I'm surprised this is so highly rated… I mean, the first season was excellent but it seemed like they burned through most of Pablo Escobar's stories during that time, I kind of thought they would be having to stretch things for a second season.

Talking shots, BTW, I wanted to add that the instant-speed background-foreground focus-switch when Eliot was sitting down and Mr Robot was standing behind him (I don't know how to describe this stuff properly, sorry).

To be fair, the Wire laid all it's mysteries up-front so these types of cliffhangers were basically irrelevant anyway.

This seems like a good place to just summarise the current overarching mysteries:

But I think he wanted Angela to take the information to the Feds… right? He said something like 'I'm glad she finally did the right thing,' this episode.

To second the commenters, the pace has been pretty slow and there are one or two reveals that are being (it feels to me) artificially held back. I definitely get the sense Esmail is moving pieces around this season in order to set something up, but unlike with something like Lost I'm pretty confident that it's gonna…

Speaking of Friends… Did anyone else notice the password of the guy Angela was hacking? 'holidayarmadillo'

Almost every review of hacking-related movies/TV shows makes the point that looking at computer screens isn't that exciting. But I think this scene proves that staring at computer screen in an unauthorised area can be really, really exciting.

He has been fantastic in every scene so far. Although I'm not too sure how to feel about the grave-pissing.

There's also the mysterious phone delivered to Mrs. Wellick, and her paying off/killing the parking lot attendant. She's playing some game and at this point it only makes sense to me if Tyrell is alive.

Agreed. I think these season's been good, but they've definitely spent far too much time on their battle for Elliot's mind. Now it's all apparently been cleared up I'm optimistic (although I'm almost certain Tyrell isn't dead).

This is the first time I heard of this guy, so I just glanced at the headlines for his recent contributions at Brietbart. They include: 'How Donald Trump made it cool to be gay again,' 'How I Got 235,000 terrorists suspended from Twitter,' 'Twitter's Post-Milo Depression' and 'Trolls will save the world'.

I think it's just way less widely known. Everyone I know who's seen it has loved it, but a whole lot of people seem to have never watched it, even if they're familiar with the Coens' other films.

Whenever I saw the old AMC slogan 'The home of good storytelling' I kept thinking of Lipnick.

I watched the first ten minutes of this show based on the overwhelmingly-positive-but-nondescript buzz it's been getting from various people on Facebook. It didn't really grab me (and the presence of so many child actors kind of put me off) but the high praise makes me think I shouldn't give up so easy (admittedly ten…

Maybe this is just me, but I would say it's about on a par with season 1/2 Breaking Bad at the moment. That is to say, it's great, but it feels like something is waiting to click into place plot-wise before it really, really gets going.

Can we maybe take a step back with this kind of rhetoric, please? It's kind of heavily implied that this is a token gesture meant as a sign of goodwill towards the father, and after he says 'no' the guy obviously doesn't care.

Xiànzài. Jīntiān = Today.

I always like to imagine North Korea as the Scrappy-Doo to China's Scooby - small, easily provoked, a pain in the arse to everyone and constantly looking to get into fights they have a doubtful chance of winning.

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