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Mr. Robot S3: If you abandoned f-society last year, it’s time to come back
- marssaxman 9y agoI loved Mr. Robot season 2 precisely because it refused to follow the first season's buildup to a dramatic peak with some sort of cliche revelation that it was all just part of what would now be an even bigger build up to yet another dramatic peak. Instead, the show did something courageous and compelling by forcing us, along with its characters, to confront the fact that life isn't all about the peaks, to spend some time understanding and dealing with the consequences of what had just happened. In season 3, that is paying off with a broader, more critical understanding of the world the characters are living in, directly challenging any lazy assumptions we viewers may have been making about the significance and moral complexity of the events we're watching. It's a good show and it continues to engage me. They get the hacking right, and they get the mindset behind the hacking right, so they've bought my trust, and the story they're telling is anything but simple.