All the true capitalists on the show are portrayed pretty ruthlessly. That might be your philosophy, but the show seems to be pretty lefty.

Walter White sold meth. Look at how heavy-handedly the show portrays execs at ECorp. "Madam Executioner" really did contribute to the death of Darlene's father and laugh about it. The economy is rigged, we do live in an oligarchy, etc. They did expose more FBI corruption, to boot.

This was easily the most exciting episode of the season. I loved learning more about Trenton and Mobley, though it made me nervous the whole time they both were gonna get killed. The twist was nice last week, but this was the best episode since last season (and I like this season).

B? I thought this was the best episode of the season.

Maybe i'm misinterpreting what you mean, but I think McSweeney's is pretty easily Egger's greatest achievement. He's a decently talented writer, but his work with McSweeney's is unimpeachable. In addition to bankrolling writing centers in the SF area, to publishing the pretty great McSweeney's Quarterly and…

I think Price has a chance at becoming this season's Tyrell— the uber-confident big bad who we think he is being positioned as the primary antagonist, then slowly comes apart

wait, i somehow thought that e-coin was supposed to be some sort of Mr. Robot universe bitcoin, and that the exposition it was just background flavor.

i would love for something to retroactively save that clunky bit of writing. I like almost all of Mr. Robot's writing—i even like the cartoonishly heightened corporate stuff, because it makes sense in a sort of magical realism way— but that exchange was crazy stilted, and part of a far dumber show.

A lot of people—myself included— either idly wondered, or outright guessed that Elliot was in a mental institution. But even if that was close, it wasnt right.

shitting on feminism because of outrage trolls is like shitting on black lives matter because of a few angry teens—you're probably a fucking bigot

I generally like Kurt Metzger, and I really like Nick Mullen, who has had a lot of really funny, controversial takes on this whole thing. I do think there is room to make fun of internet mob mentality, even in cases of alleged rape.

if having alf murder a man in a hit and run isn't humor to you, I don't even know

While i love the show's harsh portrayal of capitalism, I really love how this season has shown how there are no easy solutions/ glorious revolutions.

That's a really good point. Forget for a moment anything about how the episode doesn't perfectly fulfill the expected contract of the modern longform TV drama, doesn't lay out enough bread crumbs for next week— the episode was about doing the character work to bring Elliot and Mr. Robot together.

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The first MB20 album isn't bad, really. It's a collection of well written alt-pop songs. It's a lot like the Counting Crows for me—technically talented songwriters who kind of lost the plot a little bit—with the caveat that the Crows went from classic album to guilty pleasure, while Rob Thomas skids all the way down…

I like synth pop. I even liked chillwave. But the only surprising move for the last 5-6 years is when someone keeps playing guitar rock.

are they still a synthpop act? Because that move bummed me out, because everyone is a synthpop act. I hope they come back to writing songs like Civilian at some point.

the wire season 2 is a great example. Really all of the wire, but season 2 was particularly about how the mechanisms of capitalism destroyed dignified labor in Baltimore.

ive been trying to come to some sort of conclusion about the Mr. Robot type anti-capitalist, anti-religion, "wake up sheeple" philosophy.