We can hope that "Mr. Robot" can keep up the energy and edge that the
pilot episode does. And if so that we can view the episodes without
needing cable or satellite accounts. Obviously I liked the setup
episode. I watched it on VUDU for free though the 1080 quality wasn't
up to their usual HDX standards but it did have DD+ sound.
On 05/28/2015 12:01 PM, Bhairitu [email protected] [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
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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24) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJNZF3LR0VM>/*
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