the show is using his characters as archetypes with a predesigned function, like the genre it's mimicking (and that's a bit of a shame). Barb's function was to be the victim, I saw it coming a mile away. She's not supposed to come back, except if the scenarists decide to do something surprising for a change.

Show is allright, its aesthetic is perfecly mastered, as is the genre it
refers to; …BUT it never seems to really subvert it, and god
the-80s-family-sci-fi-feelgood trope needs subverting. Characters don't really gain this much consistancy as the show progress (and this is a 7-8 hour long show overall, not a 1h30…

was a fan too, but Mr Robot as tortured as it is doesn't reach this level of disturbing. Also it is apparently pretty popular, so it might live on a few seasons. anyway there are very few show able to survive 4-5 seasons without severely declining, see this:
http://www.viruscomix.com/a…

yeah you can pause on any terminal screen and see there is a great attention to details in this area. for example once you have planted the files on the ecorp server wiping the world banking system is as easy as sshing into it and executing the pre-programmed python script. which is done in ten seconds with two…

well Hannibal got at least three seasons, and as disturbing goes it's on a whole other level.

Yeah. This is expertly crafted. With tones of conscious or incounscious cinematographic references (in the last episode there was a bit of tarantino in the opening sequence). This week we've got horror/surrealistic theme (did anyone notice the two guys with gas mask in the subway during the beginning credits? then the…

obviously a fiction (in an universe where v for vendetta doesn't exist?)

yeah, great line. Price is perfecly repugnant. I found the vomit scene a lot less painful to watch than the two scenes with this character.

.iiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeee…..

yeah to sum up thank god something is actually happening, it was getting a bit boring. I didn't expect them to bomb half of the cast in one go though, that's kind of a deus ex machina

so this show is basically like silicon valley, it's about people who "want to make the world a bette place".

looks like the bolton army took lessons from the french riot police with this "kettling" approach. It's a scene we see here everyday.
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they killed him about some stupid watch anyway. what's this all about? maybe it was a very expensive watch.

religious zealotry and homophoby aside, pretty much, and I totally root for him over the awful manipulative queen mother. besides Jonathan Pryce rocks.

you can't help but find sympathy in the character played by Jonathan Pryce (you know from Brazil). Besides there's a totally obvious marxist subtext to his point, which is a very good one (“Every one of us is poor and powerless, and yet together, we can overthrow an empire.”). Besides the apparent religious zealotry,…

yep. Reminds me of the ending of one season of Louie, when (spoiler)
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he's desperate on new year's eve, decides to go to mexico with his family, then accidently meets the girl he was looking for the whole season in the bus. then she has an attack and dies.

Yeah that's what writing is. You have to speculate. You don't ask a woman opinion every time you write a woman character.
And specially since the entire point was to point out the ignorance and false sense of being liberal we all have. I knew transsexual is offensive, but I don't see why talking about a transgender…

funniest moment for me is when they're in the car to get the camera and they listen to a sketch from Louis CK with him in the back mortified. they couldn't be more clueless.

Yeah, I honestly got a bit bored by too much story driven episodes, and specially when a story goes over a few episodes. I like short absurd sketches much better.

I found the charger sketch totally hilarious. The joke here was to poke at a sound montage convention where the tension builds up with orchestral music and people speaking more and more loudly, and then you have the speach with everybody applauding in the end. Except here you have no sound. It's not a gimmick, this is…