'Mr. Robot' Season 3 Review: One Of The Best Dramas Around! WOW!


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Mr. Robot’s third season was its best. It moved with the swagger and confidence that made season one a massive hit, with the stronger character development that had marked season two. In season three, when a random associate of Elliot Alderson’s was threatened, it felt queasier, or when two of the supporting cast members hooked up, it felt more thrilling.

And I completely agree with something I read in a recent article: Mr. Robot was only able to pull this off because almost nobody was paying attention to it.

On the one hand, the show didn’t have any major twists this season for audiences to second guess. That probably played a part in its relative obscurity, since the twists drove much of the discussion in the first two years. But on the other, the conversation had also moved on. Mr. Robot felt downright revelatory when it debuted in 2015, with its tales of angry, alienated young men and a "so called" political system rigged even in the case of revolution.

But in season 3 what we had was a thematic unity that wedded Mr. Robot’s superheroic hacking exploits to its deepest character story, about an isolated young man slowly coming to realize he’s not an island. It revolved around Elliot (the still electric Rami Malek, whose performance remains one of TV’s best) attempting to shove the genie he loosed upon the world in the form of a massive economic hack back into the bottle, both because he realized it was the right thing to do and because he had forged stronger connections with those he cares about, from his sister to his former best friend to the imaginary man that lives in his head And it was all spectacular, like can't take your eyes off the screen for the entire season spectacular.

And that deeper, richer story benefited from having more space to unfold in a world that wasn’t so impatient for it to get where it was going. I’d stack this season against any TV made this year, fuck it the last couple of years two! Brilliant!

The ensemble cast were nothing short of sensational! From the spectacularly creepy, fun and completely fucked up newbie, Irving, Played by the perfectly suited and booted Bobby Canavale to the Series regulars Carly Chaikin, Portia Doubleday, Martin Wallstrom, Christian Slater, BD Wong, Grace Gummer and Omar Metwally! They all had there own individual moments to shine, and boy they shone bright!

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