Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
#1Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/12/15 at 3:21am
I think this has been one of the television surprises of the summer. The lead actor is great! Did any of my Gay brothers watch episode 3? Pretty Hot.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/12/15 at 1:17pm
At first... just the lead... talked in hesitating spurts... but in the last... episode.... it seems like...everyone... does... now. I think...the lead looks... like Marty Feldman.... had a baby... with a skeleton....
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#3Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/12/15 at 3:03pm
It wore out its intrigue with me pretty quickly. I always just kind of see TV as a worse version of movies because they have to condense the story in 45 minute chapters, and this is no exception. And I found a lot of the acting to be pretty terrible
#4Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/14/15 at 2:30am
I don't think the acting is that bad....maybe the characters are annoying to some. I just think it is something different...
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#5Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/14/15 at 8:44am
It is going to turn out... like Fight Club... and Mr. Robot... is all in Skeletor's head
#6Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/15/15 at 5:53pm
I just started this. I dig it. And I'm seaux attracted to Rami Malek.
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#7Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/15/15 at 11:57pm
The hubby and I like it too.
Contrariwise, I also thoroughly enjoy Phyllis' posts about it.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#8Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/16/15 at 9:48am
Thank you... Jabara.... Fan.... 1... I ... still am dvring this... for the time being... I don't know... how much longer I... will... watch...
I wish happi... ness.. for growl and Skeletor.... He is gay off-screen so maybe... you two... can have... skeleton babies...
#9Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/16/15 at 10:38am
lol I'm also enjoying your commentary, Phyl. I hope you keep watching just to keep providing it.
Also, you were in my dream last night.
Also... is he gay? Is that public somewhere? Or do you have insider knowledge?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#10Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/16/15 at 10:57am
Was it... a sexy... dream? Was I under...weight... and... bug-eyed?
#11Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/20/15 at 2:17am
I may have spoken too soon. I fear it is jumping the shark.
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#12Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/20/15 at 3:05am
One thing for sure, it is reminding me that I don't have to understand what's going on in a show to enjoy watching it.
#13Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 7/30/15 at 6:14pm
I'm all caught up now. Episode 6 was almost TOO intense. Hat's off to writer Kyle Bradstreet for nailing the bro-argot. That is how one writes contemporary cyber-fiction for tv while tapping into realism. The foreboding background music in key scenes took the drama to a whole other level.
Throughout the entire episode I feared that it would not end well for a certain character. Writer Kyle Bradstreet did not let me off the hook. He reminded the audience and me that Elliot's world is a very dangerous one. Ironically, he did it while depicting Elliot in his most clear-headed & lucid state so even he (Elliot) wasn't anesthetized to the imminent danger in which he placed himself and acquaintances. In other words, shaite just got real.
It's what HBO's True Detective is sorely missing this season, well that and a better baddie than Vince Vaughn. The lives of Elliot, his accomplices, and the street criminals collided in a way that didn't seem contrived.
One nit: it's inconceivable that Elliot would have risked exposure by visiting Vera in prison. However, he's not a hardened criminal yet so perhaps he was slightly out of his element dealing with street criminals. There are just some lessons that can't be learned from a cubicle.
Actor Elliot Villar has been very convincing as a menace to society. In one scene, his Vera character lifted and burned the 7th veil of innocence that had shielded Elliot from the dark world which he had only dabbled in before. He's now caught between a rock and hard place in the forms of Mr. Robot/Christian Slater and Vera/Elliot Villar.
I now have something to look forward to in the remaining episodes.
#14Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 8/14/15 at 11:58am
HO. LY. SH!T. I knew there was some kind of surprise coming and we all thought it was going to be that Mr. Robot wasn't real. All of the insane revelations from this episode basically made this happen...
brdway411
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/14
#16Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 8/20/15 at 11:37am
Watched the last three and stayed very involved. Was very surprised with the big twist. When you read all the articles on summer programming Mr. Robot is considered a big hit.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#18Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 8/20/15 at 12:18pm
This show is pretty obsessed with Fight Club. I do sort of keep there was a bait and switch, from the F Society stuff in the beginning, which barely came up again, as it turned into more of a soap opera...
#19Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 8/20/15 at 5:24pm
I'm hooked and wish I could still get high to enjoy the series even more.
#20Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 8/20/15 at 6:31pm
haterobics said: "This show is pretty obsessed with Fight Club."
I think it would be entirely different if the show didn't acknowledge that fact. I think it was pretty obvious from the beginning that Elliot was Mr. Robot aka his own dad. During this episode they even played a cover of the Pixies "Where is My Mind?" which also plays in Fight Club. The real shocking twist was that Darlene was Elliot's sister and I don't think anyone saw that coming. I honestly can't wait for next week's episode because it's unimaginable where the show can go from here.
#21Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 8/20/15 at 9:06pm
It started so strong that I just started losing interest when it became a soap opera about his girlfriend's drug dealer and all this other stuff. I think I got the idea that we were going to see a show set inside of an Anonymous/Project Mayhem-type group, and then when it didn't go that way, and became way more conventional, it also got less interesting. Curious to see how the wrap it up, though.
#22Anyone Else Digging Mr. Robot?
Posted: 8/24/15 at 12:41pm
On a related note, I watched Sam Esmail's film Comet on Netflix this weekend and really enjoyed it. It's pretty much just Emmy Rossum and Justin Long at different points during their 6 year relationship. The continuity is messed with and there might even be parallel universes at play. I found the performances really great and you definitely see Esmail's writing style when it comes to Long's character.
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