Mr Robot: Full Series Retrospective
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2024
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Created by Sam Esmail. Starring Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, Christian Slater as Mr. Robot, Carly Chaikin as Darlene Alderson, Martin Wallström as Tyrell Wellick, Portia Doubleday as Angela Moss, Michael Cristofer as Phillip Price, Grace Gummer as Dominique DiPierro, B.D. Wong as Whiterose / Zhi Zhang, Stephanie Corneliussen as Joanna Wellick, Vaishnavi Sharma as Elliot's Mother, Gloria Reuben as Krista Gordon, Sunita Mani as Trento, Azhar Khan as Mobley, Joey Bada$$ as Leon, Omar Metwally as Agent Santiago, Michael Drayer as Cisco, Michel Gill as Gideon Goddard, Jeremy Holm as Sutherland, Ben Rappaport as Ollie Parker, Grant Chang as Grant, Ron Cephas Jones as Romero, Brian Stokes Mitchell as Scott Knowles, Erik Jensen as Frank Cody, Frankie Shaw as Shayla Nico, Sakina Jaffrey as Antara Nayar, Aaron Takahashi as Lloyd Chung, Craig Robinson as Ray, Bruce Altman as Terry Colby, Ashlie Atkinson as Janice, Michele Hicks as Sharon Knowles, Eve Lindley as Hot Carla, Ramy Youssef as Samar Swailem, Sandrine Holt as Susan Jacobs, and Bobby Cannavale as Irving.
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So I took a screen grab of the QR code he sketched in his journal, cleaned it up in photohsop and then scanned it with my phone and it took me to an fsociety recruitment site. The detail within this series was insane. One of the best ever.
Back when the show was on they did this really cool hackery website thing that would be different every week and have funky little Cicada 3301 style riddles. Best show ever for that kind of stuff.
They marketed the show in a lot of really innovative ways. Prior to the premiere/show reveal they also had fsociety Twitch streams were people in fsociety masks were building weird stuff, it was all super cryptic and followed in the wake of Anonymous going mainstream, so the mystery drew people in.
It had an ARG feel. If you liked this, definitely check out the ARG community
Omg
There’s one episode, first season, where 2 characters wait to steal a vehicle, a minivan iirc. They get in and proceed to sniff the CAN bus, not only was the tool used correct but the hexadecimal vendorid code on screen was correct for the vehicle manufacturer.
Mr. Robot is easily on the same level as breaking bad but gets a tenth of the attention. Hopefully it has a popularity explosion at some point just like breaking bad did.
Finally. I've been wanting more actually good longform content to watch. Now I can pause an 8 hour long response to someone else's three hour long video about fallout 3.
Creetosis is like the Mauler of Fallout, other good longform gaming content are The Salt Factory, that's very similar to this channel and tehsnakerer
@@bencheevers6693 Already a fan of Tehsnakerer and Saltfactory.
@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown probably an obvious one, Noah Caldwell gervais? Internet pitstop? Majuular, strat-edgy. I have plenty more and they are all enjoyable to actually watch though Noah I put on in the background because I've watched his videos over and over many times!
@@Greendawn-di3dl I don't remember what it was, since I'll often hold a grudge without remembering the specific cause, but I don't like Noah.
I like Majuuar.
I'll check out strat edgy and Internet Pitstop.
And in reply, Casp is a good channel who mostly looks at JRPGs.
@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown I watch casp they are aight, but I gotta know if you happen to remember why you don't like Noah, I'm not chiding you or anything; I just assumed he was very chill. I've been burned by innocuous UA-camrs though too so I wouldn't be surprised. I'd love to hear the story.
The best use of M83's "Outro" in the history of film or television.
A cherry on top of an excellent show, a perfect ending!
100% agree. The perfect ending to a near perfect show (In my opinion)
They also used m⁸³ 's "Intro" for the intro
8:30 😂
fsociety: "but first, a word from our corporate overlords"
**ad plays**
😂😂😂
that was AMAZING :D
Wouldnt know. Adblock, baby!
Best part
@@KillerLettuce Which one you use. UA-cam caught up to me and decided to screw me over. So I'm trying to fuck them over by switching my ad blocker to new ones they haven't found yet.
No other TV show has ever captivated me as much as Mr. Robot. I watched it live as it aired. I rewatched it mutiple times before it even ended. I participated in Reddit threads trying to figure out what was going on. I don't think there's anything that can come close to the impact Elliot Alderson's story had on me.
severance has a promising premise/conspiracy
I was the same. We probably spoke on reddit at some point. What I'd give to experience it for the first time again.
Mr Robot has got to be one of the best series I’ve ever experienced. And I wish so much that more people kept watching after season 1; I am glad that we actually got an ending to the series, as I’m sure it would’ve been cancelled like plenty of other good shows that dropped off in viewership after the first couple of seasons. It is such a beautiful show, so much depth and so much creativity.
Top five tv show for me it’s a masterpiece
I loved season 1, it's an amazing thriller series with the most realistic cyber warfare and hacking in cinema to this day.
I watched season 2, or at least part of it, I don't know how much because I couldn't follow it anymore. It was like a fever dream.
These psychological horror shows and movies piss me off with their fundamentally inconsistent stories. You're following one plot line, and suddenly, it never happened.
Like, how can you enjoy being so brutally unaware of what's happening in a show so bleak and gray? They make these good philosophical statements, then invalidate them.
I appreciate that it's probably a decently accurate depiction of certain forms of mental illness, but come on. The show just hurts to watch after a while of going on like this.
@@100dead @100dead you should really force yourself to sit through the hard parts and watch the rest of it. I admit that there's some episodes that seem to take you on a needless foray into a surrealist dreamscape, but in the end I would put this up there with Breaking Bad, Deadwood, Better Call Saul... ugh...I wish David Milch had been given the same opportunity to finish Deadwood that Sam Esmail was with Mr. Robot. Anyway, if nothing else, just watch the rest of the series for the cinematography and artistic direction. It's in a league if its own in that respect. At the very least watch through season 3 episode 5 (eps3.4_runtime-error.r00) which is a masterpiece. If you make it that far I doubt you will be able to stop.
@@100deadafter the halfway point of season 2 it really picks up and the last 2 seasons are great. I’m not sure what you found fundamentally inconsistent but the first half of season 2 definitely is a grind to get through.
The baldurs dice roll had me giggling more then I want to admit
Dang Mr Robot, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, and Community. All we need is Barry and you have done my top 5 favorite TV shows of all time. Thx for covering my #1 favorite TV show of all time. Amazing video.
No "The Wire"?
Watched "the wire." I loved seasons 1 - 4 they are masterpices of television. But I really really didn't like season 5. The series finale kept everything back on track and Omar part of season 5 was tragic but amazing. I just really didn't like the fake serial killer plot.( If it was real I would of liked it more. but that would require rewriting season 5 and it's message.) If the wire ended at season 3 or season 4 it would definitely be in my top 5.
Fargo is amazing too :)
@@erdem-tx3tu ngl i still think season 1 is its best season, some say s2 but it was nothing how s1 described it wasnt madness it was a mob war more or less
@@username.exenotfound2943 s2 had such a unique and captivating style; whether it was the artstyle, the cool setting in the late 70s, the absolutely fantastic music choices and so on; but s1 was such a great story in a sort of straightforward way... amazing actors and actresses, and the writing was fantastic, definitely became one of my fav shows of all time :)
This show actually changed my life, the amount of mental shit Elliot goes through yet still keeps going inspired me to keep on trucking with my own mental difficulties with autism and depression. No matter how bad it gets I source strength from knowing I can keep walking forward towards a better world, even if sometimes my steps are slow and far apart I'm not just going to give up and give in to darkness, darkness can have me when I'm cold in the ground and not a moment sooner.
Amazing show.
Same, but life keeps beating me down
@@Whocareslol420 It kinda feels the same to me, though I don't give up for one simple reason: living is infinitely more interesting than not living. No matter how shitty my life is at any given moment, I always remember that even if things get even worse, I still could die any day and not experience anything at all for eternity. I am a junkie that way: even if my life will become 99% shit, I will still cling to that 1% of good. Even If I fail to make the world a better place or become happy, whatever that means, at least I tried. Also, even though I feel less joy than when I was a kid with no real responsibilities and hardships, I am stronger and more capable now. The harder life beats me, the harder I become. It may not be a good thing, but it is something. I would rather have that than nothing at all.
Just finish the entire series today and wow! It was quite a rollercoaster. Only bad thing is we didn't have more of Tyrell. Bonsoir, Tyrell!
It makes me so happy as a fan of the show to see other people discovering and enjoying it. Such a fun watch and enjoyable rewatch
Pardon your French
I would have liked to have seen more of Leon
but I suppose the fact that he's not in it much
gives his appearances more impact.
Tyrell got sidelined so hard, he was one of the most interesting characters in season 1 and then he was literally absent for most of season 2 and was mostly unimportant in seasons 3 and 4
The bad and dated thing is the writers obvious TDS.
Wow. You summarized the entire show. What an immense task. And you did it perfectly. You may have inspired me to do another rewatch of this wonderful show.
Whiterose is a determinist who believes that their reality takes place in a simulation. And if that's the case, it would mean that reality is governed by fate and not individuals' free will. This would make control an illusion. It's why she doesn't believe in coincidences and it's why she "listens when time speaks". She's liberating everyone "from the horrific and brutal past we've been shackled to for so long". This is why she tells Angela "I guess it all depends on what your definition of real is" in 2x11. She wins over Angela's belief by proving her theory right. That's the procedure she does in that type of room. Whiterose is trying to prove this to Elliot in 4x11. "This procedure has never been about brainwashing. It is about helping you come to an understanding". That reality isn't as real as we think it is. This is also why Dark Army members are perfectly fine with offing themselves.
The scene where Angela asks Irving about whether Whiterose ever "showed him" the project is even a direct homage to the scene from The Matrix where Cypher talks about the steak not being real with Agent Smith. Her machine is basically a super computer and its purpose is to fully reboot their simulated reality into a utopia. Whiterose is trying to play God without permission by rewriting the code behind reality. Now whether she's right about reality being a simulation is all up for debate. We'll never know for sure since Elliot turns the machine off before it can do anything. But Tyrell seeing a mysterious blue light as he dies does potentially give credence to that theory.
Mr Robot is my favorite TV show because it trusts itself to toe the line between sticking to the rules and breaking them. Character's disappear for entire seasons only to come back for crucial functions later. We feel the effects of actions that aren't revealed until seasons later but it never feels like a retcon because they're planned out. SPECTACULAR music selections. A character will show up for an episode and still be captivating (Wallace Shawn!!!). I've rewatched it at least once a year, every year, since I first watched it. My only regret is that I didn't watch it live as it aired.
I was there every week to watch Elliott spiral into madness only to find the light and come out in the end... fucking love this show.
I can’t call this “another video about Mr. Robot” because I liked it, I could even stand an hour of English. The most reliable retelling.
Even 3 hours is not enough to tell all the intricacies of the series.
Is it just me, or is Mr. Robot enjoying a bit of a renaissance recently?
u might be on to something, i went down a mr robot rabbit hole on youtube like two days ago🤣🤣
definitely deserved
I started and finished it myself in the past few months. Incredible show in every way
Agreed!
Thank you. It feels like there’s barely any Mr robot videos
Man you are such a good writer, wish more video essayists tried as hard as you. Love your content brother.
I DID not see that coming
The cackle you made after that legendary pun that probably went over most people's heads, kudos lol
I love how the more TV shows evolved, when they do have a more serialized and focused narrative, it's almost like each season follows the structure of a film. It's crazy to think how a story can have so much more substance if you extended it. Makes me think what if some of my favorite films were TV shows as good and with the same cinematic standard as Mr.Robot, Succession, Breaking Bad, etc.
yes and also BARRY
I think one thing you overlooked is the heavy details they put into every episode. There's hints it's an alternate universe with a shazam/Mandela effect Easter egg or two. There's little bread crumbs they sprinkle throughout episodes in the form of hyperlinks, qr codes, or some of the coding languages we see them typing. Honestly, the show was brilliant.
One of the best shows I've ever seen
Top five easily 🤝
I am truly impressed by this retrospective. You are able to catch the subtle nuances of the show that many doing this miss or undermine in their review that make the series shine. Thank you. Amazing work. I have found your channel today and I am rather surprised you have not done a video on Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
My favorite show of all time
Okay this is getting freaky.
I actually watched Mr Robot last week for the first time based on the recommendations I picked up from watching your retros. Then I finished and have been looking for a good retrospective to find additional context since then and not found even one i like.
this series is such a wild ride from start to finish, im shocked you manage to cover all of it
this whole series felt like a potluck dish that tasted familiar at first but has aboslutely morphed into something that is an indescribable flavor you dont know if youre enjoying it or not i dont even know if the taste is sour bitter good or not I dont even know if i am enjoying it or not
This is a perfect description of how I feel about it. Total fever dream of a show. I had to stop during season 2 because I wasn't enjoying it. I was just lost. Felt sick.
Comment to say thanks for the content. Never was able to stick it out for this while it was airing
I’ve been following these retrospectives for a while and to see you cover one of my favourite shows is a Monday TREAT for me here in Mumbai!
Hmm I think it’s time for a Mr. Robot binge! Thanks for reminding me how good a show it is!
Best Tv i have seen in my live. It did something for me that nothing else has done for me and in the last season it makes sense when we discover the root of his pain and all the power he has to produce to keep himself from seeing it. It's like 20 years of therapy, for me, being a male SA victim myself, i cried and broke down. All the worries about meta-data, Cyber-Security, Shadow Governments, China, Rothschild, Empty consumerism, Anarchy and the richest 1 %, that Bernie Sanders talked so much about. This had the Zeitgeizt and was somehow the Zeitgeizt for me also. Of what was changing and alternative realities. Cicada Mindfunk Games before Q-Anon and the January 6 and that madness, but in reverse in our reality because they attacked because of a misunderstanding that Trump cared and is here to fulfill many prophesies. Mr Robot hit that nerve, for me. I don't think it did that for that many people but this will always be a Cult show
Great video! Finished this show a few weeks ago and really wished for more analysis on it online! Got yourself a new loyal sub👍🏼
LMAO with rolling that natural 20 bit. Bravo!
Love the video! I've been watching you for a long time, and this is the first time I've caught a video on a show I've watched being released. Only 2 critiques, 1. I feel like maybe the idea that a Patrick Bateman couldn't exist is only exemplified by how much of a fish out of water Tyrell is, and I always thought that maybe had something to do with the insinuation he is one of the few who rose up the ranks at E Corp who didn't come from old money. 2nd, the needle drop of Mr. Robot should've been mentioned also! As a fan of the song I waited for the song to be dropped the entire series and the discipline to wait until the end felt so great because it felt like the bow on top of the series as a whole. Anyway, keep up the amazing work!
I loved Mr. Robot and it is nothing like Dexter.
Been watching your channel consistently since Fargo retrospective, your insights are so good - definitely one of my favorite UA-camrs. Would've loved to hear your thoughts on Fargo S5! Keep up the great work.
Oh neat, I just recently started rewatching Mr Robot
Fun video, thanks for making it. My theory is that White Rose's "Machine" is nothing! She is just crazy, it would never work, she just could not forget her beloved one and her mind just snapped and crated the machine illusion.
I haven’t watched the review yet, but I want to say that I love this show and appreciate your analysis and humour. The scene where Elliot decides to fix everything made me bawl my eyes out.
Best tv show of all time
Another show which was just as amazing as this, which was also no one had heard of - 'Halt and catch fire'
One of my favorite shows of all time, it was a glimpse into the future and an invisible world of online back and forth with multiple highly intelligent groups. I’m saying the premise and story was fantastic for me and on top of it they nailed the execution for me
man this vid dropping made my day. adding some engagement for the algorithm!
Great video as always Slip, hoping we get a Billions and a MadMen retrospective in 2024
Mr. Robot is such a great series and amazing video Slip Maker :]
I only watched like first 3 eps and never bothered to go farther. But I like your retrospective, thanks.
I can't believe you didn't say anything about the "A way out of loneliness" scene that Elliot has with his therapist Krista. I think its easily one of the best scenes of the series. Granted it doesn't do much as far as moving the plot, perhaps. And thats why it wasn't really focused on in this video. But the scene is just so damn good though. lol
❤ thank you for this series
My brother and I just finished season 4 last week! Awesome to see you upload this retrospective. Absolutely fantastic show
FUCK YEAH A MR ROBOT VIDEO ESSAY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR ONE OF THESE FOR A WHILE
MOAR Retrospectives
The timing could not have been better- “but first, a word from our social overlords!” And then a UA-cam Premium ad happened. Ohhhhhh the irony
While it was interesting to see someone else’s perspective on the show i think you’re looking at it from the wrong lens. The show isn’t about saving the world, and it’s not about the plot, the twists or even the hacks. It’s about broken people finding purpose in a broken world and “elliot”s psychological journey. Tyrell, mirrors his alienation of the modern world, but instead of rejecting it, he doubles down. Abandoning morality and diving head first into the corporate system only to find himself in a position to destroy it. Dom attempts the same thing without compromising her morality but the corrupt nature of the world forces her to question her morality. Angela succumbs to the allure of corporate success, only to be used as a tool and pay the ultimate price. (No pun intended) To me, its more about the character arcs, everything else is just b plot that guides them on that journey.
ah fuck I just discovered you and after finishing this great video and letting me re-experience Mr Robot while acquiring new insight, I see you've retrospective'd many things I've seen, so I know what I'll be doing with my next few days, you get a sub good sir, great vid
Shoutouts to the opening music. Ratchet - Deadlocked(PS2) multiplayer waiting room lobby. Not the video I was expecting to hear this track in today but VERY welcomed. Instant sub.
THERE'S MORE RATCHET AND CLANK DAVID BERGEAUD SOUNDTRACK IN THE VIDEO YESSSSS
Patiently waiting for The Wire retrospective
I am astounded that you haven’t already covered it, but you really ought to cover AMC’s *Halt and Catch Fire*. There’s an appalling lack of material covering this series, but having only recently finished it, the “greatest show that nobody watched” reputation, turns out, is 100% deserved.
I secretly hoped you'd make this video but didn't wanna press, so I'm absolutely hyped as FUCK to watch this
it was a masterpiece
I was looking for a SitC or Oz retrospective and couldn't find anything decent. You have spoiled us.
I got that “Simply not there…” Easter egg my friend. I got it. ❤
Impressive, very nice.
I would love to see slip do a deep dive on burn notice. Maybe it's just a pipe dream
Omg you aren’t dreaming alone, here 😆🤞🤞🤞🤞💯
weeeeeee neeeeeeed it
its a must
I still get chills when I hear “take me home” by Phil Collins
I’ll remember that scene for eternity
The smile that dawned on my face seeing you pop up on my recommended covering my favorite drama of the 2010s was massive
Patiently waiting for your Fargo Season 5 video
Season two had Joey Bada$$ though, I thought it was fun.
Great retrospective I loved the breaking bad one
I’ve had “Basket Case” by Green Day stuck in my head for months and just realized this video is the reason why
Ah, a UA-camr after mine own heart. I'll get the popcorn
Wow this show really goes off the rails
Amazing breakdown. I think my only addition is that "the machine" being the very literal "deus ex machina" like it also is in fringe.
We could get into exactly how the machine works and how it will do it's business, but ultimately its just a bit of reminder that all of this is science fiction, and the machine is just the drama device to bring about the end. The literal deus ex machina.
I wish someone would do a long form documentary on the Mr. Robot ARG & Red Wheelbarrow puzzle book.
It was all super intricate, extremely challenging and pivotal to the story in a whole. That ARG was like an additional season in-between each season. The subreddit dedicated to it was awesome to follow as it all unfolded.
Best show ever made
I was just thinking about this show yesterday and how brilliant it is
Fantastic first season okay second season great 3rd season and honestly really loved the last season, I think mr robot is up there with Barry for my favourite shows honestly
I like how the symbol for "Evil Corp." was the "E" from Enron.
Nice I heard that line from "Peep Show".
this show hit me emotionally so hard and Like... it may be one of my favorite shows of all time, and the hot episodes are some of the best ever, like 4x7 is insane
Been watching these for a while and I've loved every one I've seen. Seriously hope you do a video for The Sopranos
s2's smart-house scene was and is still goated
The quality content produced for this channel exceeds its subscriber count by at least one order of magnitude.
Please do a mad men retrospective next!! Love this video
Working at RSA during the time of this show was fun, especially seeing all the AES128 stuff being brought up
Perfect Timing was about to start my yearly rewatch of this show. Every time I rewatch I find something new and that what keeps me coming back and the fact that it’s what got my into learning Ethical Hacking and working towards getting a cybersecurity job
One thing I feel like you could’ve added was the fact that due to real life situations the finale of season one was pushed back and how the show stayed scarily close to real life events and situations making it a hard watch in real time
48:58 Proxy Authentication Required is the best single episode of TV imo
YESSSSSSS YESSSSSSS YESSSSSSS!
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG 😍😊
Nothing has topped it this show. Watching it makes me sad for modern shows.
41:36 nice In The Loop reference! I hope you get to cover The Thick of It at some point
Finally, I can be impatient about your next video now
This was such so good it deserves more views.
great recap of an even greater show :) the only thing i'm sad about is that it requires so much focus/attention which means most of the audience won't ever experience the "full" greatness and it will allways be the most underrted piece of art because people either don't understand it enough or give up mid first season.. the only thing you got "wrong" is the fact that tyrell was the one behind the idea to blow up all those buildings (him telling irving there is one last chance to realize their plan, telling him he would need the full force of the dark army)..
.. and yes i'm very much obsessed with this show as "elliot's overview of the sad state of the world we live in" is very close to my own (much to my own detriment).. i watched all of its episodes 8+ times and counting.. is it good for me? probably not.. does it feel good? hell the fk yes
I perked up at kingdom hearts. I haven't forgotten, Slip. I'm still waiting.
Amazing show.
22:42 I remember that and was really trippy at the vintage and sitcom stuff happening. I'm like damn...my man's got beat into a sitcom
38:38 - feels really weird watching this scene right after finishing your Breaking Bad video with Walt bluffing about not being stupid enough to do something stupid in public where it can be seen! :’)
That background salsa 🎶🎶🎶
Yes! Been hoping for it. I wonder if my other comment had anything to do with it or not!
Id love to see you cover Person of Interest or Blindspot! Two pretty weird crime shows I personally really enjoyed.
I'm 14 and this is deep, the show
How so? Besides the rants I can’t think of any reason you’d say this and by the end it makes it clear that some of Elliot’s thoughts and rants are unwarranted
I genuinely never knew Mr. Robot went past Season 2, I remember a YTbr who wrote a really good video essay on Season 1, but He never followed up or posted any videos for like 3-5 years now; in the end thoug, I'm extremely happy to know it wasn't canceled and that it ended with the same weird and depth vibe that made it so unique and captivating to me when i 1st watched it.
Also I genuinely never found anything wrong with Season 1 and always saw Tyrell as a foil to Elliot, but I'm sad to think with a rewatch including the other 2 seasons, I'll lose the love I had for it and see now those flaws ; GR8 VIDEO!!!!