Just brilliant. The 4th wall breaking and unreliability is done so well. That's hard to do, and Mr. Robot is taking it to the next level.

He definitely does LA best in my opinion. Definitely used some of the color schemes from Collateral, and those overheads of the streets.

This season was pure Mann

NP is a master of genre, that's for sure. He hit every single crime / noir influence possible, which some may see as cliche, trope-y or too pulpy, but I personally enjoyed. It makes you almost able to smile at the grimness. Ray's slo-mo hero death was classic, the shot of the phone just perfectly grim, Frank walks…

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Ok TD is pure genre fiction, and good genre fiction. NP obviously loves crime fiction of the past and he both succeeds and fails at modernizing it. I liked the amount of pulp/camp/whatever in the finale, Ray's hero death was so classic with the slo-mo. I was smiling through all the grimness. The "failed to upload"…

In response to your first paragraph, about a show with a monarchy and a corrupt democracy; you need to see the anime Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It has this exact conflict and so much more. One of the best anime there is.

Based on Pynchon?

When was that?

How about this: Jake in the bear suit half on fire at the end as a reference to Breaking Bad? After he has the dreams he says to Finn "he was wearing a bear suit. I wonder what that symbolizes?"

It's a different cartoon than his comic strip Scout. "It's like Gomer Pyle — but it's a monkey."

Rustin Chole, Martin Something

He's working on a Hanna Barbera cartoon.

Awesome!!!! Excited to see how it plays out, although it's not feeling as prominent as in Episodes 1 and 2 as I watch further.

(I've only watched through episode 2 but) I wanted to mention that there is an essay to be written here on Daredevil's portrayal of post-9/11 New York; this observation comes from my engagement with the post-9/11 novel in postmodern fiction. I'm currently working on Lethem's novel "Chronic City", which uses virtuality…

Interesting, I like it. For some reason though that just seems too far to stretch an implication, so I'm banking less on the fact that it's lazy plotting and more on setting up for next season.

Another potential loose end (unless someone has an explanation): The massive pool of blood outside Ronnie's tent when they're on the run. I think this might relate to a different loose end: the scientists observing aborted and deformed fetuses in deer and other animals. Unless this is some response to the wasp, but I…

Totally, thought it was a pretty cliche tic when I first saw it, but this changed everything.

In retrospect the way they played up that red herring is kind of fun. I forgive them.

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