And then we have this next week. ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pNXLmDdrL0
On 05/28/2015 05:54 AM, TurquoiseBee [email protected]
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
*/I saw this show pop up in my list of available downloads today, not
having heard a word about it before. The blurb on the IMDB didn't tell
me much about it when I looked it up, but I figured WTF...I should
give it a chance. Good call.
"Mr. Robot" is really remarkably good. It's the first nerd/computer
science-based TV show that has really made me want to watch it. For
the nerds, the IT/nerd stuff is very good, using real nerdspeak and
real technologies. But it's the writing and characterization that
makes this show stand out for me, combined with spooky direction that
really grabs you and puts you inside the head of the protagonist.
And that's a somewhat scary and uncomfortable place to be, because the
narrator and protagonist of the series is Elliot, a borderline
psychopath with diagnosed anti-social disorder who self-medicates with
morphine and hacks into the cyber-universe of pretty much anyone he
wants to. He's certifiable, and we're inside his head. Elliot is so
distanced from the world he's almost autistic, but he's a brilliant
coder, so in his Day Job he's on the staff of a computer security
firm, and at night he turns into a Robin Hood-like white hat hacker.
Rami Malek is tremendous at capturing all of this. And "all of this"
is just the background stuff that goes down in this pilot episode
before Elliot gets approached by Mr. Robot. Played by Christian
Slater, he's an anarchist who has his own group of uber-hackers and
wants Elliot to come on board and join the Revolution. He makes Elliot
the proverbial offer he can't refuse: "What if you could set in motion
the largest revolution the world will ever see – the single biggest
incident of wealth redistribution in history?"
To cut to the chase, I really *like* this series. It's gritty and
netherworldish like early William Gibson, and I haven't been so
quickly grabbed by a new set of characters in quite some time. I
finished the pilot looking forward to future episodes. Unfortunately,
that seems to mean waiting until the end of June, when the show is due
to air on the USA network. Here's the first few minutes, but the full
pilot is widely available on the Net, so you can watch it for free if
you're interested. I give it a big Thumbs-Up. /*
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*/Mr. Robot: Extended Sneak Peek - New Series on USA (Premieres June
24) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJNZF3LR0VM>/*
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