Mr. Robot (TV series)

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Mr. Robot
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Genre
Created by Sam Esmail
Starring
Composer(s) Mac Quayle
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 5 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Sam Esmail
Steve Golin
Chad Hamilton
Producer(s) Igor Srubshchik
Location(s) New York City
Cinematography Tim Ives
Camera setup Single camera
Running time 44–46 minutes
65 minutes (pilot)
Production company(s) Universal Cable Productions
Anonymous Content
Release
Original channel USA Network
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
720p (HDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original release June 24, 2015 (2015-06-24) – present (present)
External links
Official website

Mr. Robot is an American cyberpunk–thriller drama television series created by Sam Esmail.[4] The series began airing on USA Network on June 24, 2015, following the May 27, 2015, premiere of the pilot on multiple online and VOD services.[5] Prior to the series premiere it was announced that the series had been renewed for a second season.[6]

Premise[edit]

The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young cyber-security engineer living in New York who assumes the role of a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot meets a mysterious social-anarchist known as "Mr. Robot" who recruits Elliot to join his team of hackers, "fsociety". Elliot, who has a social anxiety disorder but connects to people by hacking them, is intrigued, but uncertain he wants to be part of the group. The show follows Mr. Robot's attempts to engage Elliot in his mission to destroy the corporation Elliot is paid to protect.[7]

Cast[edit]

Main cast[edit]

Recurring cast[edit]

  • Michel Gill as Gideon Goddard, CEO of Allsafe Security.[18]
  • Gloria Reuben as Krista Gordon, Elliot's psychiatrist.[19]
  • Frankie Shaw as Shayla, Elliot's drug supplier and girlfriend.[20]
  • Ben Rappaport as Ollie Parker, Angela's boyfriend and an employee at Allsafe.[21]
  • Aaron Takahashi as Lloyd, Elliot's co-worker at Allsafe.
  • Ron Cephas Jones as Romero, a member of fsociety.[22]
  • Azhar Khan as Mobley, a member of fsociety.[22]
  • Sunita Mani as Trenton, a member of fsociety.
  • Michael Drayer as Cisco, a hacker who is the U.S. liaison to the Chinese hacker group, the Dark Army.[22]
  • Stephanie Corneliussen as Joanna, Tyrell's pregnant wife.[22]
  • Elliot Villar as Fernando Vera, an entrepreneur and meth-addicted criminal.[22]

Production[edit]

USA Network gave a pilot order to Mr. Robot in July 2014,[23] and picked it up to series with a 10-episode order in December 2014.[24] Production began in New York on April 13, 2015.[25] Mr. Robot was renewed for a second season, which will be a 10-episode pickup.[6]

Episodes[edit]

Season 1 (2015)[edit]

No. Title[26] Directed by Written by Original air date[27] U.S. viewers
(millions)
1 "eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" Niels Arden Oplev Sam Esmail June 24, 2015 (2015-06-24) 1.75[28]
Elliot Alderson works at Allsafe, a cyber security company. At night, he hacks social media accounts and bank records of his social contacts. He also uses his skills to hunt down criminals and delivers them to the police. E Corp (or, "Evil Corp"), a conglomerate and important customer of Allsafe, is hacked. Elliot can stop the attack and personally secures the evidence. On the subway, Elliot is approached by Mr. Robot. He is the leader of fsociety, the hacker group behind the cyber attack, who are operating from an abandoned seaside amusement park. Mr. Robot plans a digital revolution by deleting all of E Corp's debt records and convinces Elliot to join their cause and frame E Corp's CTO Terry Colby by manipulating the attack logs, instead of reporting fsociety to the authorities.
2 "eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg" Sam Esmail Sam Esmail July 1, 2015 (2015-07-01) 1.73[29]
Elliot declines a well-paid job offer by Tyrell Wellick, the new interim CTO of E Corp. In a public video message, fsociety demands to release their head, Terry Colby, and to dissolve Evil Corp. Elliot is becoming increasingly paranoid and uses more morphine. He has gathered information against Shayla's supplier Fernando Vera and his gang, but they are the only source of suboxone. However, after Fernando abuses Shayla, Elliot turns him in. Mr. Robot wants Elliot to hack into a gas plant, causing a pipeline to blow up and destroy Steel Mountain, an adjacent offline backup storage facility for E Corp, but Elliot does not want to risk any lives. On their next meeting, Mr. Robot pushes Elliot from a railing onto the beach.
3 "eps1.2_d3bug.mkv" Jim McKay Sam Esmail July 8, 2015 (2015-07-08) 1.60[30]
Tyrell beats up a homeless person to relieve stress. He later hooks up with a man in a bar to install a rootkit on his phone. Cisco hacks and blackmails Ollie with his affair with Stella. When Ollie confesses to Angela, she wants to break up, but give in to the hacker's demands and compromise Allsafe, because her personal data was stolen from Ollie's notebook, too. Elliot is recovering from his drop in the hospital. Mr. Robot apologize to him and Elliot believes he is off fsociety's hook now. But when fsociety leaks E Corp's emails that incriminate Colby for covering up a toxic waste leak in 1993, which caused leukemia in Elliot's father and Angela's mother, he changes his mind and returns to fsociety. Gideon is becoming suspicious and is investigating on Elliot's story of the E Corp attack.
4 "eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4" Nisha Ganatra Adam Penn July 15, 2015 (2015-07-15) 1.27[31]
Instead of blowing up the gas pipeline, Elliot plans to destroy the backup tapes at Steel Mountain by manipulating the climate control system, but this requires physical access, so a part of the group departs to upstate New York. Without morphine or suboxone however, Elliot is suffering from morphine withdrawal the group has to stay in a hotel. Darlene stays behind to contact her ex-boyfriend Cisco and arrange a simultaneous hacker attack by the Dark Army on other E Corp sites. After a night in a club with Elliot's neighbor, Angela fulfills Cisco's demand and infects Allsafe.
5 "eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv" Jim McKay David Iserson July 22, 2015 (2015-07-22) 1.38[32]
With the help of fsociety, Elliot infiltrates Steel Mountain. Things don't go well until he accidentally meets Tyrell, and he can eventually plant the hacking device. Darlene learns that the Dark Army have changed their mind about simultaneously attacking a backup facility in China, which puts the whole plan in jeopardy. Angela leaves Ollie after telling him she infected Allsafe with their hacker's CD, and moves in with her father.
6 "eps1.5_br4ve-trave1er.asf" TBA TBA July 29, 2015 (2015-07-29) TBD
7 "eps1.6_v1ew-s0urce.flv" TBA TBA August 5, 2015 (2015-08-05) TBD
8 "eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v" TBA TBA August 12, 2015 (2015-08-12) TBD
9 "eps1.8_m1rr0r1ng.qt" TBA TBA August 19, 2015 (2015-08-19) TBD
10 "eps1.9_zer0-day.avi" TBA TBA August 26, 2015 (2015-08-26) TBD

Reception[edit]

Critical response[edit]

Mr. Robot has received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a rating of 97% with an average score of 8.1 out of 10 based on 34 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "Mr. Robot is a suspenseful cyber-thriller with timely stories and an intriguing, provocative premise."[26] 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."[33]

Accolades[edit]

After premiering at South by Southwest in March 2015,[34] the series won the Audience Award for Episodic television.[25][35][36]

Ratings[edit]

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.[37]

References[edit]

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  2. ^ Lowman, Rob (June 22, 2015). "Review: ‘Mr. Robot’ is an interesting summer series; mix between psychological, cyber thriller". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved July 3, 2015. 
  3. ^ Jensen, Jeff (June 18, 2015). "Mr. Robot: EW review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved July 3, 2015. 
  4. ^ Eyerly, Alan (May 29, 2015). "Wealth disparity, hackers and cyber threats in 'Mr. Robot'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 17, 2015. 
  5. ^ Lynch, Jason (May 4, 2015). "USA Will Debut Mr. Robot Early on Almost Every Digital Platform". Adweek. Retrieved May 30, 2015. 
  6. ^ a b Friedlander, Whitney (June 24, 2015). "‘Mr. Robot’ Gets Second Season on USA". Variety. Retrieved June 24, 2015. 
  7. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (June 24, 2015). "‘Mr. Robot’ Gets Second-Season Pickup By USA Ahead Of Series Premiere". Deadline.com. Retrieved July 4, 2015. 
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  12. ^ "Angela Moss - Played by Portia Doubleday". USA Network. Retrieved July 4, 2015. 
  13. ^ a b Ng, Philiana (September 11, 2014). "'Suburgatory,' 'Her' Alums to Co-Star in USA's Hacker Drama 'Mr. Robot'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 3, 2015. 
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  17. ^ "Tyrell Wellick - Played by Martin Wallström". USA Network. Retrieved July 4, 2015. 
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  19. ^ The Deadline Team (October 22, 2014). "Karen Pittman Joins ‘The Americans'; Gloria Reuben In ‘Mr. Robot’". Deadline.com. Retrieved July 5, 2015. 
  20. ^ The Deadline Team (November 3, 2014). "Frankie Shaw Joins ‘Mr. Robot'; Nick Westrate In ‘Turn’". Deadline.com. Retrieved July 4, 2015. 
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  24. ^ Goldberg, Lesley (December 19, 2014). "USA's Hacker Drama 'Mr. Robot' Ordered to Series". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 30, 2015. 
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