4 from last season lol
 
I like seeing different angles to this show.. the FBI agent tracking down the group and Angela deep inside E Corp are both really interesting to me so far and there's a lot of potential there.
 
So exactly who is Ray? A guy that needs help with w/e computer business he has and is willing to help Elliot out to get that help or a psych ward psychiatrist doing sessions with Elliot?
 
Master Zik said:
So exactly who is Ray? A guy that needs help with w/e computer business he has and is willing to help Elliot out to get that help or a psych ward psychiatrist doing sessions with Elliot?
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I'm still not sure, he's obviously into some **** but the way he talks to Elliott is definitely like a psychiatrist.
 
Yeah the entire vibe I got was this is therapy.

But if you not rocking with the theory, then straight up that was some deep character **** about his wife being dead and him talking to her the same way Elliot talks to his dad.

Plus the scenes with him not dealing with Elliot Liu ts to him actually bro g in to his own thing.


Either way, next week ep with one of them taking full control looks like it'll blow things up in a while new direction. I feel like it'll be an acting clinic by Tami with the Ned ep.
 
Sepinwall touches on my concerns with the psych ward theory..
* Finally, I want to talk for a moment about a fan theory that's been floating around for the past week. (I have no idea if it's correct or not, but if you'd rather not have something potentially spoiled — or have the way you watch the show fundamentally changed until it's proven true or false — stop reading now.) As the theory goes, Elliot hasn't actually moved back in with his mother, but is currently in prison, a mental hospital, or some other kind of facility with a strict daily regimen, and that's why his schedule is the way it is, why he's hanging around someone like Leon, watching basketball games, etc. It's not impossible, given what we've seen — though the amount of material with Ray moving about and interacting with people in the real world suggests otherwise (or suggests that Ray is somehow coming to visit Elliot in this place) — but I'd rather it not be correct.  When I spoke with Sam Esmail at the end of season 1, he said he didn't want the audience to constantly be questioning the reality of other characters and locations, and that's smart. The show go to turn over that card once with Mr. Robot's true nature, and there it had been so heavily foreshadowed that it could barely be called a surprise. Do it again — and on this scale — and you risk turning the entire show into a parlor game, where viewers are never paying attention to what's happening between the characters because they're constantly looking for clues as to what's real and what isn't. Joss Whedon talked about this back when he was doing Dollhouse — how he got frustrated that after one too many "Oh, that character's really another doll" reveals, he inadvertently conditioned the audience to assume every character could turn out to be a doll — and it becomes far more trouble than it's worth in short order. But we'll see. Everyone may be overthinking what's there, even as the show itself invites us to do exactly that.
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On the one hand, I love that this show can play tricks, make you question what you see, foreshadow and hint at things, but on the other.. it turns the show into more of a game and puzzle than an actual story you follow. 

I typically don't totally fall in love with fan theorizing that's happened with modern TV. I read the reddit posts, I talk about it here some, I enjoy it in passing.. but too often it takes over the entire show. All show discussion is about theories and not about what we're actually being given. I blame Lost.. and then Breaking Bad added to it. The thing with BB was it was a legitimately amazing and brilliant show, but too much discussion was spent on theorizing in my opinion. It's fun to pass the time and it adds to the show a little bit, but just because a show provides ample theory bait, doesn't automatically bump it up in my book.

I think for this show in particular, we need to be able to believe what we see. Season 1 could play that trick, but like the article said, if you keep going back to that well, it can exhaust the viewers or weaken that effect.
 
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