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Mr. Robot
Genre
Created bySam Esmail
Starring
ComposerMac Quayle
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersSam Esmail
Steve Golin
Chad Hamilton
ProducerIgor Srubshchik
Production locationNew York City
CinematographyTim Ives
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time44–54 minutes
65 minutes (pilot)
Production companiesUniversal Cable Productions
Anonymous Content
Original release
NetworkUSA Network
ReleaseJune 24, 2015 (2015-06-24) –
present (present)

Mr. Robot is an American drama–thriller television series created by Sam Esmail.[6] The early premiere of the pilot on May 27, 2015 on multiple online and VOD services[7] was so well received that the series was renewed for a second season before the first season had premiered on USA Network on June 24, 2015.[8]

The serie made its season finale on September 2, 2015.[9]

Premise

The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cybersecurity company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, Elliot's thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion.[10] He connects to people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as "Mr. Robot", and joins his team of hacktivists known as "fsociety". One of their missions is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (known as "Evil Corp" by Elliot), which also happens to be Allsafe's biggest client.[11]

Cast

Main

  • Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson,[12] a security engineer at Allsafe Cybersecurity and a vigilante hacker. He has social anxiety disorder and deals with clinical depression and delusions,[10] which cause him to struggle socially and live isolated from other people.[13]
  • Christian Slater as Mr. Robot/Edward Alderson,[14] an insurrectionary anarchist who recruits Elliot into an underground hacker group called fsociety.[15]
  • Carly Chaikin as Darlene Alderson,[16] one of the fsociety hackers and Elliot's sister.[17][18]
  • Portia Doubleday as Angela Moss,[19] Elliot's childhood friend and a fellow employee at Allsafe.[17][18][20]
  • Martin Wallström as Tyrell Wellick,[21] the ambitious Senior Vice President of Technology at E Corp.

Recurring

  • Michel Gill as Gideon Goddard, CEO of Allsafe Security.[22]
  • Gloria Reuben as Krista Gordon, Elliot's psychiatrist.[23]
  • Frankie Shaw as Shayla Nico, Elliot's drug dealer and girlfriend.[24]
  • Bruce Altman as Terry Colby, the former CTO of E Corp who is framed by fsociety for a hack attack.
  • Ben Rappaport as Ollie Parker, Angela's boyfriend and an employee at Allsafe.[25]
  • Aaron Takahashi as Lloyd Chung, Elliot's co-worker at Allsafe.
  • Ron Cephas Jones as Romero, a member of fsociety.[26]
  • Azhar Khan as Mobley, a member of fsociety.[26]
  • Sunita Mani as Trenton, a member of fsociety.
  • Michael Drayer as Cisco, Darlene's ex-boyfriend who is the U.S. liaison to the Chinese hacker group, the Dark Army.[26]
  • Stephanie Corneliussen as Joanna Wellick, Tyrell's scheming wife.[26]
  • Elliot Villar as Fernando Vera, Shayla's drug supplier and Elliot's only supply of suboxone who has a unique dangerous philosophy and is obsessed with Shayla.[26]
  • Brian Stokes Mitchell as Scott Knowles, the CTO candidate of E Corp following Colby's arrest.
  • Michele Hicks as Sharon Knowles, the wife of Scott Knowles.
  • Michael Cristofer as Phillip Price, the CEO of E Corp.
  • BD Wong as the transexual Whiterose, head of the Dark Army.

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

No. in
series
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
1"eps1.0_hellofriend.mov"Niels Arden OplevSam EsmailJune 24, 2015 (2015-06-24)1.75[27]
The series opens with Elliot Alderson foiling "Plato's Boys", a child pornography network run through a series of coffee shops. He works at cyber security company Allsafe. At night, he hacks social media accounts and bank records of his social contacts, including those of his childhood friend Angela, therapist Krista, and drug dealer Shayla. He regularly uses morphine, and uses his hacking skills to hunt down criminals and delivers them to the police. E Corp ("Evil Corp"), a conglomerate and Allsafe's biggest client, is victim of a DDoS attack and has a rootkit installed on their servers. Elliot stops the attack and secures the evidence (a file named fsociety00.dat) along with a text file instructing him to leave the file on the server, which he does after securing it. On the subway home, Elliot is approached by Mr. Robot, the leader of fsociety, the hacker group behind the cyber attack. Mr. Robot plans a digital revolution by deleting all of Evil Corp's debt records and asks Elliot to join their cause. While initially hesitant, he eventually agrees, and frames Evil Corp's CTO Terry Colby after Colby humiliates Angela.
2"eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg"Sam EsmailSam EsmailJuly 1, 2015 (2015-07-01)1.73[28]
Elliot declines a well-paid job offer from Tyrell Wellick, the new interim CTO of Evil Corp. To further cement Colby's guilt, fsociety demands Colby to be released and for Evil Corp to be dissolved. Elliot is becoming increasingly paranoid and uses more morphine than normal. Darlene visits him at home to bring him to fsociety, surprising him because she should not know where he lives. Mr. Robot and fsociety want Elliot to hack into a gas plant causing an explosion to destroy the adjacent offline backup facility used by Evil Corp; Steel Mountain. However, Elliot does not want to risk lives – and backs out. Shayla's supplier Fernando Vera shows signs of abusing Shayla so Elliot gathers information against him, and when Vera rapes Shayla, Elliot turns him in despite Shayla's explicit instructions not to. Meanwhile, Ollie's computer gets hacked by an unknown man named Cisco, who is shown to be a member of the Chinese hacker group The Dark Army. In the closing scene, Elliot and Mr. Robot discuss Elliots's falling out with his father – but then Mr Robot pushes Elliot off a railing onto the beach below as punishment for leaving fsociety.
3"eps1.2_d3bug.mkv"Jim McKaySam EsmailJuly 8, 2015 (2015-07-08)1.60[29]
Tyrell beats up a homeless man to relieve stress after he learns that someone else is being chosen for CTO. He later seduces his boss's secretary to discover who the candidate is, and sets up a dinner with him and his wife. Cisco blackmails Ollie with his affair and personal records, and demands he infect Allsafe with the same CD. Ollie confesses to Angela who wants to give in to the hacker's demands because her, and her father's, personal data was stolen from Ollie's notebook too. Elliot is in hospital, recovering from his fall. Mr. Robot apologizes to him and Elliot believes he is done with fsociety. Feeling free, and in an attempt to become more normal, he asks Shayla to be his girlfriend and accompany him to a party thrown by Gideon. She accepts after he swears he did not turn Vera in to the police. However, at the party, fsociety leaks Evil Corp's emails that incriminate Colby for covering up a toxic waste leak which caused leukemia in Elliot's father and Angela's mother. Elliot returns to fsociety. Gideon becomes suspicious of Elliot's story regarding the Evil Corp attack, and begins to investigate.
4"eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4"Nisha GanatraAdam PennJuly 15, 2015 (2015-07-15)1.27[30]
Elliot comes up with a new plan to destroy the backup tapes at Steel Mountain. This involves hacking into the climate control system and melting them, but requires physical access so Elliot, Romero, Mobley, and Mr. Robot leave New York to go to Steel Mountain. Elliot, who has just run out of morphine now that Vera is in prison, suffers from intense withdrawal attacks and the group has to stay in a hotel to wait them out. There, Elliot has multiple hallucinations ranging from Tyrell to Qwerty (his pet fish) to Angela, where he explores his "daemons". Darlene and Trenton stay behind to contact Cisco (who is revealed to be her ex) and arrange a simultaneous hacker attack by the Dark Army on Evil Corp backup sites in China. Meanwhile, Angela and Shayla spend the day doing ecstasy and Shayla encourages Angela to worry less and to act in her own best interest, which results in the two making out. The next morning, Angela fulfills Cisco's demand and infects Allsafe using Ollie's work ID and computer.
5"eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv"Jim McKayDavid IsersonJuly 22, 2015 (2015-07-22)1.38[31]
With the help of fsociety, Elliot infiltrates Steel Mountain through the use of what he calls "human exploits". After blundering his way past two employees, he coincidentally meets Tyrell and exploits his pride in order to successfully connect the hacking device to the climate control. However, Tyrell reveals he knows that Elliot framed Terry Colby, but will not turn him in. Darlene learns that the Dark Army have changed their mind about simultaneously attacking a backup facility in China, which puts fsociety's plan in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Tyrell and Joanna have dinner with the CTO candidate, Scott Knowles, and his wife Sharon in an attempt to find their weaknesses. Tyrell deduces that Sharon is bored, and gets her to spread her legs for him in the bathroom. Angela leaves Ollie after telling him she infected Allsafe with the hacker's CD, and moves in with her father. She discovers that he is drowning in debt from her mother's old medical bills. After the drive home, Elliot finds Shayla's phone on his apartment floor. Fernando Vera calls him on it from prison, and accuses Elliot of putting him there. In the closing scene, Angela reaches a literal and metaphorical fork in the road.
6"eps1.5_br4ve-trave1er.asf"Deborah ChowKyle BradstreetJuly 29, 2015 (2015-07-29)1.25[32]
Shayla is kidnapped by Vera's brother Isaac and crony DJ to pressure Elliot to hack Vera out of prison. Despite Mr. Robot's attempt to persuade Elliot to walk away and let Shayla die, Elliot visits Vera in jail as a front to sniff for the prison's network. Meanwhile, Scott Knowles reveals to Tyrell that Sharon told him about the bathroom incident, humiliating Tyrell. After Tyrell smashes his kitchen in rage, Joanna tells him that it wasn't all for nothing, they do know that Sharon wants to be wanted. Inspired by the previous night, Angela meets with the lawyers who represented her in the toxic waste cover-up lawsuit against Evil Corp in an attempt to reopen the case – they tell her it is impossible to win unless they can get testimony from somebody on the inside. She sets her sights on Terry Colby. Elliot successfully breaks Vera out using a Bluetooth exploit, but DJ then kills Isaac and upon Elliot's query about Shayla, Vera tosses him the keys to the car and says "She was with you the whole time." Elliot opens the trunk and releases a few pained sobs as he finds Shayla inside with her throat slit.
7"eps1.6_v1ew-s0urce.flv"Sam EsmailKate EricksonAugust 5, 2015 (2015-08-05)1.15[33]
In a flashback, Shayla Nico moves in next door and gives Elliot Qwerty as a gift. She aspires to be his friend despite him telling her he feels awkward around people. She offers to contact a suboxone supplier for Elliot. In the present, it has been one month since Shayla's murder. Angela makes a deal with Terry Colby: she will lie and say she broke chain of custody with the .dat file that incriminated him, and in exchange Colby will testify that Evil Corp covered up the toxic waste leak in 1993. Gideon warns Angela that her plan will put Allsafe out of business. Meanwhile, Darlene and Mr. Robot attempt to bring fsociety back together. She hacks Cisco's computer and manages to set an in-person meeting with dangerous White Rose, leader of the Dark Army. Cisco is enraged by this and meets with Ollie to demand another favor. Tyrell, at a party celebrating Knowles's promotion, seduces Sharon onto an isolated rooftop and strangles her to death. Elliot confesses to Krista that he hacks everybody in an attempt to find a way out of loneliness.
8"eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v"Christoph SchreweRandolph LeonAugust 12, 2015 (2015-08-12)1.24[34]
Darlene steals a gun, and has a conversation with Angela that implies they are longtime friends. Elliot and fsociety re-plan their attack but still need the Dark Army. Elliot meets White Rose, a trans woman obsessed with time, who says the Dark Army initially backed out because Gideon, suspicious of Elliot's story, turned Evil Corp's hacked server into a honeypot. With help from Darlene, Elliot successfully shuts this down. Tyrell finds fsociety's .dat file after Gideon tells him of the honeypot and meets with Mr. Robot, and it appears that the two are working together. He reminds Mr. Robot that he knows his "dirty little secret" when Mr. Robot refuses to cooperate, which Mr. Robot shrugs off. When Joanna is informed by the police of Sharon's murder, she manually pops her amniotic sac to avoid her and Tyrell being questioned. When celebrating fsociety's success, Elliot kisses Darlene, who is revolted. She asks if he "had forgotten again", and Elliot realizes that Darlene is his sister, but he has no recollection of her. He finds one CD in his collection that contains old family photos – revealing that Mr. Robot is his father.
9"eps1.8_m1rr0r1ng.qt"Tricia BrockSam EsmailAugust 19, 2015 (2015-08-19)1.32[35]
A flashback shows a young Elliot and his father in his computer repair shop "Mr. Robot". After the birth of their child, Joanna tells Tyrell that he needs to keep in control if he "wants to be part of this family". Tyrell is fired from Evil Corp – his final act is to prevent Gideon from reverting the honeypot. Mr. Robot takes a trip with Elliot to his childhood home where Elliot snaps and pushes Mr. Robot out of a window. Angela and Darlene follow Elliot to a graveyard. Before the two can reach him, Mr. Robot tells Elliot not to let Angela and Darlene "get rid of him", and that he will always love him. When they arrive, Elliot is alone at the grave of his father. He realizes he had taken on his father's persona the entire time, saying "I am Mr. Robot". Terry Colby offers Angela a job at Evil Corp. Tyrell visits Elliot and threatens him into revealing fsociety's plan – Elliot takes Tyrell to the arcade and realizes that he will carry on with the hack. They agree to work together, but Elliot glances over to the popcorn machine where Darlene's gun is hidden.
10"eps1.9_zer0-day.avi"Sam EsmailSam EsmailSeptember 2, 2015 (2015-09-02)[a]1.21[36]
Elliot wakes up alone in Tyrell's SUV three days after the conclusion of the last episode, with no memory of those three days. The fsociety hack had gone according to plan, throwing the world into chaos and gathering protesters with fsociety masks throughout the city. While Elliot searches for Tyrell and fsociety encrypt their data and cover their tracks, E Corp, where Angela now works, is trying to recover. During an interview on live television, the E Corp EVP of Technology commits suicide after stating that the situation is hopeless, with Angela nearby. Elliot talks to Mr. Robot again and questions him for Tyrell's location. The episode ends with Tyrell still missing and Elliot getting up to answer the door to his apartment before the credits roll. In a post-credits scene, White Rose (as a man) and Phillip Price, the CEO of E Corp, are shown conversing at a formal event.

a The first season finale was postponed one week from its originally scheduled air date of August 26, 2015, because the episode includes a scene with similarities to the Roanoke, Virginia murders, which happened earlier the same day.[37]

Production

USA Network gave a pilot order to Mr. Robot in July 2014,[38] and picked it up to series with a 10-episode order in December 2014.[39] Production began in New York on April 13, 2015.[40] Prior to its series premiere on June 24, 2015, Mr. Robot was renewed for a second season, which will include a minimum of 10 episodes.[8]

Reception

Critical response

Mr. Robot has received widespread acclaim from critics for its acting, cinematography, and technological accuracy. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a rating of 98% with an average score of 8.1 out of 10 based on 41 reviews. It set a record on Rotten Tomatoes as the only show to earn perfect episode scores since the site began tracking television episodes.[41] The site's consensus reads: "Mr. Robot is a suspenseful cyber-thriller with timely stories and an intriguing, provocative premise."[42] On Metacritic, the first season scored 79 out of 100 based on 23 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[43] Merrill Barr of Forbes gave it a very positive review and wrote, "Mr. Robot has one of the best kick-offs to any series in a while" and that "Mr. Robot could be the series that finally, after years of ignorance, puts a deserving network among the likes of HBO, AMC and FX in terms of acclaim."[44] Mr. Robot has drawn influences and been compared to many iconic films such as Fight Club, American Psycho and Taxi Driver.[45]

Accolades

After premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2015,[46] the series won the Audience Award for episodic television.[40][47][48]

Ratings

The first episode of Mr. Robot was released across multiple digital platforms in advance of its first broadcast. It had a viewership of 2.7 million prior to the first broadcast of the episode.[49]

No. Title Air date Rating
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)
1 "eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" June 24, 2015 (2015-06-24) 0.5[27] 1.75[27] 0.4 1.34 0.9 3.09[50]
2 "eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg" July 1, 2015 (2015-07-01) 0.6[28] 1.73[28] 0.6 1.81 1.2 3.54[51]
3 "eps1.2_d3bug.mkv" July 8, 2015 (2015-07-08) 0.6[29] 1.60[29] 0.6 1.45 1.2 3.05[52]
4 "eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4" July 15, 2015 (2015-07-15) 0.4[30] 1.27[30]
5 "eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv" July 22, 2015 (2015-07-22) 0.5[31] 1.38[31]
6 "eps1.5_br4ve-trave1er.asf" July 29, 2015 (2015-07-29) 0.4[32] 1.25[32] 0.5 1.09 0.9 2.34[53]
7 "eps1.6_v1ew-s0urce.flv" August 5, 2015 (2015-08-05) 0.5[33] 1.15[33] 0.6 1.27 1.1 2.42[54]
8 "eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v" August 12, 2015 (2015-08-12) 0.4[34] 1.24[34] 0.8 1.44 1.2 2.68[55]
9 "eps1.8_m1rr0r1ng.qt" August 19, 2015 (2015-08-19) 0.5[35] 1.32[35] 0.6 1.30 1.1 2.62[56]
10 "eps1.9_zer0-day.avi" September 2, 2015 (2015-09-02) 0.5[36] 1.21[36] TBA TBA TBA TBA

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